She Will Be Loved Lyrics

Lyric discussion by luckbox 

Cover art for She Will Be Loved lyrics by Maroon 5

To me it's always seemed really obvious what the song is talking about, and none of the other comments have close to my interpretation, so here it is.

It's about a "nice guy" that is in a friends with benefits type situation. He's in love with the girl, but she doesn't love him, at least not in the same way. He's always been there for her when things go badly for her, but she's always going for other guys and then coming back to him when she's upset that things didn't work out.

To her he's the rebound guy that'll always be there for him, and that's it.

My Interpretation

It's about a guy friend who is strictly just a friend that she keeps going to as a security blanket. He gets none of the other benefits other than to help her feel beautiful which gives him a seemingly unfulfilled happiness

he feels like his insecurity gets in the way because she waiting for or involved with someone who can sweep her off her feet and he's not that type, but his door is always open because he'll always be waiting.

i just hope for his sake he's smart enough to keep his options open because waiting usually doesn't work out. they just move on to the next thing that sweeps them off their feet.

Maybe. I still think she's using him for sex though, whenever she's on the rebound. These lines imply that to me:

"I’ve had you so many times but somehow I want more"

"Ask her if she wants to stay awhile"

"Comes back and begs me to catch her every time she falls"

I think she thinks of him as a friend with benefits, while he truly loves her. And I agree that this is going nowhere good for him. Even if she finally settled for him, she'd probably never feel the...