Don't Lose Your Grip On Love

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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 first came by
But fire sign or water sign you still can hear him cry
He put up a statue then burnt down the town
And the first words his tongue spoke when he came around were
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 feeling so low
His friends had deserted him, he had no place to go
He seemed 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

Don't Lose Your Grip On Love (unreleased cover)
Written byNick Lowe
Performed byRusty (1972)
Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Bob Andrews (2005-03-12)
Elvis Costello & The Imposters (2005)
Elvis Costello & The Pickups (2005-04-27)
Elvis Costello solo (2005-09-28)
Elvis Costello with Nick Lowe, Bill Kirchen, Bob Andrews & others (2010-10-01 early & late shows)

First known performance:
October 26, 1972, Liverpool, England
Last known performance:
October 1, 2010, San Francisco, CA, late show - last full performance
April 29, 2020, Happier Musical Hour - one verse
     (14 known performances, 1 as a snippet)


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Recordings by other artists

 Artist  Year  Release  Links
Brinsley Schwarz  1972 Nervous On The Road AllmusicWikipediaAmazon
 The Parson Red Heads  2012 Lowe Country: The Songs of Nick Lowe AllmusicAmazon

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