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Tell me what I wanna say...
Guess I won't say anything at all...

Everything goes by so fast...
You say you don't have any time to call!

I'm standing by
I never catch your eye
(Standing By)
Hoping you'll catch mine

(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I don't understand
(whoa)
(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I'm doing the best I can
(whoa)
(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I don't understand
(whoa)
(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I'm doing the best I can

I'm standing by
I never catch your eye
(Standing by)
Hoping you'll catch mine

Guess I'm just anonymous...
I tell you that I'm not that way at all!

Never seems to be the right time...
You say you don't have any time to call!

Whoa (whoa)
Whoa (whoa)
Whoa (whoa)

I'm standing by
I never catch your eye
(Standing by)
Hoping you'll catch mine

(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I don't understand
(whoa)
(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I'm doing the best I can
(whoa)
(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I don't understand
(whoa)
(I'm doing the best I)
(Doing the best I)
I'm doing the best I can
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Let me just say again how much I adore this song. The lyrics of this and Your Smile both resonate with the angst of my youth better than most everything else. The new songwriting is certainly better, and less angsty, but I for one still love the old stuff. Parrish really rocks out here too, and I love the layered vocals (perhaps poorly represented in this transcription). More even than Your Smile (!) I'd love to see this one come back for a special occasion, because I think with Parrish getting to rock out and with Roger and Rollum picking up the foregrounded backup parts, it'd just be a blast live.

Will

(Edited by Wiyum at 5:00 pm on Jun. 21, 2003)

It think it was with Try or whatever that song is called that the track sounds studio, but is actually live. I listened to this song and compared it to the live version. It is a studio version (if anyone cares).

At the show I have, Matt says that it got some radio play there for a while ("a couple of times" he said).

In the case of many songs from this era, apparently including Radio One, the songs that Don had a huge part in writing were done away with when he left the group. I'd wager that this is the case with this song.

I would also wager that if someone requested it, the band wouldn't know how to play it. I've said before that a fun Features memory was when someone yelled for Radio One and Matt flat-out said, "Uh, we don't know that one anymore."

"Try" is called "48" according to a member of the band. I think I listed it on the recent checklist as being live, though it does sound studio and I can only wish we had as good a recording of something like Burma or Don't Lie to Me.

If Don had a large part in writing this song, I can see why it would have to go. And I obviously would assume they wouldn't know it if requested. But I think it'd be great if they tried to work it out for a show that marks some kind of special occasion (first show in months, perhaps???). Even rough, it'd be fun.

Will