# What is yours and your SO's "song"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988 "2013-05-22T04:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/41 "2013-05-22T20:23:27Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I don’t think we’ve ever had one. > > She thinks it’s “Fields of Gold” by Sting.\* > \*She doesn’t grasp that it’s about a guy who deflowered a young lady years ago and then left her, after making a bunch of promises he didn’t intend to keep. DOesn’t matter, though- it SOUNDS so pretty, and Sting is so dreamy! Ha! This is the closest thing we have to “our song”. I picked it for our wedding dance because it was the only slow song we both liked. I bailed out halfway through the dance because I couldn’t stand people looking at us any longer. Now that memory makes me cringe in embarrassment, and I bet you any amount of money my husband couldn’t even tell you what song was played. ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/42 "2013-05-22T20:59:25Z")
Journey’s _Faithfully_ because “…livin’ with a music man ain’t always what it’s supposed to be.” Yeah, I am just a director for a technology company, but for some reason that was just “our song” even though it really didn’t fit us at all. However, we are married 25 years in July, so thank you, Steve Perry. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/43 "2013-05-22T21:24:36Z")
In terms of romantic songs, it would be “[Shining Star](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4vlthJImVw)” (by the Manhattans, not the EW&F song). We spent some time thinking about what we wanted to be played at our wedding, and after narrowing down a few of our favorites, we settled on that one. Which, of course, the chapel forgot to play after the ceremony \. Still our song, though. 🙂 But as an overall song, I’m not sure any song has brought us more joy and silliness during the time we’ve known each other than the timeless “[Dragostea Din Tei](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHky57VKWTY).” ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/44 "2013-05-22T21:28:16Z")
[Boom King](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT5AQIlmM0I) by Flight of the Conchordes. Still makes us laugh. Laughter is a big part of what keeps us together. Neither of had laughed in years before we got together, we pretty much haven’t stopped in 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/45 "2013-05-22T21:35:50Z")
What?! Our song?! We are supposed to have a song? Oh gawd the pressure. I’m really not sure what it would be if we had one…maybe one of his own songs. He is a song writer and musician. I love to listen to him play. It has been fun reading the comments. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/46 "2013-05-23T02:24:48Z")
This would be the closest: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzRmp-O496Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzRmp-O496Y) We don’t really have a romantic one 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/47 "2013-05-23T12:22:58Z")
[“The KKK Took My Baby Away”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-4EZyPIsSY) ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/48 "2013-05-23T13:44:48Z")
Our first wedding dance was, of course, “Could I Have This Dance For The Rest Of My Life” by the incomparable Anne Murray. Things have changed a bit. Now it’s a Jimmy Buffet [love song…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-cPckntEY) ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/49 "2013-05-23T15:17:34Z")
😛 If my husband picked one today it would be _Cheeseburger in Paradise_. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/50 "2013-05-23T15:55:48Z")
Ours is one that is a bit weird for a couple falling in love… It is [Olvidala](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XcAA14_feU) by the Colombian [Vallenato](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallenato) group [Binomio de Oro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomio_de_Oro_de_Am%C3%A9rica). I was the one who really liked it and Sra Iggy thought it was rather inappropriate. My Spanish is much better now and I understand where she was coming from. [spoiler] The song is a duet between two males. One is telling his lovelorn buddy to forget her, after all she left you because you had another love. While his the lovelorn friend laments he cannot forget her. She was his first love. [Full lyrics translation](http://lyricstranslate.com/en/olvidala-forget-her.html) So… cheating guy gets all stalker-ish when his first love leaves him.[/spoiler] Yeah… great couples song for Sra Iggy and I. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/51 "2013-05-23T20:33:49Z")
[At Last](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZXvLsltu2A), by Etta James, or by [Jimmy Scott](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCx87mN9m0), or by Ruby Wilson, the Queen of Beale Street. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988/52 "2013-05-23T22:35:00Z")
Once a friend asked The Squeeze and I if we had a “song.” We were kind of inebriated at the time and answered, I swear, in unison, _Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw?_. Hence, our song! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-yours-and-your-sos-song/658988.md?page=2)