# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/61 "2019-11-01T20:20:43Z")
Sadie B. Hawkins, As I Lay Me Down: “Though I am not above the sorrow Heavy hearted Till you call my name And it sounds like church bells Or the whistle of a train On a summer evening I’ll run to meet you Barefoot, barely breathing” ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/62 "2019-11-01T20:24:34Z")
Perhaps less romantic, but I so love the mournful delivery of this stanza by the Counting Crows: “The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl” ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/63 "2019-11-01T20:43:41Z")
> [@Taesahnim](#): > > 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.” Ah, the Moody Blues… “And the sound we make together is the music to the story in your eyes.” ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/64 "2019-11-01T21:33:29Z")
“Whiskey and rum, blood on my tongue, you haunt me.” Sir Sly “You haunt me” (Amtrac remix) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/65 "2019-11-01T21:49:59Z")
“Oh I hate my winsome lover. Tell him I’ve had others at my breast. But tell him he has held my heart and only now am I a virgin I confess.” Laura Nyro, The Confession ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/66 "2019-11-01T22:37:15Z")
“All my love in vain.” —Robert Johnson, “Love in Vain” ---
**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:** [November 1, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/67 "2019-11-01T22:49:35Z")
“I lit a fire with the love you left behind” Stars-Grace Potter ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/68 "2019-11-02T05:29:29Z")
“You’re soft as glass, and I’m a gentle man” Townes Van Zandt, “To Live Is To Fly”. Also, really the whole of Townes’ “If I Needed You”, but I’ll just quote “If you needed me I would come to you, I would swim the seas for to ease your pain”. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/69 "2019-11-02T05:30:30Z")
Also “Everywhere I look I see your eyes”. The Rolling Stones, “Angie”. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/70 "2019-11-02T06:39:04Z")
"Darlin’ just remember these three words, I love you, I love you… The Hagg-Natural High ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/71 "2019-11-02T11:28:28Z")
"Heaven known no frontiers, and I’ve found heaven in your eyes. Mary Black, “No Frontiers” ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/72 "2019-11-02T11:50:58Z")
I’ve always liked the line from **Simon and Garfunkel’s America** \*Cathy I’m lost I said though I knew she was sleeping \* TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/73 "2019-11-04T18:22:18Z")
“Smiling as she pulls you down, that’s the way she feels about you.” Jesse Colin Young, “Sunlight” Love the whole song, but that’s the line that always gets me. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/74 "2019-11-04T22:41:53Z")
But how I miss the girl, and I’d go a million times around the world just to say She had been mine for a day. _Aubrey_, by Bread ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/75 "2019-11-04T22:48:03Z")
“Love is not the only thing It’s the best thing” [Love Is Not the Only Thing - Mark Heard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqm2F7ccGo) ([lyrics](http://mhlp.rru.com/love_is_not.html)) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/76 "2019-11-04T23:00:50Z")
“There’s a light in your eyes. Did you leave that light burning for me?” -_Light In Your Eyes_, Blessid Union of Souls ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/77 "2019-11-04T23:16:49Z")
So help me god, I will not cry And then I think of Lorelei. Lorelei–The Pogues But you should really listen to the [whole thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJR79qnNkc) ---
**Author:** ![Bayarea4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Bayarea4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayarea4)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705/78 "2019-11-05T07:12:46Z")
“If you must go, oh, no, I won’t grieve If you wait a lifetime before you leave.” The Casinos, “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-romantic-lyric-only-one-line-please/842705.md?page=3)