LOBO - I'D LOVE TO WANT ME

I'D LOVE TO WANT ME

LOBO

SONGWRITERS: Têtes Raides & Kent LaVoie

ALBUM: OF A SIMPLE MAN

LABEL: BIG TREE RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1972

"I'd Love You to Want Me" is the title of a popular song from 1972 by Lobo (the stage name of Kent LaVoie). He wrote the song, which appears on his album Of a Simple Man.

Released as a single in the fall of 1972, "I'd Love You to Want Me" was the singer's highest charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at number two in November of that year. It was kept from the top spot by Johnny Nash's hit song, "I Can See Clearly Now". The song also spent one week at number one on the Billboard easy listening chart, LaVoie's second of four songs to achieve this feat. It became a gold record.

When I saw you standing there

I about fell off my chair

When you moved your mouth to speak

I felt the blood go to my feet

Now it took time for me to know

What you tried so not to show

Something in my soul just cried

I see the want in your blue eyes

Chorus :

Baby, I'd love you to want me

The way that I want you

The way that it should be

Baby, you'd love me to want you

The way that I want to

If you'd only let it be

You told yourself years ago

You'd never let your feelings show

The obligation that you made

For the title that they gave

Repeat chorus

Repeat verse 2

Repeat chorus