The Zombies

Released: April 9, 1965

Songwriter: Smokey Robinson

Producer: Kent Jones

I don't like you
But I love you
Seems that I'm always
Thinking of you
Oh, oh, oh
You treat me badly
(You treat me badly)
I love you madly

[Hook]
You've really got a hold on me
(You've really got a hold on me)
You've really got a hold on me
(You've really got a hold on me)

[Chorus]
Baby, I love you
And, all I want you to do
Is just hold me
Hold me
Hold me
Hold me

Tighter
Tighter

I want to leave you
Don't want to stay here
I don't want to spend
Another day here
Oh, oh, oh
I want to quit now
I just can split now

[Hook]

[Chorus]

Real tight hold on me
(You've got a real tight hold)
You've got a real tight hold on me
(You've got a real tight hold on me)
You've got a real tight hold on me
(You've got a real tight hold on me)
You've got a real tight hold on me
(You've got a real tight hold on me)

And I want you to know now
(You've got a real tight hold on me)
Before you go, I want you to know now
(You've got a real tight hold on me)
That if you ever
(Ah)
If you ever change your mind
(Ah)
About leaving, about leaving me behind
(Ah)

Oh, bring it on home
Bring your sweet loving
Bring it on home to me
Yeah
(Yeah)
Yeah
(Yeah)
Yeah
(Yeah)

Oh I'll give you jewelery, and money too, oh
And that ain't all, that ain't all im gonna do, woah

Bring it on home
Bring your sweet loving
Bring it on home to me
Yeah
(Yeah)
Yeah
(Yeah)
Yeah
(Yeah)

Woah, because

[Hook]

The Zombies were a British Invasion rock band, perhaps one of the most musically adept. Curiously, this band did not even exist when they got their first smash US hit, having broken up because their album and singles had failed in Britain. It was then resurrected from the dead post-haste, in literal zombie fashion.

From the album

Begin Here (1965)

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