Don't be concerned, it will not harm you....

seriously, these are probably my two favourite love songs

Prettiest Eyes
The Beautiful South

Line One is the time
That you, you first stayed over at mine
And we drank our first bottle of wine
And we cried

Line Two we're away
And we both, we both had nowhere to stay
Well the bus-shelter's always OK
When you're young

Now you're older and I look at your face
Every wrinkle is so easy to place
And I only write them down just in case
That you die

Let's take a look at these crows feet, just look
Sitting on the prettiest eyes
Sixty 25th of Decembers
Fifty-nine 4th of Julys
Not through the age or the failure, children
Not through the hate or despise
Take a good look at these crows feet
Sitting on the prettiest eyes

Line Three I forget
But I think, I think it was our first ever bet
And the horse we backed was short of a leg
Never mind

Line Four in a park
And the things, the things that people do in the dark
I could hear the faintest beat of your heart
Then we did

Now you're older and I look at your face
Every wrinkle is so easy to place
And I only write them down just in case
You should die

Lets take a look at these crows feet, just look
Sitting on the prettiest eyes
Sixty 25th of Decembers
Fifty-nine 4th of Julys
You can't have too many good times, children
You can't have too many lines
Take a good look at these crows feet
Sitting on the prettiest eyes

Well my eyes look like a map of the town
And my teeth are either yellow or they're brown
But you'll never hear the crack of a frown
When you are here
You'll never hear the crack
Of a frown

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their home
And I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask

Take me out tonight
Oh take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
No, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes in to us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out

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The first song is lovely. Really lovely. It reminds me of the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkle's "Old Friends"

The second one..... I'm not so sure..... I think I might have to hear it to "get" it.

If we're going to start talking about our favorites, we might need to open the request line....

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Just remembered this one, boomer. Horrible and all out of meter:

Andy Williams:

In the summertime when all the trees and leaves are green
And the redbird sings, I'll be blue
'cause you don't want my love

"Some other time", that's whatcha say when I want you
Then you laugh at me and make me cry
'cause you don't want my love

You don't seem to care a thing about me
You'd rather live without me
Than to have my arms around you
When the nights are cold and you're so all alone (all alone)

In the summertime when all the trees and leaves are green
And the redbird sings, I'll be blue
'cause you don't want my love

Once upon a time you used to smile and wave to me
And walk with me but now you don't
'cause you don't want my love

Some other guy is takin' up all your time
Now ya don't have any time for me
'cause you don't want my love

You don't seem to care a thing about me
You'd rather live without me
Than to have my arms around you
When the nights are cold and you're so all alone (all alone)

In the summertime when all the trees and leaves are green
And the redbird sings, I'll be blue
'cause you don't want my love

In the summertime when all the trees and leaves are green
And the redbird sings, I'll be blue
'cause you don't want my love

(In summertime, in summertime when all the leaves are green)
In the summertime, I'll be blue all the time
'cause you don't want my love

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Starland Vocal Band did Afternoon Delight and I was amazed when the woman I was with at the time told me what was meant by the "sky rockets in flight"

Worst love songs of all time:

Diary by Bread. "I found your diary beneath a tree... ." David Gates mispronounces the word diary as dairy and it's the TITLE of the song!
I embarrassed him at a party at Leon's house by asking him about it.

Also very bad : If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you? Same band, same bland.

On the other handThis is a love song...

Joe(I know you got yourself a skinny old man...)Nation

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awful, just awful;

Quote:

On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound

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If I ever feel the urge to get laid my first move is to put this song on and as the music increases in intensity the woman's clothing sheds before my eyes.

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Gus wins.

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

HONEY - Bobby Goldsboro.

"See the tree, how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig..."

(PUKE)

I bought the soundtrack to Breakfast on Pluto the other week - well, it all sounded swell when it came up in the movie. Honey's on the CD too.

I hadnt heard of it before actually, and it totally threw me for a spin. Half-listening, for the longest time I couldnt figure out whether it was about a wife or a daughter!

I'm now close to seriously thinking it was deliberately written to kinda sorta instinctively apply to both, you know, cover the markets of grieving widowers and fathers at the same time or something.

I think the song's kinda cute actually.. but then Im only hearing it for the first times. But I find this ambiguity just sorta creepy. It's sort of a throwback to looking at a woman like she's, kinda just... your cute little pet?

I mean, lookit <finally looks up lyrics>:

Quote:

I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig
Then the first snow came
And she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die

Came runnin' in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried

She was always young at heart
Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so

And I surprised her with a puppy
Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago

And it would sure embarrass her
When I came in from workin' late
'Cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'
Over some sad and silly late, late show

She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck

Now my life's an empty stage
Where Honey lived and Honey played
And love grew up

I mean ... this is about a woman? Cause it sounds like its about his little girl.. I dont know, its cute but it kinda creeps me out.

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<I can't belive that I'm still saying this when he's been dead and gone for six years......>

If the Leon you're talking about, Joe, is the Leon I'm thinking of....

You must know my dad!

Throughout the course of my life I've met all these cool people and they all say the same thing --- "I know your dad!"

<sigh>

<I will never be as cool as my dad.>

I know our orbits have circled one another, Joe and now I'm betting that you know my dad.

