Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
Public Image Ltd.
The song was written as a backhanded response to both their record label begging the band for marketable hits and their fans deriding them as sellouts. Said John Lydon of the song in 1992:
At the time people were saying that I’d joined big business and become a bourgeois shit. So I thought the best...
[Intro]
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
I'm crossing over (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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 1]
This is not a love song
Happy to have, not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm crossing over into enterprise
[Chorus]
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)
Oh no
[Verse 2]
I'm adaptable and I like my new role
I'm getting better and better, I have a new goal
I'm changing my ways where money applies
This is not a love song
[Chorus]
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
[Bridge]
Not television
Behind the curtain
Out of the cupboard
[Verse 4]
You take the first train into the big world
Are you ready to grab the candle?
That tunnel vision, not television
Behind the curtain, out of the cupboard
[Chorus]
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
[Chorus x2]
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
[Outro]
This is not a love song
Happiness and sunshine
This is not a love song
No no, no no
No no, no no
No no, no no
No no, no no
This is Not A Love Song was written by Martin Atkins & Keith Levene & John Lydon.
This is Not A Love Song was produced by Public Image Ltd..
Public Image Ltd. released This is Not A Love Song on Mon Sep 05 1983.