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

or the kid caught at it in the bath: "It's mine and I'll wash it as fast as I like"