[Intro | Dark Grown R&B | 74 BPM | Minor Key | Rhodes Only | Low Atmospheric Pad | No Drums | Intimate Tension] [Male Vocal | High Tenor | Breathy Falsetto Lead | Soft Airy Tone | Emotional | Vulnerable | Close-Mic | Light Vocal Cracks | Smooth Falsetto Runs] Yeah... I know you love me... That ain't what I'm saying... I'm saying you don't hear me. [BEAT DROP 1 | Deep Kick Enters | Dry Snare | Warm Live Bass | Dark Rhodes | Sparse Groove | Let Vocal Stay Forward] [Verse 1 | Male Lead | High Tenor Falsetto | Breathy | Soulful | Raw | Vulnerable | Conversational Phrasing | Smooth Falsetto Runs at Line Endings | Occasionally Drop Into Chest Voice for Emphasis] You keep saying, “Look at all the shit I do” Like that cancels out the shit I’m telling you Yeah, you hold it down, I’ll give you that But I tell you where I’m empty You fill everywhere but that You say you give me space I told you I don’t want no damn space When I’m fucked up, come sit beside me Don’t try to fix me, just hear what I say You loving me how you wanna be loved Then getting mad when it don’t work on me You keep saying, “I’m doing my best” But your best ain’t hearing me [BEAT DROP 2 | FULL CHORUS DROP | Thick Kick + Snare | Live Bass | Rhodes | Clean Electric Guitar Answers | Wide Male Background Vocals] [Chorus | Male Falsetto Lead | Male Lower Harmony Joins | High Tenor Harmonies | Deep Baritone Support | Big Stacked Male Vocals | Emotional | Simple | Repetitive | Sing-Along | Hold “Love Me”] I don't like the way you love me (I don't like it) I don't like the way you love me (No, no) I know you love me, baby But you don't love me how I need I don't like the way you love me I don't like the way you love me Don't love me how you wanna Love me how I need [Background Vocals | Layered Left + Right | High Male Falsetto Above Low Male Harmonies] (The way you love me...) (The way you love me...) (Love me how I need...) [POST-CHORUS | Beat Pulls Back | Male Low-Register Spoken Vocal Enters] [Male Vocal | Low Chest Voice | Disappointed | Nearly Spoken | Exhausted] Mmm... I keep pourin’ my heart out... But it ain’t getting through to you. [BEAT DROP 3 | Male Verse | Heavier Kick | Thick Bass Pocket | Dark Rhodes | Bluesy Electric Guitar Fills | Slow Dragging Groove] [Verse 2 | Male Lead | Begin in Low Chest Voice | Begging | Disappointed | Drained | Raw Southern Phrasing | Gradually Rise Into Raspy High Tenor | Falsetto Cracks on Emotional Words] I’m pourin’ my heart out to you Seems like it’s all for no good You talkin’ mad crazy to me I thought we had this understood Your flavor of love ain’t delicious Won’t say you love me back when I say it The way you hold your feelings against me Baby, this shit feel malicious And I don’t like the taste... Your love walk in the room But it still won’t fill this empty space Ain’t got time for no debate ’Cause you know that, though Mane, you don’t give a shit Together all these years And this the love you leave me with? You don’t talk to me, love You don’t walk with me, love You don’t cook for me, love You don’t fuck me, love [Brief Pause | Vocal Cracks | Beat Nearly Disappears] I don’t know what it was... Or what it was supposed to be... All I know is... I don’t like the way you love me. [BREAKDOWN | ALL DRUMS CUT | Rhodes + Low Cello + Soft Organ | Male Vocal Layers | Emotional Silence Before Chorus] [Male Lead | Soft Falsetto | Fragile] And you know I love you... [Low Male Harmony | Distant | Chest Voice] You know I do... [Male Lead + Stacked Male Harmonies | Almost A Cappella] Then why do I feel like this? [Final Chorus | Male High Falsetto Lead | Low Male Chest-Voice Responses | Call-and-Response | 9–12-Part All-Male Background Stack | Gospel-R&B Lift | Emotional Falsetto Runs and Ad-Libs] [Male Lead | High Falsetto] I don't like the way you love me [Low Male Background Response] I don’t like it, no... [Male Lead + Background Stack] I know you love me, baby But you don't love me how I need [All Male Vocals | Bigger] I don't like the way you love me I don't like the way you love me Don't love me how you wanna Love me how I need [Background Stack | High Male Falsetto Harmonies | Mid-Tenor Harmonies | Low Baritone Foundation] (Love me...) (Love me...) (Love me how I need...) (Just hear me...) (Why won’t you hear me?) (Just hear me...) [Male Lead Ad-Lib | High Falsetto | Emotional Run] I ain't saying you don't love me... [Low Male Background Response] Then why don’t it feel like love? [Male Lead | Falsetto Breaking Into Chest Voice] I’m tellin’ you what I need... [All Male Vocals | Sustained Gospel Harmony] Love me how I neeeeeed... [Outro | Drums Slowly Strip Away | Rhodes + Organ + Bass | Layered Male Ad-Libs | Unresolved Emotional Ending] [Male Lead | Airy Falsetto] I know you love me... [Low Male Harmony] I know you do... But it don’t feel like it... [All Male Vocals | Soft Sustained Harmony] I just don't like the way... You love me...
