Songfacts®:

• Here, Father John Misty longs to return to a past relationship. "Kiss me, kiss me. like long ago," he sighs. Misty's retro-microphone vocals evoke his desperate wish that his ex lets him in again.
• Father John Misty recorded "Kiss Me (I Loved You)" with his longtime producer Jonathan Wilson for Chloë and the Next 20th Century. Wilson created for the song a simple backing of piano, dreamy strings, drums and a horn solo, giving it a mid-20th century feel.
• Misty began writing "Kiss Me (I Loved You)" in spring 2020. He entered Wilson's Fivestar Studios in the hills of Topanga, California having written "Kiss Me (I Loved You)," "We Could Be Strangers," "Buddy's Rendezvous," and "The Next 20th Century."
  
  "After that first session," Misty told Uncut magazine, "I had a good sense of where it was all going and the rest of the songs were written before we got together in October."
• The Nona Quartet played the violin and cello on this and other Chloë and the Next 20th Century tracks. Uncut magazine asked Father John Misty how early in the process he conceived the string arrangements. "We're able to demo string ideas with software so they can start going down as soon as you want," he replied. "On 'Kiss Me' we had the string arrangement before we even cut the drums."
• The David Raboy-directed cinematic video stars Annie Hamilton (The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Drib) and Alexander Zuccaro (Abe Lincoln In The Park, Influenced). We see the two spend the night at a bar amid surrounding dramas.