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What do you hear here in "Everybody:"

"I play you in that light, I sing but I can't write
So I pretend I sang it first and everybody knows the words"

OR

"I play you in that light, a single I can't write
So I pretend I sang it first and everybody knows the words"

Stephen Dame Wrote:What do you hear here in "Everybody:"

"I play you in that light, I sing but I can't write
So I pretend I sang it first and everybody knows the words"

OR

"I play you in that light, a single I can't write
So I pretend I sang it first and everybody knows the words"

I would say the first one, as the song is about people in tribute bands, a la the Beatles.... makes sense. The character can sing the songs of others, but cannot write his own.