Just So You Know

Album: Right Where You Want Me (2006)
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  • In this song, McCartney sings about how he really likes this girl but his friend is dating her. He doesn't want to love her because he knows he can't have her. >>>
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    alyssa - boring, NH

Comments: 6

  • Adelle from Arlington Virginia Hey Jesse mc. Cartney you are amazing.
  • Adelle from Arlington Virginia Hey Jesse mc cartney you are so cutie
  • Madi from ???, AustraliaI like this song, it is really shows what Jesse is feeling not like some other song where they just make things up. It its really deep and I love it, for me this song has a very high rating.
  • Madi from ???, AustraliaI like this song, it is really shows what Jesse is feeling not like some other song where they just make things up. It its really deep and I love it, for me this song has a very high rating.
  • Jaclyn from Buffalo, NyJesse has a tendency to be relatively upfront in his lyrics, using little metaphorical imagery. So, it is clear and obvious what the song is about. However, I might say that it is deeper than what it has been given credit to. I would argue that the lyric expresses remorse over a love that he has lost "I can't let him win now," being a phrase repeated in the chorus. "I shouldn't love you, but I want to." I believe that this may be that Jesse lost a love to another guy and that he isn't comfortable with the newly established relationship. So, I give this song a relatively high rating because it is a personable point of view; it conveys emotion that most people feel at one point in their lives.
  • Ashlynne from Candor, NcIn the song Jesse really likes a girl but he know that she will never feel for him the way he feels for her!
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