I Don't Need Your Love

* Cover
* Performance

**I Don't Need Your Love** is the eighth and second-to-last song in SIX the Musical. It is Catherine Parr's solo, where she sings about having to leave her lover, Thomas Seymour, to marry Henry, because refusing Henry's proposal was dangerous. She then wonders why she is only defined for being married to him, and she and the other queens decide that it's now their turn to tell their story outside of their marriage.

## Lyrics

**[CATHERINE PARR]**

You know I love you, boy

In every single way

Though I love you, boy

I'll miss you every day

Oh, I love you, boy

I wish that I could stay with you

And keep the life I made with you

And even though this feels so right

I'm holding back the tears tonight

It's true, I'll never be over you

'Cause I have built a future in my mind with you

And now the hope is gone, there's nothing left for me to do

You know it isn't true, but I must say to you

That I don't need your love, no, no

I don't need your love, no, no

It'll never be better than it was, no, no

But I don't need your love, no, no

I've got no choice

With the king, I stay alive

Never had a choice

Been a wife twice before

Just to survive

I don't have a choice

If Henry says it's you, then it's you

No matter how I feel, it's what I have to do

But if, somehow, I had that choice

No holding back, I'd raise my voice

I'd say, "Henry, yeah, it's true

I'll never belong to you

'Cause I am not your toy to enjoy

'Til there's something new

As if I'm gonna give up my boy, my work, my dreams

To care for you

Ha! Darling, get a clue

There's nothing you can do

I don't need your love, no, no

No, I don't need your love, no, no

There's nothing left to discuss, no, no

But I don't need your love, no, no"

But I can't say that

Not to the king

So this is goodbye

All my love, Catherine

So I sent that letter to my love

Got married to the king

Became the one who survived

I've told you about my life, the final wife

But why should that story be the one I have to sing about

Just to win? I'm out

That's not my story

There's so much more

Remember that I was a writer

I wrote books, and psalms, and meditations

Fought for female education

So all my women can independently

Study scripture

I even got a woman to paint my picture

Why can't I tell that story?

'Cause in history

I'm fixed as one of six

And without him

I disappear

We all disappear

**[CATHERINE OF ARAGON]**

So we had no choice

**[ANNE BOLEYN]**

But now it's us alone

**[JANE SEYMOUR]**

So we've got no choice

**[ANNA OF CLEVES]**

No, we've got no choice

**[KATHERINE HOWARD]**

We're taking back the microphone

**[CATHERINE PARR]**

I'm gonna raise my voice

**[ALL]**

They always said we need your love

But it's time for us to rise above

It's not what went down in history

But tonight I'm singing this for me

Henry, yeah, I'm through

Too many times it's been told

And I have had enough (I have had enough)

Love stories to get old

And you might think it's tough

But I've got to let your love run cold

We're taking back control (we're taking back control)

You need to know

I don't need your love, no, no (hey, ha ha ha ha)

No, I don't need your love, no, no

Can't let it get the better of us, no, no (woo!)

I don't need your love, no, no

I don't need your love, no, no (hey, I don't need your love)

(I don't need your love) No, I don't need your love, no, no

(I don't need your love)

(No, I don't need it)

I don't need your love, no, no (no, no, no, no, no)

(No, I don't need it)

I don't need your love

We don't need your love

## Trivia

* In live performances, the song is split into two parts, the second part being the reprise after the other queens join in. It's all the same song on the cast recording, though.
* Parr references Destiny's Child again (the first time being in *Ex-Wives*)- this time their song *Independent Women*, when she says, "So all my women can independently study scripture".