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Lady, where's your love gone?
I was looking but can't find it anywhere
They always offer when there's loads of love around
But when you're short of some, it's nowhere to be found

Well I know your game, you told him yesterday
No chance. You'll get nothing from me
But now she's there, you're there and everybody's there
He's in turmoil, as puzzled as can be
Just like me

Let's go down, down
Low down
Where I know I should not go
Oh she thinks she's the one
But she's just one in 24
And just 'cause everybody's doing it
Does that mean that I can too?

Lady, where's your love gone?
It was the antiseptic to the sore
To hold you by the hand, must he first be in demand?
How he longs for you to long for him once more
Just once more

Let's go down, down
Low down
Where I know I should not go
Oh she thinks she's the one
But she's just one in 24
And just 'cause everybody's doing it
Does that mean that I can too?

Her eyes went down and cut you up
There's nothing like a dirty look from
The one you want, or the one you've lost

An ache in your soul
It's everybody's goal to get what they can't have
That's why you're after her and that's why she's after him
But saying it wont change a thing

I now realize that it wont change a thing
Realize that it wont change a thing.
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Why hasn't anyone commented this song yet? It's fucking wonderful. I rly love it. It's so damn RIGHT.

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the first stanza tells about the love that was lost while the succeeding stanzas tells how it happened. It's about this guy who thought she's found the girl when suddenly alot of other girls come popping out giving him other options which make it too difficult to choose. The guy wanted to have his cake and eat it too so he didn't choose and beause the guy didn't choose he lost the girl, and because he didn't choose he ended up with no one and now he was longing for the girl he should've been with. but the girl doesn't want him anymore. The song then ends with the lesson that everybody wants to get what they can't have and because of this get nothing in the end. so yeah. that's just my take coz i think it's happening to me. :/

you are spot on mate! same thing has happened to me & every word strikes a massive note, Genius, Long live Alex.

Not Valid

Funny, but someone was eating salmon prepared by someone else on 12-14. And someone different will be preparing it this 12-14 as well...and another on the next 12-14.

Not Valid

Wow, thanks so much for this naughtymate! I thought it meant something like what you said, but you surely said it better than everyone else. Sorry that it happened to you. I think it's happened to everyone at least one in their life.

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Absolutely brilliant, to compare relationships or flings to buses as the saying goes "buses all come at once when you're waiting for one."

He's using the same analogy here where women are concerned and telling the story of a girl he's met when he had plenty of other girls around and how he clearly just wants this one but his opportunity has gone.

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It's that old saying isn't it - "2 come at once". You're waiting for a bus and you wait ages without one turning up, then all of a sudden, 2 come at once.

I don't really understand the chorus though. But i love the part where he sings - "theres nothing like a dirty look from the one you want or the one you lost"

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LittleFloo is right, its not "dirty love bond."

I think you've got it down. It always seems like people are after things they cant have, they like the challenge. its like when youre dating some one, and more people are after you. Then you break up with the person and when you actually want some one again, no one comes... silly boys... I mean 'buses' :)

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waah ich kann doch kein englisch :D aba das lied is ennnnnnd geil :)))

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brilliant song, it's about always wanting to have what you don't have. you have a girl but want the one who is in demand.

I don't get the chorus either, someone would mind and explain?

@poncem

The chorus refers to the old saying, “Get down with them,” which means to have sex with the person. He is saying that he wants to do every girl, and while doing it everyone thinks they're the one he wants, when in reality, he just wants them all.

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Her eyes went down and cut you up There's nothing like a dirty look from The one you want, or the one you've got

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in the second verse, instead of "To hold you by the hand, it must first be in demand" i hear "to hold you by the hand, must he first be in demand?" which i think adds a lot of different meaning to the song as a whole

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This song is soooo true.