Album: Four Tops' Second Album (1965)

Charted: 34 5

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• You're sweet as a honey bee
  But like a honey bee stings
  You've gone and left my heart in pain
  All you left is our favorite song
  The one we danced to all night long
  It used to bring sweet memories
  Of a tender love that used to be
  
  Now it's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  It's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  I, oh I
  
  Sentimental fool, am I
  To hear a old love song and wanna cry
  'Cause the melody keeps haunting me
  Reminding me how in love we used to be
  Keep hearing the part that used to touch my heart
  Saying together forever, breaking up never
  
  It's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  But it's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  
  Precious memories keep a lingering on
  Every time I hear our favorite song
  Now you're gone, left this emptiness
  I only reminisce the happiness we spent
  We used to dance to the music
  Make romance through the music
  
  Now it's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  It's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  I, oh I
  
  It's the same old song
  But with a different meaning
  Since you been gone
  It's the same old song Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Jennifur Sun from RamonaMy fav Tops tune. And I just loved the Funk Brothers playing on this song. The title reminds me of those of the Funks who are now no longer with us.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn October 2nd 1965, the Four Tops performed "It's the Same Old Song" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'...
  Three months earlier on July 25th, 1965 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #54; and on August 22nd, 1965 it peaked at #5 {for 2 weeks} and spent 9 weeks on the Top 100 {it was at #38 on its 9th and last week on the Top 100}...
  And on September 5th, 1965 it reached #2 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart {the two weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" by James Brown}...
  Sadly, three of the four members have passed away; Levi Stubbs {1936 - 2008}, Renaldo 'Obie' Benson {1936- 2005}, & Lawrence Payton {1938 - 1997} and Abdul 'Duke' Fakir will celebrate his 79th birthday the day after Christmas {December 26th, 2014}...
  May the 'soulful' three R.I.P.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 3rd 1978, K.C. & the Sunshine Band performed their covered version of "It's The Same Old Song" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  One month earlier on May 7th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on June 25th it peaked at #35 (for 1 week) and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...
  It peaked at #30 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
  Thirteen years earlier on July 25th, 1965 the original version by the Four Tops entered the Top 100; it peaked at #5 (for 2 weeks) on August 22nd, 1965.
• Fred from Laurel, MdThese guys were absolute dynamite, in an era of dynamite bands!
• Fred from Laurel, MdNB: According to your lyrics page on "I Can't Help Myself," it was penned, not by the legendary Holland, Dozier, & Holland, but by Allen, Allen, & Slack.
  So one of the two is in error -- that one or this.
  From the 2nd Songfact up here, it sounds as if this one is right and the other one is wrong. But Lamont could be talking about re-working a song someone else wrote, I suppose.

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