Happy Hump Day Survey!

Any lyric off of 2 Live Crew's As Nasty As They Wanna Be. Face Down, Ass Up is a particular favorite.

Seriously, there's so many great ones and I think each person has their own definition. The lyrics that speak the most to me conjure up images of the life left behind that could have been due to the clarion call of love.

For me it was leaving behind the life of motorcycles. Weekend trips to places I've never been, just me and my bike and new experiences. I met my wife, quit smoking for her cold turkey in order to get her to go on a date with me, sold my bike and wrapped it around her finger, and six months after our first date we were married.

Townes Van Zandt - [i wrote:

I'll Be Here in the Morning[/i]]
There's lots of things along the road
I'd surely like to see
I'd like to lean into the wind
And tell myself I'm free
But your softest whisper's louder
Than the highways call to me

Mel Carter [i wrote:

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me[/i]]
They told me, "Be sensible with your new love
Don't be fooled thinking this is the last you'll find"
But they never stood in the dark with you, love
When you take me in your arms
and drive me slowly out of my mind.

When thinking about answers to this question, I also realized that the majority of songs that came to mind were about lost love. Is it because you can't truly love until you've experienced profound loss and in that loss there is incredible beauty and humanity? Or because the thought of what might have been employs our imaginations to fill in the blanks and paints a picture of a love based on the most intense desires of our psyche?

DiscoDriveby wrote:

happy hump day!!!

"What's the most romantic song lyric you've ever heard" - courtesy of Dr Awkward

Hahahahahahahaahhahahaha I'm taking this week off.

EDIT: Just realized this comes off as mocking the question rather than mocking my own taste in music.

But there might actually be one song I have that makes me feel properly about love. I'll see if any of the lyrics seem appropriate to the survey.

ccesarano wrote:
DiscoDriveby wrote:

happy hump day!!!

"What's the most romantic song lyric you've ever heard" - courtesy of Dr Awkward

Hahahahahahahaahhahahaha I'm taking this week off.

EDIT: Just realized this comes off as mocking the question rather than mocking my own taste in music.

I just took it as a Ron Swanson-esque take on sappy music.

Hehe, are you kidding me, I have an entire playlist called "Love Songs"... Now, which one am I going to pick... I'll try and limit to a couple.

Without you, I'm nothing at all.

The rest of the lyrics never made much sense to me, but that line alone is romantic enough for me.

But you know
That she's watching
She's laughing, she's turning
She's holding her tonic like a cross
The room suddenly spinning, she walks up and asks how you are
So you can smell her perfume
You can see her lying naked in your arms

And so there's a change
In your emotions
And all of these memories come rushing like feral waves to your mind
Of the curl of your bodies, like two perfect circles entwined
And you feel hopeless, and homeless, and lost in the haze of the wine

Not exactly happy joy-joy romantic love, but still...

It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there's something about us I want to say
Cause there's something between us anyway

I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there's something about us I've got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you

I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I'll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life

Good old Daft Punk.

FSeven wrote:

When thinking about answers to this question, I also realized that the majority of songs that came to mind were about lost love. Is it because you can't truly love until you've experienced profound loss and in that loss there is incredible beauty and humanity? Or because the thought of what might have been employs our imaginations to fill in the blanks and paints a picture of a love based on the most intense desires of our psyche?

Wow, FSeven, that was incredibly deep, and so true. Now that I think of it, what you say holds true for a lot of the songs that were eligible for me. (I try to limit myself to three, but there are soooo many others)

This is going to be my first dance song at my wedding:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know someday you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
but why, why, why can't it be
can't it be mine

Black - Pearl Jam

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

This is going to be my first dance song at my wedding:

You beat me to it. I honestly can't now remember if we played it at our wedding or not, but my wife and I had it on a wedding music mix disc that we listened to a lot around that time.

Another favorite of ours:

And when you look in my eyes
please know my heart is in your hands
It's nothing that I understand, but when in your arms
you have complete power over me

Is it too sappy to link the song I wrote for my wife?

