I Wanna Be Yours

"I Wanna Be Yours" is a song by British poet John Cooper Clarke, on his 1982 album Zip Style Method. The song was brought to wider audience via an adaptation by Arctic Monkeys on their 2013 album AM.

Original lyrics
The poetic spoken lyrics recount the love of one person for another, using metaphors around various domestic equipment: I wanna be your vacuum cleaner

Breathing in your dust

I wanna be your Ford Cortina

I will never rust.

The poem was included in a GCSE English anthology. Clarke re-used the title of the poem for his autobiography published in 2020. In March 2023, The Guardian noted that "if it was previously Britain's favourite wedding poem, it's now quantifiably the world's favourite British poem, full stop".

Arctic Monkeys adaptation
English rock band Arctic Monkeys brought the poem to a wider audience via an adaptation on their 2013 album AM. The adaptation, produced by James Ford and Ross Orton, contains novel lyrics written by lead singer Alex Turner. By 3 April 2024, the recitation had received over two billion streams on Spotify.