Lyrics to
I Don’t Want You

This version of I Don’T Want You was released by Ramones in 1978.

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You said that you’d be true
Baby said that you’d be true
I don’t care, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
I don’t want you
Don’t want you
I don’t want you anymore
You said that you’d be mine
Baby said that you’d be mine
I don’t care, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
I don’t want you…
I want you I want you to stay
But I guess that it just can’t be that way
You said that you’d be true
Baby said that you’d be true
I don’t care, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
I don’t want you…
Don’t want want you…

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The lyrics to I Don’T Want You are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Ramones used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to I Don’T Want You have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Ramones and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to I Don’T Want You by Ramones. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Don’T Want You" means the words set to the music of I Don’T Want You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Ramones. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Don’T Want You and the lyrics to I Don’T Want You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Ramones who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Don’T Want You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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