Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely Lyrics
I keep my distance but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you're okay
But I don't want you to go on needing me this way
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
Don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know, don't want to know
Still I'm not sure about all the doubts we had
From the beginning we both knew it wouldn't last
Decisions have been made the die has been cast
If it's your friends, well I don't want to hear from them
Please leave your number and a message at the tone
Or you can just go on and leave me alone
Obvious. A breakup, a guy trying to get over her, and trying to help her get over him. He wants to know if she's alright, but he doesn't want her to depend on him to cheer her up.
what does it for me is the first line of the chorus paired with the second: anybody who's been through a breakup knows the push and pull those two lines describe. if love is a kind of interdependence, the end of love is a wresting apart that exposes the raw ends of compassion and vulnerability, the desire to move toward and the need to move away. for me, husker du described this place of abject ambivalence better than anyone.
~*sigh.. i can relate.~
I think DistillaTruant hit the nail on the head.
Fantastic song - hits on all cylinders, especially if you went through something similar.