Can't Feel (1982)

by Kitty Brazelton & Joey Scarperia

This song was written slightly later in the Brazelton-Scarperia songwriting collaboration, after the band V (named for the flying V guitars) was formed.

Recorded live at Dobbs' Bar in Philadelphia, 1982

Four times I broke down
and I couldn't get up
Four times they left me
I was flat outa luck

Four times I've risen
Rebuilt my guts
Dug up the ark from scratch
I can't cover the tracks

Four times is four too many
Once was too much
This time I—

can't (can't can't can't) feel
can't (can't can't can't) feel
cuz I'm frozen at heart
and I was from the start
cuz I'm cool

I fought in world war one
I can prove it to anyone
I flew in Vietnam
I went down with the sun

Arrested for breathin'
I had to crash-land my plane
Holed up in a burnt-out bridge
Until I thought I was sane

You think that you can touch me
You think so wrong
You'll find out

can't (can't can't can't) feel
can't (can't can't can't) feel
cuz I'm frozen at heart
and I was from the start
cuz I'm cool
I'm so cool

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© & (p) 1982, Joey Scarperia & Woolly Parade (BMI)
and Catherine B. Brazelton & Snicim Vinahel (ASCAP).