
You know that feeling when you think you’ve moved on — but then something small cracks the surface? A familiar song, a smell, a quiet morning? That’s what “Today I Started Loving You Again” captures so perfectly.
Merle Haggard wrote it with Bonnie Owens, and together they created a song that isn’t loud or dramatic — it’s gentle. Almost like a sigh. It doesn’t beg for anyone to come back. It doesn’t try to make sense of heartbreak. It just admits something that’s hard to say out loud:
“I never really stopped.”
There’s something so human about that. We’ve all had someone — maybe a love, maybe a memory — that we thought we’d tucked away for good… only to realize it was still there, waiting.
Musically, it’s pure Haggard: simple, honest, and aching in all the right places. The steel guitar weaves in like a second voice, saying everything the lyrics don’t. It’s the kind of song you listen to alone, maybe driving, maybe late at night — and suddenly you’re not alone anymore.
It never topped the charts like some of Merle’s other hits. But for many fans, this is the song that lingers. Because sometimes, love doesn’t end with a bang. Sometimes, it just… fades quietly. And then one day, without meaning to, you feel it come back. Not as a storm — but as a whisper.
And that’s the magic of Merle. He never tried to dress things up. He just told the truth — in a way that makes you feel a little less alone in your own quiet moments.
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Lyrics
[Chorus]
Today I started loving you again
I’m right back where I’ve really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend
Then today I started loving you again
[Verse]
What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I’ve cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
[Chorus]
Today I started loving you again
I’m right back where I’ve really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend
Then today I started loving you again