# What 1980's song is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644 "2003-04-28T12:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/1 "2003-04-28T12:21:15Z")
What song says: …I hear you on the telephone with who knows who pouring out your heart for free… can’t we try just a little more harder, can’t we try just a little bit longer… …love you so much, baby, that it hurts (tears me up?) inside… Hope that’s enough to go on! Thanks, - Jinx! ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/2 "2003-04-28T12:32:04Z")
Tom Waits [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7587/hart.html](http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7587/hart.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/3 "2003-04-28T12:38:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osip \* > \*\*Tom Waits > > [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7587/hart.html](http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7587/hart.html) \*\* Osip, are you shure you have the correct link? I cannot find these lyrics at that webpage… Also, I should have mentioned that this song is a duet… - Jinx 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/4 "2003-04-28T12:38:39Z")
ok maybe not… It just sounded kinda in his area. I tried to google for results as well but no luck… Are you sure of the wording of the lyrics? Osip ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/5 "2003-04-28T12:40:37Z")
Osip, yeah… I am 98% pretty sure about the wording of the lyrics…except for where I put a possible alternate phrase in parentheses. Thanks for your efforts… - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/6 "2003-04-28T12:45:34Z")
[http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/dan-hill-can-t-we-try-29fwcf4.html](http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/dan-hill-can-t-we-try-29fwcf4.html) Dan Hill, “Can’t we try”. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/7 "2003-04-28T12:45:42Z")
It’s Dan Hill. [http://www.letssingit.com/dan-hill-can-t-we-try-29fwcf4.html](http://www.letssingit.com/?%5Burl)"]Here are the lyrics. There are eight billion popups on this site, fair warning. Man, do I hate that song. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/8 "2003-04-28T12:47:29Z")
oh HELL HELL HELL. You know what? I’ll just find another site with the lyrics without all those popups, okay? [HERE!!!](http://www.sianda.gbsnet.de/show_lyrics.php?nLyricsID=1109) Rassin frassing popups and coding. I still hate the song. ---
**Author:** ![Rigel\_Haloran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rigel\_Haloran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigel_Haloran)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-1980s-song-is-this/171644/9 "2003-04-28T12:47:51Z")
Can’t we try Dan Hill