I Love You – English Lyrics

• By: Faith Evans
• Album: Faithfully

Lyrics & Translation

"I Love You" by Faith Evans is an enduring R&B ballad that beautifully expresses profound emotions of love and yearning. Its clear, evocative lyrics and soulful delivery make it an excellent song for English language learners to explore romantic vocabulary and understand emotional expression within a musical context.

[English]

My heart belongs to you

So what could I do

To make you feel I'm down with

You see me hangin around

But you don't know how you make me feel for you, and

Each and every day, I try to make some sense of this

What you mean to me, I know it could be serious

Each and every nite, I dream about just holding you

Loving you like this, what is a girl supposed to do

I love you (I love you)

I want you (I want you)

You're the one that I live for

And I can't take it any more

I love you (I love you)

I need you (and I need you)

What can I do to make you see

You're the only one for me

First time I saw your face

My heart just erased

All the guys I knew

Before you walked into my life

I was the type to never work for nothing

Each and every day, I try to make some sense of this

What you mean to me, I know it could be serious

Each and every nite, I dream about just holding you

Loving you like this, what is a girl supposed to do

I love you (I love you)

I want you (I need you)

You're the one that I live for

And I can't take it any more

I love you (I love you)

I need you (need you)

What can I do to make you see

You're the only one for me

I love you, I want you, I need you in my life

Can't you see what you mean to me?

Baby come hold me tight

I miss you, wanna kiss you

Everytime I see your face

Baby I'll be waiting for you

Each and everyday

I love you (Oooohhh Ooooohh Ooooohh)

I want you

You're the one that I live for

And I can't take it any more

I need you

What can I do to make you see

You're the only one for me

And I know it's meant to be

What can I do to make you see

My love will carry on (listen to my heart)

So listen to my heart and know

You'll find out where my love will go

The future lies between us both

Oh babe I love you so

I want you

You're the one that I live for

And I can't take it any more

I love you (baby I love you)

I need you (baby I need you)

What can I do to make you see

You're the only one for me

I want you

You're the one that I live for

And I can't take it any more

I need you

What can I do to make you see

You're the only one for me

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection verb - to feel deep affection for someone
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood
feel /fiːl/ A1	verb - to experience an emotion or sensation
day /deɪ/ A1	noun - the period of 24 hours as a unit of time
dream /driːm/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep verb - to have a dream while sleeping
live /lɪv/ A1	verb - to remain alive
face /feɪs/ A2	noun - the front part of the head
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter
work /wɜːrk/ A1	verb - to expend effort toward a goal
sense /sɛns/ B1	noun - a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus verb - to perceive by a sense
serious /ˈsɪriəs/ B1	adjective - grave; giving cause for concern
miss /mɪs/ A2	verb - to feel the absence of
kiss /kɪs/ A2	verb - to touch with the lips as a sign of love
wait /weɪt/ A1	verb - to remain in place in expectation of something
future /ˈfjuːtʃər/ B1	noun - the time or a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing

Key Grammar Structures

• So what could I do To make you feel I'm down with

  ➔ Modal verb 'could' + infinitive 'do'

  ➔ 'Could' expresses a possibility or a polite suggestion. Here, it's used to ask what action is possible to change the other person's feelings. "Down with" is slang meaning 'agreeable to' or 'supportive of'.

• But you don't know how you make me feel for you, and

  ➔ Indirect question/Embedded question using 'how'

  ➔ The phrase "how you make me feel" is an embedded question, functioning as the object of the verb "know". It's not a direct question, so the word order is subject-verb instead of verb-subject.

• Each and every day, I try to make some sense of this

  ➔ Use of 'each and every' for emphasis

  ➔ 'Each and every' emphasizes that the action happens every single day without exception. It's stronger than just saying 'every day'.

• What you mean to me, I know it could be serious

  ➔ Use of 'what' as a relative pronoun introducing a noun clause acting as the subject.

  ➔ 'What you mean to me' is a noun clause acting as the subject of the sentence. 'What' functions as both a relative pronoun and part of the subject.

• Loving you like this, what is a girl supposed to do

  ➔ Passive voice with 'be supposed to'

  ➔ 'Be supposed to' expresses expectation, obligation, or what is considered the correct thing to do. Here, it implies that the speaker is unsure what the socially accepted or expected action would be given the intensity of her feelings.

• First time I saw your face My heart just erased All the guys I knew

  ➔ Simple Past Tense to describe a completed action

  ➔ The verbs "saw" and "erased" are in the simple past tense, indicating that the actions of seeing the person's face and the heart erasing past relationships happened at a specific point in the past and are now completed.

• Before you walked into my life, I was the type to never work for nothing

  ➔ Past Continuous Tense to describe an ongoing state in the past and use of "the type to" to describe habitual behaviour

  ➔ "Was the type to" is a construction used to describe someone's typical or habitual behavior. The sentence describes a consistent characteristic of the speaker before the mentioned person entered her life. Also, the use of "walked" in simple past and "was" in the past continuous create a backdrop or a context for an action (walking into her life).

• Can't you see what you mean to me?

  ➔ Interrogative sentences with modal verb Can + see + what clause

  ➔ "Can't you see" is a direct interrogative phrase. "Can" is a modal verb used here to express a request or a plea for understanding. The "what" clause functions as the direct object of the verb 'see'.