“It’s amazing how you knock me off my feet. Every time you come around me, I get weak. Nobody ever made me feel this way – you kiss my lips and then you take my breath away. So I wanna know…” This first verse is the singer expressing his response to his companion’s presence and love. He appears to be taken with her, possibly bordering on infatuation, and this causes him to want to know things about her. What things, you may ask? Let’s go to the chorus and find out.
“I wanna know what turns you on so I can be all that and more. I’d like to know what makes you cry so I can be the one who always makes you smile.” He wants to know 2 things – at least that he’s asking about. He wants to know what turns her on. In my mind, this can be sexual, but it also be things that peak her interest or make her happy outside the bedroom. And he says he’d like to know what makes her cry, presumably so he can avoid doing those things and then make her smile. I think this is a beautiful gesture, and as Rihanna said, “you’re so amazing – you took the time to figure me out. That’s why you take me way past the point of turning me on.” When someone cares enough to get to know you for real, it takes things beyond sexual to an intimate, personal, deeply connected level of relationship.
“Girl, he never understood what you were worth, and he never took the time to make it work. Baby, I’m the kind of man who shows concern. Any way that I can please you, let me learn.” It appears that there was a previous relationship that he either observed or has heard about from her. Either way, the previous man didn’t appear to value her or try to make things work with her in the relationship. In contrast, the singer wants to show that she’s appreciated and learn what pleases her. He is willing to listen to her and her needs, not just assuming that he knows what she likes and how things should go, and that’s important in relationship. No matter how many relationships we have been in prior to the current person, we cannot assume that what worked for others will work for this person – everyone is different. The only thing that is consistent for every person alive is that everyone needs love, but even the way that people express and receive love is different, so each person deserves the respect of being learned and loved as they need.
“Tell me what I gotta do to please you. Baby, anything you say I’ll do, cuz I only wanna make you happy – from the bottom of my heart it’s true.” He’s asking her to instruct him in the ways of pleasing him, and he’s willing to do whatever she requests. His desire is to make her happy, presumably because he loves her. Even though he doesn’t say it explicitly, he says that his desire for her happiness comes from the bottom of his heart. Either way, he is emotionally invested and is working to make her happy.
“I wish that I could take a journey through your mind, and find emotions that you always try to hide. I do believe that there’s a love you wanna share. I’ll take good care of you, lady, have no fear.” This might be my favorite line in the song. Because I have a slight ability to see things in people that they prefer to hide, I have been in situations where people were trying to hide, and I could see the fear. Fear can be a powerful and destructive force in relationships, especially as it relates to emotions and love. I encourage you to seek some healing for emotional scars within yourself before attempting a relationship, but I will also say that some healing from relational scars can only come within relationships.
It appears that the singer has been attempting to encourage this woman, who he knows has been hurt, to love and trust him. While I appreciate his care and concern for her, I would advise the woman to be sure that she’s ready to enter into another relationship. There’s nothing worse than picking someone up when you’re on the rebound and having to move on when that period is over. And if he really cares for her, he will wait and even just be her friend in the meantime in order to help her through.
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