# Songs: I Love Her, She Loves Him **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805 "2012-09-15T18:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/21 "2012-09-16T21:19:36Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > And for the out-of-left-field answer, The Archies _Circle of Blue_ Damn, I came in just to mention this song. I’m sorta scared that someone else remembers it… ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/22 "2012-09-16T21:59:08Z")
Smokie 1976, Living next door to Alice. He’s loved Alice for 24 years, Alice doesn’t love him and leaves. Sally wants to comfort him because she has loved him 24 years, he doesn’t want Sally. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/23 "2012-09-17T00:13:52Z")
An extra-sad example would be the Magnetic Fields “The One You Really Love.” I gaze into your eyes of blue but their beauty is not for me You’re thinking on someone who’s gone You’re dreaming of the one you really love You’re dreaming of the corpse you really love ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/24 "2012-09-17T13:25:55Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > The Grass Roots’ “Midnight Confession”: > > A little gold ring you wear on your hand > Makes me understand > There’s another before me, you’ll never be mine > I’m wasting my time I came in here to mention and this and I find out I’VE BEEN SINGING IT WRONG FOR DECADES!! But the little gold ring you wear on your hand Makes me understand That you’ll never be for me, you’ll never be mine I’m wasting my time. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/25 "2012-09-17T13:29:59Z")
One more Beatles: No Reply. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/26 "2012-09-17T13:58:49Z")
_Is She Really Going Out with Him?_ by Joe Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Parenchyma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/27 "2012-09-17T17:05:58Z")
I guess this might count as Great American Songbook. It’s borderline whether it qualifies otherwise, as the third party is only implied. But Billie Holiday’s voice in [Glad To Be Unhappy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZNv4DnhIQ) really turns a challenging verse into luscious wallowing gold: “Unrequited love’s a bore And I’ve got it pretty bad But for someone you adore It’s a pleasure to be sad” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/28 "2012-09-17T17:27:18Z")
The old bluegrass standard “I Know You’re Married.” ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/29 "2012-09-17T18:51:09Z")
I’m a bit surprised that no one has yet mentioned the great “[You Don’t Know Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-5LwRinkJ0)” by Eddy Arnold (the video I linked to is Ray Charles’ wonderful cover version). ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/30 "2012-09-17T19:07:21Z")
Gordon Lightfoot’s _Talking In Your Sleep_ The Zombies’ _Tell Her No_ ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/31 "2012-09-17T19:14:06Z")
One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite artists: Elvis Costello’s “[Baby Plays Around](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KRH8Dh6-7E)”. It’s not quite a perfect fit: his love is indeed unrequited, but they’re still together, because he accepts that letting her cheat is the only way he can have her at all… “It’s not open to discussion anymore She’s out again tonight and I’m alone once more She’s all I have worth waiting for But baby plays around” Just achingly sad. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/32 "2012-09-17T19:17:44Z")
Some highly danceable songs that fit the bill, from then and now: [Let Her Dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd--QsJrxQ) by the Bobby Fuller Four. [Dancing On My Own](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ) by Robyn. ETA: I just noticed the second thread. Robyn belongs in there! ETA again: Crossing my fingers for he/he she/she threads. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/33 "2012-09-17T23:52:13Z")
[Blues for the River](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aws8ok8bNhw) by Rod MacDonald. > [@](#): > > She lay down in my arms and talked to me about her boyfriend > who she’d just walked out on 'cause he had too many girlfriends ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/34 "2012-09-18T00:06:47Z")
> [@Floater](#): > > One more Beatles: No Reply. Contains one of my favorite misheard-by-me lyrics: “…‘cause I know where you’ve been, I saw you walkin’ your dog.” ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/35 "2012-09-18T00:34:42Z")
WOLD by Harry Chapin. Maybe. That song was more about a guy who leaves his wife and kids to pursue a fun life, then down the road realizes he made a mistake but she won’t take him back. [Jeannies diary - Eels](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czQYvZDcXlQ) [Make you feel my love - Adele](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0put0_a--Ng) [two out of three ain’t bad - meat loaf](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10KuX84uDIA) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/36 "2012-09-18T01:21:11Z")
Rupert Holmes’ other hit, [Him.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMD5FMXhfhA) Or, for a humorous spin on the idea, [My Girl Bill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDS4G1L3qKs) by Jim Stafford. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/37 "2012-09-18T04:48:13Z")
_Talking in Your Sleep_ by Crystal Gayle. _When You Were Mine_, written by Prince but made popular by Cyndi Lauper. _The One You Love_by Glen Frey. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/38 "2012-09-18T08:31:09Z")
Yet another Beatles’ song: This Boy. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/39 "2012-09-18T17:55:52Z")
_Stay_, by Sugarland and _From a Table Away_, by Sunny Sweeney, are both about “the other woman” who realizes that the man she loves will never leave his wife. The latter especially, about a woman who’s watching her boyfriend having dinner with his wife, fits this criterion. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805/40 "2012-09-18T18:13:03Z")
Meg Christian, Goodbye Joanna Goodbye, Joanna you can stay with Ann give her your keys, please because she’s a real good woman… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-i-love-her-she-loves-him/634805.md?page=1)