# What's you and your SO's "song"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 8, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367 "2001-09-08T06:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/1 "2001-09-08T06:12:48Z")
Some time ago, I made a mix tape for my girlfriend/ soon-to-be-wife. I made the mix at a time when things were kind of all up in the air. We were living apart. I was in grad school and she took a dead end job in DC, a 9 hour drive away. We were both desperately trying to find a way to be together and escape our mutually shitty locales. The second song on the tape was “Summerland” by Everclear. If your not familiar with the song, it’s essentially about a couple who decide to leave all the bad things behind and start a new life elsewhere. Their new destination is “Summerland”, choosen for the sake of it’s optimistic sounding name. In it’s own weird little way, the song has become our own little “us against the world” theme song. This topic came up recently when asked if we were going to have “our song” played at our wedding. Considering some of the lyrics, it would probably be really inappropriate: **"We could find a town- be just how we want to be no one here really cares about us anyway we could find a place- make it what we want it to be no one really gives a fuck about us anyway we could live- live just like we want to live no one here really cares about us anyway we could be- everything we want to be we could get lost in the fall glimmer sparkle and fade"** Not exactly “Wind Beneath My Wings” material. And that, of course, is a good thing. Would make for a really interesting “first dance” song, though. So how about you and yours? What song means something special to you guys? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/2 "2001-09-08T13:58:13Z")
_I Swear_, by John Michael Montgomery (we’re big country fans) * * * I swear, By the moon and the stars in the sky, I’ll be there. I swear, Like the shadow that’s by your side, I’ll be there. For better or worse, Till death do us part, I’ll love you with every beat of my heart. **snif** ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/3 "2001-09-08T14:38:49Z")
OK, just asked my SO what our song was, and he suggested Skulls by the Misfits I hope he wasn’t serious! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/4 "2001-09-08T14:45:30Z")
That’s easy! Billy Ray Cyrus : **I’m So Miserable Without You, It’s Almost Like You’re Here** ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/5 "2001-09-08T15:59:43Z")
We don’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/6 "2001-09-08T16:23:26Z")
“In My Life” by The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/7 "2001-09-08T16:42:23Z")
Nine Inch Nails _Closer_. We’re so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/8 "2001-09-08T16:48:03Z")
“House of the Rising Sun” as recorded by Vassar Clemens and Mark O’Connor. No lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/9 "2001-09-08T17:39:55Z")
“Sugar” by the Archies. We have very different music tastes, and one night we decided on this song because it was the first song one of us named that we both liked. We didn’t use it as the first song at our wedding, mainly since we needed a slow dance because neither of us has any rhythm. So “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith was our first dance, and the DJ played “Sugar” later in the evening for us. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/10 "2001-09-08T17:51:11Z")
I don’t have a signifigant other, although I’d fall in love with anyone who would consider ‘Let It Be’ by the Beatles their song. Hey, **Montfort** … (hopes you’re female) ---
**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:** [September 8, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/11 "2001-09-08T18:10:47Z")
What’s Love Got To Do With It? He took me to see Tina Turner on our 3rd date. We still occasionally sing this to each other and giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/12 "2001-09-08T18:28:13Z")
I’m not involved with anyone right now, but a few of my SOs and I have had “our song”–here’s a few: “Oh!Darling”–The Beatles “Wherever You Will Go”–The Calling “Sit Down I Think I Love You”–Buffalo Springfield ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/13 "2001-09-08T18:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redukter \* > \*\*Hey, **Montfort** … (hopes you’re female) \*\* Sorry, he’s all man…and plus, he has a girly-girl of his own already (that’s what his sig means). Our song is “Master of Puppets” by Metallica. It was how we met - I was singing the lyrics, he joined in. As **racinchikki** once said, it contains the “oft-underestimated romantic undertones of old-school Metallica.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/14 "2001-09-08T20:08:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > **Nine Inch Nails _Closer_.** Awww, you are such a romantic. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/15 "2001-09-08T20:14:48Z")
KC and Jojo’s “All My Life” “Said I promised to never fall in love with a stranger, You’re all I’m thinking of I praise the Lord above, For sending me your love, I cherish every hug, (loud)I really _love you_!” “All my life, I pray for someone like you, and I thank God… that I, that I finally found you All my life I pray for someone like you I hope that you feel the same way too” “You’re all that I’ve ever known, your smile on your face, all I see is a glow, You turned my life around, You picked me up when I was down” A little while after we started dating he said that he had dedicated a song to me, and handed me his CD player and told me to put it on track 11. I was scared at first, thinking “Okay, maybe it’s Green Day’s _Good Riddance_” and then it started playing, and it definitely wasn’t. So that’s my story. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/16 "2001-09-08T20:15:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > \*\*Sorry, he’s all man…and plus, he has a girly-girl of his own already (that’s what his sig means). > > Our song is “Master of Puppets” by Metallica. It was how we met - I was singing the lyrics, he joined in. As **racinchikki** once said, it contains the “oft-underestimated romantic undertones of old-school Metallica.” 🙂 \*\* More Metallica fans of the Straight Dope…I love you guys!!! ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/17 "2001-09-08T21:21:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \***Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs \* > Our song is “Master of Puppets” by Metallica. It was how we met - I was singing the lyrics, he joined in.** LOL! then I am making a unilateral decision to change “our song” from “Skulls” to “I Turned Into a Martian,” also by the Misfits. He was singing it one day at work and I joined in with the whoa-oh-oh parts. He was impressed, the co-workers were weirded out, the rest is history. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/18 "2001-09-08T21:33:19Z")
:🤔: Y’know, I have **Gunslinger** on tape singing a couple lines of _I Swear_ (it was part of one of his roles in my finger-puppet trailer trash adaptation of Hamlet)… Other than that there’s nothing we have any connection to whatsoever. ::shrug:: I’ll have Metallica played at our wedding, though, just on principle. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/19 "2001-09-08T22:38:17Z")
I gotta add to my first post by sharing this bit of irony. **foxboy** is out of town this weekend, and this thread made me think about him. I went into my room, turned the radio on and switched to a local college station, and a few seconds later “our song” came on. I got all tingly inside. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367/20 "2001-09-08T23:00:02Z")
“When I’m With You” by Sheriff. The story behind this will remain with us (as we currently don’t remember it anymore. That was 12 years ago.) 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-and-your-sos-song/80367.md?page=2)