Melissa Etheridge had already played it during her live concerts, where it was the first of her own compositions that kept being requested by the audience.

[1] The intro of the song was created by coincidence when the singer played one of her other songs—"I Want You"—backwards on a cassette recorder.

[5] Seven years later, "Like the Way I Do" was re-released as the B-side to Yes I Am's final single, "If I Wanted To"; this allowed the track to chart on the Hot 100 for the first time, peaking at No.

In 1992, a live version of the song that Etheridge performed at the Roxy Theatre in October 1988 was released as a single in the Netherlands and Belgium, peaking at No.

[8] It was produced in 1988 and is also included on the bonus DVD of her album Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled.