Can't Know All the Songs

Picture the scene, you're round the house of an author

Let's just say you're really good friends with their daughter

You wouldn't spoil what had been a nice eve

By asking them to recite War and Peace

Can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs

Back at school and you're just sniggering

All through a lesson in sexual health

The teacher says, "If you insist on talking

You can teach the whole class yourself"

Well, you just roll your eyes and to everyone's surprise

Say, "Yeah, I'll give it a go"

But it goes quite badly, unbelievably rapidly, lack of PGCE is exposed

So let the teachers run the syllabus, and let me do my setlist

I can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs (Not a jukebox, I'm a man)

There's a heart, not a selection of songs under my surface

We could have something really great

If you treat me like a human, not a streaming service

Spotify, not a guy

Apple Music won't keep Shania Twain warm

On a long, cold, lonely night

I can't know all the songs (Do you know that song?)

I can't know all the songs (It's a good song)

I can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs

Bad news, sadly, you've been injured really badly

Prognosis isn't the best

You wouldn't ask a doctor, "Look I know you know a lot

But do you do surgical requests?"

You just let them do what they've trained for years to do

Can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs

Little while ago, I was playing a show

Something happened I didn't expect

Halfway through one I'd planned to do

Someone shouted, "Sing a song about sex"

Now in some places, people ask for Oasis

I respond with poise and patter

But this was the first time I'd had someone request

General subject matter

I can't know your imagined song

I can't know all the songs

Just because I've got a guitar

Doesn't mean I know a specific song

That you might want to hear right now

You wouldn't go to an Indian restaurant and ask for an omelette

Actually, you might

Twenty years from now

This song actually became a worldwide hit

Something really resonated

With the sort of people who buy music from supermarkets

I was sat round a campfire

Had an acoustic guitar, I was strumming along

Someone said, "Sorry to be that guy

But could you play Can't Know All the Songs?"

It was conflicting

Can't know all the songs

You can't know all the songs

You can't know all the songs

You can't know all the songs

I can't know all the songs (I can't do it)

He can't know all the songs (There's too many songs)

He can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs (I'm not a jukebox, I'm a man)

Can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs (I'm not a jukebox, I'm a man)

He can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs

Can't know all the songs (I can't do it)

He can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs (I'm not a jukebox, I'm a man)

Can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs

He can't know all the songs