Baby I Can Tell

BABY I CAN TELL 

©Trev Teasdel Cleobury Mortimer September 1966 

I can tell that you are slipping away from me

By the faraway look in your eyes

and your superficial sighs.

Chorus

Baby I can tell - yeah

Baby I can tell – yeah
Baby now I see.

Baby I can tell – yeah

There's no use in trying to conceal your guilt

You're trying to demolish this whole world I've built.

Better admit now the wine is spilt.

I'm in a state of rejection

I've discovered a loose connection

Won't you open up your eyes

to a wise compromise.

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Baby I Can Tell - YouTube 2025 by Mira and the magnetic Ghosts

Same version but on Reverbnation 

This was the first lyric I wrote - back in September 1966 - I was 15 and away at boarding school in Cleobury Mortimer. I bought the Record Song Book - a magazine of the time with all the lyrics of the chart hits. That Saturday, I viewed the lyrics to With a Girl Like You by the Troggs - loved the Troggs but every other line was a Baba baa baa bah - next to it was the beautiful Paul Simon lyric Dangling Conversation - pure poetry with layered meaning images. I figured I have a go at writing a lyric - in the next room someone had Radio Caroline on - the Walker Brothers hit 'Baby, You Don't Have to Tell Me was playing - I took my que from that for the title Baby I Can Tell ( a paraphrase, and maybe pinched 'Superficial sighs' from Paul Simon. It was just an experiment to see if I could write a lyric - but of course I didn't stop there. This lyric got shelved - kept just to remind me of the starting point. I had the basic tune in my head but never put it to music - using AI recently I created a track for the lyric to see how it would sound, sung and played.