Lyrics to
Take Me As I Am

This version of Take Me As I Am was released by Michael Bolton in 1975.

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Woman, you don’t understand
Oh, I’m just a man
Baby, that’s all I am
That’s all I have ever been
And you, you don’t understand
Oh, I’ve gotta live

You make it so hard to do
you know you hurt me, baby
Take me, take me as I am
Take me as I am, Baby
Ooh, ooh, take me as I am

All I believe is that you’ve taken me
For some kind of dream
I don’t want to wait too long
For my love is in the way to see it
I don’t wanna lose you, baby
But your love is in the way

Ya gotta listen
It’s time to listen to me
You, you don’t realize
Oh, I’ve gotta live
You make it so hard to bear
It may be hard for me to go on

And I know, I know, I know
You’ll understand
I’m just a man, baby
That’s all I am
Don’t make it hard on me

Just take me, take me as I am, baby
Take me as I am, baby
Take me as I am, oh
Take me as I am, Baby
Oh, take me as I am now

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Michael Bolton has released many songs over the years besides Take Me As I Am. Michael Bolton released songs from 1975 to 2005 spanning across albums like Michael Bolotin, Every Day Of My Life, Michael Bolton, Everybody's Crazy, The Hunger, Soul Provider, Time, Love & Tenderness, Timeless: The Classics, The One Thing, This Is The Time: The Christmas Album, All That Matters, My Secret Passion: The Arias, Timeless: The Classics Vol. 2, Only A Woman Like You, Vintage, and 'Til The End Of Forever. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Michael Bolton.

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About Lyrics and Take Me As I Am by Michael Bolton

The lyrics to Take Me As I Am are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Michael Bolton used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to Take Me As I Am have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Michael Bolton 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 Take Me As I Am by Michael Bolton. 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 Take Me As I Am" means the words set to the music of Take Me As I Am, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Michael Bolton. 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 Take Me As I Am and the lyrics to Take Me As I Am are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Michael Bolton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Take Me As I Am, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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