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