Stevie's written many songs about her friendship with Tom Petty such as "Hard Advice", "Two Kinds of Love", "That Made Me Stronger" or "For What It's Worth". And this is one of them. But she's not singing she wants to be his girlfriend but how it would be nice to join his band for a while. Well, here is a little information about this song as well as her own comment (btw - great track!):
Stevie wrote “If You Were My Love” about the experience of working with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the first time in 1980. “It’s like a love song, but it’s not. It’s about going outside your own life and getting attached to something that isn’t yours. It’s been kind of like falling in love with another band — for a minute. It has nothing to do with — and truly, clarify this — there is absolutely nothing going on between me and anybody in that band. They’re all married. They’re all expecting babies. That’s what makes it very easy for me to be with them and be their friend, and almost be one of the guys” (Beck, 1981).
(I got it from stevienicks.info site)
Stevie's written many songs about her friendship with Tom Petty such as "Hard Advice", "Two Kinds of Love", "That Made Me Stronger" or "For What It's Worth". And this is one of them. But she's not singing she wants to be his girlfriend but how it would be nice to join his band for a while. Well, here is a little information about this song as well as her own comment (btw - great track!): Stevie wrote “If You Were My Love” about the experience of working with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the first time in 1980. “It’s like a love song, but it’s not. It’s about going outside your own life and getting attached to something that isn’t yours. It’s been kind of like falling in love with another band — for a minute. It has nothing to do with — and truly, clarify this — there is absolutely nothing going on between me and anybody in that band. They’re all married. They’re all expecting babies. That’s what makes it very easy for me to be with them and be their friend, and almost be one of the guys” (Beck, 1981). (I got it from stevienicks.info site)
[Edit: Grammar]