I Can’t Get Started lyrics

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 we'll spread the news

Superman turns out to be a flash in the pan

The Himalayan mountains I climb

You're written up in Fortune in 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 à la carte'd

Still, I can't get started with you

When first we met, how you elated me

Pet, you devastated me

Yet now you've deflated me

Till 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

Writer(s): Gershwin Ira, Duke Vernon

• Artist:Rosemary Clooney
• Album:Fancy Meeting You Here (1958)