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I heard the news baby, all about your disease
Yeah you may have all you want, baby, but I got somethin' you need
Oh yeah, ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, yeah before
You know you're semi-good lookin', and on the streets again
Oh yeah you think you're really cookin' baby, you better find yourself a friend
My friend, ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, uh before, uh before, before
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Babe it's rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, uh before
I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around
Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby
Yeah, got to got to bleed baby
Mmmm, you got to got to bleed baby
Hey, got to got to bleed baby
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, before, before
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Don't wanna talk about love
Don't need to talk about love
Ain't gonna talk about love, no more, no more, ah
Hey Hey Hey
Hey Hey Hey
Yeah you may have all you want, baby, but I got somethin' you need
Oh yeah, ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, yeah before
You know you're semi-good lookin', and on the streets again
Oh yeah you think you're really cookin' baby, you better find yourself a friend
My friend, ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, uh before, uh before, before
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Babe it's rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, uh before
I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around
Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby
Yeah, got to got to bleed baby
Mmmm, you got to got to bleed baby
Hey, got to got to bleed baby
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, before, before
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Don't wanna talk about love
Don't need to talk about love
Ain't gonna talk about love, no more, no more, ah
Hey Hey Hey
Hey Hey Hey
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Track duration: 03:49
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This chick thinks she's too good for him.
He likes her but not as much as she's giving herself credit for, hence "ain't talkin' bout love."
"my love is rotten to the core", saying I'm not talking about lqove because my love is effed up anyways...
And "if you want it you got to bleed for it baby", basically if you want me I'm not gonna throw myself at you, since "i got something you need", you need to work hard for me because you're really no diamond. So basically, "I like you but not enough to throw myself at you."
Addiction IS a disease. SO when he says
"I heard the news baby, all about your disease , ...
You may have all you want , but I have something you need"
"I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around "
Which to mean reminds me of the friends he had lost to drugs, and he had been there with them, and NOW he goes back and sees this girl , and I let her know Ive been there and done that, and I Cant do it any more.
Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby "
The bleeding part could be used for a drug reference. The drugs that put you on the streets generally are used through a syringe. When you do drugs through a syringe you have to pull back blood.
or
If the song is about sex, then it could refer to losing her virginity.
I am not really SURE if this is what this song is about, this is just MY take on it. I have been at these points in life , so that is how I relate this song to such things.
NEVERTHELESS! Its a great song, definitely one of my favorite VH songs.
I seen the DriveBy Truckers perform this song in Tampa last night, and that is where I started thinking about it.
Happy New Year!
I
RJ
If he don't get his way maybe he'd beat the crap out of her.
>>I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around
He confesses that he did something horrible. Something his friends would not forgive.
>>Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby
Yeah, got to got to bleed baby
Mmmm, you got to got to bleed baby
Hey, got to got to bleed baby
And here he reveals the answer. He is a woman beater.
Now incase your thinking that the "bleed" part is refference to popping the cherry.
The above statement of "lost allot of friends" negates that.
RJ