This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Workin' from seven to eleven every night
Really makes life a drag
I don't think that's right
I've really been the best, the best of fools
I did what I could, yeah
'Cause I love you, baby
How I love you, darling
How I love you, baby
My beloved little girl, little girl
But baby, since I've been loving you, yeah
I'm about to lose my, my worried mind, oh yeah
Everybody trying to tell me
That you didn't mean me no good
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you
Let me tell you, I really did the best I could
I've been, I've been working from seven to eleven every night
I said, it kinda makes my life a drag, drag, drag, drag
Lord, yeah, that ain't right, now, now
Since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose my worried mind, yeah
Watch out
Said I've been crying, yeah
Oh, my tears they fell like rain
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?
Do you remember, mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me
You didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, hear my back door slam
You know, I must have one of them new fangled
New fangled back door man
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I've been working from seven, seven, seven to eleven every night
It kinda makes my life a drag, a drag, drag
Ah, yeah, it makes a drag
Baby, since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose
I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind
Just one more, just one more, oh yeah
Since I've been loving you, I'm gonna lose my worried mind
Really makes life a drag
I don't think that's right
I've really been the best, the best of fools
I did what I could, yeah
'Cause I love you, baby
How I love you, darling
How I love you, baby
My beloved little girl, little girl
But baby, since I've been loving you, yeah
I'm about to lose my, my worried mind, oh yeah
Everybody trying to tell me
That you didn't mean me no good
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you
Let me tell you, I really did the best I could
I've been, I've been working from seven to eleven every night
I said, it kinda makes my life a drag, drag, drag, drag
Lord, yeah, that ain't right, now, now
Since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose my worried mind, yeah
Watch out
Said I've been crying, yeah
Oh, my tears they fell like rain
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?
Don't you hear them, don't you hear them falling?
Do you remember, mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me
You didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, hear my back door slam
You know, I must have one of them new fangled
New fangled back door man
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I've been working from seven, seven, seven to eleven every night
It kinda makes my life a drag, a drag, drag
Ah, yeah, it makes a drag
Baby, since I've been loving you
I'm about to lose
I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind
Just one more, just one more, oh yeah
Since I've been loving you, I'm gonna lose my worried mind
Lyrics submitted by kevin, edited by seasideisme
Since I've Been Loving You Lyrics as written by Robert Plant Jimmy Page
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OMG!!!! I can't believe no one has said anything about this song yet! It is definitely one of the best Zeppelin songs ever!! This song proves that Jimmy Page is a god!
There are two Zeppelin songs no one can sings but Plant: Whole Lotta Love and Since I've Been... The timing makes you believe in the lyrics and the guitar... oh man!... the guitar solo is one of the best BLUES solos ever written/played. It just proves the musical abilities from the members!
To me this song is one of the best to make love to. It is so sensual and the guitar is sexy, blues style. Jimmy really tears it up on this one while you can tear it up with your g/f or /bf.
Compared to the live version, the studio version is crap.
I am definitely going to fuck someone to this song. It's just so sensual from any way you look at it; Plant's amazingly emotional vocals, Page's crooning, dripping with sugar guitar, the soft romantic bass in the background, the sweet committed drums... it makes me hurt. It makes me want to roll my body on yours, dragging my tongue across your flesh, mouthing the words on your sweating skin, still rolling, still rolling... Oh God, I should stop.
Ahem. Lovely song, if I do say so myself.
@SoakedinMercury Well said. This is not a song to make sweet love by. This is a song you FUCK someone to.
it's a very sad song, sexy, but still very sad. a really true thing of this song is that you can love someone so much that you can actually lose your mind. i don't want to lose my worried mind again. this song used to have a meaning to me but i don't want to remember it anymore.
i didn't really like this song untill i listened to it through. and now i love it! that's how i started out with all zeppelin songs, i sorta had to adapt to them.
In a Robert Plant interview that I saw a few years ago he fancied himself a rock n roll blues singer. "Since I've Been Loving You" and "Tea For One" are the two best rock blues songs I have ever heard. This is a totally awsome song and it is funny because most people have never heard it because they only listened to the ones that were routinely played on the radio "Stairway to Heaven" etc. There are several songs that are increadible that are not commonly known by those who are not true Zep fans. It is their loss. I can't say enough about how great this song and this group truely was/is.
extremely emotional performances by both page and plant. by far one of the most convincing of their careers. Personal favorite song, hits close to home.
simple this song is about cheating in my opinion Robert works from 7 till 11 giving his other half the perfect chance to cheat on him 'open my front door hear my back door slam' his partner's lover 'must have one of those new fangled back door man' is Robert playing dumb as if to say i wasn't born yesterday. And my girlfriend says its a sexy song to make love to as well (better watch her lol) but a brilliant song and my favourite Zepp song :D
Three words:
. ultimate . sex . song .