Love Bites

The chorus to this song, is very haunting. Not the "love bites" verse, but the "I don't want to touch you too much baby" part. It stays stuck in my head for days, and I can't get rid of it.

To me this song is about a fast woman and this guy wants to be in love with her but he knows she's a player. That's why love bites. He knows all the ill feelings the "relationship" with her generates but he wants it while at the same time not getting too close to her . He knows he'll only get hurt in the end.

Ochikanobee, the line about making and breaking love, here's my spin:

He is saying that she equares sex with love. By that I mean, having sex means love. So, in essence, perhaps she really doesn't know what love is.

The break line just means he doesn't want to be there when she calls it off, sex, relationship, the whole shebang.

I have loved this song since I first heard when the album released.

By the by, Def Leppard has some of the coolest intros EVER to their songs. Examples: Pour Some Sugar On Me (the original and the one on their best of), Rock of Ages and this, Love Bites.

This guy is obviously afraid to get too attached to this girl, who seems a little more fast and free and not one for commitment. It's why he asked, "Do you tell lies and say that it's forever" as well as, "I don't wanna be there when you decide to break [love]."

I love the hypocrisy in his words as well. Love bites. Love bleeds. Love lives and dies. Yet, he needs and wants it.

Not only one of the greatest Def Leppard songs, but one of the best rock ballads (and severely underrated, as all Def tunes sans Sugar seem to be).

I got the impression that this girl is all about the show during sex. She's hot, sensual but can't connect during the act. Kinda like a porn star. She knows how to satisfy a man, and herself but there's nothing else. No emotional connection, no love, no commitment. It's just an act, and although he's attracted to her he knows it will never be anything more than that which is what drives him crazy to be THAT close to her--yet so far away.

For me this song's abut watching the one you love someone else (that old saying!) whether it's a current boyfriend/girlfriend, an ex, or even a friendship or a platonic relationship. Just the insecurity. Awww. Haunting song, but a great one!

I think this song has 2 different interpretations its either about a guy who lost a girl who meant a lot to him thats why he asks "does he look like me?" and he asks those other questions out of hope that the relationship she's in now wont work

but it could also mean he's with her and hes afraid that she doesn't feel the same way so he's trying his best to keep it together but wants to know answers at the same time

i think the song has something to do with someone who is not capable of love with anyone but themselves "when you make love do you look in the mirror" and who has sex and thinks this is love but doesnt show it in any other way. thats my take anyway

Its about a woman who loves recklessly "It can't be love if you throw it about "

The man wants to love...desires to love her. But he realizes she doesnt know what love is. So making love to her breaks him "Love Bites, Love Bleeds" because he knows its a one way street, because she doesnt know how to love - she maybe just wants the physicalness "Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show?".

This song in essence screams woman in an, perhaps, unhappy relationship who is cheating and torturing the poor soul of the mean she's cheating with. He knows she has someone else but he wants her all to himself, and doesn't want "love" on her terms, where she can break the relationship on a whim. He wants all of her but can't have her, hence "love bites", although he still craves it. He doesn't want to make love to her, much less touch her, for fear of falling for her more, only in turn, to be shut down by her when she sees fit. She seems to be unattached, whilst he can't help himself.