Lyrics to
Love Me With A Feeling

This version of Love Me With A Feeling was released by Bette Midler in 1979.

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“All right! She’s gonna sing!”
“All right, we all turn to page 438.
Now, you know we all gonna sing along.
Oh, I do love a revue.”

Ohhhhhh!
You know, women don’t like this woman,
’cause I always speak my mind.
But the men ain’t crazy about me,
’cause I love to take my time.

If you’re gonna love this woman,
gotta love me with a thrill,
’cause, baby, if you don’t,
I gotta find a man who will.

Love me with a feeling.
You got to love me with a feelin’.
You got to love me with a feelin’,
or you don’t love me at all.

You know, I’m the kind of woman,
I don’t want no halfway stuff.
If you’re gonna turn me loose, baby,
be sure I had enough.

You know, the cops once took me in,
but I did not need the bail.
I just shook it for the judge and he,
he put that cop in jail.

You got to love me with a feeling.
You got to love me with a feelin’.
You got to love me with a feelin’,
or you don’t love me at all.

“All right, Milledge, this one’s for you.”
There was one cat who could not make it,
and Milledge was his name.
The only cat I ever knew
who left before he came.

There he’s a-standing,
drinkin’ pop from a paper cup.
But when it’s time for gettin’ down,
Milledge can not get it up!

You gotta love me with a feelin’.
Yeah, love, love me with a feelin’.
You got to love me with a feelin’,
or you can’t love me at all.

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

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