I Don't Want A Lover

Album: Southside (1989)
Charted: 8 77
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  • I don't want a lover
    I just need a friend
    I don't want a lover
    I just need a friend

    You can't just leave me
    To face life on my own
    I know you don't love me no more
    I knew this day it would come
    Even when it cuts so deep
    It's true, I still want you
    But the harder I try
    The more I seem to lose

    I don't want a lover
    I just need a friend
    I've had time to recover
    Now that I know it wasn't love

    It's always a different story
    When it's me who's in the wrong
    But you can't have it all
    'Cause I'm the one who's strong
    I've already been burnt before
    Once but never again
    I know the time will come
    That's when you'll need me then

    I don't want a lover
    I just need a friend
    I've had time to recover
    Now that I know it wasn't love

    I don't want a lover
    I just need a prayer
    I know you never cared
    Now that I know it wasn't love

    You don't even care about what I'm saying
    You don't even think what you're doing
    All you see is what you want it to be
    But in there, there's just no room for me

    I don't want a lover
    I just need a friend
    I've had time to recover
    Now that I know it wasn't love

    You don't even care about what I'm saying
    You don't even think what you're doing
    All you see is what you want it to be
    There's just no room there for me

    I don't want a lover
    I just need a friend
    I've had time to recover
    Now that I know it wasn't love

    Now that I know (I don't want a lover)
    (I just need a prayer) Now that I know
    (I know you never cared) It wasn't love, no
    (Now that I know it wasn't love)

    Now that I know, yeah
    Now that I know
    Yeah, I know it wasn't love
    No, it wasn't love Writer/s: John McElhone, Sharleen Eeugene Spiteri
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Loren from Plano, Tx!I don't want a lover is fantastic
  • Jim from Long Beach, CaGreat song. I love Southside and Texas never broke in America. A shame.
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