I taught myself to play I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) on the acoustic guitar today. Yes, Hall & Oates. I know, but it is fun. What can I do? I am defenseless against pop music.
Easy, ready, willing overtime
Where does it stop?
Where do you dare me
to draw the line?...
Yeah, I'll do anything
that you want me to do.
Yeah, I'll do almost anything
that you want me to, yeah...
Then there are some other lyrics. The chords don't change. Just slight dynamic emphasis as the chorus repeats.
They're not that different from Steely Dan or Cat Stevens - Hall & Oates. It's an era of songwriting in which, after the melodies have been committed to memory, the emphatic subtleties are the only things worth noticing, which becomes tiring after those have been exhausted, also.
I can't go for being twice as nice
I can't go for just repeating the same old lines...
