"Why Can't I?" is the first single from Liz Phair's 2003 self-titled album, Liz Phair. It reached number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, Phair's highest-charting single to date.
The B-sides are "Jeremy Engle" and "Fine Again".
The song was featured in the films How to Deal, 13 Going on 30, and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! It was also featured in the television series The O.C. and in the tenth season promo for Friends.
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The video has had the word "f@cked" muted out in the lines "Here we go, we're at the beginning/We haven't f@cked yet but my head is spinning."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Can%27t_I%3F
Profanity is always nice. We have to use all the words we have & there are damn few all too many people understand anyway!
As for any of Liz's songs going hot & high on the charts..."Hey! She's gone commercial! She's sold out!"
No! No! AND...No...! She hasn't. She's just written a really good nice beautiful upbeat song about Love. Where things seem to be working out okay. Which is so rare these days where so many love-songs are about painful &/or failed relationships.
Long live Love. In the Garden of Eros especially...
Why Can't I
Get a load of me, get a load of you
Walkin' down the street, and I hardly know you
It's just like we were meant to be
Holding hands with you, and we're out at night
Got a girlfriend, you say it isn't right
And I've got someone waiting too
is, this is just the beginning
We're already wet, and we're gonna go swimming
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
Isn't this the best part of breakin' up
Finding someone else you can't get enough of
Someone who wants to be with you too
It's an itch we know we are gonna scratch
Gonna take a while for this egg to hatch
But wouldn't it be beautiful
Here we are, we're at the beginning
We haven't f@cked yet, but my head is spinning
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
I'd love for you to make me wonder
Where it's goin'
I'd love for you to pull me under
Somethin's growin'
for this that we can control
Baby I am dyin'
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you
--song written by Liz Phair