# Songs about love--but not humans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297 "2019-10-05T02:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/21 "2019-10-05T11:45:47Z")
British heavy rock band **Saxon** had a hit with **Princess of the Night**. Despite the potential suggestiveness of the title it is a straight tribute to a steam train (delivering mail during the night.) TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/22 "2019-10-05T11:47:56Z")
If love between a human and something _non-human_ counts, then there are countless examples (e.g. _I Love Rock 'n Roll_ by Alan Merrill). Or does the OP only want examples of songs about love between two non-humans? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/23 "2019-10-05T12:57:12Z")
[_I Love My Truck_](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2RosG9hlhQ). \*[I Love My Truck](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m6JxO9vmWHk). \* ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/24 "2019-10-05T13:11:25Z")
Tom Waits’ “Heart of Saturday Night” is another love song about a car. “Stick It Out” and “Sy Borg” from Frank Zappa’s “Joe’s Garage” are songs where the singer is getting intimate with kitchen appliances. ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/25 "2019-10-05T13:16:02Z")
“Love me, love my dog” by Pete Shelley, 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/26 "2019-10-05T13:40:53Z")
Mary had a little lamb ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/27 "2019-10-05T13:48:59Z")
[Lawyers aren’t human, are they?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZp4fJVHmQ) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/28 "2019-10-05T14:32:23Z")
Although the lyrics aren’t explicitly direct, I’m pretty sure Neil Young’s Sample And Hold is about mail order love robots. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMTwfq_jI8) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/29 "2019-10-05T14:36:00Z")
[Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBf4oe3UA4s) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/30 "2019-10-05T14:39:33Z")
Also, does it count if the object of affection was human, but isn’t anymore? “She’s cool in bed – she oughta be, 'cause Ethyl’s dead.” [Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFE9tkq4KM) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/31 "2019-10-05T15:04:09Z")
Donavan - I love my shirt - --------------- and other items of clothing [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xYxZHJi8Be0/maxresdefault.jpg "I Love My Shirt (2005 Remastered Version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxZHJi8Be0) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/32 "2019-10-05T15:21:39Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Are there any other songs you know that mention love/affection/deep friendship about something besides a human? Do you mean songs about love/affection between two non-humans (like “Muskrat Love”)? Or between a human and a non-human (like “Martha My Dear”)? Or either/both? Another example of the latter is Queen’s “Delilah,” about Freddy Mercury’s cat. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/33 "2019-10-05T15:30:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Do you mean songs about love/affection between two non-humans (like “Muskrat Love”)? Or between a human and a non-human (like “Martha My Dear”)? Or either/both? As long as at least one is non-human anything counts. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/34 "2019-10-05T15:35:40Z")
Technically not a love song, since he only states that it is “a very good friend of mine”, but David Bowie’s **TVC 15** is about a television set. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/35 "2019-10-05T15:50:19Z")
Another “good friend of mine” was Jeremiah the Bullfrog. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/36 "2019-10-05T16:59:18Z")
“[The Very Last Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkavKBVmkyg)” by Alan Parsons was written by guitarist Ian Bairnson to his beloved dog who passed away. It’s a real tear jerker. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/37 "2019-10-05T17:31:04Z")
Oh, they say she died one winter When there came a killing frost And the pony she named Wildfire Busted down its stall In a blizzard, he was lost She ran calling Wildfire ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/38 "2019-10-05T17:43:26Z")
I presume we’re not counting religious songs? There are plenty of songs about love between God and humans. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/39 "2019-10-05T17:46:34Z")
[Be My Girl - The Police](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeecRrhnCZk) - Do inflatable humans count? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/40 "2019-10-05T17:56:28Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My Old Yellow car by Dan Seals > [@TCMF-2L](#): > > **Queen** did a song called **I’m In Love With My Car**. > > TCMF-2L > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [_I Love My Truck_](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2RosG9hlhQ). > \*[I Love My Truck](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m6JxO9vmWHk). > \* [Truck Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2KyWYUhmA) - a song about somebody who really loves his vehicle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297.md?page=3)