Idiom ? in the song "No Milk Today"

Can you give more context? Is this the milkman speaking? (two bottles?)

Did they live in the same appartment?

Is (he) talking about two different appartments in the same terraced house, one now deserted?

Was (hers) two up, two down from his?

"Two up, two down" usually refers to two chances, ei

It's a song by Herman's Hermits. Here are the lyrics and I added my personal interpretation right after :

LYRICS :

No milk today, my love has gone away
The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my h

Is the interpretation yours? When I suggested the milkman, I was half joking, but it makes sense. When you deliver a route, you try to remember what your customers have ordered. If there's an upstairs apartment and a downstairs apartment, it would mean each apartment normally took two bottles. It's what you say to yourself to help you remember. So it's a little strange putting it in the sing

Yes, it was my interpretation - the only one I could think of... But I'm sure there are other readings..
Maybe "just two up two down" means that he goes up the stairs to the 2nd floor (where the girl lived) and then he goes down again (2 floors down), without having his ritual breakfast break with the girl ? So the emphasis should be on the "just" : he stayed at the apartment only for the del

Hi,
'Two up, two down' refers to a small house with two rooms downstairs and two bedrooms upstairs.

Look here http://www.diclib.com/cgi-bin/d1.cgi?l=en&base=coed&page=showid&id=68708

Yey !
Thank you That was really helpful !

Clive eg Tom and Mary live in a two up, two down.

Right, here you are, from a fellow Brit to Hermon and his little Hermits.

The singer is not the milkman. He is the man who lives in the house.

In the past milkmen would deliver milk in glass bottles and leave them on your doorstep very early in the morning. You would put the empty bottles back out again for them to collect. If you wanted to leave the milkman a message, you woul

Hi, Nona.

I was puzzled by the casual use of the expression "terraced house." In the US, it's usually a landscaping feature, in which a natural slope is converted to steps, as, for example, a terraced garden.

We also use the expression, "out on the terrace" to refer to a patio, or a balcony, which is not a usual feature of a four room, two story, working family dwelling built b

From what I understand, a terraced house is what Americans would call a row house.