Favourite love song?

Love-song · 03-20-2011, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

You are very fortunate, Love-Song, and I imagine being separated from someone with whom you share such a deep love must by hard and bittersweet.

I disagree that the kind of energy one puts into life is what one receives back, because life guarantees neither reciprocity nor fairness. However, I agree with you on the value of focusing on the positive. Even if life isn't perfect, that philosophy can help one appreciate what *is* nice about it.

Here's a love song I think you might like, especially since your man is separated from you far removed from the comfort of being with each other in person. I hope you'll like it. The song is by a MusicBanter member and I think you'll like its message and story very much, since it sounds like it could be about YOU!

Bryan Podways - "Saving all my Somedays"

Thank you...Vegangelica...and Bryan...for such a Beautiful song...

starrynight · 03-20-2011, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

I've been listening to more songs in this thread, thinking about what "love" really means and whether I agree with the views of the songs. For example, Roy Orbison's song above sounds lovely and very emotional...and yet I feel something important is missing from it.

I remember the songs I posted before as my favorite love songs: "Annie's Song" by John Denver, and "In my life," by The Beatles.

What I find frustrating about these and many other love songs, though, is that they miss some of the complexity of what I feel love is. For example, love songs usually involve the singers going on euphorically about how wonderful they feel and how much they want or need someone, so that seems very self-centered, really. Is that love? "Annie's Song" is beautiful, but wanting someone to fill you with sensations isn't a full description of what I feel love is.

Other songs do comparisons of how important people are in your life, such as in The Beatles' song, "In My Life." And I feel that is partly true: certainly you can have stronger feelings about one person than another.

Yet maybe fulfilling promises when your emotions aren't loving, and acknowledging that sometimes you can't easily rank a person's importance in your life are a better measure of love than any of these gushy, romantic feelings described in this thread's songs, most of which seem painfully simplistic to me. Maybe actions are the best descriptor of love than any emotion a person can profess.

Love can be very self-centered and not necessarily selfless, I said that on another forum recently. And there are different kinds of love too, not necessarily romantic. Maybe it's the very difficulty of trying to define it which has made it such a useful subject along with all the complexities it creates. Love traditionally has been seen as ennobling and positive though and certainly a source of inspiration, though how much that is a gift to a loved one or just an expressing of oneself is debatable.

sopsych · 03-20-2011, 05:08 PM

Probably something written by John Waite, but not "Missing You."

VEGANGELICA · 03-20-2011, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by starrynight

Love can be very self-centered and not necessarily selfless, I said that on another forum recently. And there are different kinds of love too, not necessarily romantic. Maybe it's the very difficulty of trying to define it which has made it such a useful subject along with all the complexities it creates. Love traditionally has been seen as ennobling and positive though and certainly a source of inspiration, though how much that is a gift to a loved one or just an expressing of oneself is debatable.

True! I usually think of love as involving the pleasure of both giving and receiving (which may just be from one's own psyche).

Speaking of the difficulty of defining love, I remember a song that always perplexed but interested me when I was a child: "Muskrat love." I remember liking this song when I was a child because I liked muskrats and any other animal. I thought the song actually was about muskrats.

Actually, maybe it is about muskrats. :/ I find this song a little annoying *now* but my child self thought it was pretty cool.

Captain and Tennille - "Muskrat Love"

Love-song · 03-20-2011, 08:04 PM

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers...

Angel Dream

I dreamed You...I saw Your Face...
...cut my lifeline on floating through space
I found an Angel...I saw my Fate...
...I can only thank God it was not too late

Zaqarbal · 03-21-2011, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Uh, Zaqarbal...isn't "Every Breath You Take" by The Police actually a song about a stalker?? I always liked the song, too, when I listened to it in the 80's and so was surprised when I read what Sting had to say about it:

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Every Breath You Take by The Police Songfacts

This is one of the most misinterpreted songs ever. It is about an obsessive stalker, but it sounds like a love song. Some people even used it as their wedding song. The Police frontman Sting wrote it after separating from his first wife, Frances Tomelty.

In a 1983 interview with the New Musical Express, Sting explained: "I think it's a nasty little song, really rather evil. It's about jealousy and surveillance and ownership." Regarding the common misinterpretation of the song, he added: "I think the ambiguity is intrinsic in the song however you treat it because the words are so sadistic. On one level, it's a nice long song with the classic relative minor chords, and underneath there's this distasteful character talking about watching every move. I enjoy that ambiguity. I watched Andy Gibb singing it with some girl on TV a couple of weeks ago, very loving, and totally misinterpreting it. (Laughter) I could still hear the words, which aren't about love at all. I pissed myself laughing."

Ouch! That's the most disappointing thing I've heard since I found out that Roxanne was actually a prostitute (I was too young then

).

Howard the Duck · 03-21-2011, 08:12 AM

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Ouch! That's the most disappointing thing I've heard since I found out that Roxanne was actually a prostitute (I was too young then

).

still, you can't very well put down all "stalker" love as being "bad" love

VEGANGELICA · 03-21-2011, 08:35 AM

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Ouch! That's the most disappointing thing I've heard since I found out that Roxanne was actually a prostitute (I was too young then

).

What?!? Roxanne was a prostitute?!????!!!!!

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still, you can't very well put down all "stalker" love as being "bad" love

True.

Howard the Duck · 03-21-2011, 09:03 AM

one thing's for sure - love stinks (yeah yeah) LOVE STINKS

Zaqarbal · 03-21-2011, 09:49 AM

Oh, l'amour....!

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