What are the love songs with the best lyrics?

[GivenToFly]

Any sort of love song, including break up songs, narratives etc.

I'll start off with these:

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

The screen door slams

Mary's dress sways

Like a vision she dances across the porch

As the radio plays

Roy orbison singing for the lonely

Hey that's me and I want you only

Don't turn me home again

I just can't face myself alone again

Don't run back inside

Darling you know just what I'm here for

So you're scared and you're thinking

That maybe we ain't that young anymore

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright

Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide `neath your covers

And study your pain

Make crosses from your lovers

Throw roses in the rain

Waste your summer praying in vain

For a savior to rise from these streets

Well now I'm no hero

That's understood

All the redemption I can offer, girl

Is beneath this dirty hood

With a chance to make it good somehow

Hey what else can we do now?

Except roll down the window

And let the wind blow

Back your hair

Well the night's busting open

These two lanes will take us anywhere

We got one last chance to make it real

To trade in these wings on some wheels

Climb in back

Heaven's waiting on down the tracks

Oh-oh come take my hand

Riding out tonight to case the promised land

Oh-oh thunder road, oh thunder road oh thunder road

Lying out there like a killer in the sun

Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run

Oh thunder road, sit tight take hold

Thunder road

Well I got this guitar

And I learned how to make it talk

And my car's out back

If you're ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

The door's open but the ride it ain't free

And I know you're lonely

For words that I ain't spoken

But tonight we'll be free

All the promises'll be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes

Of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road

In the skeleton frames of burned out chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street

Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before dawn

You hear their engines roaring on

But when you get to the porch they're gone

On the wind, so mary climb in

It's a town full of losers

And I'm pulling out of here to win.

Dire Straits -

A love struck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade

Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made

Finds a convenient streetlight steeps out of the shade

Says something like you and me babe how about it?

Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack

He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back

You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that

Anyway what you gonna do about it ?

Juliet the dice were loaded from the start

And I bet ant exploded in my heart

And I forget I forget the movie song

When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame

Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same

And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dram is real

How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold

You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold

You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin

Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet when we made love you used to cry

You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die

There's a place for us you know the movie song

When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

I can't do the talk like they 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'd do anything for you

I can't do anything expect 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

All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme

Julie I'd do the stars with you any time

Juliet when we made love you used to cry

You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die

And there's a place for us you know the movie song

When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade

Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made

Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade

Says something like you and me babe how about it?

Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind

Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press

Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick but when they will I can only guess

They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy

She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me

I can't help it if I'm lucky.

People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act

Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts

Even you yesterday you had to ask me where it was at

I couldn't believe after all these years you didn't know even me better than that

Sweet lady.

Idiot wind blowing every time your move your mouth

Blowing down the backroads heading south

Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot babe

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

I ran into the fortune-teller who said beware of lightning that might strike

I haven't known peace and quit for so long I can't remember what it's like

There's a lone soldier on the cross smoke pouring out of a boxcar door

You didn't know it you didn't think it could be done in the final end he won the wars

After losing every battle.

I woke up on the roadside daydreaming about the way things sometimes are

Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are making me see stars

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies

One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes

Blood on your saddle.

Idiot wind blowing through the flowers on your tomb

Blowing through the curtains in your room

Idiot wind blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot babe

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart

You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart

Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped

What's good is bad what's bad is good you'll find out when you reach the top

You're on the bottom.I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind

I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed your eyes don't look

into mine

The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone faced while the

building burned

I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees while the

springtime turned

Slowly into autumn.

Idiot wind blowing like a circle around my skull

From the Grand Coulee Dam to Capitol

Idiot wind blowing every time you move you teeth

You're an idiot babe.

It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read

Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishing I was somebody else instead

Down the highway down the tracks down the road to ecstasy

I followed you beneath the stars hounded by your memory

And all you raging glory.

I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me

You'll never know the hurt I suffered not the pain I raise above

And I'll never know the same about you your holiness or your kind of love

And it makes me feel so sorry.

Idiot wind blowing through the buttons of our coats

Blowing through the letters that we wrote

Idiot wind blowing through the dust upon our shelves

We're idiots babe

It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.

