Love Songs are Stupid

I think most love songs are just cliche doing what was sang about in the 40's/50's, the only thing really changing is the style, I like old hit love songs like from 60's girl groups, but I imagine modern versions to sicken me upon hearing. But there are also love songs that intentional or not, recognized or not, that I read personally like a "love" song, an example of this would be Eminem's Kim, its a song about a man abducting and killing the mother of his child...but "love" is more complex to me than the cliche love invented and marketed to people for money, and not need be "romantic", "happy" or sappy.

Some love-ish songs I like, it was actually hard to find them even though I used my laptop to look, so I guess "love" songs aren't favored by me;



Swear never to be gentle
To always be unkind
For love is hard to handle
For love will rob you blind
The burden of saintliness
The temptation to kneel
The mute fear of being caught
In vapours of sin

We who sing of the void
We who burn with love
So strangely plaintive
So strangely complete
In a few drunken hours
In a few hasty words
From our watering mouths
Lose all we came here for

If you were mine
I'd blush a little and die



Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle

And you sang:
"Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you"
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing:
'Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow
O my heart, o my heart, shies from the sorrow'

I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide:
Should I stand amid your breakers?
Should I lie with death my bride?
Hear me sing, 'Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you'



[Intro, spoken]
When I say I'm in love, you best believe I'm love: L-U-V!

[Verse 1]
Here comes my guy
Walking down the street
Look how he walks
With a dancing beat (da-da-da-da-da)
Thick wavy hair (da-da-da-da-da)
A little too long
All day long he's a-singing his song

[Chorus]
And when I see him in the street
My heart takes a leap and skips a beat
Gonna walk right up to him
Give him a great big kiss! Mwah!
Tell him that I love him
Tell him that I care
Tell him that I'll always be there

[Bridge, spoken]
Well, what color are his eyes?
I don't know, he's always wearing shades
Is he tall?
Well, I've got to look up
Yeah? Well I hear he's bad
Mm, he's good bad, but he's not evil
(sung)
Tell me more, tell me more

[Verse 2]
Big bulky sweaters (tell me more)
To match his eyes (tell me more)
Dirty finger nails (tell me more)
Oh boy, what a prize! (tell me more)
Tight tapered pants
High button shoes
He's always looking like he's got the blues

[Chorus]

[Outro, spoken]
Is he a good dancer?
What do you mean is he a good dancer?
Well, how does he dance?
Close... very, very close...

Holodeck wrote:Do you have any you want to add smirks? Maybe I missed the post but I haven't seen you throw in any love songs.

second that.post a love song smirks!

Dazz wrote:

That's one of Lynch's favorite songs. It was in Lost Highway.


This song is actually about me



I was in love with you
I thought you loved me too
But now I finally realize
Your empty promises and lies
Serve to confirm my doubts
My patience has run out
And I feel so much different now
I gotta work it out somehow

I'm so much stronger now
Stronger than before
Though I still want you
I don't need you any more

I thought you were the one
I could depend upon
But now the dream has washed away
And I feel so alone today
I thought we'd last so long
But somehow it went wrong
And now I have to find a way
To say the words I'm scared to say

I'm so much stronger now
Stronger than before
Though I still want you
I don't need you any more

My tiny pride won't let me chase you anymore
'cause when I try to reach you you just close the door
I'd give so much if I could even up the score
But you don't understand that nothing sometimes hurts you even more

I knew I wasn't smart
To give away my heart
To someone who was not prepared
Who never thought to give me theirs
All that you're guilty of
Is immunity to love
And though I'd like to be a friend
You'll never let me down again

I'm so much stronger now
Stronger than before
Though I still love you
I don't need you any more

I thought the lines I'd give so much if I could even up the score/
But you don't understand that nothing sometimes hurts you even more were quite perceptive.

Never fall in love with a schizoid!

We can't help nor shake this feeling
Better judgement is conceding
Go ask a biophysicist
It's survival of the diminist

We can't help nor shake this feeling
Two sophisticated monkeys
Coping with their devolution
Thankfully there's contraception

We can't help nor shake this feeling
Better judgement is conceding
Go ask a biophysicist
It's survival of the diminist

When our eyes meet
There's no poetry
No symphony
It's only lousy infidelity

sakura1 wrote:

Holodeck wrote:Do you have any you want to add smirks? Maybe I missed the post but I haven't seen you throw in any love songs.

second that.post a love song smirks!

