Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love Lyrics
Yeah you may have all you want, baby, but I got somethin' you need
Oh yeah, ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, yeah before
You know you're semi-good lookin', and on the streets again
Oh yeah you think you're really cookin' baby, you better find yourself a friend
My friend, ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, uh before, uh before, before
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Babe it's rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, uh before
I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down
You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around
Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby
Yeah, got to got to bleed baby
Mmmm, you got to got to bleed baby
Hey, got to got to bleed baby
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, before, before
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Don't wanna talk about love
Don't need to talk about love
Ain't gonna talk about love, no more, no more, ah
Hey Hey Hey
Hey Hey Hey
this song is about sex. "ain't talkin' 'bout love"...almost self explanatory.
I believe this song could very well be about a drug addiction. Addiction IS a disease. SO when he says
"I heard the news baby, all about your disease , ... You may have all you want , but I have something you need"
"I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around "
Which to mean reminds me of the friends he had lost to drugs, and he had been there with them, and NOW he goes back and sees this girl , and I let her know Ive been there and done that, and I Cant do it any more.
Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby "
The bleeding part could be used for a drug reference. The drugs that put you on the streets generally are used through a syringe. When you do drugs through a syringe you have to pull back blood. or If the song is about sex, then it could refer to losing her virginity.
I am not really SURE if this is what this song is about, this is just MY take on it. I have been at these points in life , so that is how I relate this song to such things.
NEVERTHELESS! Its a great song, definitely one of my favorite VH songs. I seen the DriveBy Truckers perform this song in Tampa last night, and that is where I started thinking about it. Happy New Year!
I
Van Halen kicks ass! aint talkin about love!
it's about how you meet someone so beautiful/fucked-up n' you feel that you might be falling in love with them but you don't want to be in love with them cause you're afraid that you'll get hurt like you've been in your past relationship. it's a really sad song but definetly worth the listen, very-very good.
This is one of my drunken karaoke songs I sing to the ladies.
this song is really about GMR (Glendora Mountain Road). its gated off now but now the place to go and lose friends is The Falls up baldy rd
I always took this song to be about a woman beater. I'm pretty sure I'm correct.
If he don't get his way maybe he'd beat the crap out of her.
I been to the edge, an' there I stood an' looked down You know I lost a lot of friends there baby, I got no time to mess around
He confesses that he did something horrible. Something his friends would not forgive.
Mmmm, so if you want it got to bleed for it baby Yeah, got to got to bleed baby Mmmm, you got to got to bleed baby Hey, got to got to bleed baby
And here he reveals the answer. He is a woman beater.
Now incase your thinking that the "bleed" part is refference to popping the cherry. The above statement of "lost allot of friends" negates that.
RJ
the guitar is cool !
found at songfacts.com the song is about casual sex, something David Lee Roth was known for. He had the roadies give out back stage passes to beautiful women at Van Halen's concerts. There was a $100 reward if the roadie sent one back he slept with.
That's right
That's right
nice little riff @ the first but very hard to play and actually get the timing right without it sounding like crap.lol
all in all a great song
peace