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ishyfaceI have a history of hating the bejesus out of Valentine's Day, because it is commercial and lacks meaning and alllllso because I am sometimes a very cynical person.
Since this year I am going to be single for V-Day, I have decided to actively fight that cynicism by posting some of my favourite love songs. (I figure since it's free it also counts as actively fighting commercialism, so everybody wins!)
The Hush Sound- Love You Much Better
And while you kiss everybody but me
I just sit back and watch
Oh, but one day soon
I'm gonna grab you by the collar
Kiss you all I want
Belle and Sebastian- Piazza, New York Catcher
Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
Generation X- Kiss Me Deadly
Seven o'clock they stand in rank
For the thirty bus uptown
And later in a downstairs room
She pulls her lover down
Kinnie Starr- Alright
Is it alright for me to feel this way,
Put my head in your lap, the world will go away
Well well, we can go there, we can go anywhere
We can go there
The White Stripes- Fell In Love With A Girl
Can't keep away from the girl
These two sides of my brain
Need to have a meeting
Cary Brothers- Blue Eyes
All the lights on and you are alive
But you can't point the way to your heart
So sublime, when the stars are aligned
But you don't know
You don't know the greatness you are
Tori Amos- A Sorta Fairytale
I pulled back the hood
And I was talking to you
And I knew then it would be
A life-long thing
The Cure- Friday I'm In Love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love
Dire Straits- Romeo and Juliet
I can't do the talks like the talk on TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you
I can't do anything, except be in love with you
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
Now all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time
The Only Ones- Another Girl, Another Planet
You get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
Sleater-Kinney- Oh!
The way I feel when you call my name
Makes me go crazy to sane
The way I feel when you're close to me
Finally not drifting out to sea
Leonard Cohen- Suzanne
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
Panic at the Disco- When The Day Met The Night
So he said, "Would it be all right
If we just sat and talked for a little while
If in exchange for your time
I give you this smile?"
So she said, "That's okay
As long as you can make a promise
Not to break my little heart
Or leave me all alone in the summer."
Ryan Adams- My Winding Wheel
So buy a pretty dress
Wear it out tonight
For anyone you think could outdo me
Or better still, be my winding wheel
The Used- I Caught Fire
In your eyes
Let's sleep till the sun burns out
I'm melting in your eyes
Placebo- I Do
I wanna be a girl like you
The way you swing your hips in jeans
I wanna wear my face like you
Shiseido MAC and Maybelline
The Eels- Fresh Feeling
You don't have a clue
What it is like to be next to you
I'm here to tell you
That it is good, that it is true
Bright Eyes- First Day Of My Life
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am
I don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go
Counting Crows- Anna Begins
The time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away, and Anna begins to change my mind
And every time she sneezes I believe it's love and
Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
Jimmy Eat World- For Me This Is Heaven
When the time we have now ends
When the big hand goes round again
Can you still feel the butterflies?
Can you still hear the last goodnight?
Lou Reed- Satellite Of Love
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV
The Stills- Let's Roll
Don't be afraid to be afraid here with me
And plunge, little worm, into the wormhole with me
Garbage- Number One Crush
See your face every place that I walk in
Hear your voice every time I am talking
You will believe in me
And I will never be ignored
The Perishers- Nothing Like You And I
We spent some time
Together crying
Spent some time just trying
To let each other go
I held your hand so
Very tightly
And told you what I would be
Dreaming of
Incubus- I Wish You Were Here
I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy
David Bowie- "Heroes"
I, I can remember
Standing by the wall
And the guns shot above our heads
And we kissed as though nothing could fall
PJ Harvey- The Desperate Kingdom Of Love
And I will become
As a girl
In the desperate kingdom of love
Moulin Rouge! Soundtrack- Come What May
I want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I'm loving you more than this
Boxcar Racer- There Is
Those notes you wrote me
I've kept them all
I've given a lot of thought of how to write you back this fall
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps
Wait
They don't love you like I love you
The Silver Jews- Punks In The Beerlight
Punks in the beerlight, burnouts in love.
Punks in the beerlight, Toulouse-Lautrec.
Punks in the beerlight, two burnouts in love.
I always loved you to the max
Stars- The Aspidistra Files
All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on tentside
Couldn't stop you shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
Bruce Cockburn- Lovers In A Dangerous Time
These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This vibrant skin this hair like lace
Spirits open to the thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste
Tegan and Sara- And Darling
You slip your hands inside my pockets
Tell me nothing else would do
Without me you can't live
And you slip your heart into my chest
They both become one of the strongest pairs
When strangers come
The Sundays- Wild Horses
I know I dreamed you
A sin and a lie
I have my freedom,
but I don't have much time
Ben Lee- Ache For You
There's no rhyme and there's no reason
You're the secret in the back of my skull
There's no logic, so please believe me
Our love's confusing, but it never gets dull
R.E.M.- Nightswimming
The photograph reflects
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
Alix Olson- Subway Lips
And I'm pissed off and
Turned on and
Everything in between
The Hidden Cameras- We Oh We
All I want is warmth from his smother
And not just be frozen for an age
The Deftones- Be Quiet And Drive
It feels good to know you're all mine
Now drive me far away
My Chemical Romance- Demolition Lovers
Hand in mine, into your icy blues
And then I'd say to you we could take to the highway
With this trunk of ammunition too
I'd end my days with you in a hail of bullets
The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
The Decemberists- Of Angels And Angles
There are angels in your angles
There's a low moon caught in your tangles
There's a ticking at the sill
There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day
U2- All I Want Is You
You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you
Since this year I am going to be single for V-Day, I have decided to actively fight that cynicism by posting some of my favourite love songs. (I figure since it's free it also counts as actively fighting commercialism, so everybody wins!)
