I Don’t

I'm just trying to imagine a situation
Where we might have a real conversation

"I Don't Ever Give Up," Patty Griffin
"I Don't Feel Your Touch," Bruce Cockburn
"I Don't Get It," Cowboy Junkies
"I Don't Know How to Love Him," Yvonne Elliman
"I Don't Like Mondays," Boomtown Rats
"I Don't Mind at All," Bourgeois Tagg
"I Don't Need You," Mightyhead
"I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)," John Mayer
"I Don't Wanna," The Call
"I Don't Wanna Fall Away From You," Keith Green
"I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That," Elton John
"I Don't Wanna Say No," Green
"I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time," Over the Rhine
"I Don't Want a Lover," Texas
"(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea," Elvis Costello & The Attractions
"I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore," Shelby Lynne
"I Don't Want to Know (If You Don't Want Me)," The Donnas
"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon," Shawn Colvin & Ernie
"I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire," The Ink Spots

It seems that expressing what they don't want is fertile territory for songwriters. There are actually enough "I don't want" songs here to limit the alphabetical range to just those, but that would mean skipping past Patty Griffin, Bruce Cockburn and the Boomtown Rats and, well, I don't wanna.

Bonus topic: Since the "I don't want" playlist also includes so many song titles with parentheses, feel free to recommend any parenthetical favorites, regardless of whether they fall in this range — e.g. "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville."