Lyrics to
It’s All I Can Do

This version of It’S All I Can Do was released by The Cars in 1979.

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one too many times
i fell over you
once in a shadow
i finally grew
and once in a night
i dreamed you were there
i cancelled my flight
from going nowhere
it’s all i can do
to keep waiting for you
it’s all i can do
one too many times
i twisted the gate
when i was crazy
i thought you were great
i kept my renditions
of you on the wall
where holiday romance
is nothing at all
you wait in the wing
like a saturday flirt
protecting the judge
you don’t want to get hurt
once in a moment
it all comes to you
as soon as you get it
you want something new

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About Lyrics and It’S All I Can Do by The Cars

When you decide to study the lyrics to It’S All I Can Do, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by The Cars. Some of the lyrics to It’S All I Can Do have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Cars and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to It’S All I Can Do 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 It’S All I Can Do" means the words set to the music of It’S All I Can Do, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cars. 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 It’S All I Can Do and the lyrics to It’S All I Can Do are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cars who came here looking just for the lyrics to It’S All I Can Do, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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