being as in love with you as i am meaning
Angels (The xx song) Croft's transparent lyrics express lovesick emotion,[4][14] adoration,[15] and private knowledge acquired from intimacy:[16] "You move through the room / Like breathing was easy / If someone believed me / They would be as in love with you as I am".[8] They also compare a relationship that ended prematurely to "dreaming of angels, and leaving without them".[17] Her repetition of "love" in the song's chorus expresses the depth and intensity of the narrator's feeling.[18] Priya Elan of NME opines that she repeats the word "like she's been sucker-punched by the sheer intensity of her heart-shaped feeling. She's revelling in the joy of it, but also realising the utter failure of the simple four-letter word to express the depth of what she's experiencing."[18] Croft said that the song is "very positive lyrically" and that its album "goes through a few different stages, and this would be the lightest."[3] Puja Patel of Spin characterizes its subject matter as "loverlorn" and observes a balance "between honest[y], gut-wrenching desire and stalker-like idolization".[8]