I Can I Will I Do Lyrics

Lyric discussion by whoson1st0 

Cover art for I Can I Will I Do lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

This is some sort of messed up relationship.

He is leaving her, he knows if he doesn't know he'll have to eventually ("a break is just around the bend"). Why is he leaving? You could infer that maybe he is having an affair with this woman. Any other ideas? He truly does love her, or at least thinks he does. However he knows that she doesn't think he does. One day, he says, he will prove to her how much he does love her and always will.

I also like the line "but guilt still makes me refrain" - to me it has a double meaning - he feels guilty about being with her and reading the letters that she writes to him and that guilt is making him stop or "refrain"- but also "refrain" can refer to the chorus of song which is exactly what that line leads into.