[GivenToFly]

Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone

Then as it was, then again it will be

Though the course may change sometimes

Rivers always reach the sea

Like stars of fortune

Each has separate rays

On the wings of maybe

Down in birds of prey

Kind of makes me feel sometimes

I didn't have to grow

But as the eagle leaves the nest

He got so far to go

Changes fill my time

Baby, that's all right with me

In the midst I think of you

And how it used to be

Did you ever really need somebody

And really need 'em bad

Did you ever really want somebody

The best love you ever had

Do you ever remember me, baby

Did it feel so good

'Cause it was just the first time

And you knew you would

Turn the eyes and I sparkle

Senses growing keen

Tasting love along the way

See your feathers preen

Kind of make you feel sometimes

Didn't hard to grow

We are eagles of one nest

The nest is in our souls

Vixen in my dreams with great surprise to me

Never thought I'd see your face the way it used to be

Oh darlin', oh darlin' (Repeat)

I'm never gonna leave you, I'm never gonna leave you

Ten years gone, holdin' on, ten years gone (Repeat)

The Black Crowes -

Wake me when the day breaks

Show me how the sun shines

Tell me about your heartaches

Who could be so unkind?

Do you dream to touch me?

And smile down deep inside

Or could you just kill me?

It's hard to make up your mind, sometimes.

My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride.

Are you wanting inspiration

You spill your secrets on me

Then you tell me with a whisper

Of things that will never be.

Do you hear me breathing?

Does it make you want to scream?

Did you ever like a bad dream?

Sometimes life is obscene.

My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride.

Lover cover me with your sleep

Let your love light shine

Lover cover me with a good dream

Let your love light shine

[Orsys]

Romeo and Juliet makes me cry every time.

U2 One

[Towelie]

A heartbreaking breakup song...

"You don't show much these days

You get so fucking cold

I loved your secret places

But I don't go there anymore".

Intense lyrics.

[Lithium]

Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors

My baby makes me proud

Lord, don't she make me proud

She never makes a scene

By hanging all over me in a crowd

'Cause people like to talk

Lord, don't they love to talk

But when they turn out the lights

I know she'll be leaving with me

And when we get behind closed doors

Then she lets her hair hang down

And she makes me glad that I'm a man

Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors

My baby makes me smile

Lord, don't she make me smile

She's never far away

Or too tired to say: "I want you"

She's always a lady, just like a lady should be

But when they turn out the lights

She's still a baby to me

'Cause when we get behind closed doors

Then she lets her hair hang down

And she makes me glad that I'm a man

Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors

Behind closed doors

Nirvana - About a Girl

I need an easy friend

I do with an ear to lend

I don't think you fit this shoe

I do won't you have a clue

I'll take advantage while

You hang me out to dry

But I can't see you every night

Free

I do

I'm standing in your line

I do hope you have the time

I do pick a number too

I do keep a date with you

I'll take advantage while

You hang me out to dry

But I can't see you every night

Free

I need an easy friend

I do with an ear to lend

I do think you fit this shoe

I do won't you have a clue

I'll take advantage while

You hang me out to dry

But I can't see you every night

No, I can't see you every night

Free

I do ... [x4]

Bob Dylan - Lay, Lady, Lay

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed

Whatever colors you have in your mind

I’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile

Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile

His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean

And you’re the best thing that he’s ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile

Why wait any longer for the world to begin

You can have your cake and eat it too

Why wait any longer for the one you love

When he’s standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed

Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

I long to see you in the morning light

I long to reach for you in the night

Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

Edited October 7, 2012 by Lithium

[Orsys]

Thus is a really heavy song if someone you love has passed away.

Missing by .everything But The Girl

I step off the train I'm walkin' down your street again

And past your door but you don't live there anymore

It's years since you've been there

And now you've disappeared somewhere

Like outer space you've found some better place

And I miss you

Like the deserts miss the rain

And I miss you, oh

Like the deserts miss the rain

Could you be dead?

You always were two steps ahead of everyone

We'd walk behind while you would run

I look up at your house and I can almost hear you shout

Down to me where I always used to be

Chorus

Back on the train I ask why did I come again

Can I confess I've been hangin' 'round your old address?

And the years have proved to offer nothin' since you moved

You're long gone but I can't move on

Chorus

Chorus

I step off the train I'm walkin' down your street again

Past your door, I guess you don't live there anymore

It's years since you've been there

And now you've disappeared somewhere

Like outer space you've found some better place

Chorus

Chorus

Deserts miss the rain

Like the deserts miss the rain

Like the deserts miss the rain

Like the deserts miss the rain

Edited October 7, 2012 by Orsys

[Dead Flower]

[Zeppelin]

[Roky]

the smiths, there is a light that never goes out

And if a double-decker bus

Crashes into us

To die by your side

Is such a heavenly way to die

And if a ten-ton truck

Kills the both of us

To die by your side

Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight

Take me anywhere, I don't care

I don't care, I don't care

And in the darkened underpass

I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last

(But then a strange fear gripped me and I

Just couldn't ask)

joy division , love will tear us apart

When routine bites hard,

And ambitions are low.

