I Can't Get Started
Bing Crosby & Rosmary Clooney
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I'm a glum one
It's explainable
I met someone
Unattainable
Life's a bore
The world is my oyster no more
All the papers
Where you led the news
With your capers
Now will spread the news
Superman
Turns out to be a flash in the pan
The Himalaya mountains I climb
You're written up in Fortune and Time
I dig the fourth dimension
But I get no attention from you
When I sell kisses at a bazaar
The gals line up from near and from far
Their methods I have charted
But I can't get started with you
Oh, tell me why
Am I no kick to you?
I, who'd always stick to you
Fly through thin and thick to you
Tell me why I'm taboo
The market trembles when you sell short
In England I'm presented at court
With kings you've a la carted
Still I can't get started with you
When first we met
How you elated me
Pet, you devastated me
Yes, now you've deflated me
'Til you're my Waterloo
Good grief, I'm not exactly a clod
When Elvis Presley bows, I just nod
You're asked to every state ball
Still I'm behind the eight ball
Your dad's a Wall Street banker
And still I'm just a tanker
You're everything a gent is
And still I'm non compos mentis with you
No, I just can't get started with you