I’d Love You to Want Me
“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.” Lobo, I’d Love You to Want Me (1972) I first heard Lobo’s song “I’d Love You to Want Me” back when I was in high school. The lyrics and the tune haunted my heart. All of my young life I had wanted someone to want me, to love me. At the time, I thought more in terms of finding a lover my age, but looking back now, I think there was something much deeper going on inside me. I think the need this song evoked in me was first and foremost about the love and acceptance that I never received from my parents. I wanted them to love and accept me for being me. I wanted them to want me as their child. But that never happened, or at least I never knew it or felt like they loved and accepted me unconditionally. It was from this wounded place inside that I then projected outwardly, wanting a lover w...