Lyrics to
Takin’ My Love

This version of Takin’ My Love was released by The Jam in 1977.

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Well come on pretty baby you know what I like now
You’re shakin’ all over and it’s feeling alright now
You’re rockin’ and rollin’ and I don’t know what to say
But daddy’s little cat’s gonna rock all day
Well come on pretty woman you know what I mean now
The beat’s just screaming right thru’ your head
You’re shakin’ my heart, you’re shakin’ my soul –
I just go crazy when you rock-n-roll
There you go takin’ my love from me
There you go takin’ my love from me
Drive you home my country rose now
Hold you tight never let you go now
Kissing and huggin’ outside your door
Til your pa sees and wants no more

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The Jam has released many songs over the years besides Takin’ My Love. The Jam released songs from 1977 to 1992 spanning across albums like This Is The Modern World, In The City, All Mod Cons, Setting Sons, Sound Affects, Dig The New Breed, The Gift, and Extras. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Jam.

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About Lyrics and Takin’ My Love by The Jam

When you decide to study the lyrics to Takin’ My Love, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Jam. Some of the lyrics to Takin’ My Love have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Jam and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Takin’ My Love if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Takin’ My Love" means the words set to the music of Takin’ My Love, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Takin’ My Love and the lyrics to Takin’ My Love are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to Takin’ My Love, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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