Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby

[flvegan]

Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around

Just wonderin'.

I hate earworms.

[Richardo]

1. Up until about a year ago, I thought it was 'build me *a* buttercup'

...which just goes to demonstrate the pitiful state of my critical listening and thinking skills. What the hell does THAT mean? And would it be up to code?

[BOSSHOG]

2. Baby, now that I've found you I can let you go

build my world around you
I need you so
baby even though
you don't need me, you don't need me

I saw the Foundations in 1967 in Cambridge, England. They were the lead in band to a Stevie Wonder Concert. I still have a couple of their 45's.