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Pic this: You've orchestrated the perfect at-home date for your significant other, featuring candles, vino, and a lovingly home-cooked (or lovingly ordered via app) dinner. Just just equally your person texts you lot that they're on their style, you realize that yous take no idea what sort of music to play to retain the romantic ambience. After all, y'all can't have your early 2000s guilty pleasure songs come on shuffle while you're trying to stare lovingly into your partner's eyes (nothing ruins the mood like the distinctive "youuuuuu" at the beginning of "Soulja Boy." And yes, that instance is based on a true story).
Anyway, I've got you covered with my list of the almost beautiful, hopeful, and achingly romantic songs ever written (in my humble opinion). You'll take your vanquish/partner/Bumble appointment swooning.
"ROS" - Mac Miller
Most romantic lyrics: "I'g in your center, I'thousand in your dream/ Then fuck the world it's you and me"
Rationale: When the outside globe becomes fell, many couples plough inward and develop that us-against-the-world mindset. In "ROS," Mac Miller captures what information technology's like to experience close to someone, spending much of this song describing the lilliputian things he loves about his partner, like her "stained drinking glass" eyes, butterscotch-scented pare, and kiwi-flavored lips. The lyrics are intimate in every way, and Mac delivers them with his characteristic rawness.
"These Arms of Mine" - Otis Redding
Most romantic lyrics: "These arms of mine, they are lone/ Lonely and feeling blueish/ These arms of mine, they are yearning/ Yearning from wanting you"
Rationale: This song hits me right in the breast. It'southward impossible not to feel your artillery and chest aching similar Reddings' when he sings about burning to hold his lover. The music crescendos around his smoothen vocalisation as he begs, "And if you would allow them hold yous/ Oh, how grateful I would be." It's such a sweetness, earnest plea for love, and its focus on physicality is pretty sexy, too.
"Ex Gene" - Lauryn Hill
Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "Meet, no i loves you lot more than me/ and no 1 ever will"
Rationale: No one knows how to obliterate me emotionally quite similar Lauryn Hill does. In "Ex Cistron" (and on this whole anthology, permit's be existent), she's vulnerable, baring all her devotion to her fellow. Nosotros recognize straightaway that her relationship is toxic, just Colina'southward honesty is so cute that we humble listeners take no choice simply to sit, transfixed, and listen.
"Skinny Love" - Bon Iver
Most romantic lyrics: "Told my love to wreck information technology all/ Cut out all the ropes and allow me fall"
Rationale: When this vocal came out in 2007, I was in centre school. I could not stop singing it as I traipsed through my house, virtually-tears as I crooned about "the sink of blood and crushed veneer," as though my twelve years on world had been rife with tragic honey affairs.
Nevertheless, this song still holds up. Bon Iver is a master at depicting what it'southward like to fully surrender yourself to someone while enlightened that they may hurt y'all in the end. I all the same sing this vocal while I lounge effectually my footling studio apartment, drawing on real-life experiences this time, though I assure you that none of them involved blood-filled sinks or crushed veneers.
"Leather and Lace" - Stevie Nicks & Don Henley
Most romantic lyrics: "Lovers forever, face to face/ My urban center, your mountains/ Stay with me, stay/ I need y'all to love me/ I demand you today/ Give me to me your leather, take from me my lace"
Rationale: This is Stevie Nicks' lyricism at its most poignant. She wrote "Leather and Lace" herself then performed information technology with Don Henley (of The Eagles) while they were dating. This duet is beautiful in and of itself, but their chemical science and passion for each other makes it all the more impactful. An ex played this for me once, unprompted, and I remember thinking, My God, dude. Why would you do this to me?
Wrecked.
The Way You Wait Tonight" - Frank Sinatra
Most romantic lyrics: "Lovely, never, never modify/ go along that incoherent amuse/ won't you please arrange it?/ 'Cause I love you lot/ Only the fashion you look this night"
Rationale: Ah, yes. The song that plays at every wedding on earth. Popular songs are pop for a reason, though, and this one endures considering of the accepting, unconditional sort of love that it depicts. In addition to Sinatra's version, I'm also partial to Fred Astaire'due south rendition in the 1936 flick Swing Time and the sweet yet tongue-in-cheek visuals continue with information technology.
