All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Shock or knock or lock you up
Analyze you, categorize you
Finalize you or advertise you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Race or chase you, track or trace you
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
I think some people may have missed point a little, it's definitely about a girl. It's a new relationship and he's telling her his intention, and that's to just try and be her friend. A lot of times people project things on the people they are interested in and make assumptions. A woman has a certain way she would like to be seen, so you're not going to be able to see her that way from day one, so you gotta just let her reveal herself naturally, and the only thing you can do is try and be friends with her, which is all love is really about.
@brandon346 that's just sexist to say of you. There is nothing "a woman has", each woman is different, and s are males. Your comment is a pitiful simplification, and is based on cliche stereotypes. You have to read more into Dylan, he is using metaphors on many levels, and is never straight-forward.
@brandon346 that's just sexist to say of you. There is nothing "a woman has", each woman is different, and s are males. Your comment is a pitiful simplification, and is based on cliche stereotypes. You have to read more into Dylan, he is using metaphors on many levels, and is never straight-forward.
@brandon346 Couldn’t agree more. This is one of my favourite songs not only by Dylan, but in general because of the lyrics. My husband played it for me after dating for a while and he's been my number one ally ever since.
@brandon346 Couldn’t agree more. This is one of my favourite songs not only by Dylan, but in general because of the lyrics. My husband played it for me after dating for a while and he's been my number one ally ever since.
This song is what women want when starting a new relationship.
This song is what women want when starting a new relationship.
The girl is a metaphor for life. He just wants to be "friends" with life, which means live happily, without any complications, and he is willing to compromise, so that he can live in peace.
god i love this song... especially when he laughs at himself... "i ain't lookin' for you to feel like me, see like me or be like me." i laugh everytime... haha
This song is about the pursuit of simple friendship, free from the complexities of love, family, politics, and judgement...maybe.
I think he's looking for sex without the accompanying emotional attachments. It even has the tone of a man trying to pick up a woman in some bar. "C'mon...I just wanna be friends..." Good song, though.
I think most people consciously or subconsciously tries to make their lovers be like them, see like them, act like them, but Bob Dylan was the ultimate libertarian, he just wanted to be free and he wanted everybody else to be free.
this song gives me a wierd unexplainable feeling i'm not sure if it's good or bad
This song is from the period when he was dating Joan Baez, no? I think it's definitely about her.
and yet... i get the feeling he wants to be more than just friends :)
Have any of you seen Don't Look Back?