# Top Lesbian Love Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740 "2005-11-06T04:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/41 "2006-02-03T23:06:36Z")
This isn’t a dyke song per se, but when I was in love with my sweetie I was obsessed with “Something to Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt because of the idea of people noticing but not noticing what was going on. ---
**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 3, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/42 "2006-02-03T23:28:09Z")
Well, **I Like Girls** (Uncle Bonsai) is sung from the point of view of a guy who gets hit on by another guy and has to tell him he’s straight. If you could get a woman to do a cover of that, it might work. Also, if you need to cut through all the sentiment in the other songs, there’s **Pillow Queen** , by Cub. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/43 "2006-02-03T23:58:30Z")
One that I"ve written. ]You’d think that people would have had enough of lesbian love songs. I look around me and I see it isn’t so (oh no). Some people want to fill the world with lesbian love songs. Not that there’s anything _wrong_ with that. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/44 "2006-02-04T01:10:34Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Sarah McLachlan is a lesbian? I thought she was married to a man? Sarah McLachlan is married to her drummer, Ashwin Sood (they have a daughter). I do remember, in the previous decade, seeing her in concert. While telling the story behind the song _Plenty_ (about a man who broke her heart), she said “I love men and women”. She didn’t elaborate on this statement, but it may (or may not) have been a confirmation of bisexuality. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/45 "2006-02-04T01:25:39Z")
k.d. lang recorded one on an album that is a tribute to Cole Porter by various pop artists. I think the album is **Red, Hot and Blue**. The song is “So in Love.” You don’t have to be lesbian, gay, or a grownup to love that one. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/46 "2006-02-04T02:39:12Z")
[“Woman”](http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/r/rachaelyamagata28241/woman1096228.html) - Rachael Yamagata [“Under Water”](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Underwater-lyrics-Tegan-Sara/8B0C147BC14885A148256C81002BC76B) or [“Living Room”](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Living-Room-lyrics-Tegan-Sara/C0FFF4685A9C2A4C48256C81002BBD4B) - Tegan & Sara ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/47 "2006-02-04T02:57:50Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > You could cheat and get a [pre-made CD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003451/ref=pd_null_recs_m_t/102-5576006-7762529?v=glance&s=music). Hmm. This lists Jane Siberry’s “Temple,” which actually is a misinterpretation. The lyric, “I want into the temple,” is not actually what it may sound like. It’s not a woman euphemising to another woman. It’s an unborn soul eager to be born, reincarnated, into a new body. Just sayin. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/48 "2006-02-04T05:43:48Z")
This might be considered cheating, but Concrete Blonde do a great cover of Jimi Hendrix’s _Little Wing_ without changing the gender. Beautiful song, and Johnette’s voice is amazing. _When I’m sad, she comes to me With a thousand smiles you know she sets me free_ ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/49 "2006-02-04T05:51:13Z")
Damn. Someone got to “Birth Control & Beer” before me. An obscure one from kd, but I do love “Sexuality” from her All You Can Eat (ha, geddit?) album. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/50 "2006-02-04T17:04:22Z")
**Biggirl** , LOL. 😃 You’ve just invented a new subgenre, lesbian novelty songs. Actually, Holly Near was the first name that came to mind when I saw the thread title. I’m showing my age. Really, have none of the youngsters these days heard of her? She ruled dykefolk in the '70s. It seemed like she was everywhere in the late '70s, but that was when I hung out in the queer part of town. She was the first openly dyke performer that I know of since the early blues era, but in those days that meant she never broke out of the niche. Maybe when she went straight, her name was chiseled off the temple walls like Hatshepsut. P.S. Anybody remember “_Dominique-nique-nique…_”: a lesbian love song to a guy? ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/51 "2006-02-04T20:59:24Z")
This is a truly beautiful song in Spanish, sung by Ana Torroja of the group Mecano. Listen to “Mujer contra Mujer” here [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B000006EZ3/ref=dp\_tracks\_all\_1/103-0311901-1082213?\_encoding=UTF8#disc\_1](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B000006EZ3/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/103-0311901-1082213?%5Fencoding=UTF8#disc_1) ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/52 "2006-02-04T23:42:41Z")
