Box Tops, The - You Keep Tightening Up On Me Lyrics
I keep waiting…
For you to do something I don't like
I keep waiting…
But everything you do, you do all right
You give me love when I want you;
Something says I ought to leave you,
But something tells me I won't
'Cause you keep tightening up on me, and I can't break away
'Cause you keep tightening up on me, with a sweeter love every day.
It scares me just a little bit, knowing I'll never be free
Woman, I'm at your mercy, 'cause you keep
Tightening up, tightening up, tightening up on me
Yeah…
La-la-la…
Your kind of love…
Makes it hard for a man to say no to you
One look at me…
And I know I've got to go to you
Even when I'm looking away
In my mind I can see you
I ain't sure that I love you, baby,
But I know that I need you
'Cause you keep tightening up on me, and I can't break away
'Cause you keep tightening up on me, with a sweeter love every day.
It scares me just a little bit, knowing I'll never be free
Woman, I'm at your mercy, 'cause you keep
Tightening up, tightening up, tightening up on me
Yeah…
O-o-o… yeah…
Uh-uh-uh-huh…o-o-o…
You keep tightening up on me, and I can't break away
You keep tightening up on me, with a sweeter love every day
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Box Tops, The You Keep Tightening Up On Me Comments
Err, it’s called Tightening not Thinghtening
Played it a lot when I was stationed at Fort Sill. In a club called Carioca club so that a dancer would dance to it up on stage.Margie was her name. I think she got a little sick of me playing it. Great song.
Great song played the heck out of it down at Ft Sill on the juke box.Should have been a bigger hit.
bald eagle Absolutely
Best, along with Sweet Cream Ladies.
One of my favourite all time Box Tops sides (and I like a lot of their blue eyed soul!), I cant imagine why this wasnt a hit in the UK, other than we had a dreadful dearth of radio stations when it came out - Jan 1970?
Paul Rusling It’s a lost classic of the early 70s no doubt. Wasn’t a hit anywhere
Original: The Box Tops ( U.S. ) - You keep tightening up on me ( Wayne Thompson ) ( album Cry like a baby: 4/1968, 7'' : 1970 ). Cover: Anna St. Clair - La guerre d'amour ( 1970 ).