About The Song
Love Me, Loving You by Sammy Kershaw appears on his 1999 album Maybe Not Tonight, released April 13 on Mercury Nashville. It sits as the fifth track on a twelve-song project that marked one of the later chapters of his time with the label. The album reached No. 7 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and No. 99 on the Billboard 200. Unlike the promoted singles from the record—“Maybe Not Tonight” (a duet with Lorrie Morgan that peaked at No. 17), “When You Love Someone,” and “Me and Maxine”—this song was never issued as a radio single and did not chart on its own.
The track was co-written by Sammy Kershaw along with Gregg Wright, Mike Fornes, and Gary McGuire. Keith Stegall produced the album and the song, giving it the clean, straightforward country sound that defined much of Kershaw’s late-’90s work. At just over three and a half minutes, it is a mid-tempo declaration rather than a high-drama ballad or an uptempo honky-tonk number.
The story it tells is simple and direct. The singer wants nothing more than to love and be loved in return. Forever and a day still feels too short to show how much the other person means. He asks to be held while holding on, promises not to let go of the feelings they share, and looks ahead to a life where they remain both partners and best friends. A pretty smile that no one else can match leads to an invitation to take his hand and his wedding band. The language stays plain and reciprocal: love me while I am loving you, hold me while I am holding you, kiss me while we are kissing. There is no complication, no third party, no lingering doubt—just a steady promise of mutual devotion.
In the context of Maybe Not Tonight, the song fits among several more reflective pieces. The album as a whole leaned toward personal and relational themes, including the title-track duet and the heavier “Look What I Did to Us.” “Love Me, Loving You” stands on the brighter, more hopeful side of that spectrum. Because Kershaw had a writing credit, the track carries a slightly more personal stamp than some of the outside material that filled his earlier albums. Fans who dug deeper into the record often single it out as one of the stronger non-singles, the kind of song that feels sincere without trying too hard.
By 1999 Kershaw’s commercial peak of the early-to-mid ’90s had already passed. The big radio hits were fewer, and Maybe Not Tonight became the first of his Mercury studio albums not to earn an RIAA certification. Still, the project maintained a solid presence on the country charts, and album tracks like this one continued to reach listeners who preferred the quieter corners of his catalog. The song never needed a big chart run to do its job. It simply states a clear wish—to give and receive love without reservation—and leaves it there.
Over the years it has remained a modest favorite among those who know the album well. It does not carry the recognition of Kershaw’s Top 10 hits, yet it captures a straightforward kind of country sentiment that still lands: the desire to stay, to hold on, and to keep showing someone how much they matter, day after day. In that sense it does exactly what it sets out to do.
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Love me, loving you
Is all i want from you
Forever and a day, is not long enough i say
To show you how much you mean to me
I love you, loving me
Hold me, holding you
And we’ll always hold on to
The feelings that we share
We won’t let go i swear
’cause i’ll show you how much you mean to me
I love you, loving me
Your pretty smile, it drives me wild
Something no one else can do
So take my hand and my wedding band
And tell me that you do
Now kiss me, kissing you
We’re one now, we’re not two
Together ’til the end
We’ll always be best friends
And i’ll show you how much you mean to me
I love you, loving me
Yes i’ll show you how much you mean to me
I love you, loving me