Favorite Love Song?

[sodamntired]

what is/are you're favorite love song?

 

cause i have 3 i would like to share the lyrics with you...if i can find a girl that agrees that these are the most romantic songs ever, she's a keeper.

 

they're not the traditional love songs, i think, but i really dig their message(s)

 

Sam Roberts - With a Bullet

 

Your love is dark thoughts as it is bright lights

It's the sound of a teardrop falling down from a great height

So don't let go, let waters flow

 

And babe you have nothing to fear for

This is as real as the rain

My love for you is as deep as a coalmine

 

You move like moonshine straight to my head

This is a storyline we write from the same bed

You had for sale a holy grail

 

And babe you have nothing to fear for

This is as real as the rain

My love for you is as deep as a coalmine

 

And our love is dark thoughts as it is bright lights

And it's the sound of a teardrop falling down from a great height

 

And babe you have nothing to fear for

This is as real as the rain

My love for you is as deep as a coalmine

No, babe you have nothing to fear for

This is as real as the rain

My love for you is as deep as a coalmine

 

If you were marked with a bullet

I'd jump in front of it

I'd rather die for love than die for the want of it

Forever alive, forever forward

I have no use at all for any more words

 

Nine Inch Nails - Perfect Drug

 

I got my head, but my head is unraveling

Cant keep control, cant keep track of where its traveling

I got my heart but my heart is no good

And youre the only one thats understood

I come along but I dont know where youre taking me

I shouldnt go but youre reaching back and shaking me

Turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky

The more I give to you, the more I die

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you

 

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

 

You make me hard, when Im all soft inside

I see the truth, when Im all stupid eyed

The arrow goes straight through my heart

Without you everything just falls apart

 

My blood wants to say hello to you

My feelings want to get inside of you

My soul is so afraid to realize

Every little word is a lack of me

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you

 

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

(whispering)

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the perfect drug, the perfect drug

You are the perfect drug, the drug, the perfect drug

 

Take me, with you

Take me, with you

Take me, with you

(continues in backround)

Without you, without you everything falls apart

Without you, its not as much fun to pick up the pieces

Without you, without you everything falls apart

Without you, its not as much fun to pick up the pieces

Its not as much fun to pick up the pieces

Its not as much fun to pick up the pieces

Without you, without you everything falls apart

Without you, its not as much fun to pick up the pieces

 

and finally, White Stripes - Apple Blossom

 

hey little apple blossom

what seems to be the problem

all the ones you tell your troubles to

they don't really care for you

 

come and tell me what you're thinking

cause just when the boat is sinking

a little light is blinking

and i will come and rescue you

 

lots of girls walk around in tears

but that's not for you

you've been looking all around for years

for someone to tell your troubles to

 

come and sit with me and talk awhile

let me see your pretty little smile

put your troubles in a little pile

and i will sort them out for you

i'll fall in love with you

i think i'll marry you

[Some Random]

i love 'the perfect drug'.

 

i'd say 'the scientist' by coldplay is up there. first time i saw the video for that was the first time i heard the song and it gave me goosebumps. made me a coldplay fan after having loathed them for the song 'yellow'.

[Hyphnip]

I always liked "Love SOng" and "Another Love Song" by Insane Clown Posse. before you jump on my case for mentioning them, the songs are good because they aren't in any way, shape or form a "typical" love song" and end up pretty funny.

[Jarrod]

I LOVE THE PERFECT DRUG HOLY SHIT ITS LIKE MY FAVOURITE SONG!!!

 

I had to go and find it, and my computer is hooked up to a huge sound system and I had the subwoofer and the speakers on full blast and it started shaking everything the legs of my pants were been blown like in the wind...

[cringleman]

'I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,' by Wilco. It's sort of a lost love song, but it'd probably work for the wooing. 'Blue Eyed Soul' is also a sweet Wilco tune, that most likely qualifies.

[soundless_space]

Cheesy, but probably The Stills - The House We Live In. Or maybe The Cure - Lovesong.