"Everlasting Calorie-free" - The Blackness Keys
Most romantic lyrics: "Let me be your everlasting lite/ Your railroad train going away from pain/ Love is the coal that makes this railroad train whorl/ Let me be your everlasting lite"
Rationale: If you read the lyrics without the music, the whole song sounds kind of like a late nineteenth century verse form. The love in this vocal is and then pure and hopeful, and you'll definitely proceeds cool-points past playing The Black Keys on a kickoff date.
"To Know Him Is To Love Him" - Amy Winehouse
Most romantic lyrics: "To know, know, know him/ Is to love, love, dearest him/ Simply to run into that smile/ Makes my life worthwhile"
Rationale: No one does unbridled honey like Amy Winehouse. Her soulful voice takes center stage in this Phil Spector embrace, and if you're not already in dearest, it will make yous want to be.
"Similar Real People Exercise" - Hozier
About romantic lyrics: "I will not enquire you where you came from/ I will not ask yous, neither should you/ Dear, just put your sweet lips on my lips/ Nosotros should but buss like real people do"
Rationale: Here, Hozier is trying to convince his dear interest to forget that they both take pasts (who doesn't?) and to just love him. There'southward a sense that both people in the song consider themselves odd in some way (once again, who doesn't?), and that they've been searching for partners like each other for ages. "Similar Real People Do" reminds u.s. of how miraculous it feels to love and be loved dorsum.
"Tin't Take My Optics Off Y'all" - Franki Valli & The 4 Seasons
Most romantic lyrics: "You're just too good to be truthful/ Tin't accept my eyes off of y'all/ You'd be like heaven to bear on/ I wanna hold you so much"
Rationale: To quote every Boomer from my home country of New Jersey: They but don't make 'em similar this anymore. And it'southward truthful―this song manages to balance emotional and sexual yearning without being crude.
And just... the gratitude Valli feels when he sings about loving his daughter so much that he thanks God he'southward alive. My Lord. They really but exercise not make 'em quite similar this anymore.
"Forrest Gump" - Frank Ocean
Most romantic lyrics: "My fingertips and my lips/ They burn from the cigarettes/ Forrest Gump, yous run my mind, boy/ Running on my heed, boy"
Rationale: This is Frank Ocean's almost criminally underrated vocal and I will fight anyone who has annihilation negative to say about it. In fact, I once made a very loud, spirited defense force of this song when I was in high school, right afterwards Bounding main's ill-received performance of it at the 2013 Grammys (opens in new tab).
The vocal is told from the perspective of Jenny in the 1994 film Forrest Gump. It's nigh a broken, tired person coming back to their pure, enduring love after a great deal of time has passed. Information technology's especially meaningful, in my opinion, because Body of water penned the vocal in the wake of his very public coming-out.
"Have Me The Fashion I Am" - Ingrid Michaelson
Virtually romantic lyrics: "'Crusade I honey yous more than than I could always promise/ And you take me the mode I am"
Rationale: What a throwback! Ingrid Michaelson was responsible for some of the sweetest manic-pixie-dream-girl honey songs of the early on 2000s, and this 1 was her almost popular. Michaelson rejoices in having plant a partner who loves her, flaws and all, and she responds in kind, promising to repair what her partner breaks and buy him Rogaine when his hair starts falling out. It's a promise to love someone forever.
"I'm Non Dead" - P!nk
Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "Right beyond the cigarette and the devilish grinning/Yous're my crack of sunlight/ Y'all can exercise the math a thou means/ Just you can't erase the facts/ That others come and others become/ But you e'er come back"
Rationale: This is my favorite era of P!nk's music. In "I'm Not Dead," she writes a frank, unapologetic dear song about being a flawed human being deeply in honey with some other flawed human being. Waxing poetic about her and her boyfriend's (her futurity hubby, Cary Hart, past the fashion) tattoos and alluding to her own mental affliction, P!nk eschews all tired clichés near honey in favor of something far more accurate and affecting.
"Hannah Hunt" - Vampire Weekend
Most romantic lyrics: "A man of faith said hidden optics could see what I was thinkin'/ I simply smiled and told him/ That was simply truthful of Hannah"
Rationale: Oh, Ezra Koenig, how y'all wound me with your beautiful words! In this song, our narrator seems to be moving effectually the U.Due south. with his love Hannah until she grows homesick for the due east coast. Having lived in New England for around seven years, I'm partial to this song for its "freezing beaches" references, merely it's also a gentle tribute to the manner time glides away when you're with someone y'all love.
