The Things We Do for Love Lyrics
Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea
You lay your bets and then you pay the price
The things we do for love, the things we do for love
You've got her number and your hand is on the phone
The weather's turned and all the lines are down
The things we do for love, the things we do for love
When there's nowhere to go
And you're feelin' like a part of you is dying
And you're looking for the answer in her eyes
You think you're gonna break up
Then she says she wants to make up
Ooh you've got a way
Ooh you had me crawling up the wall
When there's nowhere to go
And you're feelin' like a part of you is dying
And you're looking for the answer in her eyes
You think you're gonna break up
Then she says she wants to make up
Ooh you've got a way
Ooh you had me crawling up the wall
Agree to disagree but disagree to part
When after all it's just a compromise of
The things we do for love, the things we do for love
To me it's about getting emotionally involved with someone and then finding there are many things that you don't agree on.
Romance is a risk (You lay your bets and then you pay the price). It can become an on again-off again relationship (You think you're gonna break up, then she says she wants to make up). The solution is to realise there are differences and accepting each other for who they are (A compromise would surely help the situation. Agree to disagree but disagree to part). It's about compromise for the sake of love.
It's about a woman whose appearance makes him pursue her. She probably has a way of talking, and I bet she has a captivating smile. Just to get her, he's doing things he wouldn't usually do and doesn't enjoy. He's successful eventually ... only to find out that she drives him nuts. Probably nagging and bossing him around, having him crawling up the walls. They argue so badly that he suggests a break up. But to his big surprise, she manages to change his mind by just telling him she would like to be with him. She made him love her, she's having her way ...
Wow this song was released in 1976 I'm 33 so I would have been 5 when it was on the radio for some reason I can remembr this song!!!! CLEARLY!! Cool song!!!
this is actually one or their deepest songs lol. I really like it!! but tht doesn't mean I don't like the other ones, they're all really funny!!
This is a REALLY great song. And I think the meaning is just what's written in the song. The crazy stuff people do for love!