Why Can't I? Lyrics

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Cover art for Why Can't I? lyrics by Liz Phair

She met this random guy, and immediately they are both attracted to each other, as if it were destiny. But they realize that this budding relationship isn't right, that they shouldn't be doing this; ha! They've just got their feet wet in this mess, but they decide that they are going to plunge into this thing together.

Everytime she thinks of him, she speaks of him, she can't breathe because she has her litle secret that no one knows about, her amazing guy she just is taken away by. She is realizing that she's falling in love with him, and that eventually, they are both going to have to admit it to each other's faces.

So, they decide that their relationship isn't right, so they break up with their partners. They are still happy, they are glad to be free; they have each other. They feel bad about the whole ordeal, and it slows down their relationship. She acknowledges that it may take a while, but if they could just keep going, keep holding on, that their relationship will become something more. So they are here at the beginning of this, and she compares her feelings at that moment to when she's having sex; no doubt about it, the feeling is the same.

Of course, she is just wants to admit it all, just spill it all out, her feelings to him. But maybe this wondering, this in-the-dark feeling is bliss?

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