Showing posts with label I've Been Loving You Too Long. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I've Been Loving You Too Long. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2014

Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long"

I just listened to a compilation album of Otis Redding (it's probably only the second or third time I've listened to it).  In any case, I noticed the line "My love is growing stronger / As you become a habit to me" in "I've Been Loving You Too Long."  I think it's a reference to "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me."  Likening love to a habit is in the title itself and the lines:
Oh I can't break away; I must have you everyday
As regularly as coffee or tea
You've got me in your clutches and I can't get free
You're getting to be a habit with me
Still, with the number of love songs that exist and the various similes and metaphors in them, it might just be a coincidence that both of these songs make the same comparison.