# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/41 "2019-10-31T04:36:30Z")
I had a girlfriend many years ago who liked to write song lyrics, and she was pretty good at it. Though I’ve forgotten most of her lyrics, and none (to the best of my knowledge) were ever set to music, much less recorded; one line from one of her songs has stayed with me since: “Let’s slow dance on the moon tonight, \_\_\_\_\_.” Where the blank space was replaced by my name. For recorded and published works, I still like this from Neil Diamond’s “September Morn”: “September morning still can make me feel that way.” What way? Don’t ask, because I won’t say. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/42 "2019-10-31T08:03:02Z")
“We can take forever just a minute at a time” - **The Brothers Gibb** Not gonna limit myself to just one, so … “If the sun refused to shine I would still be loving you Mountains crumble to the sea There will still be you and me” **Page and Plant** ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/43 "2019-10-31T11:14:19Z")
You are my love and my life, and you are my inspiration. Just You ‘n’ Me - Chicago Mainly because I like the story behind the song. ---
**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, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/44 "2019-10-31T13:36:34Z")
You’re my pride and joy, et cetera… (I sing that to my friend’s baby, Elenore) ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/45 "2019-10-31T14:26:59Z")
“Soft hair and a velvet tongue, I want to give you what you give to me” Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by the White Stripes. Makes me feel funny. ---
**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/46 "2019-10-31T14:56:34Z")
Oh honey, after all these years you’re still the one - Can’t Wait by Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/47 "2019-10-31T15:18:23Z")
“I saw more love in her eyes when I left her than most foolish men will ever see.” From “[It’s Four in the Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anbh27D6SdE),” a chart hit for Faron Young, and one of the best examples of country music speaking of life in real terms. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/48 "2019-10-31T15:25:08Z")
Sometimes all I need is the air that I’m breathing to love you She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/49 "2019-10-31T16:35:58Z")
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance - I hope you dance … **Tia Sillers** ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/50 "2019-10-31T20:04:45Z")
“Be my undoing; be my slow road to ruin tonight.” - Del Amitri, from [Be My Downfall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztKS9a-fKFE) I love how sexy and romantic this song is, when it’s all about a guy cheating on his significant other. He knows he’s a heel, but he also feels powerless to stop himself. I just love that one line where he actually asks his paramour to be complicit in his sin. I never understood why that band wasn’t more popular than they were, at least on this side of the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/51 "2019-10-31T20:11:27Z")
And I’d trade all my tomorrows for just a single yesterday … Janis Joplin, Me and My Bobby McGee Never has the pain of the loss of romantic love been more clearly expressed. ---
**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, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/52 "2019-10-31T20:42:02Z")
Juliet, when we made love you used to cry Said I love you like the stars above, I love you till I die Dire Straits, “Romeo and Juliet” Remember when I moved in you the holy dove was moving too and every word we breathed was hallelujah. Leonard Cohen, “Hallelujah” ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/53 "2019-10-31T22:08:11Z")
“I’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with.” —Jim Croce, _Time in a Bottle_ (But when I think of this song, it’s the _Muppet Show_ version I always remember. Sweet and sad and perfect.) ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/54 "2019-10-31T22:30:50Z")
I had a taste of the real world when I went down on you. Also – I can’t even believe it with you It’s like having every dream I ever wanted come true Both from Miracles by Jefferson Starship ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/55 "2019-10-31T23:42:16Z")
\*Dance me to the children who are asking to be born \* - L. Cohen, “Dance Me to the End of Love” ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/56 "2019-11-01T01:01:45Z")
“It’s the morning after and my arm isn’t chewed off.” -me, an original thought ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/57 "2019-11-01T04:38:35Z")
“If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you” John Denver, “Perhaps Love” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rKhBPps7_Fc/maxresdefault.jpg "John Denver Perhaps Love - Live 1982 Apollo Theatre, London") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhBPps7_Fc) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/58 "2019-11-01T15:34:35Z")
- And he gave her one last kiss and died, And he gave her his Vincent to ride. \* Richard Thompson - “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/59 "2019-11-01T16:37:09Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Counting Crows, “Catapult” > > “I wanna be the last thing you hear when you’re falling asleep” Speaking of Counting Crows, I think “Anna Begins” is a great love song. Can’t think of a good contribution to this thread, but I’ll come back if I think of one. ---
**Author:** ![Taesahnim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taesahnim/32/84_2.png) [@Taesahnim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taesahnim)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/60 "2019-11-01T17:31:22Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > " I remember skies, reflected in your eyes." > > [Your Wildest Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0) by the Moody Blues. I was considering going with that song, but a different line, all about lost love: “I wonder if you think about me, once upon a time, in your wildest dreams.” But I have to go with a line from John Denver: “This old guitar gave me my lovely lady, it opened up her eyes and ears to me.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705.md?page=4)