The lyrics begin with a comic rehearsal scene: the singers struggle to concentrate while gossiping about someoneโs romantic problems. The mood then shifts into advice for a person who has been hurt by love. The song recognizes sadness, but encourages the listener to regain confidence instead of staying miserable.
โGive it up, turn it looseโ means stop holding on to a relationship that is over and let the person go. The image of love knocking someone โon your behindโ suggests that heartbreak can hit hard and leave someone shaken. โBring yourself aroundโ means recover or improve your mood; the lyrics stress that the hurt person has some power to help themselves heal.
The message is encouraging, but not entirely simple: the song says love can leave lasting scars and even nightmares, while also suggesting that good things may come later. Its advice is not necessarily to give up on love altogether. Rather, it seems to mean releasing a relationship that is unwanted or painful, taking time to recover, and remembering that heartbreak does not have to define the future.