Your favorite romantic lyric. Only one line please.

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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. :wink:

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“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

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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.

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You’re my pride and joy, et cetera…
(I sing that to my friend’s baby, Elenore)

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“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.

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Oh honey, after all these years you’re still the one - Can’t Wait by Bob Dylan

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“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,” a chart hit for Faron Young, and one of the best examples of country music speaking of life in real terms.

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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

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And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance - I hope you dance …Tia Sillers

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“Be my undoing; be my slow road to ruin tonight.” - Del Amitri, from Be My Downfall

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.

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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.

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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”

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“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.)

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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

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*Dance me to the children who are asking to be born *

  • L. Cohen, “Dance Me to the End of Love”
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“It’s the morning after and my arm isn’t chewed off.”

-me, an original thought

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“If I should live forever and all my dreams come true, my memories of love will be of you”

John Denver, “Perhaps Love”

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  • And he gave her one last kiss and died,
    And he gave her his Vincent to ride. *

Richard Thompson - “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”

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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.

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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.”