# What's your all time favorite love-song? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444 "2000-07-30T15:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/21 "2000-07-31T16:45:28Z")
Lets stay together - Al Green Misty Blue - Dorothey Moore ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/22 "2000-07-31T18:53:17Z")
Let’s hear it for unrequited love. I fell asleep down by a stream; There I had the strangest dream. Down by Brennan’s Glen there grows A briar and a rose. There’s a tree in the forest; I don’t know where. I built a nest out of your hair. And climbing up into the air, The briar and the rose. I don’t know how long it’s been; I was born in Brennan’s Glen. Near the end of spring there grows A briar and a rose. I picked the rose one early morn; I pricked my finger on a thorn. It’d grown so close its winding wove The briar 'round the rose. I tried to tear them both apart; I felt a bullet in my heart. All dressed up in spring’s new clothes, The briar and the rose. When I’m buried in my grave, Tell me so I will know. Our tears will fall to make love grow, The briar and the rose. When I’m buried in my grave, Tell me so I will know. Your tears will fall to make them grow, The briar and the rose. Personally, I think something like `I built a nest out of your hair'' sounds a lot more sincere than something like `I’ll always love you.’’ But that’s me. ---
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/23 "2000-07-31T19:03:55Z")
Favourite love song? At my most beautiful, by REM. no question about it. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/24 "2000-07-31T20:09:00Z")
So many to choose from: Till There Was You – Meredith Willson (and the Beatles!) Someone to Watch Over Me – George Gershwin I Get a Kick Out of You – Cole Porter Goodnight, My Someone – Willson, again Singin’ in the Rain – Freed & Brown I Only Have Eyes for You – Warren & Dubin ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/25 "2000-07-31T20:47:15Z")
My favorite song (I don’t know of that many) is I Swear by All 4 One. By the way, as I type this I’m downloading many of these songs…if I like them enough I might just cough up the cash for a cd. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/26 "2000-08-01T02:44:43Z")
i dont wanna miss a thing by aerosmith. i have way too many “moments” with that song. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/27 "2000-08-01T02:52:29Z")
_Only You_ by Yaz. It makes me wish I had somebody to feel that way about. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/28 "2000-08-01T02:54:21Z")
Another vote for “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. But “our song” is by Jimmie Dale Gilmore – _Please don’t ask me to swim that river, please don’t ask me, for silver and gold, I can’t give you things, that I can’t deliver, but I’ll keep you warm when the nights are cold_ ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/29 "2000-08-01T03:27:51Z")
**Even If My Heart Would Break** by Aaron Neville and Kenny G. ---
**Author:** ![Scribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Scribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/30 "2000-08-02T02:41:33Z")
“I’m Counting On You”, by Johnny O’Keefe. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/31 "2000-08-02T15:35:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Edwin McCain - I Could Not Ask For More > Lying here with you, > Listening to the rain, > Smiling just to see the smile upon your face, > These are the moments I thank God that I’m alive, > These are the moments I’ll remember all my life, > I found all I’ve waited for, > And I could not ask for more. > > Looking in your eyes, > Seeing all I need, > Everything you are is everything to me, > These are the moments I know heaven must exist, > These are the moments I know all I need is this, > I have all I’ve waited for, > And I could not ask for more. > > I could not ask for more than this time together, > I could not ask for more than this time with you, > Every prayer has been answered, > Every dream I have’s come true, > And right here in this moment is right where I’m meant to be, > Here with you, here with me. . . > > These are the moments I thank God that I’m alive, > These are the moments I’ll remember all my life, > I’ve got all I’ve waited for, > And I could not ask for more. . . > > Chorus: > I could not ask for more than this time together, > I could not ask for more than this time with you, > Every prayer has been answered, > Every dream I have’s come true, > And right here in this moment is right where I’m meant to be, > Here with you, here with me. . . > > I could not ask for more than the love you gave me, > 'Cause it’s all I’ve waited for . . . > And I could not ask for more, > I could not ask for more. ---
**Author:** ![Sands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Sands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sands)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/32 "2000-08-02T15:44:18Z")
So many… **Dave Matthews** :Two Step **Bush** :Glycerine **Jeff Buckley** :Lover You Should’ve Come Over **Grateful Dead** :Scarlet Begonias ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/33 "2000-08-02T15:47:01Z")
