Lyrics to
I Didn’t Mean To Love You

This version of I Didn’T Mean To Love You was released by Rick Springfield in 1972.

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Hey look what you’ve done
Ain’t cha ever going to help me
Cause now your love’s the only one
I tried so hard to break it
Now that I’m loving you

1200 miles is a long long way
And my loves gonna grow
Every inch of the way
But I didn’t mean to love you

I only meant to see
How far you’d go
And I didn’t mean to love you
I tried to leave ya
And my heart said no
Oh no
Hey what can I say

You know I didn’t mean to fall for you
Show me, show me, show me

What can I do
I don’t even know
If you’re love is true
But I know this

No matter how much I want to try
I’ll never stop loving you
I need you
Though you’re just 17
And my loves gonna grow every night every day

But I didn’t mean to love you
I only meant to see
How far you’d go
And I didn’t mean to love you
I tried to leave ya
And my heart said no
Oh no

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About Lyrics and I Didn’T Mean To Love You by Rick Springfield

The lyrics to I Didn’T Mean To Love You are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Rick Springfield used when the song was created in 1972. The lyrics to I Didn’T Mean To Love You have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Rick Springfield and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to I Didn’T Mean To Love You by Rick Springfield. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Didn’T Mean To Love You" means the words set to the music of I Didn’T Mean To Love You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rick Springfield. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Didn’T Mean To Love You and the lyrics to I Didn’T Mean To Love You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rick Springfield who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Didn’T Mean To Love You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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