I Don't Need You

Album: Adventure (1980)
Charted: 56
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  • I don't need you
    I don't need you half as much
    As you need me
    And I thank my lucky stars
    That you have freed me

    Cause I'm losing weight at last
    Losing weight and losing sleep
    And losing my mind fast

    I don't need you
    I don't miss you in the way
    I expected
    I have time to clean the sink
    And feel neglected

    Will I call you up? I won't
    I forgot your number 6364831

    And I don't need you
    I don't need you like my life depended on it
    You're gone, you're gone, you're gone
    It only affects me in the hours
    When I need you, I need you

    But I don't want you
    I do crosswords
    And I'm weaving a basket
    And I'd never take you back
    Unless you ask it

    I don't need you
    I don't need you like my life depended on it
    You're gone, you're gone, you're gone
    It only affects me in the hours
    When I need you, I need you

    But I don't love you
    I don't love you like
    With whom you are living
    Only twenty times as much
    And all's forgiven

    If you'd come by today
    So that I can have you near forever while I say
    That I don't need you, I don't need you
    I don't need you

    I don't need you
    I don't need you
    I don't need you
    I don't need you

    Need you
    Need you
    Need you Writer/s: RUPERT HOLMES
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Roba Music Verlag GMBH, Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1981, Rupert Holmes performed "I Don't Need You" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Just over a month later on March 29th, 1981 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #84; it stayed on the chart for seven weeks, peaking at #56...
    It reached #21 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    "I Don't Need You" was his last Top 100 record; between 1978 and 1981 he had six Top 100 records, two made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" for two weeks on December 16th,1979...
    Mr. Holmes, born David Goldstein, will celebrate his 68th birthday in three days on February 24th {2015}.
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