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What Can I Do

This version of What Can I Do was released by Uriah Heep in 1974.

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I wish you’d stop and
Give a helping hand
For I guess I’m only half a man
I feel the only way for me to leave
Is just to give you
Everything I can give

’cause without you, without you
What can I do

I will give you all the love I have
Just to know you stop me
Being so sad
I hope you won’t think
So badly of me
’cause I had to tell you
This could break myself in

Being helpless is a habit of mine
No one else can understand
You are the one to
Help me to survive
If you’re any friend of mine

Yesterday you gave a helping hand
To some one you’ll
Never understand
Though I tried to tell you of this way
You said I had nothing
Constructive to say

But without you, without you
What can I do …

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When you decide to study the lyrics to What Can I Do, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Uriah Heep. Some of the lyrics to What Can I Do have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Uriah Heep and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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