Lyrics for I Won't Share You as interpreted by weezerific:cutlery

I Won't Share You Lyrics
I won't share you, no
I won't share you
With the drive
And ambition
The zeal I feel
This is my time

The note I wrote
As she read, she said
"Has the Perrier gone
Straight to my head
Or is life sick and cruel, instead ?"

"YES !" No - no - no - no - no - no
No - no - no - no - no - no
Oh ...

I won't share you, no
I won't share you
With the drive
And the dreams inside
This is my time

Life tends to come and go
That's OK
As long as you know
Life tends to come and go
As long as you know
Know, know, know, know, know
Know, know, know, know
Oh ...

I won't share you, no
I won't share you
With the drive
And the dreams inside
This is my time

I want the freedom and I want the guile
I want the freedom and the guile
Oh, life tends to come and go
As long as you know
Know, know, know, know
Know, know, know, know
Oh ...

I won't share you, no
I won't share you
I'll see you somewhere
I'll see you sometime
Darling ...

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Chloe le Fay
09-25-2002

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One of the other bands mates ( can't remember if it was Mike or Andy) sai that they think this song is about Johnny Marr. Hmm.

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feinstein
06-30-2003

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I think that may be reading in too much.

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vadge
11-08-2004

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i heard that morrissey wrote it for a woman he was living with.

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Monkey Boy
11-10-2004

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Last song on their last album.... Would it be to obvious to be about Johnny?

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tallulat
12-27-2004

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Andy said that he thought it was likely to be about Johnny and Johnny said that he wouldn't dispute it but he does seem to be referring to a woman with the line "the note I wrote as she read..." so perhaps it was about Linder Sterling??

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foldsbaldwin
01-05-2005

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Well if it's about Johnny Marr and Morrissey is saying 'I Won't Share You' then the woman Morrissey is maybe referring to is Angie, who has been Johnny's wife since 1986. Morrissey was probably happier when he didn't have to share Johnny's attention with Angie.

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tallulat
01-15-2005

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Quite possibly, yeah, but I dunno the way it goes it's seems more likely that this is the persons reaction to his declaration that he wont share them...? maybe that was in the note that she read!! I'd like it to be about Johnny but I mean Morrissey had been sharing Johnny for a while previous to that song, Johnny and Angie were together before the Smiths...!?? but I dunno!

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mdeaves
02-10-2005

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I was listning to it last night thinking it might be about Morrisseys jealousy of Johnny going to work with other bands but i did notice a she in there so it might either be a double meaning or a twist

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Random Boy
03-16-2005

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Well whatever moved Morrissey to write it I like it. Especially the line "Life tends to come and go.." and the bit at the end, "I'll see you somewhere, I'll see you sometime.."
Makes me think of someone I haven't seen for a few years.

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davidbeauy
09-11-2005

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It's strangely prophetic that this is their final song, recorded without knowing this to be the case. It can be heard in so many different lights. Of course primarily it seems a lullaby to Johnny his brother in music. "I won't share you, I'll see you someday, I'll see you somewhere"...despite their disagreements Morrissey could be saying that Johnny will never share a spot in Moz's heart with anyone else. What they have is singular and transcendant and sadly, over. He could be singing from the heart of THE SMITHS, the band itself....to the fans, "I won't share you" in terms of our monopoly over a certain position in your life as the greatest, most wistfully engraved band in your hearts...in the vein of "Ruibber Ring" but from the perspective of The Smiths as a whole...through "the perrier" (or drugs, scandals) and the "dreams inside" (unfettered bearing of the truth within each artist, as means to connect with the audience), The Smiths will occupy a solo spot within the hearts of many. ANd the final lines drift away as time does with the promise of memories and as forever, the songs.

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nightandday
12-29-2005

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First of all, the idea about Morrissey allegeldy saying to Johnny he won't share him with Angie is ridiculous. Johnny and Angie have been an item since they were 14, and Johnny, Angie and Morrissey had been friends since Morrissey and Johnny met. (Morrissey: "In the beginning, it was alwaysd Johnny, Angie and I." He always said he was bever close with Joyce and Rourke.) According to the people who worked with the band (as you can read in the 1998 uncut article) she used to travel with the band, and she got along very well with Morrissey.

Some people believe that the song is about Marr because Morriseey really was annoyed and jealous when Marr would work with other musicians. Rourke seems to believe the song was about Johnny ("Now, who he wouldn't share him with, I don't know"). Now, the last line "I'll see you somewhere, I'll see you sometime" proved to be perfect as the closing line of the last Smiths album. But it can't be more than a coincidence, for the simple reason that Morrissey had no idea at the time that the band would split. He was, by all accounts, surprised when Johnny decided to leave.

The second verse mentions a "she" who is reading the note, which does not support the Marr theory... but that's not the only reason why I don't believe in it.

