Love On Your Side

Album: Quick Step and Side Kick (1983)
Charted: 9 45
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  • You keep me running round and round,
    Well that's alright with me,
    Up and down, I'm up the wall,
    I'm up the bloody tree.
    That's alright with me,
    Yeah, that's alright with me,
    Well, it feels alight to me,
    Yeah, it looks alright to me.

    And, I'm so tall, I'm so tall,
    You raise me and then you let me fall.
    And I'm so small, I'm so small,
    Wrap me round your finger, seen before.

    Here we go

    You keep me running round and round,
    Well that's alright with me,
    Nothing, nothing, nothing's gonna
    Step in my way.
    Living on the ceiling,
    No more room down there.
    Things fall into place,
    You got the joke, fall into place.

    Well I'm so tall, I'm so tall,
    You raise me and then you let me fall.
    And I'm so small, I'm so small,
    Wrap me round your finger, seen before.

    You keep me running round and round,
    Well that's alright with me,
    Up and down, I'm up the wall,
    I'm up the bloody tree.
    Hiding from your questions,
    Questions you won't ask.
    "Why am I up the tree" you say,
    "Why are you down there" I'm saying.

    Well I'm so tall, I'm so tall,
    You raise me and then you let me fall.
    And I'm so small, I'm so small,
    Wrap me round your finger, seen before. Writer/s: NEIL ARTHUR, STEPHEN ALFRED LUSCOMBE
    Publisher: Kanjian Music, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Supercazzola from NyThis song pays a special tribute to a previous Thompson Twins song, In the name of love. The lyrics say, “ I've played you all my favorite records” - followed by the melody of the chorus from the song “In the name of love.”
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 7, 1983, the Thompson Twins performed "Love On Your Side" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #72 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, four weeks later it would peak at #45 {for 1 week} and it spent a total of nine weeks on the Top 100...
    On February 27th, 1983 it reached #9 {for 2 weeks} on the United Kingdom's Singles chart...
    And on the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "Lies", at the time it was at #98 on the Top 100, six weeks earlier it had peaked at #30 {for 3 weeks}...
    Between 1982 and 1989 the English pop band had eleven records on the Top 100 chart, three* made the Top 10, "Hold Me Now" {#3 for 2 weeks in 1984}, "Lay Your Hands On Me" {#6 for 2 weeks in 1985}, and "King For A Day" {#8 for 1 week in 1986}...
    * They just missed having a fourth Top 10 record when "Doctor! Doctor!" peaked at #11 {for 1 week} in 1984.
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