"You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" (song)
• Gilbert O'Sullivan, "You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" (song combination on YouTube)
• Gilbert O'Sullivan, "You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" (song combination on YouTube)
“
You may have given me the breaks,
amended all my life's mistakes,
ooh, but wait a minute,
you don't own me.
You may be more than just a friend
on whose assistance I depend
ooh, but wait a minute,
you don't own me.
— Gilbert O'Sullivan
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You may have given me the breaks,
amended all my life's mistakes,
ooh, but wait a minute,
you don't own me.
You may be more than just a friend
on whose assistance I depend
ooh, but wait a minute,
you don't own me." in the context of ""You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" (song)
• Gilbert O'Sullivan, "You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" (song combination on YouTube)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Gilbert O'Sullivan" (Song lyrics: Playlist on YouTube of some of the tracks listed below )
The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app