Best Love Songs (and "your" songs)

[wingsandsword]

Between my ex-fiancee and me, "our song" was ""My Heart iidasenai, Your Heart tashikametai", the theme to the anime "Oh My Goddess".

My former best friend and his fiancee found "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies to be their song (oddly enough it was a song about a couple having an argument, but it was romantic to them for some reason.)

At a wedding of a pair of my friends this summer, their wedding march was The Final Fantasy Prelude (that set of scales played at the beginning of every game).

 

[fusangite]

Queen Victoria

Well, I was hoping that the bitterly single would already be out in full force but it looks like i'm the first. So, here it is:

Queen Victoria
by Leonard Cohen

Queen Victoria,
My father and all his tobacco loved you,
I love you too in all your forms,
the slim and lovely virgin floating among German beer,
the mean governess of the huge pink maps,
the solitary mourner of a prince.

Queen Victoria,
I am cold and rainy,
I am dirty as a glass roof in a train station,
I feel like an empty cast iron exhibition,
I want ornaments on everything,
because my love, she gone with other boys.

Queen Victoria,
do you have a punishment under the white lace,
will you be short with her, will you make her read those little Bibles,
will you spank her with a mechanical corset.
I want her pure as power, I want her skin slightly musty with petticoats
will you wash the easy bidet out of her head?

Queen Victoria,
I'm not much nourished by modern love,
will you come into my life
with your sorrow and your black carriages,
And your perfect
memories.

Queen Victoria,
the Twentieth Century belongs to you and me.
Let us be two severe giants not less lonely for our partnership,
who discolour test tubes in the halls of Science,
who turn up unwelcome at every World's Fair,
heavy with proverbs and corrections,
confusing the star-dazed tourists
with our incomparable sense of loss.

 

[Thotas]

My favorite love song right now? "Before the Night is Over" by Gaelic Storm.

Fusangite, looking for the stories from the bitterly single? Okay, how's this. A couple of years ago, I spent about eight months thinking that I was a potential to a really adorable young lady. Things like, for example, I once changed my mind on a course of action on her suggestion, after resisting her idea for a couple of minutes. She said to me, "You don't have to do what I say ... at least, not yet." I tried to get her to tell me what "not yet" meant, but she declined to elaborate. I talked to a few women about that, and they all told me it meant what I thought it meant. Any way, when the day finally came that I found out it was never gonna happen, she left me sitting alone; and the song playing at the time?

"Hey, Jude".

 

[greymist]

Walked down the aisle to a piece of classical music whose name completely escapes me; my brother sang Hold My Hand (Hootie and the Blowfish) after the ceremony while we signed the register; and our first dance was INXS' Never Tear Us Apart.

 

[mythusmage]

Love Song

For My Lady -Ray Thomas (The Moody Blues)

My boat sails stormy seas
Battles oceans filled with tears
At last my port's in view
Now that I've discovered you.

chorus: Oh I'd give my life so lightly
For my gentle lady
Give it freely
and completely
To my lady.

As life goes drifting by
Like a breeze she'll gently sigh
And slowly bow her head
Then you'll hear her softly cry.

chorus:

bridge: Words that you say when we're alone
Though actions speak louder than words
And all I can say is I love you so
And drive away all my hurt

chorus:

Set sail before the sun
Feel the warmth that's just begun
Share each and every dream
They belong to every one

chorus:

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Well, let's see ...

My wife and I have been married for almost a year now. We got married on the 8th Anniversary of when we first started dating.

Our first dance at our reception was to "Beyond the Sea," originally by Bobby Darin, but performed by the Kevin Hill quartet (bass, sax, piano, drums). It was sexy. The band was absolutely amazing.

Well, that and my wife and I were really the ones who did the majority of the dancing. I danced with my wife, my mom, her mom, my grandmother, my sister, one of my best friends' moms, and one of my groomsmen's dates (trying to convince her that she should take my groomsman out for dance lessons). My wife danced with me, her dad, my brother (and best man), my dad, her brother, a couple of my other groomsmen, etc.

Of course, my wife and I had been taking a bunch of lessons in preparation for the event, and didn't want them to go to waste.

We were still shown up by one of her family friends, an old ... Philipino? ... couple who could salsa like you wouldn't believe. Everyone cheered for them.

Good times.

 

[fusangite]

I tried to convince The Universe that the processional should be the Star Wars theme and he said that it was "too nerdy" and refused. What a jerk.

An old friend of mine whistled the theme from The Empire Strikes Back as we started to walk down the aisle (I was his best man).

 

[Desdichado]

I haven't seen Willy Wonka yet. Unless you count the clones running around Dragoncon...

No, that was just Michael Jackson.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

We recessed OUT of the church to that!

What can I say? Great minds think alike and all that.

I tried to convince The Universe that the processional should be the Star Wars theme and he said that it was "too nerdy" and refused. What a jerk.

We had a piper for the processional, and at the rehersal when Laura wasn't around, I asked him if he knew the Star Wars theme. Unfortunatly, he said no. But it would have probably sounded great on bagpipes.

 

[Desdichado]

We had a piper for the processional, and at the rehersal when Laura wasn't around, I asked him if he knew the Star Wars theme. Unfortunatly, he said no. But it would have probably sounded great on bagpipes.

Darth Vader theme would have sounded even better, and it would have been a lot funnier for a wedding, given how recognizable that theme is.

Heck, even my almost two year old starts singing the Darth Vader theme whenever his name is mentioned. I don't know how well it works as "our song"--I'll have to talk to my wife about that one. Regardless of whether or not she agrees, I think I'm gonna start telling people who ask that that's "our song" though.