Lyrics to
I Want You To Want Me

This version of I Want You To Want Me was released by Cheap Trick in 1977.

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I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I’d love you to love me
I’m begging you to beg me
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I’d love you to love me

I’ll shine up the old brown shoes
Put on a brand new shirt
I’ll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
Feeling all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I’d love you to love me
I’m begging you to beg me

I’ll shine up the old brown shoes
Put on a brand-new shirt
I’ll get home early from work
If you say that you love me

Didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?
Feeling all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?

Feelin’ all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn’t I, didn’t I, didn’t I see you crying?

I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I’d love you to love me
I’m begging you to beg me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me
I want you to want me

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Cheap Trick has released many songs over the years besides I Want You To Want Me. Cheap Trick released songs from 1977 to 2006 spanning across albums like In Color, Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight, Dream Police, All Shook Up, One On One, Next Position Please, Standing On The Edge, The Doctor, Lap Of Luxury, Busted, Woke Up With A Monster, Sex, America, Cheap Trick, Special One, and Rockford. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Cheap Trick.

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The lyrics for I Want You To Want Me are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Cheap Trick. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to I Want You To Want Me have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick in multiple ways. 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 Want You To Want Me" means the words set to the music of I Want You To Want Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Cheap Trick. 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 Want You To Want Me and the lyrics to I Want You To Want Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Cheap Trick who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Want You To Want Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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