What is your favorite love song???

[Zeno333]

One of my favorites is the infamous "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris...

Now before I am stoned Old Testament style , one must realize the great symbolism in that song....the cake is the totality of the past love relationship that went sour (the cake has green icing to represent the Macarthur City park that was a special place to the former couple.)....and the rain represents it being ruined....Also, the fast paced music only section around three-fourths through the song is symbolic of the man getting up from being down and living life again with all of its fast paces etc...(this fast music interlude comes right after he speaks in a slow lower volume despondent voice..)

It really is a great love song, that anyone that has been in love should give a chance, realizing what it is really all about.

And now I am going to eat some wet cake with green icing....

 

[he beholds]

[video=youtube;As2VT6UM7ZM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As2VT6UM7ZM[/video]
this one?

 

[Zeno333]

I could not play the video, but yes, that is the song.
I just bought it the other day on iTunes.

 

[christiana]

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

CHORUS
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

CHORUS



There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.

-----Added 12/20/2008 at 12:06:44 EST-----

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Frank Sinatra vesion arranged by Nelson Riddle
Recorded by Frank Sinatra September 1, 1960, produced by Dave Cavanaugh
From the Album: Sinatra's Swingin' Session (Capitol Records, 1960)


Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Blue Moon
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold

Blue Moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper please adore me
And when I looked the Moon had turned to gold

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue moon
Now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

 

[jaybird0827]

[video=youtube;EQRvS6UShzA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQRvS6UShzA&feature=related[/video]

 

[LawrenceU]

Blue Moon is our song, too! You can't beat a classic.
[video=youtube;iUOFIzdihQI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUOFIzdihQI[/video]

I actually have that very album. But, I don't have a turn table anymore. I'm looking for my old Technics next time I go home.

 

[jawyman]

This might seem like an odd love song, but it my wife's and mine.

[video=youtube;UQeqmNbA2Hs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeqmNbA2Hs[/video]

 

[Galatians220]

My all-time favorite popular song

...is "That Sunday, That Summer" by Nat King Cole. It's on YouTube, but embedding has been disabled. Other people have done it, but no one like NKC.

I have it on tape and CD... I never, ever get tired of it.

Margaret

 

[LawrenceU]

This might seem like an odd love song, but it my wife's and mine.

When I hear that song I have flash backs to being under the heavy influence of nitrous oxide in the dentist chair having that song warble around near tonal impossibility in the head phones.

 

[Zeno333]

This might seem like an odd love song, but it my wife's and mine.

When I hear that song I have flash backs to being under the heavy influence of nitrous oxide in the dentist chair having that song warble around near tonal impossibility in the head phones.

I had a heavy does of NO2 at the dentist in my Freshman year at College, it was shortly before Finals week, and I still remember sitting there "trying" to worry about my upcoming final exams, and just could not do it because of the NO2 influence and effect....very strange thing to go through.

 

[Blue Tick]

[video=youtube;V1LegWs8xdc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1LegWs8xdc&feature=channel_page[/video]

 

[christiana]

Oh, I too have always loved that song! So beautiful! The words are so special!

Artist: Nat King Cole
-peak Billboard position # 12 in 1963
-Words and Music by George David Weiss and Joe Sherman


(If I had to choose just one day)

If I had to choose just one day
To last my whole life through
It would surely be that Sunday
The day that I met you

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills
Summer was a-coming in but fast
Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills
Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper
"Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her"

If I had to choose one moment
To live within my heart
It would be that tender moment
Recalling how we started
Darling, it would be when you smiled at me
That way, that Sunday, that summer

(Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills)
(Summer was a-comin' in but fast)
(Lots of daffodils were showin' off their skills)
(Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper)
("Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her")

If I had to choose one moment
To live within my heart
It would be that tender moment
Recalling how we started
Darling, it would be when you smiled at me
That way, that Sunday, that summer

-----Added 12/20/2008 at 01:47:02 EST-----

I know this thread is about love songs but I must admit that the alltime most moving words in a song that just reduce me to tears everytime are:

"Mary did you know, that when you kissed your little baby, you kissed the face of God"

I weep just thinking of that!

 

[Galatians220]

Christiana, me, too, when I think about "Mary Did You Know?" How the Lord elevated motherhood, didn't He, when He sent our precious Redeemer in that manner?!

