Can't You See

This is definitely a song about loneliness

Let's just say a farm boy from, well, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

He might feel that he should do something different than his daddy did

Farming, fishing, coal mining, you know what I mean

Not that he's not proud of his daddy

But the big city has a way of luring a country boy

He wouldn't be there all too long

Before he'd get himself a pretty good job, you know what I mean

A factory somewhere

Might even work himself up to be foreman someday, can never tell

That still don't help his loans

See a man like that needs a good woman

Oh, he'd find himself a woman pretty quick, alright

Some city girls like the way a country boy treat 'em

They'd get themselves an apartment, you know

Twenty fifth floor, apartment twenty-five-O-five

You know what kind I mean

They'd live real well there for quite some time

He'd be bringing home the good bucks

Wouldn't be a year maybe

He'd be coming from a couple hours of overtime

He'd make that long anxious walk down that short corridor

Go in that door, and then he'd see that note

You know the kind, know what I mean

Dear John, I'm gone

Then like that, had his whole world fall right down in front of his face

Find himself at four o'clock in the morning

Down at the nearest railroad station

He don't really care where he goes

He don't really wanna go home to Cape Breton, yet

There's something about country boys

They don't like to go home a failure

You know what I mean

Gonna take a freight train

Down at the station, Lord

I don't care where it goes

Gonna climb a mountain

The highest mountain, Lord

I might jump right off

Ain't nobody going to know

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Wait up in this bar

Gonna find me a hole in the wall

I might crawl inside and die

'Cause that lady, mean old woman, Lord

Never had the guts to say goodbye

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Do it to me

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

Oh, such a crazy momma, lady

What that woman's

Been doing to me

She's gonna drive me crazy

Can't you see?

Gonna take a freight train

Can't you see?

Way down at the station, Lord

What that woman's

I ain't never comin' back

Been doing to me

Can't you see?

Gonna ride that eastbound

Can't you see?

Take it all the way to Cape Breton Island

What that woman's

On a train and don't come back, yeah

Been doing to me

Can't you see?

Where the train runs out of track

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Can't you see?

Can't you see?

What that woman's

Been doing to me

Can't you see?