My Chemical Romance: I Don't Love You Meaning

Song Released: 2007

I Don't Love You Lyrics

Well when you go
Don't ever think I'll make you try to stay
And maybe when you get back
I'll be off to find another way

And after all this time that you still owe
You're still a good-for-nothing I don't know
So take your gloves and get...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 19th 2009 !⃝

   I, personally, think the song is about a guy (maybe Gerard?) trying to get over someone. He really liked the person, but they broke his heart. So, he's trying to tell himself that he no longer loves them, thinking if he says it enough, it will be true.
   When she leaves, he asks her 'when you would you have the guts to say I don't Love You like I loved you yesterday?' That's his way of making sure that she no longer loves him, so that he can somehow find a way to get over her.
   
   this is just what I think, you dont have to think the same thing, and sorry if u dont like what i think, :)
2. anonymous

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   Jun 4th 2009 !⃝

   i heard that the song was about when gerad's fiancee broke up with him. n he got really angry..so her wrote the song about how he is over her.
3. anonymous

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   Apr 5th 2009 !⃝

   I think it's possible that it's about an abusive relationship. In a lot of other songs, the Patient thinks of himself as a horrible person who regrets a lot of past wrongs, and abuse could be one of them.
   Also, this wouldn't make sense with the whole abuse interpretation, but he could be talking to himself the whole time, saying, you should have the guts to say I don't love you...
4. anonymous

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   Apr 3rd 2009 !⃝

   "he secretly wants her to leave him for her own good and to have a better life with out him. He tries to push her away - but she just sticks by him, through all the bullshit and hurt he is causing her, because she knows he needs her"
   
   I agree with this. By the tone, I can't help but feel it is somewhat a bittersweet love/romance song. To shield her from the pain which is all he has left to give. The pain, not the shield. His last and greatest act of love to her is to send her away. Which, if the above interpretation is correct, makes this a brilliant song. The meaning is just about contradictory to the lyrics of the chorus. I think some may be taking the boxing gloves too literally. Even with the picture of gloves, the it still seems to random.
   I believe the gloves are a metaphor for a fighter. The one who fights for this relationship to succeed. Every time he knocks her down, he wishes she won't get back up, that she won't fight for them anymore. Reflecting once again on the above interpretation.
   Notice that if the analogy of the cancer patient and the wife is correct then it adds more meaning to the interpretation and complements it well. As he's dieing, all he has left to give is pain, so he tries to chase her away, to shield her, because he loves her. He wants her to move on, to tell him that she doesn't love him anymore, that would just make it easier for everyone. If she doesn't love him he can't cause her anymore pain, If he can't cause her pain, then he can't cause himself pain. As mentioned above "because she knows he needs her" That's why he asks if she has the guts to turn and say, because she knows what he's trying to do, and if it ends that way where she does leave, knowing why, can she turn and lie to him? Can she really tell him that she's leaving because she doesn't love him anymore
5. anonymous

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   Mar 3rd 2009 !⃝

   I think that it could possibly be describing the pent up rage or total spite of the patient towards his wife as he lays in his death bed.
6. PinkGoingOnBlack

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   Jan 11th 2009 !⃝

   It's the paitent thinking about his love life. He thinks of all the things that happened..but he concentrates on the arguments he's had with her. The song gets more agressive the more he thinks about it. I heard that somewhere...and I think that's the actual meaning.
7. anonymous

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   Jan 3rd 2009 !⃝

   The guy doesnt love the girl like he did yesterday, because he isnt the same guy he used to be - he's a mess.
   
   [Maybee]
8. anonymous

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   Jan 3rd 2009 !⃝

   I think that the guy in the song has turned into a complete shadow of the man he used to be for whatever reason.
   He doesn't have the guts to say it himself, but by being a complete dickhead to her, he secretly wants her to leave him for her own good and to have a better life with out him. He tries to push her away - but she just sticks by him, through all the bullshit and hurt he is causing her, because she knows he needs her. "You're still a good for nothing I don't know." - I think he is saying this to her, but really meaning it say it to himself. He knows what he is dong is wrong, but he is so messes up he does it anyway.
9. anonymous

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   Aug 5th 2008 !⃝

   This is about someone (let's say a girl) who is being left alone by someone. Her lover knows it's best for her, but still leaves without a second glance. The abandoned cries out, telling him that if he has the courage, to say he doesn't love her anymore.
10. diewithyou

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    Jun 5th 2008 !⃝

    Well I think it just has to do with a relationship that won't go anywhere and he's so sick of wanting to tell her but when he says " I don't love you like I did yesterday " and since he can't find that nerve so she leaves him broken hearted, and he asks her to have the guts to say " I don't love you, like I loved you yesterday "
11. anonymous

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    May 30th 2008 !⃝

    Okay blackparade of course the girls eyes are real
12. anonymous

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    Apr 16th 2008 !⃝

    I believe this song is about mostly the same as other people think. A girlfriend telling a boy she doesn't love him anymore, but it's not about prostitution. The line "another dollars just another blow" means he feels hurt that she's only in it for the money or that he's so hurt that she doesn't love him anymore. He's resorted to drugs or marijuana and is spending all his hard earned money on it so every dollar he makes is just another puff he takes.
13. anonymous

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    Feb 11th 2008 !⃝

    Gerard Way said that it's about The "Patient" looking back on his life and the mistakes he has made.
14. anonymous

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    Feb 3rd 2008 !⃝

    I'm not so much loving the metaphor theory. It just sounds literal. and the video doesn't help promote that either.
    
    but we need to keep in mind that this is still part of the rock opera. So if it is a metaphor maybe it means the patientas a smoker or something. and that's how he got cancer
15. anonymous

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    Dec 27th 2007 !⃝

    This song is about two things to me...
    
    
    A] Gerard Way getting over his addition to alcohol and learning no to love it as the days go on.
    
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    B] a guy who used to abuse his girl and says she can leave whenever she wants but he is trying to change his ways for him and he is asking her if she leaves will she still love him even though what he's done to her, and if she doesn't would she even be able to tell him that....
    
    I've listened to this song way too many times and these r pretty much the only two things this song could be about....

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