Every Song Has Its Play

Gilbert O'sullivan Every Song Has Its Play Album

8.You Don't Own Me/if I Know You

You may have given me the breaks, amended all my life's mistake
ooh but wait a minute you don't own me you may be more than just
a friend on whose assistance i depend ooh but wait a minute you
d
Own me what makes you think you have the right today that l owe
you my life a life you say is your life only nothing to do with
me well don't forget for all your power even in my darkest hour
yo
't own me you may be fully in control of every dream i'll ever
hold ooh but wait a minute you don't own me in times of trouble
and despair although i'm glad that you were there ooh but wait a
mi
You don't own me i know it sounds so very cruel to have to day i
don't want you after all the love you've shown me let's, not
start a feud i'm not your slave don't you forget it, and even if
i l
O regret it you don't own me why must you always be so right why
can't you never be wrong it's not a crime to say you're sorry
and it don't take long no it don't take long if it only takes a
min
O say a crime thing that's ni
Ce if it only takes a minute then why not twice i should have
known from the start this would happen from the moment we went
anywhere if other people so much as looked at me you'd be
screaming b
Urder i swear and yet you say that my leaving doesn't hurt you
in the least but even if that's true you'll do all in your power
to destroy me if i know you you day how much, you respect what
i'm
G you say how high you regard my ideas and yet for years as you
stood in the background you never once let me up off my knees
now despite you declaring you understand the way feel now that
we ar
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