XTC - I Can't Own Her

I don't own these songs, they belong to XTC, Idea Records, Cooking Vinyl, and TVT Records
from the album Apple Venus Volume 1
Written by Andy Partridge
Andy Partridge - Vocals & guitars
Colin Moulding - Vocals & bass
Dave Gregory - Keyboards, Guitar, & Backing Vocals
Prairie Prince - Drums
Haydn Bendall - Production & Engineering
Nick Davis - Mix & Additional Production and Engineering

[@mementomori2540]

Most underheralded band in history

[@johnwhatsittoya6374]

Best song on the album! Well for at least two days out of the week, anyway! 💎

[@AlbPerNil]

This is such a beautiful song, XTC are so fucking good man

[@chadgradsphere7648]

Very underrated

[@thewordofgord]

an outstanding song from a remarkable album by a band that pushed the envelope every time out.

[@saucedupbat]

And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
I own this river, I own this town
All of its climbers and its wino's sliding down
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill
Taken with rain
'Til the gutter shines like the swirling sky
Like the swirling sky
I've got all morning, I've got all year
It's down in my pocket with the daylight folded there
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill
Taken with rain
How I'd wash her hair like the swirling sky
Like the swirling sky
And when I say I can't own her
I don't mean to buy her
It's nothing at all to do with money
I simply want her in my arms forever more.
Is that an odd request?
Is that something so funny?
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
Yes there's more chance of that coming true
But I can't own her and I never will
No I can't own her and that's a bitter pill
So I can't own her (Of all the things you've got the thing you want the most is her)
And I never will (And she's the one thing that you just can't have)
No I can't own her (Of all the things you've got the thing you want the most is her)
And that's a bitter pill (And she's the one thing that you just can't have)
Taken with rain
Which I swallow down with the swirling sky
With the swirling sky
But I can't own her
And I may as well wish for the moon in hand
No I can't own her
Yes there's more chance of that coming true

[@rosievela9909]

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[@piratexander]

tears 😭

[@JacquieCDV]

Right? Why does this song make me want to cry? My little sister used to describe some music as so ... filling...that you'd almost feel like it was too much. That's so perfect with this one. Maybe that's why this song makes me cry. I miss the sis. Damn COVID.

[@copium-compound22]

​@@JacquieCDV I'm sorry to hear that hope we can all meet again