All of me, why not take all
Can't you see I'm no good without you?
Take these arms, I want to lose them
Take these lips, I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes
How can I go on to without you?
You took the best so why not take the rest?
Why not take all of me?
All of me, why not take all of me
Can't you see I'm no good without you?
Take these arms, I want to lose them
Take these lips, I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes to cry
How can I go on to without
You took a part that once was my hart.
Why not take all of me?
Can't you see I'm no good without you?
Take these arms, I want to lose them
Take these lips, I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes
How can I go on to without you?
You took the best so why not take the rest?
Why not take all of me?
Can't you see I'm no good without you?
Take these arms, I want to lose them
Take these lips, I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes to cry
How can I go on to without
You took a part that once was my hart.
Why not take all of me?
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"All of Me" is a popular song and jazz standard written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Me_%28song%29
This song is about his girlfriend leaving him, the lyrics in this veriosn is wrong though, its upposed to be "take these thoughts, I want to lose them" This song is so true.
Well, this is a cover. Nofx did not write this song, they covered it. However I think it was one of the best covers they ever did. I love this song. The bass line is really cool and the drumming and guitar parts are dead just like every other Nofx song. Anyway these lyrics are so simplistic, yet I think the simple lyrics about a girl leaving you is so true. I think almost everybody out there knows exactly what it feels like to have a girl they really really like leave them. (I am not talking about that girl you just like, I am talking about that girl you REALLY like!) And that is what this song is talking about!
Hmm... i may be stupid, but i read somewhere that this is a cover of an old frank sinatra song... its a great cover, i love the bassline.
could be frank sinatra, i have no idea. fat mike doesn't even know who wrote it, but he said billie holiday and louis armstrong recorded it a long time ago
i love this song :)
Fat Mike does know who wrote this song, it is Frank Sinatra indeed whoever said that. I first heard the song by Frank Sinatra and love the cover, it's very cool. If you buy "45 or 46 that weren't good enough to go on the other albums" by Nofx, the liner notes have a summary of all of the songs, and it points out that it's awesome to cover a Frank Sinatra song that nobody knows because you get credit for it ;-).
Actually it's by Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks. The Frank Sinatra version was also a cover.
i have the album (45 or 46....) and I don't see Sinatra's name on the liner notes anywhere. At least not on the page with this songs lyrics. all i see is the following message that was already mentioned.
"This is another fuckin cover song. I don't know who wrote it originally but i do know Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong (Great grand-father of Tim & Billy Joe) recorded it way back b4 they even had recordings. You should try & listen to their versions cuz they're a hell of a lot better than ours."
underneath the song title is the names listed in the post directly above this one. "
where is this frank sinatra statement in the liner notes?
Frank Sinatra would not be mentioned as that he is just another person who covered the song.
Frank Sinatra would not be mentioned as that he is just another person who covered the song.
There are some subtle differences with the original lyrics. Most of them seem to be just to make it sound more punk, but there's a significant one. The original says:
Take my lips I want to lose them Take my arms I'll never use them
NOFX version says:
Take these arms I want to lose them Take these lips I'll never use them