# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/21 "2019-10-30T22:00:28Z")
Hon’ I love you, honey little honey funny sunny morning, love you more funny, love in the skyline baby. -Syd Barrett, “Love You” ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/22 "2019-10-30T22:22:48Z")
I walk the floor when you leave me - Al Green, “What A Wonderful Thing Love Is” (1972) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/23 "2019-10-30T22:40:22Z")
Tell me, what is my life without your love? -George Harrison, “What Is Life” ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/24 "2019-10-30T22:40:22Z")
Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/25 "2019-10-30T22:42:45Z")
“I love you like a Greek loves his chicken” – _Matonia, Mia Cara_ by Orlando di Lasso. ---
**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, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/26 "2019-10-30T23:59:14Z")
“Let Miss Trixie sit up front” DBT~ Birthday boy. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/27 "2019-10-31T00:32:23Z")
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square – originally sung by Vera Lynn, but the best is by Carl Welsman. I just called to say I love you – the incomparable Stevie Wonder ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/28 "2019-10-31T00:35:47Z")
Millions of people swarming like flies ‘round Waterloo Underground But Terry and Judy cross over the river where they feel safe and sound And they don’t Need no friends As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset they are in paradise. —Ray Davies of The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset,” 1967 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mr.Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/29 "2019-10-31T00:36:49Z")
From Stan Rogers: “I just want to see your smiling face 45 years from now.” ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/30 "2019-10-31T00:41:24Z")
Then one by one the stars would all go out, Then you and I would simply fly away. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/31 "2019-10-31T00:45:56Z")
A bit more sexy than romantic but I’ve always found this bit from Girl In Paris to be on point in an incisive way: “No I don’t want to be friends, no I don’t want to be friendly.” ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/32 "2019-10-31T00:46:06Z")
“I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.” _Me and Bobby McGee_ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/33 "2019-10-31T00:51:25Z")
“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine…” JC ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/34 "2019-10-31T01:43:20Z")
Just scrolled through my memory, then my playlists… nope. Hundreds of beautifully poetic lyrics, none of them romantic. Closest I’ve got is: _You pay your money and you take your chance, when you’re dealing with love and romance._ ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/35 "2019-10-31T02:06:09Z")
Take my heart, take my whole life too Cause I can’t help falling in love with you. ---
**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 31, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/36 "2019-10-31T02:18:54Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > As is much of Led Zeppelin, the line is plagiarized. I prefer to think of it as “sampled.” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/37 "2019-10-31T03:23:38Z")
When you just give love and never get love you’d better let love depart; I know it’s so and yet I know, I can’t get you out of my heart - Lenny Welch ‘Since I Fell For You’. It doesn’t sound like much, but such romantic anguish in one song! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/38 "2019-10-31T03:41:56Z")
Counting Crows, “Catapult” “I wanna be the last thing you hear when you’re falling asleep” ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/39 "2019-10-31T04:14:50Z")
Cheap Trick. “I Want You to Want Me”. “I’d get home early from work if you’d say that you loved me.” ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/40 "2019-10-31T04:32:39Z")
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