We needed you To love us too. We wait for your move.

Oh! Don't you throw my love away, I need your loving, I need your loving...

I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad?

Baby, I need your loving
Got to have all your loving.

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win. I need to know where I'm heading, because I know where I've been.

I need your love, I need your love.
I need your love, I need your love.
Sometimes I feel lost and I don't know what you believe.
My wires get crossed, and I wonder how you could leave.
But one thing I know, I just can't go on living from day to day,
Won't you listen to me when I say,
I need your love?

Over the years I have met people who have made a very human claim on me by making known their need to be loved. For a long time my response was instant and reflexive, born of the "oughts" I had absorbed: "Of course you need to be loved. Everyone does. And I love you." It took me a long time to understand that although everyone needs to be loved, I cannot be the source of that gift for everyone who asks me for it. There are some relationships in which I am capable of love and otters in which I am not. To pretend otherwise, to put out promissory notes I am unable to honor, is to damage my own integrity and that of the person in need, all in the name of love.

You know I need your love, you got that hold over me.
As long as I got your love, you know that I'll never leave.
When I wanted you to share my life, I had no doubt in my mind.
And it's been you, woman, right down the line.

You fucking need me.

I must learn to love you.

For once in my life I have someone who needs me, Someone I needed so long.

I feel myself beginning to love you instead of just need you. I don’t think I have ever loved anyone in my life, not really – just needed them, wanted them to love me to possess me – to become such a part of someone I could lose my frightened self…

I love you, I’m waiting for you unbearably.

I need so.. to be in your arms, see your smile, hold you close".