Song lyrics that actually say those three little words--"I LOVE YOU"

“Everlasting Love” from one of the Katamari games. I love the song even if the lyrics are a bit cheesy and not particularly related to the rolling-up of objects into stars and planets.

Knights in White Satin:

“Yes I love you…ohhhh how I loooove yoooooouuuu”

Keemo Kimo stare-a-stare,
ma hi, ma ho, marup stick a pumpernickel
soop bang nip kat
polly mitch a cameo
I love you

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Artist: Loretta Lynn
Album: Love Is the Foundation
Title: I Love You I Love You

With each day I miss you a little bit more I love you I love you
I just can’t forget won’t try as before I love you I love you
With mem’ries that somehow won’t die the loneliness won’t let me try
Oh the hours go slowly even I seem to cry I love you I love you
[ harmonica ]
Oh with mem’ries that somehow won’t die…
I love you I love you

A Bushel and a Peck, from Guys and Dolls.

Baby Can I Hold You, Tracy Chapman.

Love Me Dead by Ludo

Love me cancerously
Like a salt-sore soaked in the sea.
‘High-maintenance’ means
You’re a gluttonous queen
Narcissistic and mean.
Kill me romantically
Fill my soul with vomit
Then ask me for a piece of gum.
Bitter and dumb
You’re my sugarplum.
You’re awful, I love you!

“I Love You” - Climax Blues Band 1981

And IIIIIIIIII will always LLLLOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE you

Lou Reed - I Love You.

… but “I love you” is not in the lyrics to that song.

By the way, how about 'Skinnamarink"?

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Tim Rice

“Distractions” by Zero 7

Yello - “I love you”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (“…they don’t love you like I love you”)

Mark Lanegan - I Love You, Little Girl

Sung by Nancy Wilson:

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (B. Crewe & B. Gaudio, co-writers w/ NW)

“I love you, baby / And it’s quite alright / I need you, baby / To warm a lonely night”

A Song for You (Leon Russell)

“I love you in a place where there’s no space or time / I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine”

**Do I Love You **- J. Geils Band
**Cause I Love You **- Lenny Wilkins (the oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh)…

and…

Je t’aime (moi non plus) - (you never said it had to be in English)

**I Do Love You **- GQ

"I do love you, ooooh
But it’s alright, alright, aaah

(I do love you)
(I love you, I love you)
I love you so right now
(Ooh-ho-ho-ooh)"

The song styling of Mr. Garrett Morris: I Love You.

For me, the “but I love you” at the end mitigates the nastiness of the rest of the lyrics in Harry Nilsson’s “You’re Breakin’ My Heart”.

Donna Lewis

I love you, always forever
Near and far, closer together
Everywhere, I will be with you
Everyday, I will devour you
I love you, always forever
Near and far, closer together
Everywhere, I will be with you
Everyday, I will devour you