Tell Me How Do You Feel

The song asks how someone would react if their romantic partner were involved with their best friend. Its repeated question makes the speaker sound urgently curious, but the subject is painful: betrayal and the possible loss of someone deeply valued. The emotions move between shock, jealousy, sadness, and an attempt to act as if things are “alright.” The speaker also compares the listener’s reaction with what he believes his own would be.

“Your baby” is an informal term of affection for a romantic partner, not necessarily a child. The phrase “crosses your mind” means that someone comes into your thoughts. The contrast between “crack with loud laughter” and “break down and start crying” presents two opposite ways of responding to distress: hiding pain with laughter or openly giving way to it. “Lost the best girl” suggests a breakup or separation, though it does not explain exactly what has happened.

The speaker asks for “the truth and not a lie,” so he may be testing whether the other person is genuinely unaffected. His claim that feeling good inside would make someone “a much better man” than he is suggests that he expects himself to feel hurt, perhaps intensely. Still, the song leaves open whether he is asking from personal experience, challenging a friend, or simply imagining the situation. The repeated “I wanna know” emphasizes the question more than it provides an answer.