The new musical version of “The Color Purple” has Shug singing a very nice love song to Celie- “Too Beautiful For Words”. The musical Falsettos has a song called “Unlikely Lovers”, which is something of a love song for a gay male couple and a lesbian couple. Otherwise, besides the already mentioned “Take Me Or Leave Me” from RENT, I can’t really think of any lesbian love songs. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/53 "2006-02-05T09:41:39Z")
need something from Disappear Fear / Sonia in there. Maybe “Fallin”, “My Baby”, “Gangsters of Love”, “Laws of Nature”, “Laura”, “Michaelangelo”, “Boxers”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/54 "2006-02-07T06:41:34Z")
“Fire Door” by Ani DiFranco seems to hint at cunnilingus. _I opened the fire door to four lips none of which were mine kissing_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/55 "2006-02-07T14:37:56Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You could also throw in Sixpence None the Richer’s cover of “There She Goes.” Bonus irony points on this one, as Sixpence started out as a Christian rock group. Where’s the romance in a song about mainlining heroin? ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/56 "2006-02-07T15:09:42Z")
Phranc’s version of “Mrs Brown, you have a lovely daughter” is a must have. Poi Dog Pondering’s song["Sandra at the Beach"](http://awaken.org/frag/jukebox/selections/poi.html) is amazing and lifts my heart everytime I hear it. > [@](#): > > Well, Sandra’s with another woman of thirty-five > who’s much more reserved > standing just out of reach > of the waves… > licking up her feet > She’s watching Sandra’s every move… > Sandra looks good today > I think that she is in love > Sandra Looks good today > I think that she is in love… > > No kinds of love > are better than others > No kinds of love > are better than others ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/57 "2006-02-20T00:31:44Z")
I don’t expect “Redondo Beach” by Patti Smith would be included on anyone’s compilations of lesbian love songs—it’s a real downer. But it could be counted as a lesbian love song, sort of. If one allows for Patti Smith not being lesbian. “Lucky” by Melissa Etheridge is just as much an upper of a LLS as “Redondo Beach” is a downer. I’m used to the dark side, but I do enjoy something happy once in a while. “Lucky” is the happiest LLS I can think of. But her really lovely love songs like “Shriner’s Park” or “Meet Me in the Dark,” that have the strongest lesbian flavor, are sad songs. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/58 "2006-02-20T01:35:10Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > k.d. lang recorded one on an album that is a tribute to Cole Porter by various pop artists. I think the album is **Red, Hot and Blue**. The song is “So in Love.” > You don’t have to be lesbian, gay, or a grownup to love that one. Yep. You really have to hear this one. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740/59 "2006-02-22T02:22:32Z")
Thank you, thank you, one and all. There were entirely too many choices and I wasn’t expecting that. Here was the final cut: **Kiss That Counted** by Catie Curtis **Power of Two** by Indigo Girls **Ride Me Like A Wave** by Janis Ian **Shameless** by Ani DiFranco **Magnolia Street** by Catie Curtis **Perfect** by Doria Roberts **Drive** by Melissa Ferrick **Extraordinary Thing** by kd lang **Could I Be Your Girl** by Jann Arden **Wonderdrug** by Jann Arden **I Kissed A Girl** by Jill Sobule **Constant Craving** by kd lang **I Want To Come Over** by Melissa Etheridge **Kiss Me** by Melissa Etheridge **Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover** by Sophie B. Hawkins **Sweet Woman** by Cris Williamson **I’ll Always Love You** by Taylor Dayne I wasn’t sure of Taylor Dayne’s sexual preference but she performed at a Pride rally several years ago and was also on of the tracks on the _Lesbian Favorites_ CD. If she’s not gay, she’s at least gay-friendly and what’s not to love about that song. The bonus is that thanks to you, I now have another list of artists to check out! You guys rock! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-lesbian-love-songs/329740.md?page=2)