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<p class="ql-align-center"><strong style="color: rgb(240, 102, 102);"><em>Round 2. Ladies team sing a pop song.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong style="color: rgb(240, 102, 102);"><em>Guys team sing a rock song.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p> <img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/BHTN/04a4938c46_M7WO_media.jpg"></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Lennon wrote "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" early in his time in Los Angeles during his separation from wife&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yoko Ono</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, often called his "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon#1973%E2%80%9375:_%22Lost_weekend%22" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lost weekend</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">."</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">The song reflects his feelings of depression and loneliness during that time.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Besides his separation from Ono, the lyrics are also influenced by Lennon's disappointment at the negative reception his recent work had received from critics and the public, and his feelings of having been cheated by the music industry.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">&nbsp;The song ends cynically, with the line "Everybody loves you when you're six-foot in the ground."</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Another line which adds to the cynicism is "I'll scratch your back and you knife mine.</span></p>