Best Love Songs (and "your" songs)

[John Q. Mayhem]

Well, I just found out that my best friend's been in love with me for 4 years, and I just about broke her heart when she found out I got a girlfriend, because she thought we had something.

So yeah, I feel like an and my love song is "Slaying the Dreamer."

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Two of my favorite love songs are "Ohne Dich" and "Morgenstern" by Rammstein. Both lovely and touching, sandwiched between horrible, hateful songs. These are translations.

She's so ugly that it gets dark
when she looks into the sky
Then the light is frightened
It shines into her face from below
So she must hide during the day
She just doesn't want to scare the light
She lives in the shadows until the glow fades
She sees a star shining in the twilight and pleads
"Paint beauty onto my cheeks"

"Morningstar, oh shine
onto the visage of mine
Cast a warm light
onto my frightening face
Tell me I'm not alone"

Ugly, you are ugly

I went alone in the night
The late birds no longer sang
I saw children of the sun in the throng so
I cried into the starry heavens

"Morningstar, oh shine
onto the beloved of mine
Cast a warm light
onto her frightening face
Tell her she's not alone

Morningstar, oh shine
onto the soul of mine
Cast a warm light
onto a heart that's breaking
Tell her that I'm crying"

Because you, you are ugly
You are simply ugly
Humans are just creatures of the eye
Beautiful things are what I want
But you, you aren't beautiful, no

"Morningstar, oh shine
onto the beloved of mine
Cast a warm light
onto her frightening face
Tell her she's not alone"

And the star wants to shine
onto the beloved of mine
It warms my breast and shakes
where life beats
To see with the heart
she is simply beautiful

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I'm going to go into the fir trees
There where I last saw her
But the evening is throwing a cloth upon the land
and upon the ways behind the edge of the forest
And the forest it is so black and empty
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more

Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren't worth it

On the branches in the ditches
it's now silent and without life
And breathing becomes oh so hard for me
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more

Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren't worth it without you


Letter to Dana is nice. So's San Sebastian. My Selene

Walking in the Air.


I've never fallen in love.

 

[Rel]

Well, I just found out that my best friend's been in love with me for 4 years, and I just about broke her heart when she found out I got a girlfriend, because she thought we had something.

Yikes! I hope you're able to hold onto that friendship but be kind and let her go if she needs to.

 

[Rel]

It's a lot tamer than most.

A fact which I find endearing.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Apologies,

I can't actually recall what I wrote originally, but I'll try to tone it down a little in future, or at least keep the ranting out of a love songs thread. Sigh. Nevertheless, the replacement was much funnier.

 

[Thotas]

Here's another one I'm fond of. The title isn't one that makes the love song angle real obvious, so I reproduce the lyrics in this case.

"Frozen Puck to the Head" by Captain Tractor (from the album "Bought the Farm")

He played in the minors, he was a puck stop.
One day he pulled into this truck stop.
When he saw her above the crowd and the din
and his heart made a sound like a truck he forgot to plug in.
She saw him walk in and she thought he was cute
with his hockey hair and his game day suit.
She handed him a menu and smiled in the prettiest way
and her lips were as red as the jello in the window display.
She said "please excuse me, but do you mind if I ask,
aren't you the face I've seen through the mask?"
Their eyes met as she handed him the Wonder Bread.

Love hit him, love hit him,
Love hit him like a frozen puck to the head.

He was real quiet as he ate his meal,
just listenin' to the radio play Rita McNiel,
all the while thinking about asking for a date
till he looked at the clock and he saw he was gonna be late.
He left heart in that greasy spoon,
he had no idea he'd fall in love in Saskatoon.
He laced up quick and took a whole lot of blame,
and he prayed to God he could keep his mind on the game.

One went off the pad, one went off the skate,
one went in the top shelf, he couldn't concentrate;
he didn't give a damn about the goal light flashin' red.
He let in five goals in three minutes,
what could he do, his heart wasn't in it.
They put in the back up, the boy got depressed.
He quit on the spot and went to get dressed.
He drove real fast right back to the diner,
hoping he wasn't too late to find her.
The kitchen radio was turned in to the game
when he ran up beside her and looked at her tag for her name.
He said, "Hey Mabel, my name is Dan;
I'm a lousy goalie but a real nice man,
and I just got a feeling that you and I were meant to be."
She said "Alright, but I don't get off work until three."
Well, they got married and I swear it's the truth,
the whole wedding party was missing a tooth.
He went back to hockey, but he's a defensman instead.

Love hit him, love hit him,
Love hit him like a frozen puck to the head.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Kathy's Song Paul Simon

*grins* I've been waiting to see if anyone posted this one. It's my personal selection for "best love song of all time" ... However - I will point out that "Kathy's Song" is from the duo Simon and Garfunkel - not just Simon. (S&G happen to hold the title of one of my two favorite bands).

 

[mythusmage]

*grins* I've been waiting to see if anyone posted this one. It's my personal selection for "best love song of all time" ... However - I will point out that "Kathy's Song" is from the duo Simon and Garfunkel - not just Simon. (S&G happen to hold the title of one of my two favorite bands).

I was going with writer instead of performer. Besides, by The Sounds of Silence the two were as much solo acts who happened to appear on the same album as a duet. Kathy's Song was more a Paul Simon song than a Simon & Garfunkel number. April Come She Will was a traditional revised and arranged by Paul for Art.

 

[sniffles]

*bump*

When I first saw this thread I couldn't think of any song that fit the bill. But the other night we happened to switch on Comedy Central and found they were showing "A Mighty Wind", which we love, and we realized that we really like the song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" sung by 'Mitch & Mickey' (Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara). In spite of the movie being a mild parody, that is one of the sweetest songs I've ever heard.

There's a John Prine song that used to make me cry every time I heard it, but I'm darned if I can remember which one it was now.

My fiancee and I don't dance, and we don't have an "our song", really. There will be no dancing at our wedding reception (if we ever manage to have one - how to pay for one is just killing all our plans). We won't inflict that on our friends. None of them dance either. Maybe we'll just send all the relatives home and play D&D!!

 

[Crothian]

I found the song to play at my wedding, not that I'm getting married or anything...its a good get your ass kicked by the new wife song

If You Wanna Be Happy
Jimmy Soul

If you know that song it would be great to hear at a reception.