Yo La Tengo – You Can Have It All

"You Can Have It All" as written by John Henry Andersson and Gita Lake....
If you want, want my love
Take it baby
If you want, want my heart
Take it baby
You can have it all

If you want, want my time
Take it baby
And if you want my last dime
Take it bay
You can have it all

Take it baby, you can have it all


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"You Can Have It All" as written by Gita Lake John Henry Andersson

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  • +5
    General Commentthis song
    will always
    remind me
    of that springtime
    in phoenix
    when justin and i
    finally kissed
    like mad
    starving wolves
    and rolled
    all over
    his bed
    covered in dog hair
    sweating like
    every day
    only better
    two friends
    turned lovers
    before moving
    to separate coasts
    greenlady81on November 07, 2007   Link
  • +2
    General Commentahh i might die from this song.
    thisthingisgayyaron April 08, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General CommentAmazing song! This is clearly about just giving all of yourself to somebody else...love.
    jwasilon March 25, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General CommentI get shivers every time I hear this song. If you listen to it on headphones you can hear that there are actually two guys sharing the ba ba ba ba ba bits, alternating between them, because the bas come through the left then the right earpiece :)
    Tikkaon May 16, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General CommentIt's about having been hurt in the past. When you fall in love, you give yourself up to the other person. You make yourself completely vulnerable at the other person's expense. He has been hurt in the past, and is deciding "screw it, I love this person too much to care about how I got hurt in the past." To me, it sounds like there is a bit of hesitance in the song, like he somehow knows that he will be hurt again, but he is too smitten to care, so he hopes for the best and takes down all of his walls.
    demeatloafon September 15, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General CommentIt's one of those simple, beautiful songs, which you just can't imagine living without.
    buckleyon August 22, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Commentba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba...funnest song in the entire world
    sweetadelineon October 02, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General CommentI can dance like crazy 50's style to this song.
    The_Variableon June 28, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Commentyo la tengo makes me so happy.
    subterranean_summeron June 28, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General CommentI completely agree subterranean_summer. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out makes me happier than any other album by any artist.
    JackWhiteon January 27, 2006   Link

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