 

At the moment. I'm sure there are better ones, I just can't think right now.

[Ryan44]

umm i have said this for every thread that says fave song, or best song or whatever, but im going with it again.

 

Five Days In May - Blue Rodeo

[Muran]

"I Love You" by Barenaked Ladies ;)

 

I <3 Apple Blossom too though.

[Prometheon]

There's a few. Some tacky, some not.

 

Edwin McKain or however you spell it - I'll Be. My ex and I had this as 'our song' (yeah yeha, sappy and stupid, I know...)

 

A bunch of Matty stuff, usually topped by Fine Art.

[Muran]

A better list:

 

The Luckiest - Ben Folds Five

Breathe - Moist

Graceful & Charming (Sweet Forget-Me-Not) - Great Big Sea

No Sissies - Hawksley Workman

Mississippi - Train

Eyes On Me - Faye Wong

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

Angels - Robbie Williams

Follow Through - Gavin DeGraw

Come What May - Moulin Rouge OST

You Don't Love Me (Like You Used To) - Philosopher Kings

Run - Snow Patrol

How To Be Dead - Snow Patrol

Wild Horses - The Sundays

Pretty Baby - Vanessa Carlton

Best I Ever Had - Vertical Horizon

Ice Cream - Sarah MacLaughlan

Sex (I'm A) - Lovage (Not so much a love song, just a damn sexy one)

[Hyphnip]

Breathe - Moist

Come Away With Me - Norah Jones

Angels - Robbie Williams

Best I Ever Had - Vertical Horizon

Ice Cream - Sarah MacLaughlan

5 great songs! Kudis on Noting that Best I Ever Had is by Vertical Horizon and not that country band that recently covered it.

See, the hard thing for me here is to define a love song. I suppose that stems from my inability to define love. Some people would call Every Rose HAs It's Thorn a great love song, some would say Closer by NIN and some would say The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot by Brand New. I don't know what I'm getting at here... so I'll say this

A Perfect Circle- Magdelina

I think in my book and in my way of thinking, this would probably be my ultimate love song. look it up

[Shiri]

Lovesong by The Cure is just perfect. Mushy in all the right places.

[matrix]

Night Drive - Jimmy Eat World

Polaris - Jimmy Eat World

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer

...pretty much anything by John Mayer is a good mood enhancer.

[somnambulist]

i love 'the perfect drug'.

 

i'd say 'the scientist' by coldplay is up there. first time i saw the video for that was the first time i heard the song and it gave me goosebumps. made me a coldplay fan after having loathed them for the song 'yellow'.

The Scientist would've been one of my pics, but it was kind of a song of my ex and I so I don't really like to listen to it anymore.

 

The Cure - Lovesong, and the cover by 311 are high up there.

 

I think some of the most beautiful love songs ever written are by Wintersleep:

 

Avalanche -

 

"I like long drives

The radio

Is on all night

'Cause you say so

 

Lying beside

Your beautiful bones

Candlelight

And heaving tones

 

This avalanche of love and skin

Collides, conquers and collapses

I breath your breath

I smell your skin

I taste you saddened sentiments

 

This avalanche of love and skin

Collides, conquers and collapses

I breath your breath

I smell your sin

I taste your saddened sentiments

 

This avalanche of love and skin

Collides, conquers and collapses

I breath your breath

I smell your sin

I taste your saddened sentiments

 

There'll be nothing left after it"

 

Now this next one might not be interpreted by some as romantic, but I think it is....

 

Snowstorm -

 

"And the hostess has been waiting

spends some time in rearranging

to keep her mind on something

beside the lack of people coming

 

You pull up in hesitation

is this the right location?

you can hear some music playing

your hand knocks in obligation

 

She opens the door, she's been waiting

and nobody's been coming

seems like nobody's coming

but if you wouldn't mind staying

 

I'll fix you a drink if you need it

and it looks like you need it

the weather's hitting so hard I can't believe it

how'd you ever drive through it

 

I don't know I kind of liked it

I don't know I wasn't thinking

let's forget about the bullshit

Lets just concentrate on drinking

 

All night

All night

All night..."

