Can I Say

Dag Nasty Can I Say Lyrics
1.Can I Say

What can I say?
Why should I try?
I tried to love
what I knew I hated
I took a lie
and I made a truth
I defended
what I should have denied
I never gave a second thought
I followed blindly part of a lot
I never gave
I never gave a second thought
I followed blindly part of a lot
How can I say I'm really free?
How can I say I'm really me?
What can I say?


2.Circles

I wouldn't speak my mind
I didn't want to make them mad
I looked up to them
for the courage I thought I didn't have
I never bothered to lift a finger
to make my point
Now I'm spelling it out
and nobody's listening
It's hard to take it to heart
It hurts to be apart
But I can't watch and not be heard
The days go by and things get worse
but they say they can only get better
I try to make a dent
but it blends in with all the damage
I try to look the other way
but there's a mirror behind me
I see images of what can be done
It seems like I'm the only one
I wouldn't speak my mind


3.I've Heard

I heard this
I heard that
What do I believe?
It's hard to give
It's hard to get
And once you've lost it
it's always gone
I know I shouldn't accept
one person's word as truth
without at least giving you
the benefit of the doubt
I get so mixed up
by the things you say
and the way you act
Too many times this has happened before
I always thought the wrong thing
I never gave you a second chance
Now it's happening all over again


4.Justification

We have tried and failed
We have stumbled and fallen
We have tried a new taste
and we spit it back out
We have taken a left turn
when we meant to turn right
We lost sight of our origins
but our past never lost sight of us
lost sight of us
It's not emulation - 'cause that's not this hard
Not imitation - 'cause that won't take you far
Not digression - 'cause I'm falling straight up
It is progression - I'm not afraid to stand up
I don't know what I expected
but I expected it to be great
I said "I'm trying my hardest"
but he didn't like the tape
Take a look at what you're doing
and tell me I'm too late
You say we're walking backwards
Well, that dead horse sure can run
It sure can run
The truth
I know I can
I know I will
I know - I know what I have to do
And now you'll listen
and I hope it won't hurt
I've seen your poison
You've done your worst
I've seen your better
and I can't believe it's true
You've lost the truth
that used to live inside of you


5.Never Go Back

Sometimes it gets so cloudy
it's so hard to see
Everything gets distorted
It's all a dream
All these smiling faces
have lost their shine
I guess I'm getting older
I just don't relate
Never go back
I wish I could learn to
Never go back
There's someting wrong inside
but I will never release my pride
I wish I could learn to
Never go back
I'm looking at pictures
and I'm thinking of those times
Those times have changed
and so have I
I stopped my dreaming
I know I can't go back
I started looking closer
and I know what it's become
I wish so bad it was the same
How could it ever be the same?
Never go back
Never go back
I stopped my dreaming
I don't want to go back
I started looking closer
and I know what it's become


6.One To Two

There are things I'd like to say
that I've said too many times before
Things I should have done
instead of looking for a way to get out
You'll never know the sorrow I felt
or the hours I've laid awake
thinking about just what you said
How could you know how I felt?
I never took the time to figure it out
or see how the problems arose
I tried to blame the two of you
I can only blame myself
for the pain we felt
There are words I should have spoken
but I kept my fucking mouth shut instead
Words would've made the difference
but they always stayed unsaid
Why won't you ever see?
Why won't you even see?
It's not just me


7.Thin Line

There's a thin line
between love and hate
I'm standing in a no man's land
and I'm afraid
To try and reach
the other side
How could you give back what you took and
tried to hide?
I should have never trusted you
Left you by yourself
I watched for far too long
Now you can't get out
You made me think
you were in touch
and oh, the pain I felt when I knew
you'd moved on
I never realized
you were running in circles
I let you lead when I knew damn well
you were blind
I trusted you


8.Under Your Influence

It's hard to hold
when the world is spinning
Learned nothing from the night before
or the weeks before that
Under your influence - right goes wrong
Under your influence - crossed my mind
Under your influence - right goes wrong
Under your influence - you crossed my line
for the last time
Twelve onces of courage
makes the world look better
You love the attention
You never had it before
No safety comes from your numbers
Nothing shared or gained
Skirking responsibility
True freedom from what?
From what?


9.Values Here

What'd you say
when I said
we'll be here through tomorrow
in my heart and in my head
Fear of failure
Fear of reprimand
Two big problems I've never had
I never doubted what I have inside
what I have inside
Values here
in my heart
and we'll be here through tomorrow
Every day's a brand new start
Fear of failure
Fear of reprimand
Two big problems I've never had
I never doubted what I have inside
what I have inside
Fear of reprimand
Two big problems I've never had
I never doubted what I have inside
wh
at I have inside


10.What Now

Silly boy
In over his head again
Silly boy
Doing his best again
Silly boy
Why don't you ever learn?
Silly boy
You can't help getting hurt
Behind us Lying and hiding
Behind us The lying and hiding