# Looking for Songs about chance encounters with old lovers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783 "2005-02-12T20:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/41 "2005-02-15T20:16:47Z")
Garth Brooks, “[Every Time That It Rains](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/garthbrooks/everytimethatitrains.html)” Dolly Parton, “[Old Flames Can’t Hold A Candle To You](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dolly-parton/41954.html)” > [@](#): > > Downtown tonight, I saw an old friend, someone who > I use to take comfort from long before I met you > I caught a spark from his eyes of forgotten desire > With a word, or a touch, I could have rekindled that fire ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/42 "2005-02-15T20:25:05Z")
> [@plnnr](#): > > “Hello Like Before,” by Bill Withers. > > I’m telling you, folks…you really need to listen to more Bill Withers. The man is a very, very talented singer and he gets nowhere near the credit he deserves. Yep. A friend’s band covered “Use Me,” oh, must have been 10 years ago. They did such a good job with it that I started getting into Withers’s music, and now “Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall” is probably my all-time favorite concert album. Just amazing stuff. Withers is still alive, is he not? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/43 "2005-02-15T20:54:57Z")
_Old Flame_ sung by **Alabama** and a few other bands. chorus: > [@](#): > > There’s an old flame buring in your eyes that tears can’t drown and make-up > can’t disguise. > Now that old flame might not be stronger, but it’s been burnin’ longer than > any spark I might have started in your eyes. ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/44 "2005-02-15T21:04:37Z")
**Steve Goodman** , “Yellow Coat” ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/45 "2005-02-15T21:06:02Z")
**Steve Goodman** , “Yellow Coat” **Junior Brown** , “My Wife Thinks You’re Dead” ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/46 "2005-02-15T21:23:02Z")
_You Look So Good In Love_ **George Straight** Would _The Dance_ by Garth Brooks qualify? Maybe if you stretch it. And I think there was some song that mentioned snow… ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/47 "2005-02-15T21:45:34Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > What was the song by Folgelberg? I’m fairly sure it’s [The Last Nail](http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/D/Dan-Fogelberg/The-Last-Nail.html). (OK, the “chance encounter” is never explicitly mentioned, but from the context, it seems clear. And damn, it’s a much better song than the one that everyone seems to have forgotten the name of.) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/48 "2005-02-15T22:13:44Z")
[Louise](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/h/human-league/66377.html) by the Human League [Romeo & Juliet](http://www.letrascanciones.org/dire-straits/money-for-nothing/romeo-and-juliet.php) Dire Straights. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/49 "2005-02-15T22:33:23Z")
“Look Away” by Peter Cetera/Chicago might qualify. There’s also “WOLD” by Harry Chapin. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/50 "2005-02-15T22:37:55Z")
“What it Takes” by Aerosmith. \*There goes my old girlfriend Well there’s another diamond ring And all those late night promises I guess they don’t mean a thing So baby, what’s your story Did you find another man Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made When you don’t look back I guess the feelings start to fade away CHORUS So tell me what it takes to let you go Tell me how the pain’s supposed to go Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night Without thinking you’ve lost everything that was good In your life to the toss of the dice \* I thought there was one by Dan something-or-other, too. Doesn’t he play guitar? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/51 "2005-02-15T22:45:15Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > \And I think there was some song that mentioned snow… Was it falling Christmas eve? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/52 "2005-02-16T01:11:53Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Was it falling Christmas eve? Now that you mention it, yeah… Another chance encounter song is **You Know Me Better Than That** also by George Straight. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/53 "2005-02-16T01:20:32Z")
**Main and Broadway** , by a cuddlecore punk trio called _Cub_. If you ever need a song for a bitter breakup, this is the one. _Love letters, broken lockets, Dead flowers, candy boxes; That’s what you’re left with when it’s over._ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/54 "2005-02-16T01:29:26Z")
With everybody and his brother (and sister) doing “Great American Songbooks” these days, it’s surprising that I’m the first to mention [What’s New?](http://kokomo.ca/pop_standards/whats_new_lyrics.htm) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/55 "2005-02-16T01:40:06Z")
“Brand New Baby” by Semisonic. Great song, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783/56 "2005-02-16T01:41:12Z")
What about _gasp_ “All I Wanna Do (Is Make Love To You)” by Heart? _Then it happened one day, we came round the same way You can imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes I said please, please understand I’m in love with another man And what he couldn’t give me Was the one little thing that you can_ I’ve never understood this song – it seems to be about a woman with an infertile husband, but it creeps me out that 1) she has such passionate “lovemaking” with the guy she uses as a sperm donor “all night long”, 2) she doesn’t tell him about the kid, and 3) people think this is a romantic song. Anyway, hijack over, I believe it fits the OP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-songs-about-chance-encounters-with-old-lovers/289783.md?page=2)