"[1] Rolling Stone said, "Set to a cheesy drum-machine beat and sotto voce horn riffs, with more than a little suggestion of a country ballad, Cohen conversationally throws himself at the feet of a woman he's done wrong.

But if he did: 'I'd crawl to you baby and I'd fall at your feet/And I'd howl at your beauty like a dog in heat....'"[2] Lyrically, Pitchfork claimed, "the title track take[s] sentimental clichés—I’m addicted to love, I’ll do anything for love—to brutal extremes.

Love is the monkey on his back and he’ll go to any lengths to appease it, even if it means erasing his identity.

'I'm Your Man' fades out with Cohen still singing, as if he's going to keep prostrating himself at the feet of the object of his desire until he gets an answer.

"[3] At the time of release, Rolling Stone noted, "Love as submission, a time-honored Cohen topic, takes on a conspiratorial friendliness.