I'm glad also to find someone else who likes "That Sunday, That Summer." Nowadays, I think of "(choosing) just one moment to live my whole life through," or those days, really, when the Lord was scooping me up out of muck and mire and -- He was saving me! How wonderful it is to live in the light and life of salvation... "Recalling how we started...! When He smiled at me..." But we grow and are sanctified, and He conforms us by tribulations to His character. Still, that light and that life and that dear smile were given to us and can never be taken away!

In our area, we have about a week in May or June in which "summer comes in but fast" and "daffodils show off their skills." It's glorious! Sitting here looking at the snow, I like to think about things like that, when the Lord brings everything to life again...

 

[he beholds]

I really like Ben Fold's "The Luckiest," I just wish it was "The Most Blessed," or something. But I get what he's saying:

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest
[video=youtube;Nz7R5y8CQRE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz7R5y8CQRE&feature=related[/video]

 

[Galatians220]

Offering another one:

[video=youtube;sfStC3_jarA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfStC3_jarA[/video]

Anthony Warlow is a star of Australian musical theater whom I never would have heard of if I didn't surf YouTube. He looks a little different now than he did in this video, as he has since undergone grueling treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma. His voice, however, has lost nothing.

Margaret

 

[Me Died Blue]

[video=youtube;g_nHKuBSKdE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_nHKuBSKdE[/video]

 

[Timothy William]

My favourite love song: All I want is you by U2.

 

[Wannabee]

Well, this one's an oldie. Sort of telling on myself here. It was the first country song my wife liked. And, well, once you hear it you'll know...
[video=youtube;GNwT5jXcGD0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNwT5jXcGD0[/video]

And, yes, I can sing it to her, and have (though I adapt for her blond hair. ).

 

[Ravens]

When I think "love song", I don't necessarily think "the sweetest song", or, "the song that best captures romanticism and covenant fidelity." I think, "Songs that make me think about my future wife, or Archetypal Eve, in all of the many types of relationships and shades of life."

That caveat is only mentioned so as to explain a couple of choices:

In no particular order:

1) Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns 'n Roses
2) Is This Love? - Bob Marley
3) Baby Its Cold Outside
4) Darlin' Companion - when sang by Cash and June Carter
5) I Had the Time of my Life - sang by Medley and Warnes
6) You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
7) Wishlist - Pearl Jam
8) They Love Each Other - Grateful Dead
9) Baby Now that I've Found You
10) Baby I Need Your Lovin'
11) Head Over Feet - Alanis Morisette
12) Lovin' and Huggin' - Hank III

 

[KMK]

Now before I am stoned Old Testament style , one must realize the great symbolism in that song....the cake is the totality of the past love relationship that went sour (the cake has green icing to represent the Macarthur City park that was a special place to the former couple.)....and the rain represents it being ruined....Also, the fast paced music only section around three-fourths through the song is symbolic of the man getting up from being down and living life again with all of its fast paces etc...(this fast music interlude comes right after he speaks in a slow lower volume despondent voice..)

Who says? Is this from the mouth of the lyricist or are you making this up?

Couldn't it all be jibberish? Many (like Lennon) have gotten away with it before.

However, when you take out the meaningless lyrics you have quite a good melody:

[video=youtube;9UuRL1ijHyk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UuRL1ijHyk[/video]

 

[panta dokimazete]

Disregard the video - listen to the song.

[video=youtube;N03zXSvZS0A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N03zXSvZS0A[/video]

Alison Krauss

Looking in the Eyes of Love Lyrics:

I wonder should I tell you
`bout all the crazy things I've ever done
I've been searching all my life
And when I should have stayed
I tried to run
I was searching for an answer
In a world full of strangers
But what I found was never real enough
Now that I've found you
I'm looking in the eyes of love

Darlin' you've been good to me
You are so much more than I deserve
I never thought that I would find
Someone who's so sweet and kind like you
Please believe me when I say
This time I won't run away
I swear by all of heaven's stars above
Now that I've found you
I'm looking in the eyes of love

[Chorus:]
Looking in the eyes of love
I can see forever
I can see you and me walking in
this old world together
Lord my heart's found a home
I've been dreaming of
Now that I've found you
I'm looking in the eyes of love