"A Song For You" - Donny Hathaway
Nearly romantic lyrics: "I love you lot in a identify/ Where there's no space or time/ I love you for my life/ You're a friend of mine/ And when my life is over/ Recollect when nosotros were together"
Rationale: At that place take been many versions of this song, but this one's my favorite. It was also Amy Winehouse's favorite. Donny Hathaway sings this with such feeling that one can't assistance but experience he's reciting a memoir when he sings his apology to a woman he neglected to settle down with because he was besides busy performing around the world.
"Maps" - Yep Yeah Yeahs
About romantic lyrics: "Don't stray/ My kind's your kind/ I'll stay the same."
Rationale: Aye, this song is 90 percent merely Karen O singing "Look, they don't honey yous like I honey you," just information technology'south so powerful! If you lot say something the right mode, and the accompanying music is practiced plenty, there'south no need to embellish much more. Proof: Beyoncé clearly nods to this song in her 2016 single "Concord Upwards." "Maps" endures, over a decade after, beyond genres.
"If I Own't Got You" - Alicia Keys
Virtually romantic lyrics: "Some people want diamond rings/ Some just want everything/ Only everything means nothing/ If I ain't got you lot"
Rationale: This vocal is all the more touching when you recall that she wrote it just as she was beginning to get famous. She promises that her renown―the fruit of all her labor―along with promises of riches, jewelry, or endless life would all mean nothing if she didn't have her man.
"Pino Tree Lines" - Told Slant
Almost romantic lines: "I am the girl my parents made/ Why don't you dear me anyway/ 'Cause I beloved the manner yous accept up space"
Rationale: Devastating genius. Pb singer Felix Walworth delivers this vocal then earnestly that his voice literally cracks during that last line. I've never heard a simpler or more than startlingly accurate delineation of adoration than loving the fashion someone takes up space.
"Inevitable" - Shakira
Most romantic lyrics: "To exist fifty-fifty more honest/ No ane thinks about you/ The mode I do" (Translated from Castilian)
Rationale: Shakira spends almost of this song laying out all her imperfections―that she doesn't know how to make coffee, that she doesn't sympathise soccer, that she oversleeps, etc.―and and so proceeds to ask her homo to love her anyway.
"I Found You" - Alabama Shakes
Most romantic lyrics: "I recollect all them lonely days/ I traveled out on my ain/ Then you brought me everything/ You lot fabricated my house a dwelling"
Rationale: This is a celebration of finally finding your person. So who better to listen to it with than your person? Romantic, indeed.
"Rag Doll" - Franki Valli & The Four Seasons
Most romantic lines: "I'd alter her distressing rags/ Into glad rags if I could/ My folks won't let me/ 'Crusade they say that she'south no good."
Rationale: Another Iv Seasons song, yes. I'one thousand from Jersey. Sue me.
Franki Valli declares his unconditional love for a girl much poorer than he is, fantasizing about replacing her tattered clothes with lace and finery. In spite of her poverty, he ends the song by crying, "I love you merely the mode y'all are."
He wants to requite everything to someone who tin offering him naught material. All he wants is her.
"Since I've Been Loving You" - Led Zeppelin
Nearly romantic lyrics: "Merely baby, since I've been loving you lot, yes/ I'm about to lose my worried listen/ Oh, yep"
Rationale: Man, these lyrics look so underwhelming when written down sans musical accompaniment. It's tragic.
What makes this song so romantic, to me, is the organ and bass work by John Paul Jones pair with Robert Plant's searing vocals. It's a power blues song that hits you right in the gut. If desperate desire were a sound, this would be it.
"You Got Me" - Erykah Badu and The Roots
Nigh romantic lines: "If you lot don't worry 'bout where/ I been or who I saw or/ What club I went to with my homies/ Babe, don't worry, yous know that yous got me"
Rationale: I cried when I saw this live. Erykah reassures her swain during the chorus that she'll e'er be loyal to him, while Blackness Thought (lead MC of The Roots) uses his verses to tell the story of a lifelong romance. It's the best dear song in hip hop, hands downwardly.
