Lyrics for I Don't Owe You Anything as interpreted by weezerific:cutlery

I Don't Owe You Anything Lyrics
Bought on stolen wine
A nod was the first step
You knew very well
What was coming next

Bought on stolen wine
A nod was the first step
You knew very well
What was coming next

Did I really walk all this way
Just to hear you say :
"Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" ?
"Oh, I don't want to go out tonight"

Oh, but you will
For you must

I don't owe you anything, no
But you owe me something
Repay me now

You should never go to them
Let them come to you
Just like I do
Just like I do

You should not go to them
Let them come to you
Just like I do
Just like I do

Did I really walk all this way
Just to hear you say :
"Oh, I don't want to go out tonight" ?
"Oh, I don't want to go out tonight"

But you will
For you must

I don't owe you anything, no
But you owe me something
Repay me now

Too freely on your lips
Words prematurely sad
Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight

Life is never kind
Life is never kind
Oh, but I know what will make you smile tonight

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butterflykiss84
03-25-2003

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This is a grower. When your obsessed like me, you end up getting fed up slightly ( never completly!) of the singles, and move ito under-rated album tracks. Worthy of an honourable mention :]

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mourningglory
07-03-2004

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One of the best Smith's tracks, beautiful guitar, the melody, Morrissey's voice. To me this song is about a relationship with somebody who is depressed.

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needafix
09-30-2004

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its about someone who was rejected...but only temporarily. mmmm the power of alcohol

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Contristo
06-28-2005

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ah, the power of unrequited love...

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Joelhughes2006
06-28-2005

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A relationship that began with a drunken encounter, and the narrator turning it into something it's not. The narrator believes that since he purchased the alcohol his signifigant other owes him. mourningglory is right though, the person is depressed but their escape is alcohol, and the narrator sees only that the alcohol makes the other happy.

To me, when he says "Did I really walk all this way?" it sounds oddly like a threat.

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Boss Man
07-15-2005

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this song seems really pleasant and lightweight compared to other songs fro the smiths debut, but there's quite a nasty undercurrent to it. i think the singer is driven by his own selfish reasons to visit the person in question rather than by any desire to
help them.

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marquicerise
12-28-2005

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"I don't owe you a thing."

-"A Taste Of Honey", by Shelagh Delaney

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CharmingMan
02-24-2006

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...this song is famous for making Mike Joyce (Smith's Drummer) cry whilst playing on stage in 83.

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teapot
04-14-2006

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I think it might be the weakest on their first album, but l bet I'll eat my words in like a weak when it has grown on me.

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dalara
12-16-2006

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adding on to what CharmingMan said, i remember a magazine once jokingly addressing Joyce as "the bloke who cried on I Don't Owe You Anything". oh, poor Mike couldn't hold it in.
makes one wonder what could have been going on with him at the time.
either way, lovely melody.

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hlsguy
01-18-2007

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I share the feelings of butterflykiss on this underrated song. One of the better tracks on a very good first album.

I think the point of view shifts back and forth line by line between a young Morrissey and his female interest (more interested in him than he is in her, for obvious reasons). For instance, she is the one saying "Did I really walk all this way?" And he is the one saying "I don't owe you anything."

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Kaflerkta
09-28-2007

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My interpretation. He's trying to get a little and he's being rejected although he is persistent until the end of the song. It's kind of a warped love song in a way. Morrissey stole a bottle of wine and brought it over to the other persons house and they sat and drank the wine. Morrissey wanted to take him out somewhere for sex, but even ahead of time Morrissey could tell he was going to say no. The guy first says "I don't want to go out tonight". Then when Morrissey is insistent, he says "I don't owe you anything (for the wine)" and Morrissey wants something in return and insists ("But own me something repay me now." "You will for you must..") Now as far as who is who in the scenario I am not sure. Morrissey likes to tell stories and does it very well. I would tend to guess actually when he came up with this material that Morrissey is actually the guy who is refusing sex. (Yet another date gone wrong.) He is just taking the other perspective to tell the story.

I think the "You should never go to them. let them come to you." Is someone else (a third party, who also likes to use stolen wine to seduce or try to get nookie) who is listening to this story being told by the seducer and he is commenting on what he should do trying to get future sex (by stolen wine.)

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Kaflerkta
09-28-2007

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My interpretation. He's trying to get a little and he's being rejected although he is persistent until the end of the song. It's kind of a warped love song in a way. Morrissey stole a bottle of wine and brought it over to the other persons house and they sat and drank the wine. Morrissey wanted to take him out somewhere for sex, but even ahead of time Morrissey could tell he was going to say no. The guy first says "I don't want to go out tonight". Then when Morrissey is insistent, he says "I don't owe you anything (for the wine)" and Morrissey wants something in return and insists ("But own me something repay me now." "You will for you must..") Now as far as who is who in the scenario I am not sure. Morrissey likes to tell stories and does it very well. I would tend to guess actually when he came up with this material that Morrissey is actually the guy who is refusing sex. (Yet another date gone wrong.) He is just taking the other perspective to tell the story.

I think the "You should never go to them. let them come to you." Is someone else (a third party, who also likes to use stolen wine to seduce or try to get nookie) who is listening to this story being told by the seducer and he is commenting on what he should do trying to get future sex (by stolen wine.)

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nic-ck
06-06-2008

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there's nothing that says the person in this song is a male being seduced by morrissey. what are you on? honestly, what a stupid thing to say

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ampdy
06-15-2008

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nic-ck,

is there anything in the song that indicates that this is about a woman, or do you just assume every (anti-)love song is, by default, about heterosexual couples?

one of the many, many great things about morrissey is his sexual ambiguity...and while it's fantastic to read whatever you want into his lyrics about the sex of the people involved, it's just dead wrong to demand this kind of exclusivity...and it's pretty darn heterosexist too.

am I "stupid" or "on something" just for thinking about the men I've had complicated sexual relationships with when I hear this song?

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Rathatespeople
10-22-2008

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One impression I get from this song, is that it describes a situation that is nothing new to either party (they're familiar with each other). As implied by
You knew very well
What was coming next
and
you owe me something
and
"I don't want to go out tonight" (this particular night)
Morrissey shows up at this person's place quite often, yesno?
He takes him or her out and gets them drunk and sleeps with them, and it happens so often that by this point they owe him the sex, they can't just go changing the way things have always worked.
But I'm not quite sure what to make of:
"You should never go to them
Let them come to you
Just like I do"
Other than that Morrissey considers himself superior to this person.

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EdGlinert1
03-08-2009

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Sorry, you all need to do a little research. The song is an account of the early relationship between the Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. A read through Emlyn Williams' Beyond Belief will verify as much. (There will be more of these little gems on my forthcoming Smiths' Manchester walks. Watch the 'Net! - Ed.)

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