I Can't Explain Lyrics
It's a certain kind (Can't explain)
I feel hot and cold (Can't explain)
Way down in my soul, yeah (Can't explain)
I'm feeling good now, yeah, but (Can't explain)
The things you've said, well, maybe they're true
I'm gettin' funny dreams again and again
I know what it means, but
I think it's love
Try to say it to you
When I feel blue
Yeah, hear what I'm saying, girl (Can't explain)
The things you've said have got me real mad
I'm gettin' funny dreams again and again
I know what it means but
I think it's love
Try to say it to you
When I feel blue
Forgive me one more time, now (Can't explain)
I said I can't explain, yeah
You drive me out of my mind
Yeah, I'm the worrying kind, babe
I said I can't explain
This song is about two teenagers inability to easily express their love for each other.
I was under the impression that this song wasn't simply about not being able to express your love for someone, but also not being able to express yourself. (and of course, other things too :P)
Townshend: "There is little to say about how I wrote this. It came out of the top of my head when I was 18 and a half. It seems to be about the frustrations of a young person who is so incoherent and uneducated that he can't state his case to the bourgeois intellectual blah blah blah. Or, of course, it might be about drugs."
one of the best expressions of that most wonderful and frustrating feelings, that of the initial attraction to someone; of being so head over heels that you lose all eloquence the second they're around.
This song is one of those masterpieces from the Who. It can be interpreted a lot of ways...but in my own experience...I think that this song is about a new romance, and how it feels good.
this song has been covered so many times
It's kind of obvious what this is about, why would you need an explanation?
true. I love the beginning.
Jimmy Page played on this track
Keith Moon's drumming is excellent on this song, especially about 43 seconds into the song after Roger sings "I know what it means but..." he gives 6 sharp bursts then they go into the chorus. This is the first song that showed his drumming talents.
jimmy page did play on this track, on the original version, which i haven't heard (i've only heard the live at leeds versoin, which is amazing)
supposedly they were gonna have a guest drummner too, but keith moon threw the guest's drums out of the building. haha