Air Supply, “Makin’ Love Out of Nothing at All.” I proposed to my wife with that one. Survivor, “The Search Is Over” Linda Rhondstat and Aaron Neville, “I Don’t Know Much…” Starship, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.” I’m sure there are others that I like, but these top the list as far as I can think. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/34 "2000-08-02T17:17:46Z")
My favorite love song is “I’ll Still Be Loving You” by Restless Heart. _I’ll be yours until the sun doesn’t shine 'Til time stands still Until the winds don’t blow When today is just a memory to me I know I’ll still be loving you_ I’m also partial to John Michael Montgomery’s “Home To You”. \*I get up and battle the day Things don’t always go my way It might rain, but that’s okay I get to come home to you Sometimes life may get me down I get tired of getting kicked around I feel lost in this maddening crowd But I get to come home to you 'Cause you are my best friend And you are where my heart is I know at the day’s end I get to come home to you\* ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/35 "2000-08-02T17:37:33Z")
This is a recent addition to my list, since things are long distance… (thought of you on this one, DB) > [@](#): > > “Atlantic,” by Eddie From Ohio. > > There’s a channel. There’s a tunnel > you can sail by train, from the English coast > There’s an ocean with no tunnel > you can sail by mail, but go parcel post > > There’s nothing but the waves, the fish & the kelp > in between her & him > They entertained the thought of meeting halfway > but neither knows how to swim > He has a pump she has a pail > they’ll empty this quarry soon > Stand on a rock and see each other wave > and for now that will have to do > 'til the Atlantic’s dry > > There’s a lighthouse there’s an outhouse > both rely on a torch, just different bulbs > He sends flowers – it takes hours > just to lie on her porch, they’re quite different bulbs > > There’s nothing but the waves, the fish & the kelp > in between her & him > They entertained the thought of meeting halfway > but neither knows how to swim > He has a pump she has a pail > they’ll empty this quarry soon > Stand on a rock and see each other wave > and for now that will have to do > 'til the Atlantic’s dry > > Bridge the distance, drain the ocean > pave a highway on the sandy floor > part the waters with devotion - it’s just a thought > a reunion near Bermuda > they’re too tired to hug, they just stand and gleam > dehydrated yet elated > & they suddenly wake, they’ve both shared a dream > > There’s nothing but the waves, the fish & the kelp > in between her & him > They entertained the thought of meeting halfway > but neither knows how to swim > He has a pump she has a pail > they’ll empty this quarry soon > Stand on a rock and see each other wave > and for now that will have to do > 'til the Atlantic’s dry > > 'til the airfares drop to Greyhound rates > for now that will have to do > 'til Mother Earth moves and shifts some plates > for now that will have to do > 'til the Crown reclaims the United States > for now that will have to do > 'til Saint Peter opens up Heaven’s gates > for now that will have to do > 'til the Atlantic’s dry ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/36 "2000-08-02T17:37:53Z")
Billy Joel - She’s always a woman and Just the way you are ---
**Author:** ![Limey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Limey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limey)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/37 "2000-08-02T20:24:06Z")
Don’t Answer Me-Alan Parsons Project, Not really a love song, but the line between melancholy and love is often blurred. Otherwise: How 'bout Us…Champane Just the Two of Us…George Benson ---
**Author:** ![loves\_guitar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@loves\_guitar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loves_guitar)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2000, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/38 "2000-08-02T23:24:51Z")
Some mentioned “have you ever loved a woman” by Bryan Adams but his all-time love song is, “Everything I do (I do it for you).” And of course, “You are so beautiful” by Joe Cocker. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/39 "2000-08-05T05:20:57Z")
Some of these are seconds, but… “Just the Two of Us” (George Benson, not Will Smith). Great song for a wedding, IMO. “Every Little Thing” by the Beatles. Brings back one specific moment from my youth like I’m reliving it. “True Love Ways” by Buddy Holly “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by Elvis “I Only Want to Be With You” by Dusty Springfield (for that first rush when you get together) “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues (for those dysfunctional relationships) ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444/40 "2000-08-05T07:56:11Z")
“Looking through the Eyes of Love” or “The Ice Castles Theme”. (I’m not sure what it’s officially called. I also know who sang it, but I’m suffering from a mental block right about now). I also second “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Starship [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-all-time-favorite-love-song/27444.md?page=3)