Lyrics to
The Love You Save

This version of The Love You Save was released by Jackson 5 in 1970.

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Stop! Nanana! You’d better save it!
Stop, stop, stop, you’d better save it!

When we played tag in grade school
You wanted to be It.
But chasing boys was just a fad
You crossed your heart you’d quit.

When we grew up you traded
Your promise for my ring
Now just like back to grade school
You’re doing the same old thing!

Stop! The love you save may be your own!
Darling, take it slow
Or some day you’ll be all alone.
You’d better stop the love you save may be your own!
Darling, look both ways before you cross me
You’re headed for the danger zone.

I’m the one who loves you!
I’m the one you need!

Those other guys will put you down
As soon as they succeed!

They’ll ruin your reputation!
They’ll label you a flirt!

The way they talk about you
They’ll turn your name to dirt, oh!

Isaac said he kissed you
Beneath the apple tree
When Benjie held your hand he felt
E-lec-tri-ci-tee!
When Alexander called you
He said he rang your chimes.
Christopher discovered
You’re way ahead of your times!

Slow down.
Slow down.
Slow down.
Slow down.

S is for “Save it”
T is for “Take it slow”
O is for “Oh, no!”
P is for “Please, please, don’t go!”

The love you save may be your own…

Some day you may be all alone…

Stop it!
Save it, girl!
Or some day you’ll be all alone.

You’d better stop! the love you save may be your own!
Please, please
Or some day, some day baby,
You’ll be all alone

Those other guys will put you down as soon as they succeed.

Stop! The love you save may be your own…

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides The Love You Save. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

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About Lyrics and The Love You Save by Jackson 5

The lyrics to The Love You Save are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Jackson 5 used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to The Love You Save have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Jackson 5 and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to The Love You Save by Jackson 5. 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 The Love You Save" means the words set to the music of The Love You Save, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 The Love You Save and the lyrics to The Love You Save are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Love You Save, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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