Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Can't Get It Out Of My Head (Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), 1974-1975). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-05-15. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Can't Get It Out Of My Head" was the Electric Light Orchestra's (ELO) first top 10 hit settling in at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974-1975 (Whitburn, 2013). Of the song, Jeff Lynne stated that he wrote the song to prove to his father that he could write a good song (M. Kielty, ultimateclassicrock.com, 2019). So he wrote "Can't Get It Out Of My Head," "the bittersweet story of a man who has big dreams about a life with a women he knows he can never have, and about ambitions he knows will never come to fruition" (M. Kielty, ultimateclassicrock.com, 2019).

Lyrics:

Midnight on the water
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave's chicane
Staring as she called my name

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head

Breakdown on the shoreline
Can't move, it's an ebb tide
Morning don't get here till night
Searching for her silver light

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head, no, no

Bank job in the city
Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me, yeah
Sitting till the sun goes down
In dreams the world keeps going 'round and 'round

And I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head, no, no

Oh, I can't get it out of my head
No, I can't get it out of my head
Now my whole world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head, no, no, no, no

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