Cover art for I Don’t Want You on My Mind by Bill Withers

I Don’t Want You on My Mind

Bill Withers
Track 9 on Still Bill 

Producers

Ray Jackson, James Gadson &
May 19721 viewer

I Don’t Want You on My Mind Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I don't want you on my mind all the time
I believe that it shows a sign of weakness
I don't want no lonely nights that gets me cryin'
I found out I don't get nowhere with weakness

[Pre-Chorus]
If I dream about you
I just wake up knowing that I've got to do without you

[Chorus]
I don't want you all the time doin' up my mind
I don't want you on my mind all the time

[Verse 2]
I don't want you on my mind all the time
I believe that it shows a sign of weakness
I don't want no lonely nights that gets me cryin'
I found out I don't get nowhere with weakness

[Pre-Chorus]
If I dream about you
I just wake up knowing that I got to do without you

[Chorus]
I don't want you all the time doin' up my mind
I don't want you on my mind all the time

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Still Bill (1972)
  1. 1.
    Lonely Town, Lonely Street
  2. 2.
    Let Me in Your Life
  3. 3.
    Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?
  4. 4.
    Use Me
  5. 5.
    Lean on Me
  6. 6.
    Kissing My Love
  7. 7.
    I Don’t Know
  8. 8.
    Another Day to Run
  9. 9.
    I Don’t Want You on My Mind
  10. 10.
    Take It All In and Check It All Out
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May 1972
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