"I Only Get This Way with You" is the title of a song written by Dave Loggins

Dave Loggins

David Allen "Dave" Loggins is a singer, songwriter and musician. He is widely remembered for his 1974 composition "Please Come to Boston", which was a top-10 hit in the U.S. for him, and was subsequently covered by numerous other artists. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame...

 and Alan Ray, and recorded by American country music artist Rick Trevino

Rick Trevino

Ricardo Treviño, Jr. , known professionally as Rick Trevino, is a Mexican American country music artist. Signed to Columbia Records in 1993, Trevino began his career that year with the release of his debut single, "Just Enough Rope", the first mainstream country music single to feature separate...

. Released in March 1997, it was the third single from the album Learning as You Go

Learning as You Go

Learning As You Go is the third English-language album from Hispanic American country music singer Rick Trevino. It features "Running Out Of Reasons To Run", which was Trevino's only number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...

. The song reached #7 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

magazine reviewed the song favorably calling the song, "well crafted" and "sweetly sentimental". Price goes on to say that Trevino turns in a "warm, thoughtful performance that gives the song a light, dreamy quality."

Chart performance

"I Only Get This Way with You" debuted at number 67 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of March 22, 1997.

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	26