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CAN'T GET IT UP

Can't get it up
Can't get it up
Can't get it up...

You know I want to

I try to think of fantasys
I watch your face in ecstasy
I close my eyes, I open them
I drink a beer & pray a lot
I watch the thing go up & then go
Down it's so embarrassing I
Know you say it's not performance
Only how you feel inside no
Matter what I do no matter
What I do no matter what I do...

CHORUS

I talk to other guys (maybe they
Lie) they act like No Big Deal
They get it up & keep it up
Go on & on for days & days &
They don't need no psychiatric
Accupuncture needlepoint
& they don't need no help at all
They stud for love I must be queer
Matter what I do no matter
What I do no matter what I do...

CHORUS

They say that Hemingway he had a
Problem couldn't get it up &
Monty Cliff was small he was the
Joke all over Hollywood
It's not like sex is bad no way it's
Fun it's just to be a Man re-
quires does it not a certain
Shall we say Condition & no
Matter what I do no matter
What I do no matter what I do...

CHORUS

OK..hold it...it isn’t DOing anything...
It’s doin’ something, I...
It isn’t even moving...
I mean...you put all this attention on it
I thought you said you liked me
I like you all right...of course I like you
CAN'T GET IT UP...con't.

What do you mean it isn’t me...of COURSE it’s me

...you’re a terrific person
It’s ME!
No it’s not!
I’m sorry...about this

CHORUS

I’m gonna turn the lights...down
I’m really really sorry

CHORUS

But...what am I supposed to do?
I dunno. SOMEthing.
Wha...Why are you putting your clothes on?

CHORUS

Ah...I think I should go home...
Er...you don’t have to do that.
...now.
Ah...it’s...everything’s gonna be fine...

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from HALF IN THE BAG, track released April 18, 1987
Half In The Bag (No Deal Whatsoever Records) 1993. Produced, engineered, arranged by Chet Cahill in his house in Malden. All these are Berlin's save Everytime I Fall by Michael Holland (one of my favorite all time songs). Who did this? Billie Best (spoken girl in Can't Get It Up), Randy Roos (4 guitars in Man In Flames - true story of a homeless man in Kenmore who burned alive in the basement of Eddy de Syon's apartment building), Chris Mehl (guitars, vocals), Joan Wasser (violin), Jane Balmond (piano on Everytime I Fall), David Barrett (sax on the song Blood of A Poet - about his brother Peter), Eddy de Syon (organ on Blood), Julie Woods (vocals), Nancy Adams (vocals), Brian Olson (vocals), Chet Cahill (everything else).

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A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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