Bread is indeed smaltzy. Still, when my friends four year old son died the song at the funeral was "Everything I Own". I can't listen to ANYTHING by Bread without getting a little teary.

Andy Williams, Letty? "All out of meter" could only be said by someone like you and have so much meaning.

Wassamatta Dys? Ain't there no one for to give you no pain? Is that a love song?

My kingdom for a sound card, gus.

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

If I ever feel the urge to get laid my first move is to put this song on

That video is f*cking hilarious!! The, the ... the boy singing and how they dont even pretend to be really playing (he aint got no microphone) -- the way he's singing about love while just kinda looking embarassed and awkward at the camera -- the ties, the ties, or shawls or whatchacallit! Just, just.. everything. Ha!

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boomerang wrote:

The second one..... I'm not so sure..... I think I might have to hear it to "get" it.

Oh yes, Morrissey is the only person alive on this earth who could get away with plaintively singing,

"To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die.."

<smiles>

Ive always had a soft spot for that song, because its recognizable and at the same time so completely over the top.

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another great nugget from the beautiful south

'Would you still love me if I lost my legs?'
'I'd see that you were loved and you were fed'
'I end up in a car crash almost dead'
'For richer and for partly severed head'

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boomerang wrote:

dj! You're breaking my heart (and shaking my confidence)!

I had you down as somewhere like "Perfect Day" (Lou Reed) or "Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan) or "Let's Get It On" (Marvin Gaye). The kind of guy who would leave behind a copy of "Drive" (The Cars) on their way out the door for the last time.

joe nation's post got me thinking about tom waits

this is the song i'd leave behind on my way out the door

Take It With Me
Tom Waits

Phone's off the hook
No one knows where we are
It's a long time since I
Drank champagne
The ocean is blue
As blue as your eyes
I'm gonna take it with me
When I go

Old long since gone
Now way back when
We lived in Coney Island
Ain't no good thing
Ever dies
I'm gonna take it with me
When I go

Far far away a train
Whistle blows
Wherever you're goin
Wherever you've been
Waving good bye at the end
Of the day
You're up and you're over
And you're far away

Always for you, and
Forever yours
It felt just like the old days
We fell asleep on Beaula's porch
I'm gonna take it with me
When I go

All broken down by
The side of the road
I was never more alive or
Alone
I've worn the faces off
All the cards
I'm gonna take it with me
When I go

Children are playing
At the end of the day
Strangers are singing
On our lawn
It's got to be more
Than flesh and bone
All that you're loved
Is all you own

In a land there's a town
And in that town there's
A house
And in that house
There's a woman
And in that woman
There's a heart I love
I'm gonna take it
With me when I go
I'm gonna take it
With me when I go

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Ah, Morrissey! And The Beautiful South! Excellent!!

Bad love, well, worship of the man song: "Morning Train" - Sheena Easton.

Quote:

I wake up every mornin'
I stumble out of bed
Stretchin' and yawnin'
Another day ahead
It seems to last forever
And time goes slowly by
'Til babe and me's together
Then it starts to fly

'Cos the moment that he's with me
Time can take a flight
The moment that he's with me
Everything's alright
Night time is the right time
We make love
Then it's his and my time
We take off

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

He takes me to a movie
Or to a restaurant, to go
Slow dancing
Anything I want
Only when he's with me
I catch a light
Only when he gives me
Makes me feel alright

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

All day I think of him
Dreamin' of him constantly
I'm crazy mad for him
And he's crazy mad for me
(Crazy mad for me)
When he steps off that train
I'm makin' a fool, a fight
Work all day to earn his pay
So we can play all night

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

He's always on that morning train
(He works from nine till five and then)
He works so hard
(He takes another home again)
To find me waiting for him
(My baby takes the morning train)

Essentially, I'm bubble-headed and have nothing better to do than wait for my salaryman to come home because otherwise I'm just sitting around eating bonbons or doing the housework so that he doesn't have to soil his wonderful self with such menial tasks. Ack!

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Ugh! Can't stand memories of being a tween and hearing nothing all summer but "Sunshine on my Shoulders," "Wildfire," and "Honey."

The love songs I can't stand are the ones that sound so ... crude.

"If I aid you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me." - GAG! Horrid, typical redneck pick-up line.

Ricky Martins "She Bangs" - How lovely. Rolling Eyes

And, "I Wanna Sex You Up." - Yeah, well, get in line. No, I mean at the BACK of the line.

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Do either of Tommy Roe's forgettable "Dizzy" or "Heather Honey" fit into this category?

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i like the remake of "dizzy", by early 90's band the wonderstuff

don't really remember the original

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

If I ever feel the urge to get laid my first move is to put this song on and as the music increases in intensity the woman's clothing sheds before my eyes.

I wonder what Ohio Express is up to nowadays?

Perhaps we should encourage a come back tour.

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Oh-ho-ho
Baby I'm-a want you.
Baby I'm-a need you.

Mr. B and I always tell people "our song" is "Ben" by Michael Jackson. That's a pretty creepy love song.

How do you feel about the Beatles "Why Don't We Do It In The Road", squinney?

"Morning Train"......

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