 

To me, the most beautiful love song ever written...

 

Listen [listen, listen]

 

"And even if the words don't sound right

I will love you till the day my heart dies

till the day my heart dies

 

And even if this ain't the right light

you're prettier than anything

you're prettier than anything that I'd

prettier than anything that I'd write

 

There's something in the way our lips touch

there's something in the way we're stuck together

and they don't build love like that no more

 

You said you'd like it when the thunderstorms came

said you'd like if the thunderstorm just

pulled you piece by piece away"

 

You really have to hear the song to get the full emotional impact, but it's absolutely beautiful.

[matrix]

Oh, snap...I read the title of the thread wrong. It's 'Favorite Love Songs', not 'Favorite Songs to Make Love To.'

 

Shit. Cause there are great love songs, but don't really get me in the mood. Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie, perfect example.

[Emer]

Romeo and Juliet-Dire Straits

[cringleman]

It's Edwin McCain. My dad used to listen to him.

 

Also, isn't Wild Horses originally a Stones tune? (Awesome song, too.)

[Muran]

Also, isn't Wild Horses originally a Stones tune? (Awesome song, too)

It is, but I really like The Sundays' cover of it.

[sodamntired]

found another one by Sam Roberts

 

 

Uprising Down Under

 

You feel the weight of the world on your shoulder

As every day gets shorter and colder

And hand in hand we walk through a land of fire

The mountains bleed red as the sun gets higher

 

All the things that you want I'll provide

Till your footprint is swept away by the tide

I can wait for a while, I don't mind

I can wait for a while, 'cause I got time

 

I wish it was less of the way it is

I wish it were more of the way it could be

You can put your faith in me for a while

In the end I hope you're free 'cause I'll be out of style

 

All the things that you want I'll provide

Till your footprint is swept away by the tide

And I can wait for a while, I don't mind

I can wait for a while, I got time, I got time

 

Whoever said you can't be saved by a song?

Whoever said that was stringing you along

We're all afraid to be dead and gone

This will live on, it will live on, it will live on

 

And all the things that you want I'll provide

Till your footprint is swept away by the tide

And I can wait for a while, I don't mind

I can wait for a while, I got time

 

And all the things you're looking for, I hope you'll find

Before your footprint is swept away by the tide

I can wait for a while, I don't mind

I can wait for a while, 'cause I got time

[sodamntired]

man, i just bought a cd today. the band is call The Damnwells

 

the song is called "I will keep the bad things from you"

 

I will keep the bad things from you

I will keep a straight face honey

you can keep your last name if you want to

and I will give you all my money

I could take a plane right to you

if i could just stop running

what if all this was true?

 

I will keep the bank from calling

I will keep those bastards from you

I will keep your smile from falling

this time the casualties were few

'cause we kept the bastards brawling

we kept our hearts from view

this time we're problem solving

 

catch it while you can

its the feel good hit of the summer

catch it while you can

'cause there won't be another

 

you keep the band names coming

I'll make the jokes real funny

we'll keep the skeptics humming

and someone else will take the money

we'll keep the hamsters running

I'll be the sour in your tummy

who'll wipe the nose that's running

 

catch it while you can

its the feel good hit of the summer

catch it while you can

'cause there won't be another

 

I will sleep above the covers

I will love you like no other

I will be your dad and mother

I will give you older brothers

I will feed you fries with steak sauce

I will keep the price below the cost

I will lead the way from all is lost

I will keep the bad things from you

 

catch it while you can

its the feel good hit of the summer

catch it while you can

'cause there won't be another... won't be another...

 

I'll keep the bad things from you...

I'll keep the bad things from you...

 

 

that is really sweet. its one of my new favorites.

I'll keep the bad things from you...

