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Love Me Like A Man

This version of Love Me Like A Man was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1972.

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These men that I’ve been seeing, baby
Got their soul up on the shelf
You know they could never love me
When they can’t even love themselves
But I need someone to love me
Someone to really understand
Who won’t put himself above
Who just loves me like a man

I’ve never seen such losers, Darlin’
Even though I tried
To find a man who could take me home
Stead of takin’ me for a ride
And I need someone to love me
I know you can
Believe me when I tell you
You can love me like a man

They all want me to rock them
Like my back ain’t got no bone
I want a man to rock me
Like my back bone was his own
Darlin’, I know you can
Believe me when I tell you
You can love me like a man

I come home sad and lonely
Feel like I wanna cry
I want a man to hold me
Not some fool to ask me why
I know you can
Don’t you put yourself above me
You just love me like a man

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You can understand the lyrics to Love Me Like A Man 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 Love Me Like A Man" means the words set to the music of Love Me Like A Man, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. 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 Love Me Like A Man and the lyrics to Love Me Like A Man are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Love Me Like A Man, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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