>"I need her lovin' and I need it bad ..." (He hasn't even met her yet, as she's the new girl in town) /
>"... and it's the best I've ever had" (????)
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>I think the poetic licence expired here!

Good that they didn't catch him driving too fast with that licence :).

>Americans say:
>I lay on the bed (present)
>I am llaying/lying (not sure) on the bed (present cont.)
>I laid on the bed (past)
>I was laying/lying (not sure) on the bed
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>One can, say, lay ones pyjamas (or friend) on a bed, but cannot lay intransitively :-)

The object of laying is conspicuous by its absence :). Like the guy in a Mexican hotel doing pushups when the cleaner guy comes in and says "nice technique, sir, but I think senorita is gone".