Songwriter: Shel Silverstein
Producer: Ron Haffkine
I can't touch the clouds for you
I'll never reach the sun for you
I've never done the things that you need done for you
I've stretched as high as I can reach
I guess I'm not the one for you
'Cause I can't touch the clouds or reach the sun for you
No I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun
I can't turn back time for you
And make you sweet sixteen again
I can't turn your barren fields to green again
And I won't sit around and talk
Of how things might have been again
No I can't turn back time and make you young again
I can't turn back time and make you young
I hope you find somebody who
Can do the things I didn't do
And find the road I didn't find
And build a brighter world for you
I hope you find somebody old
Enough to reach and take a hold
And guide your ever changing mind
And free your ever risin' soul
But I can't, no
No I can't
I can't look inside your mind
And see the things you're hopin' for
And I can't help you chase the dream you're gropin' for
You say your arms are open wide
But Lord knows who they're open for
No I can't know your mind or chase your dreams with you
No I can't chase your dreams or know your mind
So say goodbye and don't look back
I've had some happy days with you
Sorry I can't be the one who stays with you
And when they ask about me
You can say I was the one with you
Who never touched the clouds or reached the sun with you
No I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun
I guess it's done
I can't touch the sun for you, ooh, ooh, ooh
I can't touch the sun
(I can't no I can't) ooh, no, ooh, no
I can't touch the sun
No Lord, no, hmm, hmm....
I'll never reach the sun for you
I've never done the things that you need done for you
I've stretched as high as I can reach
I guess I'm not the one for you
'Cause I can't touch the clouds or reach the sun for you
No I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun
I can't turn back time for you
And make you sweet sixteen again
I can't turn your barren fields to green again
And I won't sit around and talk
Of how things might have been again
No I can't turn back time and make you young again
I can't turn back time and make you young
I hope you find somebody who
Can do the things I didn't do
And find the road I didn't find
And build a brighter world for you
I hope you find somebody old
Enough to reach and take a hold
And guide your ever changing mind
And free your ever risin' soul
But I can't, no
No I can't
I can't look inside your mind
And see the things you're hopin' for
And I can't help you chase the dream you're gropin' for
You say your arms are open wide
But Lord knows who they're open for
No I can't know your mind or chase your dreams with you
No I can't chase your dreams or know your mind
So say goodbye and don't look back
I've had some happy days with you
Sorry I can't be the one who stays with you
And when they ask about me
You can say I was the one with you
Who never touched the clouds or reached the sun with you
No I can't reach the clouds or touch the sun
I guess it's done
I can't touch the sun for you, ooh, ooh, ooh
I can't touch the sun
(I can't no I can't) ooh, no, ooh, no
I can't touch the sun
No Lord, no, hmm, hmm....
more tracks from the album
Greatest Hits (1995)
- Carry Me, Carrie
- Hey, Lady Godiva
- If I’d Only Come and Gone
- Makin’ It Natural
- The Ballad of Lucy Jordon
- Stayin’ Song
- Life Ain’t Easy
- Marie Lavaux
- Turn On The World
- Looking for Pussy
- Sylvia’s Mother
- Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie
- I Can’t Touch the Sun
- Acapulco Goldie
- Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball
- The Wonderful Soup Stone
- Penicillin Penny
- The Cover of the “Rolling Stone”
- Queen of the Silver Dollar
- The Things I Didn’t Say
- Last Mornin’
- Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk
- Four Years Older Than Me
- Get My Rocks Off
From the albums
- Sloppy Seconds (1972)
- Greatest Hits (1995) (1995)
Dr. Hook popular songs
- Sylvia’s Mother
- Sharing the Night Together
- The Cover of the “Rolling Stone”
- Sexy Eyes
- Storms Never Last
- A Little Bit More
- When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman
- The Ugliest Man In Town
- Chained to Her Memory
- Up on the Mountain
- Bread Upon the Water
- Love You Now
- I’m a Lamb
- More Like the Movies
- The Things I Didn’t Say
- Help Me Mama
- Mountain Mary
- Do You Right Tonight
- The Shadow Knows
- Monterey Jack
- That Plane
- Dooley Jones
- Feels Good
- Last Mornin’