"(You Brand Me Experience Like) A Natural Adult female - Aretha Franklin
Nearly romantic lyrics: "When my soul was in the lost and found/ You lot came along to claim information technology/ I didn't know just what was wrong with me/ 'Til your kiss helped me name information technology"
Rationale: We should heal ourselves rather than wait around for someone to heal u.s.a., simply that doesn't mean that love tin't exist a healing experience. It'southward really romantic to thank someone for making you experience skilful, and that'due south precisely what this song (written by the flawless Carole King) is most.
"Jade" - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Most romantic lyrics: "We tin can't help but follow, she's Buddha, merely sentinel her/ She moves similar an former gypsy woman simply swears she's a girl/ And all that she asks we'll allow her/ For Jade is the daughter of the hour"
Rationale: Alex Ebert wrote this song for Jade Castrinos when they were both still dating and still the frontpeople of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The song is a quiet love letter to Castrinos―you could imagine Ebert singing information technology to her at night by the bivouac while the rest of the ring is asleep (that's this band's vibe, really). It'due south a shame that we no longer get to watch the sweetness relationship between these talented musicians, but at least we'll ever take this hippie love song.
"Wild Horses" - The Rolling Stones
Nigh romantic lyrics: "Graceless lady/ Yous know who I am/ You know I can't permit y'all/ Slide through my easily/ Wild horses/ Couldn't elevate me abroad"
Rationale: One of the wildest bands of the '60s and '70s also happened to write i of the most poignant songs about dear and devotion. This is about a long, deep intimacy between two people, and of existence physically unable to resist the person you adore.
"Jim Bogart" - The Front Bottoms
Most romantic lyrics: "I would sleep improve on your floor/ Than I would ever in my bed/ And if your carpet makes my face itch/ It'd still be heaven in my caput"
Rationale: "Jim Bogart" opens with the to a higher place lyrics, sung with lead singer Brian Sella's signature raw vocals. He abandons all pride in his honey for this girl, promising to exercise his guitar every night, to sleep on her flooring without complaint, and to to ignore his medico's advice―all to win her love. We shouldn't take to debase ourselves for honey (*rolls eyes* yep, yes yes), but this is art. And if we're being honest, this sentiment is relatable for anyone who'south prayed for their love to be reciprocated.
"Loving You" - Elvis Presley
Most romantic lyrics: "If I'm seen with someone new/ Don't be blueish, don't you be blue/ I'll be true-blue, I'll be true/ Ever truthful, true to you"
Rationale: Elvis tells his dear not to get jealous or to believe the hype around him and other women, reassuring her that she'south the i for him. Although multiple sources have claimed that Elvis did, indeed, cheat on his married woman, Priscilla, this remains his sweetest love song.
"Melissa" - The Allman Brothers Ring
Most romantic lyrics: "Knowing many, loving none/ Bearin' sorrow, havin' fun/ Simply back home he'll ever run/ To sweetness Melissa"
Rationale: Hither, the Allman Brothers sing nearly a traveling musician who can't get over his sweetheart no matter how many other women he meets. She e'er ends upwards resurfacing in his heed, and eventually, he e'er returns to her.
"My Old Human" - Joni Mitchell
Most romantic lyrics: "He's my sunshine in the morning/ He'due south my fireworks at the end of the day/ He'due south the warmest chord I always head/ Play that warm chord, play and stay, baby"
Rationale: Mitchell's soaring mezzo-soprano meanders through a portrait of her relationship in this song, insisting throughout that, "Nosotros don't need no piece of paper from the urban center hall." She'due south saying that she doesn't need external validation of the relationship―this man gives her all she needs to feel secure in their bail.
"Devil In a New Apparel" - Kanye Westward, Rick Ross
Most romantic lyrics: "Put your hands to the constellations/ The way y'all wait should be a sin, you my awareness"
Rationale: Kanye West is a pretty polarizing figure, but this is still i of my favorite albums of all time. It's a bittersweet tribute to his infamous relationship with Amber Rose, and this song encapsulates the often-sexy, e'er-complicated connection betwixt two people who aren't adept for each other, still can't stay away from ane another.
"Honey of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)" - Erykah Badu, Common
Most romantic lyrics: "Only that is all behind me/ 'Cause now there is no other/ My love is his and his is mine/ A friend became the/ Love of my life"
Rationale: Conventional advice tells us to fall in love with someone who tin can be our friend, too. This song is about 2 lifelong best friends who find their way back to each other after time spent apart. With her famously fallacious voice, Erykah Badu captures the joy of existence truly known past one's partner.
