Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

'''Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) '''was released in 1979 by Swedish pop group ABBA. It appears on the bestselling ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits album, as well as ABBA: Greatest Hits Vol. 2. It was considered better than Rubber Ball Man, so it was used instead and Rubber Ball Man remained a demo. Madonna, with permission from the songwriters themselves, used a sample of this song in her 2005 song, Hung Up.

Lyrics
Half past twelve

And I'm watching the late show, in my flat all alone.

How I hate to spend the evening on my own...

Autumn winds

Blowing outside the window as I look around the room.

And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom...

There's not a soul out there...

No-one to hear my prayer...

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Chorus:

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight,

Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight,

Take me through the darkness to the break of the day.

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Movie stars

At the end of the rainbow, with a fortune to win.

It's so different from the world I'm living in...

Tired of TV

I open the window and I gaze into the night.

But there's nothing there to see, no-one in sight...

There's not a soul out there...

No-one to hear my prayer...

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Chorus x2