“Whatap love got to do with it?” Plenty, apparently, given that love and relationships make up the subject matter for most songwriters (pop especially). For your Valentine’s Day, here are lyrics on love from the lighthearted and the broken-hearted.
Lyrics: “I would have given you all of my heart
But there’s someone who tore it apart.”
DzԲ:“The First Cut is in the Deepest”
– (written by Cat Stevens) cover by
Lyrics: “I believe in the power of love.”
Song: “Rescue Me”
– by
Lyrics: “Nobody knows, honey, where love goes,
But when it goes itap gone, gone.”
Song: “When You’re Alone”
– by Bruce Springsteen
Lyrics: “I’m gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means
and we’ll fill in the missing colors in each other’s paint by number dreams..”
Song: “Just Say Yeah”
– by
Lyrics: “If you can’t be with the one you love,
Love the one you’re with.”
Song: “Love The One You’re With”
– by
Lyrics: “I was feeling imploded, a wooden smile, a wooden heart
Then things exploded like rockets in the dark
Now I’m pulling out splinters and I’m off to hibernate somewhere
For the nuclear winter of another love affair”
Song: “Steady On”
– by
Lyrics: “Cause you know it’s you babe
Whenever I get weary and I’ve had enough
I feel like giving up
You know it’s you babe
Giving me the courage and the strength I need
Please believe that it’s true, babe, I love you”
Song: “Babe”
– by
Lyrics: “Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
And through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder”
Song: “I Want To Know What Love Is”
– by
Lyrics: “Then when I leave this Earth
I’ll be with the angels standin’
I’ll be out there waiting for my true companion”
Song: “True Companion”
– by
Lyrics: “Sweet surrender
Is all that I have to give”
Song: “Sweet Surrender”
– by
Lyrics: “Well I came home like a stone
And I fell heavy into your arms
These days of dust, which we’ve known
Will blow away with this new sun”
Song: “I Will Wait”
– by
Lyrics: “Oh, listen to the banjo wind
A sad song drifting low
Listen to the tears roll
Down my face as she turns to go”
Song: “Mandolin Rain”
– by
Lyrics: “Forever can never be long enough for me
To feel like I’ve had long enough with you”
Song: “Marry Me”
– by
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Colleen Smith, a longtime contributor to The Denver Post, is the author of “Glass Halo”—a novel set in Denver–and “Laid-Back Skier,” both by Friday Jones Publishing.