"A Sunday Kind of Dear" - Etta James
Virtually romantic lyrics: "I want a Sunday kind of honey/ A love to last by Saturday night/ I want to know information technology's more love at first sight"
Rationale: We've all been at this point earlier. If Etta James were to take written this song today, she would have been explaining that she was sick of one-night-stands and Tinder/Bumble/Swivel dates that go nowhere. She'd be saying she was tired of sweaty strangers in confined shouting into her ear, over deafening music, asking if she wants to accept a shot.
Instead, she'd desire something substantial. Someone to relax and binge Schitt'south Creek reruns with on the weekends.
May we all find that Sunday kind dear.
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"Baby I'1000 Yours" - Arctic Monkeys
Nearly romantic lyrics: "Baby, I'g yours/ And I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky/ Yours until the rivers all run dry/ In other words, until I dice"
Rationale: This song sounds like information technology was written in the '50s or '60s. In some ways, information technology's your run-of-the-factory slow song, but in that location's something charming about the Arctic Monkeys being the ones to perform this retro pledge of devotion.
"She Will Be Loved" - Maroon v
Most romantic lyrics:"I don't mind spendin' everyday / Out on your corner in the pourin' rain"
Rationale:I retrieve listening to this vocal in middle school, wishing that the male child I had a trounce on would love me enough to stand exterior my window in the rain. In retrospect, that would have been awkward and inconvenient to explain to my mother, and these days I would probably notice such behavior creepy (when I'grand in my pajamas in my apartment, peacefully eating Takis and watching The Sopranos, the last affair I need is a homo standing exterior, watching me from the street like something out of The Exorcist), but the sentiment of this vocal nevertheless stands.
"Because the Night" - Patti Smith
Most romantic lyrics: "Come on, now, effort and understand/ The way I feel when I'thou in your hands/ Take my hand, come up hole-and-corner/ They can't hurt you now"
Rationale: In this song, which was originally written by lyrical legend Bruce Springsteen, Smith promises her lover that he's safe with her. If yous've read Smith'southward book But Kids, yous'll probably listen to this song and think of her and Robert Mapplethorpe singing and dancing to it down the streets of lower Manhattan.
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"La Vie En Rose" - Edith Piaf
Nigh romantic lyrics: "When he holds me in his arms/ And he speaks to me softly/ I see the world through rose-colored spectacles" (Translated from French)
Rationale: You definitely know this song. It's the become-to for every romantic scene in every American movie most France. And, granted, information technology'south a groovy choice for a dinner appointment, particularly if you want to get a little irksome dancing started.
"Anytime" - The Growlers
Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "Only stay for i more night/ One day yous're gonna exist my married woman/ You'll never have to worry over again/ I'g gonna exist your man"
Rationale: It sounds lead vocalist Brooks Nielsen's now-wife was getting actually sick of his bullshit, and that he wrote this song as a plea to get her to say. Information technology's poetic, energetic, and hopeful, and information technology would have worked on me, too, tbh.
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" - The Beach Boys
Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "Wouldn't it exist nice if nosotros were older?/ So nosotros wouldn't have to wait and so long"
Rationale: This is sung from the perspective of someone who's already sure about who he wants to spend the residual of his life with. And he's wishing that the rest of his life could first correct now.
"Stay" - Rihanna, Mikky Ekko
Most romantic lyrics: "Not really sure how to experience nigh it/ Somethin' in the way you move/ Makes me experience like I can't live without you"
Rationale: Dear isn't a formula. At that place's no existent logic to why we fall in love with some people but not others, and Rihanna hits the blast on the caput when she says information technology's just "something in the mode [he] motion[due south]." It'due south reminiscent of The Beatles' song "Something." Speaking of which...
"Something" - The Beatles
Nigh romantic lyrics: "Something in the mode she moves / Attracts me like no other lover / Something in the manner she woos me / I don't want to leave her now"
Rationale:This song is a tiresome, dreamy ode on an otherwise bluesy anthology. George Harrison was the Beatle who penned it, writing that he wasn't sure what exactly triggered his honey or whether it would grow. All he knew was that the honey was there, and that that should be enough.
