I Don't Love You

This song seems to be about a prostitute after a night out. The lines, "Knock you down and out," "Sometimes I cry so hard from pleading" and "Another dollar's just another blow" indicate this.

While on tour promoting their previous album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, My Chemical Romance fashioned a makeshift studio in the back of their bus and recorded a handful of tunes. This song was one of three used from the sessions, including "Dead!" and "Disenchanted."

According to the band bio Not The Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance by Tom Bryant, the song was musically inspired by Electric Light Orchestra's "Blue Skies" and Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." Frontman Gerard Way explained the lyrical meaning, saying, "It's about being dead and about people not liking you - it was a commentary on the band and how some people feel about us. We wanted to say, 'You may hate us but we're still here.' We wanted to say, 'Here we are, and we're better. Here we are and we're more daring and defiant than ever."