Don't Lose Your Grip On Love

Lyrics

Don't lose your grip on love

Don't lose your grip on love

Take me higher and higher like a jet plane flies

But don't lose your grip on love

Why do you despise this travelling man

Even though he's doing the best that he can

Working for peanuts as is his wont

How come you don't hear him when he says

Honey don't lose your grip on love

Don't lose your grip on love

Take me higher and higher like a jet plane flies

But don't lose your grip on love

Said he was a fire sign when he last come by

But fire sign or water sign you can still hear him cry

He put up a statue then burnt down the town

And the first word his tongue spoke when he came 'round was

Don't lose your grip on love

Don't lose your grip on love

Take me higher and higher like a jet plane flies

But don't lose your grip on love

And when he was in trouble and was feeling so low

His friends had deserted him and he had no place to go

He looked like a dead man but be that as it may

Well I thought he was joking when I heard him say

Don't lose your grip on love

Don't lose your grip on love

Take me higher and higher like a jet plane flies

But don't lose your grip on love

Credits

• Written by: Nick Lowe

Performances

This song is unreleased by Elvis Costello, but he performed it in concert several times in 2005. The first performance (2005-03-12 in New Orleans) featured former Brinsley Schwarz keyboardist Bob Andrews.

Recordings

• Brinsley Schwarz, on Nervous On The Road, 1972

Bootlegs

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