I Can't Own Her Lyrics - Xtc

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