ABBA - LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME

LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME

ABBA

SONGWRITERS: Agnetha Fältskog; Anni-Frid Lyngstad; Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus

COUNTRY: SWEDEN

ALBUM: SUPER TROUPER

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: DISCO

YEAR: 1980

"Lay All Your Love on Me", is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA in 1980 for their Super Trouper album. It was released only as a 12-inch single in 1981 in limited territories, rather than as a standard 7-inch record. At the time, it was the highest selling 12-inch record in UK chart history, where it peaked at number 7. "Lay All Your Love on Me" appears on the group's ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits collection.

Slant Magazine placed it at number 60 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time.

I wasn't jealous before we met

Now every woman I see is a potential threat

And I'm possessive, it isn't nice

You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice

But now it isn't true

Now everything is new

And all I've learned has overturned

I beg of you

Don't go wasting your emotion

Lay all your love on me

It was like shooting a sitting duck

A little small talk, a smile and baby I was stuck

I still don't know what you've done with me

A grown-up woman should never fall so easily

I feel a kind of fear

When I don't have you near

Unsatisfied, I skip my pride

I beg you dear

Don't go wasting your emotion

Lay all your love on me

Don't go sharing your devotion

Lay all your love on me

I've had a few little love affairs

They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce

I used to think that was sensible

It makes the truth even more incomprehensible

'Cause everything is new

And everything is you

And all I've learned has overturned

What can I do

Don't go wasting your emotion

Lay all your love on me

Don't go sharing your devotion

Lay all your love on me.