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”
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”
Ah, the Moody Blues…
“And the sound we make together is the music to the story in your eyes.”
“Whiskey and rum, blood on my tongue, you haunt me.”
Sir Sly “You haunt me” (Amtrac remix)
“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
“All my love in vain.”
—Robert Johnson, “Love in Vain”
“I lit a fire with the love you left behind”
Stars-Grace Potter
“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”.
Also “Everywhere I look I see your eyes”.
The Rolling Stones, “Angie”.
"Darlin’ just remember these three words, I love you, I love you…
The Hagg-Natural High
"Heaven known no frontiers, and I’ve found heaven in your eyes.
Mary Black, “No Frontiers”
I’ve always liked the line from Simon and Garfunkel’s America
*Cathy I’m lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
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TCMF-2L
“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.
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
“Love is not the only thing
It’s the best thing”
“There’s a light in your eyes. Did you leave that light burning for me?”
-Light In Your Eyes, Blessid Union of Souls
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.
“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”