She loves you means she doesn't love *me.*

The narrator is terribly stoic and noble about the whole thing, but it's a sad song nonetheless.

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You have forced me to boycott this poll. It is utterly unacceptable to categorise "a badger with a gun" in with other responses. ABWAG must not be sullied in this fashion!

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Most def. happy-sad- the best kind!

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because:
a. love is a good thing. (positive)
b. She knows he didn't mean to hurt her even though he did.(that's a positive)
c. Pride could get in the way if he lets it (but he shouldn't)
d. She's thinking of you. (positive unless she's thinking you're an arse!)
e. YEAH YEAH YEAH is just happy to sing!

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Well, here's how I see it.

You think you lost your love

Does that mean you think you lost your love (a person), or you think you lost your love FOR a person?

She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad.
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad.

"You know that can't be bad", "you know you should be glad"... how ambivalent is that?

She said you hurt her so
She almost lost her mind.

Yeah, well that sounds like a great relationship to be trying to put back together then!

Although it's up to you,
I think it's only fair,
Pride can hurt you, too,
Apologize to her

He doesn't really want her, she's clinging on to him, she sends an emissary to plead for her. And as jackfear so rightly says, it's very possible that the go-between is the one who's actually in love with the woman in question. SO SAD!

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(sob sob)

but then again- this COULD be about a redemptive moment- hence the turning point of a stronger relationship based upon getting through something together because of love.
you think you lost her but you COULD win her back if you were brave enough! It can't be that bad the person is saying- if she still loves you.

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But yes you know you "should" be glad is truly (really I believe truely would be a better spelling!) depressing -I've been there before.
In my mind the fact that you think you've lost your love is followed by but I saw her yesterday leads my mind to a more literal version but then again- apparently I suck at Boggle so who knows?
;-)

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It can't be that bad the person is saying- if she still loves you.

Yeah but meanwhile, that leaves the narrator alone and miserable.

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herm-you think so?
Maybe I should google the lyrics- I never thought
that the narrator was in love with her.
What makes one think that?

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jackfear's answer pretty much sums that up. It seems like the narrator is almost lecturing the guy he's talking to for not loving her as much as he (the narrator) does. Or maybe the narrator doesn't love her, he's just jealous of the other guy for having a girl who loves him and is willing to take him back after he's been a jerk.

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hmmm. I can see that point of view but think it's def. wide open to interpretation.
To me he (the narrator) is saying get beyond yourself (ego) and see what is good right in front of you, and what can be mended if you stop sulking about it.

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To me he (the narrator) is saying get beyond yourself (ego) and see what is good right in front of you

Further to which, narrators don't have to be people in the story. In fact, they don't have to be people.

In this case my initial impression (prior to reading the thread) was that the narrator was the dude in the story, talking to himself inside his own head.

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You think you've lost your love,
Well I saw her yesterday.
It's you she's thinking of
And she told me what to say.

Must be a seriously schizophrenic narrator then, is all I can say!

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it could be a GIRL Narrator in love with the boy that the other girl is also in love with!!!!

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If that song has any lyrics other than:

10 SING "She love you, yeah yeah yeah";
20 GOTO 10

...then it's the first I've heard of it.

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1 error
At line 20: Expected ';' found EOF.
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Dude, it's BASIC. The ';' means something completely different.

Assuming that a) I'm spoofing BBC BASIC (and given the choice, why use anything else?) and b) SING is PRINT...

With BBC BASIC PRINT, if you give it PRINT "Hello World" then it supplies the carriage return itself. If you give it PRINT "Hello World"; then it doesn't, and the next PRINT statement concatenates on to the result of the last.
Hence:

10 SING "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah";
20 GOTO 10

Would output:

She loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeahShe loves you, yeah yeah yeah...

...which is very much my impression of that song.

Plus, also, compiler output? It's an interpreted language!

And so, with "Correcting Dom about a programming language" completing my six impossible things before breakfast, I'm off to Milliways.

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I am humbled by your superior BASIC-fu!

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I've always assumed that the narrator does indeed harbour a thing for the lady in question, but they're rising above it to patch the relationship back together, which is surely inspiring for us all -- shades of Sydney Carton.

After all, they could have just told the other person "She told me what to say: namely, get lost," and thus manufactured the opportunity to horn in themselves. But they realize that she really is in love with the other person, however unworthy, so that would be Wrong.

I guess people might see that as sad, but I don't.

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Excitingly, in the German translation, the first line is "Du glaubst sie liebt nur mich" - "you think she loves only me". Which definitely lends credence to the love triangle theory.

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Die Liebendreiecktheorie überzeugt sehr!

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