Lyrics to
If I Don’t Love You This Way

This version of If I Don’T Love You This Way was released by Jackson 5 in 1974.

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If I don’t love you this way
If I don’t love you this way

If I don’t love you this way
Why do I say what I say, yeah
If I don’t need you this much
Why do I ache for your touch, yeah

With you it seems
I can reach the stars
With reckless hopes and dreams
But you it seems
Still don’t believe
How valuble you are
I’m really loving you
Not pretending to

If I don’t love you this strong
Why do I beg to belong, yeah
How can you doubt that I care
When I’m with you everywhere, yeah

With you I find
I can close my eyes
To the world surrounding me
And you create
The sweetest things
That I could ever be
I’m really loving you
Not pretending to

If I don’t love you this way
Why do I say what I say, yeah
If I don’t need you this much
Why do I ache for your touch, yeah

You just have to smile
To make my life worth while
Doesn’t that explain
That I’m playin’ no games

If I don’t love you this way
Why do I say what I say, yeah
If I don’t need you this much
Why do I ache for your touch, yeah

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You can understand the lyrics to If I Don’T Love You This Way if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 If I Don’T Love You This Way" means the words set to the music of If I Don’T Love You This Way, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. 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 If I Don’T Love You This Way and the lyrics to If I Don’T Love You This Way are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to If I Don’T Love You This Way, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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