Cover art for No Feelings by Sex Pistols
Oct. 27, 19771 viewer39.5K views

No Feelings Lyrics

[Verse 1: Johnny Rotten]
I've seen you in the mirror when the story began
And I fell in love with you, I love your mortal sin
Your brains are locked away, but I love your company
I only ever leave you when you got no money
I got no emotion for anybody else
You better understand I'm in love with myself, myself
My beautiful self


[Chorus: Johnny Rotten]
I've no feeling, I've no feeling
I've no feeling for anybody else

[Verse 2: Johnny Rotten]
Hello and goodbye and a runaround Sue
You follow me around like a pretty pot of glue
I kick you in the head, you got nothing to say
Get out of the way 'cause I gotta get away
You never realise I take the piss out of you
You come up and see me and I'll beat you black and blue
All day, I'll send you away

[Chorus: Johnny Rotten]
I've got no feeling, I've no feeling
I've no feeling for anybody else
Except for myself, my beautiful selfish
[Verse 3: Johnny Rotten]
There ain't no moonlight after midnight
I see you silly people out looking for delight
Well, I'm so happy, I'm feeling so fine
I'm watching all the rubbish wasting my time
I look around your house, you got nothing to steal
I kick you in the brains when you get down to kneel
And I pray, you pray to your god

[Chorus: Johnny Rotten]
I've no feeling, I've no feeling
I've got no feeling for anybody else
I've no feeling, I've no feeling
I've no feeling for anybody else
Except for myself
Your daddy's gone away
Be back another day
See his picture hanging on your wall

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Genius Annotation

No Feelings” is Sex Pistols' 3rd track on “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols”. In this song, lead singer John Lydon creates a self-absorbed character, with narcissistic tendencies, that has “no feelings”

In Daniel Rachel’s book, Johnny Rotten stated:

The song is from the idea of someone being completely selfish, which I’m not. I like to imagine being in that frame of mind. I’m insulting myself really. That happens a lot.

In addition, in an interview with Rolling Stone, John Lydon gave more context behind the song’s lyrics:

I wrote “No Feelings” because my Dad was sponsoring a lot of orphans at the time, and one of the girls just became too attached to me. I had to tell her, “Look, I have no feelings. Just because my dad is letting you stay at his house for the weekend doesn’t mean you can marry me.” But there’s this sad truth of orphans, which I have always donated money to, and that’s that they grow up with a prison-like mentality. They’re not attached to anybody or anything, so they’re very desperate and very clingy to anything that they can translate very quickly into love, and it’s false love. It’s really desperation. I’m so wounded for them in that respect. In the song it may seem like I have no empathy, but it’s the exact opposite. It’s irony.

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What did Sex Pistols say about "No Feelings"?
Genius Answer

Some of the songs I’ve written have so many words it’s almost unbearable. ‘No Feelings,’ for instance: I think it’s 16 to 18 lines where I don’t take a breath. Now, live, that’s tempting fate. But I managed to do it. I found the knack. I love pushing those boundaries. You can’t cut up a verse like that because it would become out of context. It’s the monologue that’s necessary to paint the proper picture of someone in a state of babbling confusion.
-Source: Song Facts

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