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You win again

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Cuckoo48 · 26/05/2022 23:26

Oh baby, I shake you from now on
I'm gonna break down your defenses
One by one
I'm gonna hit you from all sides
Lay your fortress open wide
Nobody stops this body from taking you

It's a BeeGee's song from '87. Still gets a lot of airplay. Heard it on the radio earlier today.

Thoughts?

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Cuckoo48 · 26/05/2022 23:28

There's more:
You better beware, I swear
I'm gonna be there one day when you fall
I could never let you cast aside
The greatest love of all

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Cuckoo48 · 26/05/2022 23:35

No one else find these lyrics a bit disturbing?
Or am I reading them too literally?
What's the song about?

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Antarcticant · 26/05/2022 23:58

Cuckoo48 · 26/05/2022 23:26

Oh baby, I shake you from now on
I'm gonna break down your defenses
One by one
I'm gonna hit you from all sides
Lay your fortress open wide
Nobody stops this body from taking you

It's a BeeGee's song from '87. Still gets a lot of airplay. Heard it on the radio earlier today.

Thoughts?

Whose point of view is that from? The title of the song is 'You win again' so either:

  • this is the 'me' in the song and their tactics, though ruthless, were ultimately unsuccessful because the 'you' won again
  • this is the 'you' in the song in which case the 'again' suggests the singer ('me') is the longstanding victim of a controlling relationship
Either would be a valid subject for a song.
Cuckoo48 · 27/05/2022 00:09

It's definitely a mutually abusive relationship, but

'I'm gonna hit you from all sides
Lay your fortress open wide
Nobody stops this body from taking you'

What does that mean other than rape?

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Antarcticant · 27/05/2022 00:13

It could be a reference to love-bombing.

ElenaSt · 27/05/2022 00:16

www.songfacts.com/facts/bee-gees/you-win-again

The song has a love is a battlefield theme, with the Gibb brothers conceding defeat to woman while also asking for her surrender.

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