# Your favorite romantic lyric. Only one line please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705 "2019-10-30T16:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/1 "2019-10-30T16:49:52Z")
Or if you have more than one, feel free to list them but they have to be single lines, not multiples or verses. Mine is from Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song.” “Speak to me only with your eyes.” And yes, I get that a snarky person could interpret it in a very non-romantic way but I’m pretty sure that that interpretation is not what Page was getting at. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/2 "2019-10-30T17:01:05Z")
“It’s amazing how you speak right to my heart” Alison Krauss(and others), ‘When you say nothing at all’ ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/3 "2019-10-30T17:03:51Z")
This is from Troglodyte…id like to think my earliest human ancestors were the lovers of their cave and had a sense of humor. > [@](#): > > When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look in the mirror, > “Gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman”. > He’d go down to the lake where all the women would be swimming or washing clothes or something. > He’d look around and just reach in and grab one. > “Come here…come here”. > He’d grab her by the hair. > You can’t do that today, fellas, 'cause it might come off. > You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d be swimming away from you (Ha, ha) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/4 "2019-10-30T17:12:10Z")
“The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing.” Alan Parsons, Eye in the Sky, one of my favorite lyrics. It may be more “hopeless romantic”, but I like it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/5 "2019-10-30T17:20:16Z")
“Someone must get hurt and it won’t be me” She Wants Revenge. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/6 "2019-10-30T17:27:58Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > “It’s amazing how you speak right to my heart” Alison Krauss(and others), ‘When you say nothing at all’ You probably know this but that was originally performed by Keith Whitley. I like both versions but prefer his. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/7 "2019-10-30T17:31:48Z")
The one that immediately comes to mind is: “Without you, day is nothing but a waste of light.” it’s from Seabound’s [“Without You.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgNqL2aTAYY) ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/8 "2019-10-30T17:33:49Z")
"Take a bath, I’ll drink the water that you leave ", from STP. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/9 "2019-10-30T17:38:45Z")
If you were mine, I would live for your love alone. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/10 "2019-10-30T17:41:47Z")
Sorry, I can’t restrict it to one line: _My love she speaks like silence Without ideals or violence She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire_ Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan ---
**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:** [October 30, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/11 "2019-10-30T17:47:08Z")
Good luck, it finally struck like lightning from the blue…every highway is leading me back to you. Survivor, [The Search is Over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELTfJ-ZVBc) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/12 "2019-10-30T17:52:23Z")
Without you, life has no meaning or rhyme, like notes to a song out of time. “You Make Me Feel Brand New” by The Stylistics ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/13 "2019-10-30T17:58:54Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > You probably know this but that was originally performed by Keith Whitley. I like both versions but prefer his. Yes, I know his version as well. I love that song. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/14 "2019-10-30T18:11:22Z")
> [@](#): > > At last my love has come along [From At Last by Etta James.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqS2zYoDb34) But it’s not really the lyrics, that magical voice communicates so much more in that first line. It even penetrates my thick head and heart in a way so little does. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/15 "2019-10-30T18:33:57Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Or if you have more than one, feel free to list them but they have to be single lines, not multiples or verses. > > Mine is from Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song.” > > “Speak to me only with your eyes.” > > And yes, I get that a snarky person could interpret it in a very non-romantic way but I’m pretty sure that that interpretation is not what Page was getting at. As is much of Led Zeppelin, the line is plagiarized. > [@Ben Jonson](#): > > Drink to me only with thine eyes, > And I will pledge with mine; The word change is trivial and the poem had been put to music and [was well known](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ijkn). ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/16 "2019-10-30T19:23:48Z")
" I remember skies, reflected in your eyes." [Your Wildest Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0) by the Moody Blues. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/17 "2019-10-30T21:27:02Z")
This is kind of cheating, because technically it’s probably more than one line, but its delivered as one long thought and a run-on sentence: From _World Of Hurt_ _So if what you have is working for you or you think that it can stand a reasonable chance and whatever’s broken seems fixable and nothing’s beyond repair if you still think about each other and smile before you remember how screwed up it’s gotten or maybe dream of a time less rotten remember, it ain’t too late to take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you got_ ---
**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:** [October 30, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/18 "2019-10-30T21:37:14Z")
_Come to Me_ by Goo Goo Dolls: “When we’re old and near the end, We’ll go home and start again” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/19 "2019-10-30T21:50:54Z")
“I’ve been loving you a long time” Pogues. [_Rainy Night in Soho_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSyL-TrD_2g). (Well, today it is. You see it’s raining and …) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/20 "2019-10-30T21:55:26Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Sorry, I can’t restrict it to one line: > > _My love she speaks like silence > Without ideals or violence > She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful > Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire_ > > Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Bob Dylan _Huffy_ Well! If _he_ can bend the rules like that: _Even though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow Where you been don’t bother me or bring me down with sorrow I don’t even mind who you’ll be waking with tomorrow But mama you’re just on my mind_ Mama You Been On My Mind - Bob Dylan j ETA: BTW, Nice choice, EH. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705.md?page=2)