Oh shoot. Sorry. I sometimes get a little lost when I start listening to music. I don't know if these are my two favorite love songs, but they came to mind the quickest.

The New Pornographers - Challengers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHWWWa8EvzI I never got why people cheated until I heard this song. There's something especially about the music where you can feel the pull and the intimacy. I also think there's something beautiful about the line
"Be safe," you say,
"Whatever the mess you are you're mine." "Okay"

I like the idea of....almost like....a preciousness.

Brandi Carlile - I Belong To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyWdXez59Wg- This song is great because there really aren't any platitudes or hyperbole. It's just kind of confessional and a little shyly doting until the last verse, so when she says "I'm going to die the exact same day as you" you know she means business.

When you posted that song "song to the siren" it didn't have effect /i didn't notice. I blame the visuals probably .
But i heard in a movie (not in lost high way)with the female voice and searched and i really love it with tim buckley more.probably the visuals.not that is bad with the woman voice.
It is like poetry with music.
But i don't think is exactly love song.it seems painful. We know what sirens are.
I would love to read analysis xD .

-- Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:03 pm --

More about lonenliness and yearnirng and doomed damaged loved.i love such romantic songs are intense

-- Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:05 pm --

I have to read about it again(i don't remember $#%^) but i think original romantism had tragic ending.and not what we know today as happy ending comedies

This is the above .this is the version i like more.i don't know why his voice sounds.different in this.
https://youtu.be/LjXfTUELFOE

I was going to post it in what are you listening topic but thought to post it here instead.
I listened to this to radio of a store and i remembered it.
Not sure what it means xD
Is it a love song?maybe


Different version
https://youtu.be/DuEuL2IRBXA


Copied lyrics

Like Isabelle Adjani
She glides by upon a bank of violets
With those eyes that see it all
And then she smiles

Like a bee with honeyed thighs
A living hell, a slice of heaven
She is Jekyll and Hyde
Every truth and every lie

[Chorus]
She holds a candle to my shame
I take everything but blame
When it comes to naming names
I'll name J, forever J

Uncertain, coy and hard to please
She kisses me through gritted teeth
But when I'm weak, she whispers dreams
She says "Oh well, you're no Mel Gibson
But that's okay"
Today could be your lucky day
And I collapse into a heap

She's a bee with honeyed thighs
A living hell, a slice of heaven
She's good, she's bad
It makes me mad
She's all I'll ever have

[Chorus]
Like a bee with honeyed thighs
A living hell, a slice of heaven
She is Jekyll and Hyde
Every truth and every lie

[Chorus]
She laughs and sunshine hits her face
Cries and tears pour down like rain
When it comes to naming names
I'll name J, forever J

When it comes to naming names
I'll name J, forever J

And she says kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
Forever J
Kiss me, miss me, kiss me
And she says kiss me, kiss me, kiss me
Forever

Here is one that makes perfect sense. Not exactly a love song...

(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window

How much is that doggie in the window?
The one with the waggly tail
How much is that doggie in the window?
I do hope that doggie's for sale

I must take a trip to California
And leave my poor sweetheart alone
If he has a dog, he won't be lonesome
And the doggie will have a good home

How much is that doggie in the window?
The one with the waggly tail
How much is that doggie in the window?
I do hope that doggie's for sale

I read in the papers there are robbers
With flashlights that shine in the dark
My love needs a doggie to protect him
And scare them away with one bark

I don't want a bunny or a kitty
I don't want a parrot that talks
I don't want a bowl of little fishies
He can't take a goldfish for a walk

How much is that doggie in the window?
The one with the waggly tail
How much is that doggie in the window?
I do hope that doggie's for sale

There are songs that make sense after all

I had no idea there was more than one verse to that song. The whole world has opened up for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LUNtwNNp1k

Love Stinks
The J. Geils Band

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Till the day you die
This thing they call love
It's gonna make you cry
I've had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
Two by two and side by side
Love's gonna find you yes it is
You just can't hide
You'll hear it call
Your heart will fall
Then love will fly
It's gonna soar
I don't care for any Casanova thing
All I can say is
Love stinks
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
I've been through diamonds
I've been through minks
I've been through it all
Love stinks