Lyrics to
You Can’t Catch Me

This version of You Can’T Catch Me was released by John Lennon in 1975.

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I bought a brand new airmobile,
’twas a custom made, ’twas a Flight DeVille
With a powerful motor and a hide away wing,
Push in on the button, you
will hear her sing

Now you can’t catch me,
Baby, you can’t catch me
’cause if you get too close,
You know I’m goin’ like cool breeze

Hey! Hey!
Well, you walk!
You walk!

New Jersey turnpike in the wee wee hours,
I was rollin’ slowly ’cause
of drizzlin showers
Here come a flat-top, he was
movin’ up with me,
Then come waving goodbye in a
little old souped up jitney
I put my foot in the tank, I began to roll,
Moanin’ siren, ’twas the state patrol
I let out my wings, then I blew my horn,
Bye-bye, New Jersey, I become airborn

Now you can’t catch me,
Baby, you can’t catch me
’cause if you get too close,
You know I’m goin’ like cool breeze

Hey!
Well, you walk!
Yeah, walk!

I bought a brand new airmobile,
’twas a custom made, ’twas a flightning deal
With a powerful motor and a hide away wing,
Push in on the button, you
will hear her sing

Now you can’t catch me,
Baby, you can’t catch me
’cause if you get too close,
You know I’m goin’ like cool breeze

Hey! Hey!
Well, you walk!
You walk!

Flying with my baby last Saturday night,
Wasn’t a grey cloud floatin’ in sight
Big, full moon, shinin’ up above,
Cuddle up, honey, be my love

Sweetest little thing that I ever seen,
I’m gonna name you Maybellene
Flying on the beam, set on flight control,
Radio tuned to rock and roll
Two, three hours passed us by,
Altitude dropped into five-o-five
Fuel consumption, way too fast,
Let’s get on home before we run out of gas

Now you can’t catch me,
Baby, you can’t catch me
’cause if you get too close,
You know I’m goin’ like cool breeze

Git it on!
Yeah, walk!
Git it on, git it on, git it on, do it!
Git it on, git it on!
You know you can’t catch me!

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About Lyrics and You Can’T Catch Me by John Lennon

When you decide to study the lyrics to You Can’T Catch Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by John Lennon. Some of the lyrics to You Can’T Catch Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Lennon and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to You Can’T Catch Me 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 You Can’T Catch Me" means the words set to the music of You Can’T Catch Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Lennon. 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 You Can’T Catch Me and the lyrics to You Can’T Catch Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Lennon who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Can’T Catch Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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