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Can’t You Just See MeAretha Franklin

Released: June 13, 1966

Songwriter: Belford Hendricks

Producer: Clyde Otis

[Verse 1]
Hey, can't you just see me
With my head in the air
The day you trip and fall
Right out of my hair
I'm gonna walk right by you
Like you were stone
Everything that I felt for you, baby
Will be dead and gone

[Chorus]
Hey, can't you just see me
(Can't you just see her)
Can't you just see me, girls
(Can't you just see her)
Can't you just see me now
(Can't you just see her)
With my head in the air
(With her head in the air)

[Verse 2]
Hey, can't you just see me
With another man
Just a-hugging and a-kissing
And him holding my hand
I'm gonna feel so happy
Just paying you back
For all the times that you hurt me, baby
By doing you just like that

[Chorus]
Oh, can't you just see me
(Can't you just see her)
Can't you just see me now
(Can't you just see her)
Can't you just see me, girls
(Can't you just see her)
With my head in the air
(With her head in the air)

[Break]

[Chorus]
Can't you just see me
(Can't you just see her)
Ooh ooh, can't you just see me now
(Can't you just see her)
Can't you just see me, girls
(Can't you just see her)
With my head in the air
(With her head in the air)

[Outro]
I wanna look in your eyes
(Can't you just see her)
And see a whole lotta tears
(Can't you just see her)
You know that you done me bad
(Can't you just see her)
For a whole lotta years
(Can't you just see her)
And I might slap your face
(Can't you just see her)
All over the place
(Can't you just see her)
Ooh, can't you just
Can't you just, can't you just
Can't you just see me now
(Can't you just see her)

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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