Ranger Rick wrote:

Is it too sappy to link the song I wrote for my wife? :)

That's an awesome song, RR. Very hypnotic and beautiful.

Tanglebones wrote:

Wish always seemed more romantic to me.

Well, it was either that, or this:

Spinal Tap: Sex Farm?

I really don't pay much attention to lyrics. It's strange. It probably makes up less than 1% of what I get out of popular music. That said, this lyric has always grabbed me emotionally in a sort-of realist romantic sense.

My old man always swore
that hell would have no flames --
Just a front row seat to watch
Your true love pack her things and drive away.

It's from the song "The Poison" on Pedro the Lion's Achilles Heel.

Not romantic love, but this song really gets me:

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I really don't pay much attention to lyrics. It's strange. It probably makes up less than 1% of what I get out of popular music.

I've told people before that if you swapped out the lyrics in most songs, including ones I'm really familiar with, with glossolalia that I wouldn't notice the difference. That's part of the reason that listening to music sung in a foreign language, or complete nonsense like ( ), has never thrown me. I just don't listen to lyrics.

The only time that's a problem is when I'm making a mix for my wife and include something that has lyrics that are offensive or just really break the tone of the disc. We still joke about the time I put this song on a semi-romantic disc:

Sorry about the dead bird song, hun.

Yeah, overly stupid or offensive lyrics can definitely ruin songs even for me. It's pretty rare, though. Please don't tell me Sigur Rós lyrics are just Icelandic translations of Raffi songs.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I really don't pay much attention to lyrics. It's strange. It probably makes up less than 1% of what I get out of popular music.

I've told people before that if you swapped out the lyrics in most songs, including ones I'm really familiar with, with glossolalia that I wouldn't notice the difference. That's part of the reason that listening to music sung in a foreign language, or complete nonsense like ( ), has never thrown me. I just don't listen to lyrics.

I introduce you to Star One, a band whose lyrics are so terrible you cannot ignore them.

Why, yes, that is a song based on Star Trek IV.

If you don't listen to lyrics, how can you sing along?

ccesarano wrote:

Why, yes, that is a song based on Star Trek IV.

Wow. That's, like, Rush levels of silliness.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

If you don't listen to lyrics, how can you sing along?

You don't want to hear me sing.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

If you don't listen to lyrics, how can you sing along?

Obnoxiously!

ClockworkHouse wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

Why, yes, that is a song based on Star Trek IV.

Wow. That's, like, Rush levels of silliness.

Clockers gon' clock!

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

If you don't listen to lyrics, how can you sing along?

You don't want to hear me sing.

You don't want to hear me sing either. I do it in the car when no one is around.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

This is going to be my first dance song at my wedding:

You beat me to it. I honestly can't now remember if we played it at our wedding or not, but my wife and I had it on a wedding music mix disc that we listened to a lot around that time.

Another favorite of ours:

That one was also on our short list! Along with...

Ok, serious answer - I do love this:

I'm not a romantic, but a few love songs really speak to me. Now that I think about it they all seem similar in that their lyrics describe a love that's strong but circumspect and deliberate.

Midnight Train to Georgia

I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine

Perfectly articulated.

Save the Last Dance for Me

Oh I know
That the music is fine
Like sparkling wine
Go and have your fun

Laugh and sing
But while we're apart
Don't give your heart
To anyone

But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me

Pragmatic if a touch possessive.

In My Life

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

This was Missy and my wedding song (yes the Ozzy version)

At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over and life is like a song
At last the skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped in clover the night I looked at you
I found a dream that I can speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill I've never known
You smiled and then the spell was cast
And here we are in Heaven.

I don't know about "most" romantic, but I've always liked this:

People pressing my flesh, taking my time.
They don't know a thing about my life with you.
I'm trying real hard, hard not to care.
Cause all I ever really want to do
Is sit around doing nothing with you,
Because nothing's only fun when you are there.

related:

Everybody says they want a million bucks,
but I'd rather have a million days with you.