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Yester-day I listened to the Zombies' The Decca Stereo Anthology and noticed a few things. The first was in "I Don't Want to Know." There are the lines "I believe what I want / No matter what you do," and I'd always understood the "do" there as representing an action. "I believe what I want / No matter what action you perform." But listening to it yester-day, I realized that it could be a sort of abbreviation standing in for the same verb, so "I believe what I want / No matter what you believe."
The singer/speaker's steadfastness in his belief remains the same, but - depending on how that second line is parsed - he's resisting different things.