 

and another one by the Damnwells

 

Texas

 

im ten thousand miles from you

my sky is black when your's is blue

you just steal my broken faith

and puti t back together

you're cheating on the weather with me

i sing a song i wrote for you

a hundred melodies so blue

will you be my stolen rain

that washed it all together

i love you like a fever gone cold

 

chorus

 

im singin in my sleep

driving across texas with you

and you look so good

im singin in my sleep

driving across texas with you

and you look so good

 

i could stay another day with you

stall winters pain till june

will it stay the same

will winter be in summer

im already gettin older with you

Edited September 24, 2006 by sodamntired

[HoboFactory]

Right now... "Jolene" by Ray LaMontagne

 

Cocaine flame in my bloodstream

Sold my coat when I hit Spokane

Bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes in the early morning rain

Lately my hands they don't feel like mine

My eyes been stung with dust, I'm blind

Held you in my arms one time

Lost you just the same

Jolene

I ain't about to go straight

It's too late

I found myself face down in the ditch

Booze on my hair

Blood on my lips

A picture of you, holding a picture of me

in the pocket of my blue jeans

Still don't know what love means

Still don't know what love means

Jolene

Ah, La, La, La, La, La

Jolene

Been so long since I seen your face

or felt a part of this human race

I've been living out of this here suitcase for way too long

A man needs something he can hold onto

A nine pound hammer or a woman like you

Either one of them things will do

Jolene

I ain't about to go straight

It's too late

I found myself face down in the ditch

Booze in my hair

Blood on my lips

A picture of you, holding a picture of me

In the pocket of my blue jeans

Still don't know what love means

Still don't know what love means

Jolene

La, La, La, La, La, La, La

Jolene

La, La, La, La, La, La, La

Jolene

[Hyphnip]

I've gotta add another song to my list.

Garbage- #1 Crush

[Some Random]

just remembered this one. it's cheesy but i love it. "international you day" by no use for a name:

 

I'm sorry that it took so long to write this song

but i gave up

You see one million words can't describe how it feels

to know your love

 

Where did i go wrong?

I should have told you from the start

That i'm closer than you think when we're apart

Nothing that i've tried is as simple as this time

 

Without you

My life is incomplete, my days are absolutely gray

And so I'll try

Let your heart know for sure

That i have so much more to tell you every single day

 

I swear i'm giving up my inside to the one

that i adore

I know this world is big enough for you and I

but i'll give you more

 

I'm coming home today

To wipe the teardrops from your eyes

I'm totally enamored by your life

Nothing that i've done has ever been for one

 

Without you my life is incomplete

My days are absolutely gray

And so I'll try

Let your heart know for sure

That i have so much more to tell you every single day

 

My life is incomplete

My rights are absolutely wrong

So wake me up

Before you leave today

Something i need to say

Cause there'll be nothing when you're gone

 

 

tony sly does a wicked acoustic version of it by himself too.

[sodamntired]

my new favorite, i just discovered tonight while listening to my new (used) Damned cd

 

The Damned - Plan 9 Channel 7

 

She plays her mouth into a smile

And offers that he stay a while

Two hearts that beat as one

And eyes that hardly ever saw the sun

Hollywood babbles on

 

She lays a wreath of lilies on his grave

His flame gone along with the love he never gave

Not to be seduced by those red lips

Two dimensional comic clips

Hollywood babbles on,

on and on and on and on.

 

(chorus)

Channel 7, eyeshades of grey

Too close but two worlds away

Plan 9, her domain

Too close but two worlds away... they say

 

(repeat)

Step into the night.

[reckoner]

#1 = interpol - untitled

 

"surprize, sometime i'll come around

i will surprize you sometime, i'll come around

when you're down"

 

other good ones:

art brut - emily kane

abandoned pools - start over

bloc party - so here we are

radiohead - fake plastic trees (THAT is a love song)

decemberists - red right ankle

bright eyes - first day of my life

broken social scene - anthems for a 17 year-old girl

casiotone for the painfully alone - love connection

elliott smith - let's get lost/twilight

hayden - between us to hold

the national - lucky you

 

that's enough for now