It amazes me that most people keep on discussing who the song is about, but pay no attention to something far mor striking: he is NOT saying that he wn't share the person with SOMEONE. He says:

"I won't share you
With the drive
And ambition
The zeal I feel
This is my time"

"I won't share you
With the drive
And the dreams inside"

How odd is it to say you won't share SOMEONE ELSE with the drive, ambition, zeal and dreams YOU feel inside?! This puts a totally different spin on the song!

"This is my time"

"I want the freedom and I want the guile"

There is just one way I can understand this... and that is that he is saying no to a (possible?) relationship in favour of his music and his career of a rock star. The other person, then , can only be someone outside The Smiths and someone who is not that famous, and who would get wrapped up in the whole fame - rock stardom thing if there were to have a relationship.

If anyone has any other idea, I'm willing to rethink it, but so far this is the only way it makes sense to me.

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Jawsh
02-10-2006

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I've heard it's about Johnny Marr, but I don't really beleive that, I think it's more about a breakup that Morrisey doesn't want to happen. He wants his lover all to himself.

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nightandday
05-10-2006

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as I said before, I've never believed it was about Johnny Marr, and it seems even less probable now after reading this information from Simon Goddard's "Songs That Saved Your Life":

"For a start, there's a clue in the first verse where Morrissey stipulates gender ('the note I wrote as she read') which could of course be a red herring. Until, that is, one considers a rarely seen sleeve note which Morrissey wrote in the winter of 1985 for a retrospective of Linder Sterling's band Ludus. The album, scheduled for release on the Belgian Crepuscule label, was cancelled. The complimentary text was, therefore, never made public. But viewed in the contexr of 'I Won't Share You' penned eighteen months later, its last sentence - a veritable carbon copy of the song' departing cry - now seems quite a revelation.

'Oh Linder. Oh Linder. I will see you sometime, somewhere.' "

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_ellie
05-13-2006

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I just love it, so beautifully pared down

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tamnin
08-05-2006

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I haven't bothered reading the whole part about Marr and his wife.

To me, it speaks about someone you can't have, and the sad and ironic "I won't share you", as if you actually had a say... Life tends to come and go means two things to me. 1: I may not love you forever, and 2: you may love me someday. I'll see you somewhere, I'll see you sometime, seems so appropriate

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tallulat
10-29-2006

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I aggree with nightandday this is what I was saying earlier why should people presume its about johnny...really i dunno

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tabtom1
12-17-2006

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its would be so pignantly fitting if it were about johnny marr...i just dont think it is...as someone said earlier it seems to be about morrissey and perhaps a relationship he has forgone in favour of pursuing stardom...its defineatly my favourite on 'strangeways....' and always makes me think of somebody i used to know....a lot of smiths song do that...i cant work out if its the lyrical content or the fact that i have been listening to these songs for so long that revives the memories

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bipolar bear
01-09-2007

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Maybe it's not a song about Marr, but FOR Marr.

I won't share you
With the drive
And ambition
The zeal I feel
This is my time

It sounds like he's the one that wanted the band to break up. It sounds like he's saying that he wants to go solo, which he did.

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jbatista
05-24-2007

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i just read in Q magazine that this song is about Johnny doing projects with other bands and trying to add a 3rd party in to manage the band as well as Angie. Mozzer felt that Johnny should be his because Moz/Marr was the best duo to ever exist, and he knew it was something special and he felt that Marr exploring and going everywhere without him was wrong and going against their work as well as him spending plenty of time with Angie. The Poor Morrissey found someone that meant something to him and he went on because Marr had ambition and drive unlike any other. and Moz came back with his solo career once Marr left because he wanted to stand tall as himself and prove to Marr he could still make it without him, and as much as i

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cs15hammer
06-06-2007

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One of my favourite Smiths songs, I love the dreaminess, the richness, Morrissey's vocals, the depth of sound it all and emotion. I get lost in this one.

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dirtyvest
06-06-2007

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I always thought this song was about someone wanting to further themself at the expense of a current relationship the person inquestion is in.

From a band point of view you could imagine it being about Marr leaving the Smiths. Marr wrote the note and the she reading it is Morrissey. He did refer to himself as being the queen in the queen is dead album title.

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pet moustache
07-02-2007

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no way this is about marr.. marr left for modest mouse last year and this was written wayyyyy before that was even said and done

i love modest mouse, but i had the new mouse with fuckin marr in it.. ahh i hate marr

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dirtyvest
07-10-2007

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Marr left the Smiths in 1987. He has done loads of stuff before joining modest mouse.

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dannyr
02-08-2008

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Does anyone know if Morrissey has ever mentioned if he writes in character? I know he's an avid reader and most of the time I hear his lyrics it seems like he's maybe writing in the point of view of one of the characters in the books he reads.

For this song it seems personal... except for the second verse. I think that's the key for this song. Figuring out who "she" is and what "note" he is referring to.

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Wallamanage
05-12-2008

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First off, this wasn't the last song they recorded, that was I Keep Mine Hidden. Also, I only just noticed for the first time there's harmonica at the end.

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