I Need You to Love Me
Embracing Redemption: BarlowGirl's Cry for Unconditional Love
Lyrics
Why, why are you still with me?
Expressing a questioning and uncertain tone about why someone is still in a relationship.
Didn't you see what I've done?
Acknowledging past mistakes or wrongdoings and questioning if the partner noticed them.
In my shame I want to run and hide myself
Feeling a sense of shame and the desire to escape and conceal oneself.
But it's here I see the truth
Realizing a truth about oneself or the situation while in a vulnerable state.
I don't deserve you
Expressing a belief of unworthiness or not being deserving of the partner's love.
But I need you to love me, and I
Requesting and expressing a need for the partner's love despite perceived shortcomings.
I won't keep my heart from you this time
Committing to opening up and not withholding emotions or feelings this time.
So I'll stop this pretending that I can
Ending the act of pretending to be someone who can earn or deserve the love already received.
Somehow deserve what I already have
Acknowledging the undeserved nature of the love already present in the relationship.
I need you to love me
Reiterating the need for the partner's love.
I, I have wasted so much time
Reflecting on the time wasted by pushing the partner away.
Pushing you away from me
Admitting to the action of distancing oneself from the partner.
I just never saw how much you could cherish me
Realizing the partner's capacity to cherish despite past blindness to it.
Cuz you're a God who has all things
Acknowledging the partner's divine nature and the abundance of all things.
And still you want me
Recognizing that despite being divine, the partner still desires the speaker.
But I need you to love me, and I
Repeating the plea for the partner's love, emphasizing the need for it.
I won't keep my heart from you this time
Reaffirming the commitment to be open and not withhold emotions from the partner.
So I'll stop this pretending that I can
Ending the pretense of deserving or earning the love that is already present.
Somehow deserve what I already have
Acknowledging the undeserved nature of the love already present in the relationship.
I need you to love me
Reiterating the essential need for the partner's love.
Your love makes me forget what I have been
Highlighting the transformative power of the partner's love in making past actions forgettable.
Your love makes me see who I really am
Acknowledging that the partner's love reveals the true self.
Your love makes me forget what I have been
Repeating the idea that the partner's love helps forget past mistakes.
But I need you to love me, and I
Reiterating the plea for the partner's love, emphasizing the ongoing need for it.
I won't keep my heart from you this time
Committing to openness and not withholding emotions from the partner.
So I'll stop this pretending that I can
Ending the pretense of deserving or earning the love that is already present.
Somehow deserve what I already have
Acknowledging the undeserved nature of the love already present in the relationship.
I need you to love me
Reiterating the essential need for the partner's love.
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