Love Me Like You Do – English Lyrics

• By: Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran, Powfu

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the nuances of modern English romance through Ellie Goulding’s emotive ballad. This song is perfect for learning conversational expressions of vulnerability and descriptive adjectives used in intimate relationships, all wrapped in a globally recognized pop melody.

[English]

[Music]

you're the light you're the night you're

the color of my blood you're the Cure

you're the pain you're the only thing I

want to

touch never knew that it could mean so

much so

much you're the fear I don't care cuz

I've never been so high follow me

through the dark let me take it fide the

light you can see the world you brought

to

life to life

so love me like you do la la love me

like you do love me like you do la la

love me like you do touch me like you do

T touch me like you

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do what are you waiting

for fading in fading out on the edge of

paradise every inch of your skin is a

holy gray like I've got to

find only you can set my heart on

fire on

fire yeah I'll let you set the

pace cuz I'm not making

[Applause]

straight my ha be me around I can't see

clean no

more what are you waiting for

love me like you do love me like you do

you do love me like you do love me like

you do Touch Me Like You Do touch me

like you

do what are you waiting

for love me like you do love me like you

do like you do love me like you do love

me me like you do Touch Me Like You Do

touch me like you

do what are you waiting

[Music]

for I'll let you set the

pace cuz I'm not thinking straight

my hair SP in around I can't see C no

more what are you waiting

for you

do me like you do like you do me like

you

do me like you do Touch Me Like You Do

touch me like you do

oh what are you waiting

for love me like you do no no love me

like you do love me like you do love me

like you do Touch Me Like You Do touch

me like you

do what are you waiting for

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

I found a

love for

me darling just Dive Right

In Follow My Lead

I found a

girl beautiful and

sweet I never knew you were the someone

waiting for

me cuz we were just kids when we fell in

love not knowing what it was I will not

give you up this time

darling just kiss me slow your heart is

[Music]

all and in your eyes you're hold in

mine

baby

I Dancing in the

Dark with you between my

arms bare fooot on the CR

we listening to our favorite song when

you said you looked a mess I whispered

underneath my breath but you heard it

darling you look perfect

[Music]

tonight well I found a

woman stronger than anyone I

know she shares my dreams I hope that

someday I'll share her

home I found the

love to carry more than just my secret

to carry love to carry children of our

own we are still kids but we're so in

love fighting against all USS I know

it'll be all right it's

time darling just hold my hand be my

girl I'll be your man I see my

future in your

eyes

baby

I dancing in in the

dark with you between my

arms bear fo on the

cross listening to our favorite song

when I saw you in that dress looking so

beautiful I don't

deserve this darling you look perfect

tonight

[Music]

baby

I'm dancing in the

dark with you between my

arms bare fooot on the

cross or listening to our favorite song

I have faith

would I see now I know I have met an

angel in person and she looks perfect I

don't

deserve this you look perfect tonight

[Music]

stay awake for too long don't go to bed

I'll make a cup of coffee for your head

you up out y I don't want to fall asleep

I don't want to pass away I've been

thinking of our future cuz I'll never

see those days I don't know why this is

happened but I probably it I tried to do

my best but you know that I'm not

perfect I've been praying for

forgiveness you've been praying for my

health when I leave this earth hoping

you'll find someone else cuz yeah we

still young there's so much we haven't

done getting married start a family

watch your husband with his son I wish

it could be me but I won't make it off

this bed I hope I go to heaven so I see

you once again my life was kind of short

but I got so many blessings happy you

were mine it sucks that it's all Landing

don't stay away for too long don't go to

B I'll make a cup of coffee your head

get you up and going out of

bed stay away for too long don't go to

bed I'll make a cup of coffee for your

head I'll get you

[Music]

up I'm happy that you here with me I'm

sorry if I te up when me and you were

younger you would always make me cheer

up taking goofy videos walking through

the park you would jump into my arms

every time you heard a bark cuddle in

your sheets sing me sound as sleep and

sneak out through your kitchen at

exactly 103 Sundays went to church and

Mondays watched a movie soon you'll be

alone sorry that you have to lose me

don't stay away too long

don't I'll make a cup of coffee for your

head I'll get you up and out of

bed stay away for too long don't go to

bed I'll make a cup of coffee for your

head get you up and going out of

B don't stay away for too long don't

don't I'll make a cup of coffee for your

hand get you up and going

out don't stay for too long don't go to

bed I'll make a cup of coffee for your

head I'll get you up and going out of

bed

[Music]

stay I'll make a

[Music]

saw it coming I couldn't read sign I

don't know why I let you in this time I

must be blind I guess I couldn't trust

you cuz all you did was Li oh now I have

to get you off my mind cuz of you ooh

ooh I'm wired up I don't want you it's

time for you to

go oh

you I had enough I don't want you it's

time for you to go

[Music]

[Music]

I never saw it coming I couldn't read

the signs I don't know why I let you in

this time I must

beind I guess I couldn't trust you cuz

all you did was Li oh now I have to get

you off my mind cuz of

you I'm wired up I don't want you it's

time for you to

go oh

you I had enough I don't want you it's

time for you to go

n

[Music]

[Music]

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
cure /kjʊər/ B2	noun - a medicine or therapy that restores health
paradise /ˈpær.ə.daɪs/ B2	noun - an ideal or idyllic place or state
pace /peɪs/ B1	noun - a single step or the speed of movement
darling /ˈdɑː.lɪŋ/ B1	noun - a person very dear to another
perfect /ˈpɜː.fekt/ A1	adjective - having all the required elements; flawless
whisper /ˈwɪs.pər/ B2	verb - to speak very softly using one's breath
forgiveness /fəˈɡɪv.nəs/ B2	noun - the action or process of forgiving
blessing /ˈbles.ɪŋ/ B2	noun - a beneficial thing for which one is grateful
cuddle /ˈkʌd.əl/ B2	verb - to hold closely in one's arms as a way of showing affection
blind /blaɪnd/ B1	adjective - unable to see or unable to perceive something

Key Grammar Structures

• I've never been so high

  ➔ Present Perfect Tense

  ➔ The structure 'have/has + past participle' is used to express an experience or state continuing up to the present.

• What are you waiting for?

  ➔ Present Continuous for current actions

  ➔ The structure 'be + verb-ing' is used to talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking.

• I'm not thinking straight

  ➔ Negative Present Continuous

  ➔ Adding 'not' after the auxiliary verb 'am' to indicate a temporary state contrary to the norm.

• I never knew you were the someone waiting for me

  ➔ Past Simple & Relative Clause

  ➔ The clause 'waiting for me' acts as a reduced relative clause modifying 'the someone'.

• We were just kids when we fell in love

  ➔ Past Simple with Time Clause

  ➔ The use of 'when' creates a time clause to anchor the past event 'fell in love'.

• I'll let you set the pace

  ➔ Future Simple (Will) with Causative structure

  ➔ The verb 'let' is followed by the object and the bare infinitive 'set'.

• I don't want to pass away

  ➔ Verb pattern (want + to-infinitive)

  ➔ Certain verbs like 'want' are followed by an infinitive phrase to express desires.

• I must be blind

  ➔ Modal verb of deduction (must)

  ➔ 'Must' is used here to make a strong logical deduction about a past or present state.