Lets stay together - Al Green
Misty Blue - Dorothey Moore
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.
Favourite love song? At my most beautiful, by REM. no question about it.
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
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.
i dont wanna miss a thing by aerosmith. i have way too many “moments” with that song.
Only You by Yaz. It makes me wish I had somebody to feel that way about.
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
Even If My Heart Would Break by Aaron Neville and Kenny G.
“I’m Counting On You”, by Johnny O’Keefe.
So many…
Dave Matthews:Two Step
Bush:Glycerine
Jeff Buckley:Lover You Should’ve Come Over
Grateful Dead:Scarlet Begonias
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.
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*
This is a recent addition to my list, since things are long distance… (thought of you on this one, DB)
Billy Joel - She’s always a woman
and Just the way you are
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
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.
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)
“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