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"Androgynous" - The Replacements
Most romantic lyrics: "And they dear each other so/ Androgynous/ Closer than we know, love each other so/ Androgynous"
Rationale: This song is nigh two non-binary people falling in honey, which is pretty cool for a song from 1984. Our main characters, archetypically named Dick and Jane, beloved each other regardless of gender. The Replacements make a compelling argument well-nigh why traditional gender roles and article of clothing should make no deviation if you're truly in beloved with someone.
"I'll Be Seeing Yous" - Billie Holiday
Nearly romantic lyrics: "I'll observe you in the morning time sun/ In every lovely summer's twenty-four hour period/ In everything that'due south right and gay/ I'll ever call up of you"
Rationale: You lot know when you're freshly in love (or heartbroken), and everything reminds you of that person? That's what this vocal is nearly. Everything effectually Holiday―the natural world, a park, a cafe, a carousel―is a addicted reminder of her beloved.
"Sunday Candy" - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
Most romantic lyrics: "You've got to move it slowly/ Accept it in my body similar information technology's holy/ I've been waiting for you lot for the whole week/ I've been praying for you, you're my Sunday candy"
Rationale: The Social Experiment is the hip hop commonage that boasts members such equally Run a risk the Rapper and Vic Mensa (the former of which is featured heavily on this vocal). Jamila Wood performs the chorus to this song so sweetly that it'south easy to forget the sexual implications, and she and Chance tell the story of a couple that spends a calendar week at a fourth dimension missing each other, captivated in thoughts of one some other until they're finally reunited.
"Come up As Y'all Are" - Nirvana
Nearly romantic lyrics: "Come as y'all are/ Every bit you were/ As I want yous to be"
Rationale: There are many interpretations of what this vocal means, ranging from mental wellness to friendship to commentary on inauthenticity. Merely, to me, "Come up As Y'all Are" works as the ultimate grunge honey song; as a hope to dearest and appreciate someone only the fashion they are.
"Please, Please, Please" - James Brown
Almost romantic lyrics: "Baby please, baby please, delight me/ Baby please, infant delight don't become/ Don't go, I said baby, don't baby/ I beloved you so"
Rationale: This song is nigh entirely comprised of James Brown repeating "please," and, supposedly, he got a lot of flack from his producers well-nigh that before its release. Just, like the Aye Yep Yeahs' "Maps," this rail'south magic lies in the passion with which it'south delivered–and James Brown is nothing if not passionate.
"I Volition Ever Beloved You" - Dolly Parton
Most romantic lyrics: "And I hope life volition treat you kind/ And I hope that yous have all/ That you ever dreamed of/ Oh, I practise wish yous joy/ And I wish you happiness/ But to a higher place all this/ I wish you dear"
Rationale: Without a uncertainty, you're familiar with Whitney Houston's rendition of "I Volition Always Dearest You," but I love Dolly Parton's soft-spoken, land version besides. Where Houston belts, Parton croons, making this a great alternative for when you want to hear this song on a tranquillity evening in.
"Songbird" - Fleetwood Mac
Most romantic lyrics: "And I wish yous all the love in the earth/ Simply most of all, I wish it from myself/ And the songbirds proceed singing/ Similar they know the score"
Rationale: Fleetwood Mac'south members were notorious for hooking up within their ranks, and Christine McVie (author and primary vocalizer on this vocal) was no exception. This is a unique dear song, because it does unconditional dearest unlike any other: It illustrates how information technology'south entirely possible to love someone and want the all-time for them while accepting, admitting sadly, that yous might not be that best affair.
"Start Solar day of My Life" - Bright Eyes
Virtually romantic lyrics: "But I realized I demand you/ And I wondered if I could come up home"
Rationale: This Bright Eyes track makes me wish I was better at playing guitar. Frontman Conor Oberst makes a frank plea for his love, telling her, "I'm glad I didn't dice before I met you," and asking for permission to approach. It's an exercise in startling honesty, and the issue, like the whole album, is profound.
"Sea of Honey" - Cat Ability
Most romantic lyrics: "Come with me, my love/ To the bounding main, the sea of love/ I wanna tell you/ How much I love you "
Rationale: Originally, the last song on this listing was going to be T.I.'s "Whatsoever You Similar" because I'g determined that information technology will play at my wedding one solar day (I'm not kidding), but "Sea of Love" is too romantic to refuse. With minimal instrumentation, True cat Power delivers a brief but heartfelt love letter of the alphabet whose genius lies in its profound simplicity. ten/10.
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