“I Can’t” is the tenth song on Radiohead’s debut album, Pablo Honey. The song has a theme of low self-esteem which is also followed up on the next song in the album, “Lurgee”. Both songs feature a theme of doubt. While “Lurgee” doesn’t as strongly depict doubt, it has stronger themes of self-depreci...
[Verse 1]
Please forget the words that I just blurted out
It wasn't me, it was my strange and creeping doubt
It keeps rattling my cage
And there's nothing in this world will keep it down
[Chorus]
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
[Verse 2]
So many things that keep, that keep me underground
So many words that I, that I can never find
[Bridge]
If you give up on me now
I'll be gutted like I've never been before
[Chorus]
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
[Bridge]
If you give up on me now
I'll be gutted like I've never been before
[Chorus]
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't
I Can’t was written by Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood & Ed O’Brien & Colin Greenwood & Philip Selway.
I Can’t was produced by Paul Q. Kolderie & Sean Slade.