you look like you love me
Lyrics:
[English]
I was all but 22, I think at the time
I'd been out on the road, lonely at night
And it'd been a while, so it was on my mind
Well, I saw him walk in, with his cowboy hat
And I thought to myself, I could use some of that
His boots like glass on a sawdust floor, huh
Had moves like nothing I'd ever seen before
So I walked right up, and I pulled him to the side
I handed that man a beer and looked him in the eyes
And I said, "Baby, I think you're gonna wanna hear this"
Then I told him
"Excuse me
You look like you love me
You look like you want me to want you to come on home
And baby, I don't blame you
For looking me up and down across this room
I'm drunk and I'm ready to leave
And you look like you love me"
Well, I was down at a local beer joint with a few of the guys
When this cute little country girl caught my eye
And boy, let me tell you, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen in a pair of boots
Well, she walked right up to me, handed me a beer
Gave me a look like, "Let's get out of here"
And that's when I realized that she was every cowboy's dream come true
She told me this right here, she said
"Excuse me
You look like you love me
You look like you want me to want you to come on home
And baby, I don't blame you
For looking me up and down across this room
I'm drunk and I'm ready to leave
And you look like you love me"
Alright now
...
So if you ever see a man in a cowboy hat
And you think to yourself, I could use some of that
Don't waste your time
Just give him this here line
Goes a little like this
"Excuse me
You look like you love me
You look like you want me to want you to come on home
And baby, I don't blame you
For looking me up and down across this room
I'm drunk and I'm ready to leave
And you look like you love me
I'm drunk and I'm ready to leave
And you look like love me"
...
Vocabulary in this song:
Vocabulary | Meanings |
---|---|
love /lʌv/ A1 |
|
look /lʊk/ A1 |
|
want /wɒnt/ A1 |
|
home /hoʊm/ A1 |
|
blame /bleɪm/ B1 |
|
drunk /drʌŋk/ B1 |
|
ready /ˈrɛdi/ A2 |
|
leave /liːv/ A1 |
|
room /ruːm/ A1 |
|
girl /ɡɜːrl/ A1 |
|
caught /kɔːt/ A1 |
|
eye /aɪ/ A1 |
|
tell /tel/ A1 |
|
dream /driːm/ A2 |
|
waste /weɪst/ B1 |
|
Grammar:
-
I **was all but** 22, I think at the time
➔ "all but" + number/amount
➔ "all but" means almost or nearly. Here, it means 'I was almost 22'.
-
It **'d been** a while, so it was on my mind
➔ Past Perfect Continuous (It had been)
➔ Uses the contracted form of "it had been". The Past Perfect Continuous emphasizes the duration of an action that started in the past and continued until another point in the past. The speaker is emphasizing that a certain state existed for some time before the story they are about to tell.
-
His boots like glass on a sawdust floor, huh
➔ Ellipsis (omission of words)
➔ This line is an example of ellipsis. The full sentence could be 'His boots looked like glass on a sawdust floor, huh?'. The words 'looked like' are omitted for brevity and to create a more informal, conversational tone.
-
Had moves like **nothing I'd ever seen** before
➔ Past Perfect Tense + "ever" (emphasis)
➔ The use of 'I'd ever seen' emphasizes that, up until that point in the past, the speaker had never witnessed such moves. "Ever" intensifies the experience.
-
And baby, I don't blame you For looking me **up and down** across this room
➔ Phrasal Verb: look someone up and down
➔ "Look someone up and down" is a phrasal verb meaning to examine someone carefully, especially in a way that expresses a judgement.
-
And you look like you **want me to want you** to come on home
➔ Complex Sentence Structure: want + object pronoun + to + verb
➔ This sentence uses the structure 'want someone to do something'. It shows a desire or expectation. The double use of "want" emphasizes the reciprocal desire.
-
Well, I was down at a local beer joint **with a few of the guys**
➔ Quantifier "a few of"
➔ "A few of" indicates a small but non-specific number. It implies more than one, but not many.
-
And that's when I realized that she was **every cowboy's dream come true**
➔ Possessive Determiner and Idiomatic Expression
➔ "Every cowboy's dream come true" is an idiom meaning something that is perfect or ideal for a particular group of people. "Cowboy's" uses the possessive to show that the dream belongs to all cowboys.