Can't Be Sure

"Can't Be Sure" was the 1989 debut single by the British alternative pop group The Sundays. It was the first (and in the UK, only) single to be released from their album Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, which appeared a year later. The B-side was "I Kicked a Boy", which also appeared on the album. The 12" single contained an additional, non-album track, "Don't Tell Your Mother". The song's lyrical theme is "desire", treated as a general concept rather than being directed towards anything or anyone in particular. The single was voted number one in John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1989.

Give me a story and give me a bed Give me possessions Oh love, luck, and money they go to my head like wildfire It's good to have something to live for, you'll find Live for tomorrow Live for a job and a perfect behind, high time England my country, the home of the free Such miserable weather But England's as happy as England can be Why cry? And did you know desire's a terrible thing The worst that I can find And did you know desire's a terrible thing But I rely on mine Ah-ah England my country, the home of the free Such miserable weather But England's as happy as England can be Why cry? And did you know desire's a terrible thing The worst that I can find And did you know desire's a terrible thing But I rely on mine Did you know desire's a terrible thing It makes the world go blind But if desire, desire's a terrible thing You know that I really don't mind And it's my life And it's my life And though I can't be sure what I want any more It will come to me later Well it's my life And it's my life And though I can't be sure if I want any more It will come to me later Ye-e-eah