aidan nolan: Tales from the Sun: Can’t Go On Like This

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Tales From The Sun

Can’t Go On Like This

This is not a love song – there’s a blinding flash of the contrary! I do understand people thinking it is but I actually wrote it in frustration at losing inspiration and not being able to write songs. I hadn’t written much for a few months and those I had done were eminently binnable, songwriter’s block? This song was the drought-breaker. Back then, as a professional songwriter (ha!),it concerned me to not write for a while, these days I’m more relaxed about it.

The “you” referred to in the lyric is that which makes me write. I choose to call “it” Simon (the name of my still-born little brother) and I know “it / he” goes off at times but “he” always comes back to wake me up in the early hours of the morning. That is when I write almost all my songs. I’ll have a phrase of lyric riding a short melody and it will not let me sleep again until I have made a basic record of it. This proving very inconvenient for those I have cohabitated with over the years.

Can’t Go On Like This © 1973, aidan nolan

I had a dream you were down on the farm trying to get your head,
I should have seen there was cause for alarm, and no one cared,
I don’t think I can make it without you,
No one seems to know anything about you,
And now that you’ve gone, I can’t go on like this.

I was away fooling round with the “stars” but you could not reach,
What could I say as we sat in the bars I just could not teach,
And I don’t think I can make it without you,
No one seems to know anything about you,
And now that you’ve gone, I can’t go on like this.

Oh! It’s funny to wake up and find, there’s suddenly so little time,
The memory trips over my mind, it was fine…………

I had a dream I was there by your side and it all came true,
Now that it’s been there is nowhere to hide, not for me and you,
But I don’t think I can make it without you,
No one seems to know a single thing about you,
And now that you’ve gone, I can’t go on like this.

I can’t go on like this!
I can’t go on like this!
I can’t go on like this!
I can’t go on, like this!

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