A fully animated song where a snail sings about how good it feels to be in love

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This was the band's stab at something more in the pop vein.
In 1983, this song was crticized by a songwriter's symposium for being "too sing-songy". Well, duh!

I like to hold my head up high
Fit for all to see
Where love can come a knocking to
The beginning of this jubilee
Many times, many times have I wondered
Why I wait - it takes too long
I kept on passing all those silly romances
Until the right one came along.


chorus
It's your love that I need
My life's in a twist, I don't know how to resist
It's your love that I need
I thought I was wise, but it came a surprise
It's your love that I need
I have to confess I find it hard to say yes
It's your love that I need
Its' your love, it's your love that I need.


Many people think I'm a poor boy
A sympathetic fool
I wandered like a vagabond
And broken every rule
But you know that the riches
Of a life are often found
Among the friends and lovers met
on the many treks around.


bridge
Of all the things that have been written about it
Only one thing stands out
When you've gone and been heart-bitten by it
You just can't live without that ounce of love.


Weed out the frills that disguise the mystery
Only one thing remains
Of all the thrills, old love is the greatest
Your life won't be the same without that ounce of love.


repeat chorus


It's your love that I need
It's your love that I need, I can feel it so deeply
It's your love that I need
Love
It's your love that I need
Its' your love, it's your love that I need.