There are at least 6 bands called The Poets:

1) Band was discovered … Read Full Bio ↴There are at least 6 bands called The Poets:

1) Band was discovered in it's native Scotland by Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, signed to Decca that same year and to his Immediate Records label in 1966.
Members: George Gallacher (vocals) Hume Paton (lead guitar), Tony Myles (rhythm guitar), John Dawson (bass guitar), Alan Weir (drums), Hughie Nicholson (later Blue and Marmalade).
They had a minor hit in late 1964, but failed to have a major impact beyond Scotland. After numerous line-up changes they broke up in 1971. Most well-known track That's The Way It's Got To Be is on Nuggets II.
At that time, songs were released as EPs: I Am So Blue, I Love Her Still (I Am So Blue); I'll Cry With The Moon (B-side of That's The Way It's Got To Be); Wooden Spoon, In Your Tower (Wooden Spoon).

2) Danish band formed as Poets Of The Signature in Nyborg by Troels Bech and Lars K. Andersen. They played sophisticated - if sometimes slightly silly! - indie or artpop and released 3 albums as "The Poets" in the late Eighties and early Nineties. Following UK performances they got favorable reviews in NME, Sounds and Melody Maker, and all in all receiving a fair amount of critical acclaim in the Danish press as well. Despite being a good live band, they never had a breakthrough and thus Bech and Andersen pursued other careers. The former ice skating champion and fashion model Sanne Gottlieb was a member on the last two albums, as was the guitarist and keyboard player Frithjof Toksvig alias Ekko and Aud Wilken. The group in general produced their own material, but also worked with producers like Adam Peters, Ray Shulman and Nick Sansano. The group is known in the US and Canada as The Sealand Poets.

Discography: Poets Of The Signature (1984) Four Days In Florence (1987), The Poets (1990), Welcome To The Heathen Reserve (1992)

3) A New York-based hiphop-act, active years around 1990.

4) A contemporary Swedish pop group. Singing in their native language, this group has nevertheless released an album entitled "We Are The Poets".

5) Brooklyn-based 60's soul band who scored a number #2 R&B hit with "She Blew a Good Thing" in 1966. Fronted by singer Ronnie Lewis (who co-wrote "She Blew a Good Thing"), the 45 was released as the American Poets in the UK.

6) The obscure doo-wop group The Poets were five teenagers from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles, arguably the birthplace of doo-wop music (its alumni included Richard Berry of The Pharaohs and The Robins, Cornell Gunter of The Platters and The Coasters, and Curtis Williams of The Penguins). They recorded one single for Flash Records in 1958, “Dead” b/w “Vowels of Love”.

I Love Her Still
The Poets Lyrics

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No on hurt me
More than her
Still I want
No other
Tears and heartache
Had my filll
Even so
I love her still

She brought tears
Into my eyes
Her sweet lips
They told me lies
Can't forget her
Never will
And I know
I love her still
So I can't give
My love to you
I would only
Make you blue
Please don't say
You want me girl

I can't go
I love her still

Overall Meaning

The Poets' "I Love Her Still" is a heart-wrenching song that portrays the singer's unwavering love for his former lover, despite the pain and heartache she has caused him. The opening lines declare that nobody has hurt the singer more than her, yet he still wants her and no one else. Even though he has had his fill of tears and heartache, he cannot let go of his love for her, because he still loves her deeply.

The second verse continues to explore the contradictory feelings that the singer has towards his former lover. He acknowledges that she brought tears to his eyes and that she told him lies with her sweet lips, but he cannot forget her, and he never will. The chorus repeats the central theme of the song, with the singer admitting that he still loves her, and he cannot give his love to anyone else.

In the final verse, the singer begs his new love interest not to ask him for his love because he knows that he cannot give it to her. He fears that he will only make her blue and hurt her with his lingering love for his former lover. The song ends with him pleading with her not to want him and confessing that he still loves her, despite everything.

Line by Line Meaning

No on hurt me
I have never been hurt by anybody else

More than her
as much as she hurt me

Still I want
Nonetheless, I still want her

No other
No one else can replace her

Tears and heartache
I have suffered from tears and heartaches

Had my fill
I had enough of it

Even so
Nevertheless

I love her still
I still love her despite everything

She brought tears
She made me cry

Into my eyes
My tears rolled down

Her sweet lips
Her lips that used to kiss me