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Say You Love Me Lyrics
have mercy baby, on a poor girl like me
you know i'm fallin', fallin', fallin' at your feet
i'm tingling right from my head to my toes
so help me, help me, help me make the feeling grow
CHORUS:
'cause when the loving starts and the lights go down
and there's not another living soul around
you can rule me until the sun comes up
and you say that you love me
have pity baby, just when i thought it was over
now you got me runnin', runnin', runnin' for cover
i'm begging you for a little sympathy
'cause if you use me again it'll be the end of me
(repeat chorus)
baby, baby, hope you're gonna stay away
'cause i'm getting weaker, weaker everyday
i guess i'm not as strong as i used to be
and if you use me again it'll be the end of me
(repeat chorus)
fallin', fallin', fallin........
(repeat)
it's "you woo me up till the sun comes up"
a couple of fleetwood mac's songs do deal with drug addictions, but i don't think this one does. she's feeling used because he won't admit he loves her so they both run from it, or maybe he is using her and either way, she's falling. "say you love me" - it's sad, sweet, communication's important!
A lyrical, harmonic song about what it feels like for a woman to feel euphoric from a sexual relationship. Although the "getting weaker every day" and "use me again" parts seem to hint that she knows it's not a healthy thing to do, but she's high off the feeling.
Nice example of boomer giddy optimism that was also a bit jaded.... and the musical arrangement is high style from everyone .. I know Lindsay was an alpha male and so I always hear this arrangement and his overlording of the song structure, instrumentation, etc. These were the days of heavy studio time high production value... they just pushed it further and further. It kind of adds to the tension when you know that about it... it almost makes me think of the song being used on a movie while some violent action is taking place onscreen... as Scorsese might do... in fact there is Mac song in Casino when they are sitting in the Caddy out in the garage to avoid the FBI listening... it's a really tense scene..
great song
I think this song is not about a woman who enjoys the sexual relationship but is feeling tired of being used by the man whom she feels deeply attached to and longs for him to feel the same, while all he wants is to continue the relationship in a purely meaningless and sexual manner.
I think the following link explains the song quite nicely:
fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/interpretations/s/sayyouloveme.htm
This song was written about Stevie Nicks addiction to cocaine if you look at every line of the song, its paints a picture of what cocaine does to you /have pity baby, just when i thought it was over now you got me runnin', runnin', runnin' for cover/ it talks about how she thinks she has it beat, but she can't overcome her addiction
"Hope you're gonna stay awake".
It is a woman under the spell of a man and she knows he is not good for her in the long run.
It’s “say that you love me”
If you can’t read the subtext, she knows he’s going to break her heart. But she doesn’t care.