Don’t Need Love

I don’t need love anymore

I don’t need love anymore

I don’t need anyone to tell me that I do

I don’t need love and I don’t need you

I try and I try to make it work

I try and I try to make it work

I try and I try again, I won’t forget, I know

Love gets you nowhere slow1

I want no more heartaches

No more good-byes

Ain’t no more real good love

Only new love

But old love dies

Ain’t worth the time that it takes

Ain’t worth the time that it takes

Ain’t worth the endless hours of changes I go through

I don’t need love and I don’t need you

I don’t need love anymore

I don’t need love anymore

I don’t need anyone to tell me that I do

I don’t need love and I don’t need you

Words and music by Brent Mydland

1 nowhere slow

A nice reversal of the cliché “going nowhere fast.”

Notes:

No studio recording.

First performance: March 28, 1984, at the Marin County Veterans Auditorium in San Rafael, California. Garcia and Lesh did not stay onstage for the performance. It dropped out of rotation in 1986, after sixteen performances.