<P> "Like the Way I Do" is a Melissa Etheridge song, the second single from her debut album Melissa Etheridge (1988). </P> <P> The song was actually written years before the album was recorded . Melissa Etheridge had already played it during her live concerts, where it was the first of her own compositions that kept being requested by the audience . The intro of the song was created by coincidence when the singer played one of her other songs - "I Want You" - backwards on a cassette recorder . </P> <P> Like many other songs on the album ("Bring Me Some Water", "Similar Features", "Don't You Need"...), "Like the Way I Do" deals with the non-monogamous relationship she was in at the time . In the lyrics she asks her lover, who had told her that she had a crush on someone else, what she sees in the other person and what that person is giving to her what she herself cannot: "Tell me does she love you like the way I love you, does she stimulate you, attract and captivate you?". In the verses she also accuses her lover of not putting enough effort on making the relationship work: "You found out to love me you have to climb some fences". </P> <P> "Like the Way I Do" is one of Etheridge's most famous songs and in her autobiography, she states: </P>

Tell me that you love me like the way i love you