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This song is about the protagonist’s lover leaving them. When put in the context of the album, this is because of the protagonist’s use of drugs and addiction to them. This character finally loses all the people they love to their destructive addiction, and this song is a pivotal moment in the album...
[Verse 1]
Oh, did we miss the moon?
I'd lie in your arms if I could, now
Such a common pain
Repeats itself again and again, now
Flowers grow in the springtime
And leaves fall from the trees
I've been gone for so long
You just threw away the keys
[Chorus]
I understand it
But I don't want it
[Verse 2]
I know it so well
You tripped me and I laughed when you fell, now
This isn't how it should be
I've let you drift so far from me, now
But please hold onto the memories
Before we really crash and burn
We've got ourselves so wrapped up
That we've forgotten how to learn
[Chorus]
I understand it
But I don't want it
[Solo]
I Don’t Want It was produced by Andrew Weiss.
Ween released I Don’t Want It on Tue Aug 05 2003.
In a 2003 interview, Gene Ween stated that this song was directly written about his divorce with his wife Sarah:
“A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I’d been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of thos...