I Want You Back Lyrics - Next Year People - Colin Hay

I'd be glad to give back 

All I have ever owned 

If I could have seen into the future 

If only I had known 

Behind these walls of separation 

I have learned to live alone 

But I want you, I want you back 

I could clearly see the letters 

But not the writing on the wall 

About what had come between us 

How the mighty fall 

And one thing keeps repeating 

Is the only thing I know? 

That I want you, I want you back 

Yeah I want you, I want you back 

Well I have taken that number 

How can I have been so blind 

Now I am coming up from under 

It's you I have to find 

My back is all up against the ropes 

Only one way I can go 

And I want you. 

How far is the distance 

Have you gone beyond the sign 

Have you passed the point of no return 

Have you crossed that line 

And if it burns me like a fever 

I've got to tell you one last time 

That I want you, I want you back 

Yeah I want you, I want you back(3)