“Take Me I'm Yours” by Squeeze

"Take Me I'm Yours" was the debut single from Squeeze, the English new wave band, taken from their self-titled 1978 album on A&M and produced by the band themselves. It set the template: Glenn Tilbrook's tune, Chris Difford's words, and the two of them singing with Difford an octave beneath Tilbrook, the sound that became their trademark. One of the first songs they ever wrote, it has little in common with the punky racket on much of that debut; writers have filed it under synth-pop and power pop, and Difford later counted it among the few tracks there that sounded like Squeeze.

The lyric is a travelogue of exotic places, dreamed up after Difford stayed at the home of the band's manager, Miles Copeland, whose mother was an archaeologist who had done a great deal of work in Egypt, where Miles had been schooled.

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