The Greatest Love Songs Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

I don't think we have one on here. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Songs for those romantic smoochy moments with your favourite person:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiyq2xrSI0

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

For that person that you didn't realise you still loved

I didn't know
You'd be in this place tonight
Then again I thought you might
Now I don't know what to do
Does it show
When my poor heart skips a beat
Each and every time we meet
‘Cause I'm still in love with you
There you are
Right across the room from me
Just the way I knew you'd be
Lookin' lonesome wild and blue
I'm alright so far
Just as long as you don't speak
That's what makes my knees go weak
‘Cause I'm still in love with you

I've done everything I know
To get you off my mind
But sometimes I can't help but hope
That you won't walk away this time

Then I wouldn't have to watch you go
Wouldn't have to miss you so
‘Cause I'm still in love with you

If I knew what I know now
I'd never let you leave
I'd make it up to you somehow
And darlin' you'd come back to me

Then I wouldn't have to watch you go
Wouldn't have to miss you so
‘Cause I'm still in love with you
I wouldn't need to be so blue
Wouldn't want you like I do
‘Cause I'm still in love with you

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSCJ9aoo_U

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

As you stand
Under the bar lights
And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while
And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile
And that white dress she's wearing, you haven't seen her
For a while

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

Then she leaves
With someone you don't know
But she makes sure you saw her, she looks right at you and bolts
As she walks out the door
Your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes
And then your friends say "What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPoMjR6-Ao

 

[TVC]

The most special day of our lives was punctuated by this song.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside
Like my heart's sprung a big break
And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful
That I may never shake
Now you might say that I was taking it hard
Since you wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow
When I may break right down and bawl

Now the race is on and here comes pride up the backstretch
Heartaches are going to the inside
My tears are holding back
They're trying not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all

One day I had ventured in love, never once suspecting
What the final results would be
How I lived in fear of waking up each morning
And finding that you'd gone from me
There's aching and pain in my heart
For the day was the one that I hated to face
Somebody new came up to win her
And I came out in second place

Now the race is on and here comes pride up the backstretch
Heartaches are going to the inside
My tears are holding back
They're trying not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WWK-owBuUM

 

[Spinney]

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I never really liked the arrangement but the words are so powerful.

 

[Dave 123]

Uncle Bill

View: https://youtu.be/tBmNw9KNvJE

 

[Dave 123]

And again

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3JzD9wAKhE&list=RDG3JzD9wAKhE

 

[Dave 123]

There plenty more

View: https://youtu.be/4mMUJFAd4rQ

 

[Brandane]

 

[ColinJ]

 

[Beebo]

The original version, upbeat and fun. not the Ellie Goulding slush fest.

View: https://youtu.be/Yq3POFbIp8U

 

[slowmotion]

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. I actually like Johnny Cash's cover best, but you would have to be almost entirely comatose to smooch to it. Here's Roberta Flack. A great love song.

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]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_UYLPSn6U[/media]

EDIT: Scalped by ColinJ!

 

[jefmcg]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjXr9SrzQE


Also not a smoochy song, but if you have ever loved someone that you could not be with in the long term, this is beautiful

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69wQsfrbSU

(for the record, he was a late 30s pothead with a career going down the toilet, and I was 24 and ready for a bright future. So no, neither of us were married etc)