About The Song
“I’d Love You to Want Me” is a song by American singer-songwriter Lobo (real name: Roland Kent Lavoie). It was released in September 1972 as the second single from his second album “Of a Simple Man”. This song became Lobo’s highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, spending two weeks at No. 2 in November.
“I’d Love You to Want Me” is a poignant ballad about unrequited love, expressing the emotions of a man deeply in love with a woman who does not reciprocate his feelings. Lobo himself describes this track as his biggest hit, reflecting its significance in his career.
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Lyrics
When I saw you standing there
I bout fell out my chair
And when you moved your mouth to speak
I felt the blood go to my feet.
Now it took time for me to know
what you tried so not to show
Now something in my soul just cries
I see the want in your blue eyes.
Baby, I’d love you to want me
The way that I want you
The way that it should be
Baby, you’d love me to want you
The way that I want to
If you’d only let it be.
You told yourself years ago
You’d never let your feeling show
The obligation that you made
For the title that they gave.