How Will I Know

The speaker is excited by a boy and feels strongly drawn to him, but she is unsure whether he loves her back. Her feelings move between dreamy happiness and anxious doubt. Even though she says the love feels real, she keeps asking how she can know what he thinks, so attraction does not bring her certainty.

Several images show how intense the experience feels: he seems to take her “to the clouds above,” suggesting a sense of joy or escape, while “with every heartbeat” makes her prayer feel constant and urgent. She is too shy to phone him, showing how nervousness can make it difficult to act on romantic feelings. “Bittersweet” captures the mix of pleasure and pain in falling in love, and the repeated “loves me, loves me not” echoes a familiar way of guessing whether affection is returned.

The song leaves the central question unanswered. The speaker’s strong feelings may seem like evidence of love, yet the warning that feelings can deceive suggests she knows emotion alone cannot reveal another person’s intentions. Her repeated questions can sound playful and energetic, but they also express genuine vulnerability: she wants reassurance and cannot find it within herself.