LOBO - LOVE ME FOR WHAT I AM

LOVE ME FOR WHAT I AM

LOBO

SONGWRITER: LAVOIE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CALUMET

LABEL: BIG TREE

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1973

 

       Roland Kent LaVoie(born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo (which is a Spanish word for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.

          Calumet is the third album by Lobo, released in 1973 on Big Tree Records. It was reissued in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records and includes six bonus tracks.

The album peaked at Nº 128 on the US Top LPs chart. Two of its singles were top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and top 5 hits on the Easy Listening chart. "There Ain't No Way" and its B-side "Love Me For What I Am" were minor hits on the Hot 100.

I wore the clothes you liked

You said they gave me that look

I even tried to like the food

I know you like to cook

I parted my hair on the left

I carried your arm on the right

I slept late in the morning

And I stayed out late at night.

 

I can't give any more of my soul away

And still look myself in the mirror everyday

I can't change any more

Of what makes me be myself

And still have enough left

Not to be somebody else

I'm not demanding as a man

Just asking you, love me for what I am.

 

I tried hard not to say

The things you don't like to hear

And when to you it was apropos

I nibbled on your ear

I opened the door up for you

I kept my big mouth shut

Well I've been going down

While you've been going up.