Lyrics for Can't Buy Me Love as interpreted by Ice

Can't Buy Me Love Lyrics
Can't buy me love, love, love, love
Can't buy me love, love

I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel all right
I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you feel all right
Because I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

I'll give you all I've got to give if you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give but what I got I'll give to you
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love, no, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond ring and I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things that money just can't buy
I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love, love, love, love
Can't buy me love, love, oh

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IanoDublin
06-09-2002

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Pretty obvious "I'm not a whore".

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OzzyGurly
07-08-2002

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Money can't buy luv....everybody should know that. I think it is pretty obvious!

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punkrockgirl04
08-17-2002

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This is my favorite Beatles song! It's so true! Money can never buy love. So yea.

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ryanilano11
08-19-2002

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well if every one says it its true you cant buy love and its obvious its saying im not a damn whore


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wrion
04-23-2003

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I don't think he's talking about being a whore at all, more innocent than that. He's just saying that he doesn't value riches, he'd take love any day.

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maestro
06-06-2003

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AWESOME-says loves so much better than anything u could buy that u can't buy it

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sebastianquilt
04-20-2004

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Wrion is right, Paul commented on that to the press and said it was just about the truth of love, true love.

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FoRwHoMtHeBeLlToLlS
06-22-2004

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yeah, the Beatles aren't really into hidden meanings that much. It's just a simple song about the value of love

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fixerupper
06-22-2004

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sorry to continue on a saturated subject, but i would like to add that paul actually said that interpreting the song as being about prostitutes was 'over the line'

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apettythief
10-31-2004

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NO, Dammit, it's not about whores!

(Effing sick society...)

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frozen_in_fire
01-08-2005

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why would you INITIALLY assume it's about not being a whore?...i only thought of that after reading these posts... :-P

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chocolate
03-11-2005

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love can't be a euphemism for sex because the whole point of prostitution is that money CAN buy you sex, but paul is saying there's no point in having everything in the world if you don't have love. its pretty lame that so many on the board wants to interpret every song written to be about drugs and sex - are you trying to be cool or something?

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bridge
04-09-2005

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Paul McCartney said (and I quote) "Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far."

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firey-eyes
09-10-2005

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it's definitely just about the value of love, no sex or prostitutes involved. the song is saying "if you want material stuff that's fine, but that's not what i want to give you. i don't care about materials because that's not what love is about." i hadn't heard this song in a while, but i heard this newer version that paul mccartney worked on with this jazz singer named michael buble. i love it, but with the jazz feel, it doesn't a great deal like the original except the general tempo. it's a great listen.

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combustion
02-25-2006

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Even Paul McCartney said
refering to this song to prostitution is
pushing it too far.

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huggies
02-01-2007

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this song is just about, like mayn other people have said, that love cannot have value and money wont help cause it 'can't buy me love'

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scrltbegonias
02-09-2007

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everyone is thinking way to into this...he is saying that he would give away, or buy, anything for love because thats what means the most to him. cant buy me love.....

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highlander924
04-02-2007

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thies is the best song ever or atleast one of the beast its so much better then the shit we have today

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buterfly7
07-05-2007

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this is a great song, the beatles are the best band ever in my opinion!

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djhayes383
08-13-2007

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This song is basically saying that love makes you happier than any amount of money. Even a rich person can find it hard to find love and no amount of their money could buy true love.

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purplebubble
12-19-2007

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i agree with djhayes383 it might be a gay example but take the movie richie rich no matter how much money he had he didnt have friends...im guessing this is like a all u need is love meaning

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MegooStation
12-22-2008

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Wasn't this song featured on a Simpsons episode?


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Lmonge93
01-19-2009

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Gawd this song is so innocent and just fun.
Its just about how he would take
love over riches anyday.

however, did anyones feel that he
contradicted himself after he said
i'll buy you a diamond ring, and then he says I
don't have much to give?

Anyways, Love thsi song. one of my favorite
Beatles Song.

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CrackerJackLee
05-17-2009

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The early Beatles were a product of their environment - Liverpool - a port city in the north of England. A working class town filled with shipyards and sailors. Working for pittance, socializing at the pub, and and chasing birds - and lots of Catholic-Protestant guilt. Everyone has a smart mouth with colourful language, sprinkled with platitudes like "can't buy me love" mix easily with working class common sense - "everybody tells me so." is he mimicking a woman stating "can't buy ME, luv!" or the old saw, "can't buy love." take a vertual tour of Liverpool and you can start to see it. and they always played with the emphasis in their lyrics. like the dead Beatle myth, the northern English like to "put you on". like Monty Python, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers - British Comedy's double entendre. as i study the Beatles and try to play their songs on guitar, i see how brilliant, yet down to earth, that they were. i often wonder if they had access to old tunes and early jazz songs or very old British Music Hall manuscripts that they played around with until they re-molded it into something of their own. but, that's just me looking at two geniuses with the normal disbelief that anyone could actually be so clever. yet, they were.

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thespacemanlives
10-22-2009

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i love this song <3

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