You Don't Own Me/If I Know You

Gilbert O'Sullivan · Every Song Has It's Play [1995]

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 don't 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 You don'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 minute 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 live to 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 minute

To 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 blue murder

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 doing 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 are through