If you want, want my love
Take it, baby
If you want, want my heart
Take it, baby

You can have it all
You can have it all

If you want, want my time
Take it, baby
And if you want my last dime
Take it, baby

You can have it all
You can have it all

Take it, baby (take it, baby)
Take it, baby (take it, baby)
Take it, baby (take it, baby)
Take it, baby (take it, baby)
Take it, baby

You can have it all
You can have it all

You can have it all
You can have it all

You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all, have it all
You can have it, you can have it
Have it all


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  • +5
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    this 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 08, 2007   Link
  • +2
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    ahh i might die from this song.

    thisthingisgayyaron April 08, 2006   Link
  • +1
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    Amazing song! This is clearly about just giving all of yourself to somebody else...love.

    jwasilon March 26, 2005   Link
  • +1
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    I 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
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    It'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
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    It's one of those simple, beautiful songs, which you just can't imagine living without.

    buckleyon August 22, 2002   Link
  • 0
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    ba 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
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    I can dance like crazy 50's style to this song.

    The_Variableon June 28, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    yo la tengo makes me so happy.

    subterranean_summeron June 29, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    I 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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