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This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song

This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song

Happy to have, not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm crossing over into
E-enter-prize

Love song
Love song
Love song
Love song

I'm going over to the other side
I'm happy to have not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm inside free enterprise

I'm adaptable
I'm adaptable

I'm adaptable and I like my new role
I'm getting better and better
And I have a new goal
I'm changing my ways where money applies

This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song

Now are you ready to grab the candle
That tunnel vision - not television
Behind the curtain - out of the cupboard
You take the first train - into the big world
Now will I find you - now will you be there

Not a love song (echo)
Not a love song
Not a love song ...

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marx On Mar 27, 2006

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2006-03-27 06:25:21

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by Baller

20y ago

Well it's NOT a love song, it's a rant about entering the mighty world of capitalism.

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by Cynothoglys

19y ago

...or the blatant commerciality of the love song and the pop star? Hence, he writes from the point of view of the love song writer in question, making it... Not a love song.

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by JpnGht

20y ago

Maybe it's what J. Lydon thinks about love songs, or he's just laughing about all kitsch love songs, or maybe a cynical response to people who always\usually think songs are about love, and most\some of them has nothing to do with love. so he tells them - "This is not a love song".

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