https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itydwcyywBc This may be stretching the definition of what constitutes a love song, but this underrated Sarah McLaughlin certainly feels like a passionate ballad about the intensity of love, and a lot of her fans have taken the song in that context. But it was actually written about two of McLaughlin's stalkers, who both believed they were actually in a relationship with the singer-songwriter and wrote her love letters expressing many of the creepy sentiments featured in the song's lyrics:
And I would be the one to hold you downKiss you so hard I'll take your breath awayAnd after, I'd wipe away the tearsJust close your eyes dear
To recap: He wants to restrain her, make her gasp for air, and knows that it won't feel good for her. But he doesn't care. Yeah, that's not a mutual love. That's the literal description of sexual assault, which is one possible path McLaughlin thought these love letters could lead down.