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I Can’t Make Music

This version of I Can’T Make Music was released by The Carpenters in 1973.

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Here I am just sittin’ around
With an old piano in a vacant room
And the same old feelin’s come again
So uncertain hurtin’ scared
I though I grew, but here I am again
Shoulda seen the train be passin’ thru.
I thought I knew

And I can’t make music
No I can’t make rhyme
No I can’t do anything
To take me away this time

I know it’s an old cliche to say
I feel I’m gonna die
And I hear it’s goin’ out to cry
So I’m gonna say some kind words to you
I like to wish you luck & hope
That life will be with someone else
Just like I though it would be with me
But I can’t see…

And I can’t make music
No I can’t make rhyme
No I can’t do anything
To take me away this time

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About Lyrics and I Can’T Make Music by The Carpenters

When you decide to study the lyrics to I Can’T Make Music, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to I Can’T Make Music have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I Can’T Make Music if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Can’T Make Music" means the words set to the music of I Can’T Make Music, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Can’T Make Music and the lyrics to I Can’T Make Music are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Can’T Make Music, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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