Best Love Songs (and "your" songs)

Queen_Dopplepopolis

First Post

• Sep 20, 2005

• #1

I'm just sitting in my office doing some busy work and listen to love songs... specifically, Duncan Sheik's song "For You"... and it got me wondering: what are your favorite love songs? If you have a significant other - what's "your song". If you're married - what was your first dance?

The Universe and I danced to Ben Folds' "The Luckiest" on our wedding day... but Barenaked Ladies "When I Fall" has always been very special to us.

I personally think "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge! might be the most romantic song of all time... but this little Duncan Sheik tune is pretty sweet...

Duncan Sheik - For You

"For You"

For you I want to sing a happier song
for you I'm gonna try to right all my wrongs
for you I'm gonna break my bad habits
there's a golden ring and I want you to have it
there's a golden ring and I want you

For you I'm gonna sit and patiently wait
it's great if you're early but if its fine if you're late
for you I feel love and I just want to show it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
you're a beautiful girl and want you to know it
it's an infinite world and I want you

Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened
Once again I am opened

For you I'm waiting on the ticket line
I gotta get back I don't wanna waste time
but the people are tired and the line is so long
so all I can do is sing this song

 

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Angel Tarragon

Dawn Dragon

• Sep 20, 2005

• #2

My mom and dads song is Colour My World by Chicago. It is one of my favorites.

 

Kanegrundar

Explorer

• Sep 20, 2005

• #3

Beer Run

She Thinks my Tractor's Sexy



Sorry, I had to. I listen to too much angry music to really have a favorite love song.

 

DungeonmasterCal

First Post

• Sep 20, 2005

• #4

I listen to a very broad spectrum of music, so this is really hard. At my wedding, we played Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville's "Don't Know Much" as "our song". I could listen to him sing a phonebook, but that's just me. Next month marks 15 years since we were married, and while it has not been the idyllic dream either of us hoped (hell, we've not even lived together the last 4 years), the song's lyrics still hold true (for me, at least).

Linda Ronstadt featuring Aaron Neville
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil/Tom Snow)

Look at this face
I know the years are showin’
Look at this life
I still don’t know where it’s goin’

I don’t know much
But I know I love you
And that may be
All I need to know

Look at these eyes
They never seen what mattered
Look at these dreams
So beaten and so battered
I don’t know much
But I know I love you
And that may be
All I need to know

So many questions
Still left unanswered
So much
I’ve never broken through

And when I feel you near me
Sometimes I see so clearly
The only truth I’ve ever known
Is me and you

Look at this man
So blessed with inspiration
Look at this soul
Still searching for salvation

I don’t know much
But I know I love you
And that may be
All I need to know

I don’t know much
But I know I love you
That may be
All I need to know

I don’t know much
But I know I love you
That may be
All there is to know

 

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reveal

Adventurer

• Sep 20, 2005

• #5

We danced to Look at you girl by Chris Ledoux at our wedding.

Just look at you, girl:
Standin' here beside me;
Starlight on your hair,
Lookin' like a dream I dreamed somewhere.

And look at me, girl:
You got me actin' just like a lover,
In an old time picture show.
And how I got the part, I just don't know.

But it's written all across your face,
As plain as it can be.
You're the one that I was lookin' for,
Now you're all that I can see.

You mean everything to me.
And I'd do anything,
To have you stay forever.
I'm an ordinary man,
But I feel like I could do anything in the world.
When I look at you, girl.

Just look at you, girl,
Walkin' here beside me;
(In) The misty morning light,
I see my own reflection in your eyes.

And just smile at me, girl:
With eyes that tell a story,
That words can never say;
Tellin' me your love is gonna stay.

And we're standin' right together now,
In everything we do.
And if my world should come apart,
I'll still be lovin' you.

You mean everything to me.
And I'd do anything,
To have you stay forever.
I'm an ordinary man,
But I feel like I could do anything in the world.
When I look at you, girl.

 

T

Templetroll

Explorer

• Sep 20, 2005

• #6

Our song is "Evergreen".

I had to ask my wife what it was and then she went into an overwrought exclamation, "oh, the honeymoon is OVER!" My favorite anniversary was the time when neither one of us could remember how many years it had been that we were married; we had to to do the math. Made it to 17 years so far. We got married on July 11th so I would be able to remember the date - 7/11.

 

Desdichado

Hero

• Sep 20, 2005

• #7

My wife and I met while dancing to New Order's "Blue Monday." So, it's not much of a love song, but it's the best we've got. I only regret now that it wasn't "Bizarre Love Triangle"--that would have been an ...interesting... omen for our future marriage.

 

Crothian

First Post

• Sep 20, 2005

• #8

Imagination by Harry Connick Jr

 

Umbran

Mod Squad

Staff member

Supporter

• Sep 20, 2005

• #9

Queen_Dopplepopolis said:

If you're married - what was your first dance?

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Only the Music by Heather Alexander.

 

BiggusGeekus

That's Latin for "cool"

• Sep 20, 2005

• #10

"At Last" by Etta James

Though, my mother-in-law requested that the DJ play "Sunday Morning Kind of Love" by Etta James, which is basically about a one-night-stand. Thanks Mom!