And while you kiss everybody but me
I just sit back and watch
Oh, but one day soon
I'm gonna grab you by the collar
Kiss you all I want
Belle and Sebastian- Piazza, New York Catcher
Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
Generation X- Kiss Me Deadly
Seven o'clock they stand in rank
For the thirty bus uptown
And later in a downstairs room
She pulls her lover down
Kinnie Starr- Alright
Is it alright for me to feel this way,
Put my head in your lap, the world will go away
Well well, we can go there, we can go anywhere
We can go there
The White Stripes- Fell In Love With A Girl
Can't keep away from the girl
These two sides of my brain
Need to have a meeting
Cary Brothers- Blue Eyes
All the lights on and you are alive
But you can't point the way to your heart
So sublime, when the stars are aligned
But you don't know
You don't know the greatness you are
Tori Amos- A Sorta Fairytale
I pulled back the hood
And I was talking to you
And I knew then it would be
A life-long thing
The Cure- Friday I'm In Love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love
Dire Straits- Romeo and Juliet
I can't do the talks like the talk on TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything, but I'll do anything for you
I can't do anything, except be in love with you
And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
Now all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any time
The Only Ones- Another Girl, Another Planet
You get under my skin
I don't find it irritating
Sleater-Kinney- Oh!
The way I feel when you call my name
Makes me go crazy to sane
The way I feel when you're close to me
Finally not drifting out to sea
Leonard Cohen- Suzanne
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
Panic at the Disco- When The Day Met The Night
So he said, "Would it be all right
If we just sat and talked for a little while
If in exchange for your time
I give you this smile?"
So she said, "That's okay
As long as you can make a promise
Not to break my little heart
Or leave me all alone in the summer."
Ryan Adams- My Winding Wheel
So buy a pretty dress
Wear it out tonight
For anyone you think could outdo me
Or better still, be my winding wheel
The Used- I Caught Fire
In your eyes
Let's sleep till the sun burns out
I'm melting in your eyes
Placebo- I Do
I wanna be a girl like you
The way you swing your hips in jeans
I wanna wear my face like you
Shiseido MAC and Maybelline
The Eels- Fresh Feeling
You don't have a clue
What it is like to be next to you
I'm here to tell you
That it is good, that it is true
Bright Eyes- First Day Of My Life
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am
I don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go
Counting Crows- Anna Begins
The time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away, and Anna begins to change my mind
And every time she sneezes I believe it's love and
Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
Jimmy Eat World- For Me This Is Heaven
When the time we have now ends
When the big hand goes round again
Can you still feel the butterflies?
Can you still hear the last goodnight?
Lou Reed- Satellite Of Love
I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV
The Stills- Let's Roll
Don't be afraid to be afraid here with me
And plunge, little worm, into the wormhole with me
Garbage- Number One Crush
See your face every place that I walk in
Hear your voice every time I am talking
You will believe in me
And I will never be ignored
The Perishers- Nothing Like You And I
We spent some time
Together crying
Spent some time just trying
To let each other go
I held your hand so
Very tightly
And told you what I would be
Dreaming of
Incubus- I Wish You Were Here
I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy
David Bowie- "Heroes"
I, I can remember
Standing by the wall
And the guns shot above our heads
And we kissed as though nothing could fall
PJ Harvey- The Desperate Kingdom Of Love
And I will become
As a girl
In the desperate kingdom of love
Moulin Rouge! Soundtrack- Come What May
I want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I'm loving you more than this
Boxcar Racer- There Is
Those notes you wrote me
I've kept them all
I've given a lot of thought of how to write you back this fall
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps
Wait
They don't love you like I love you
The Silver Jews- Punks In The Beerlight
Punks in the beerlight, burnouts in love.
Punks in the beerlight, Toulouse-Lautrec.
Punks in the beerlight, two burnouts in love.
I always loved you to the max
Stars- The Aspidistra Files
All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on tentside
Couldn't stop you shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
Bruce Cockburn- Lovers In A Dangerous Time
These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This vibrant skin this hair like lace
Spirits open to the thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste
Tegan and Sara- And Darling
You slip your hands inside my pockets
Tell me nothing else would do
Without me you can't live
And you slip your heart into my chest
They both become one of the strongest pairs
When strangers come
The Sundays- Wild Horses
I know I dreamed you
A sin and a lie
I have my freedom,
but I don't have much time
Ben Lee- Ache For You
There's no rhyme and there's no reason
You're the secret in the back of my skull
There's no logic, so please believe me
Our love's confusing, but it never gets dull
R.E.M.- Nightswimming
The photograph reflects
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
Alix Olson- Subway Lips
And I'm pissed off and
Turned on and
Everything in between
The Hidden Cameras- We Oh We
All I want is warmth from his smother
And not just be frozen for an age
The Deftones- Be Quiet And Drive
It feels good to know you're all mine
Now drive me far away
My Chemical Romance- Demolition Lovers
Hand in mine, into your icy blues
And then I'd say to you we could take to the highway
With this trunk of ammunition too
I'd end my days with you in a hail of bullets
The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
The Decemberists- Of Angels And Angles
There are angels in your angles
There's a low moon caught in your tangles
There's a ticking at the sill
There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day
U2- All I Want Is You
You say you'll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you