And resentment rides high,

But emotions won't grow.

And we're changing our ways,

Taking different roads.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold?

Turned away on your side.

Is my timing that flawed?

Our respect run so dry?

Yet there's still this appeal,

That we've kept through our lives.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Do you cry out in your sleep?

All my failings exposed...

Gets a taste in my mouth

As desperation takes hold.

Why is it something so good

Just can't function no more?

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear up apart again

[GivenToFly]

One and the Nick Cave song are pretty great.

[Redhead74]

The Cure - This Is a Lie

How each of us decides

I've never been sure

The part we play

The way we are

How each of us denies any other way in the world

Why each of us must choose

I've never understood

One special friend

One true love

Why each of us must lose everyone else in the world

However unsure

However unwise

Day after day play out our lives

However confused

Pretending to know to the end

But this isn't truth this isn't right

This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real

This is a lie

How each of us believes

I've never really known

In heaven unseen and hell unknown

How each of us dreams to understand anything at all

Why each of us decides

I've never been sure

The part we take

The way we are

Why each of us denies every other way in the world

However unsure

However unwise

Day after day play out our lives

However confused

Pretending to know to the end

But this isn't truth this isn't right

This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real

This is a lie

This isn't truth this isn't right

This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real

This is a lie

[izzygirl]

Bruce Springsteen - The river

I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen

Wed ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

Wed go down to the river

And into the river wed dive

Oh down to the river wed ride

Then I got mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river

And into the river wed dive

On down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the johnstown company

But lately there aint been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I don't remember, mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brothers car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

Or is it something worse that sends me

Down to the river though I know the river is dry

Down to the river, my baby and i

Oh down to the river we ride

[bran]

sentenced- you are the one

You're the light at the end of the tunnel

The beacon fire in the dark

The glimmer of hope and truly the meaning of my life

I say this with all of my heart

You are the only one for me

Year to year, in words and deed

In all this chaos the trace of clarity

You are the only one I see

My first and last, my all and everything

You are the one

When dusk falls and obscures the sky

You're the shine of the Northern Star

No dead of night can fade the brilliance of your light

I say this, holder of my heart

You are the only one for me

Year to year, in words and deed

In all this chaos the trace of clarity

You are the only one I see

My first and last, my all and everything

You are the one

You are the only one

In the heart of winter the comfort of the sun

You are the one, my love, you are the one

Edited October 8, 2012 by bran

[GivenToFly]

Bruce Springsteen - The river

I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen

Wed ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

Wed go down to the river

And into the river wed dive

Oh down to the river wed ride

Then I got mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river

And into the river wed dive

On down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the johnstown company

But lately there aint been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I don't remember, mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brothers car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

Or is it something worse that sends me

Down to the river though I know the river is dry

Down to the river, my baby and i

Oh down to the river we ride

That song always gives me chills.

[Redhead74]

Absolutely beautiful song. Thanks for posting Dead Flower.

[Desperado]

Best love song ever made

Tim Minchin - You Grew On Me

[izzygirl]

Bruce Springsteen - The river

I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen

Wed ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

Wed go down to the river

And into the river wed dive

Oh down to the river wed ride

Then I got mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river

And into the river wed dive

On down to the river we did ride

I got a job working construction for the johnstown company

But lately there aint been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I don't remember, mary acts like she don't care

But I remember us riding in my brothers car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks I'd lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take

Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true

Or is it something worse that sends me

Down to the river though I know the river is dry

Down to the river, my baby and i

Oh down to the river we ride

That song always gives me chills.

You're not alive if The river doesn't give you chills!

[Dan H.]

I Don't Want to Get Over You - The Magnetic Fields

[Mao5]

"ne me quitte pas" is probably the love song with the best lyrics

[Roky]

"ne me quitte pas" is probably the love song with the best lyrics

it's definitely one of the best

avec le temps by leo ferré is another great one

[maXx]

[Johnny Drama]

Fuckin' Aussie

[Roky]

gainsbourg wrote some really great love songs

as someone pointed out on youtube: 1) it is not "no longer me", but "me neither" 2) It is not "undecided wave" but "irresolute wave" 3) It is not "between your back", but "between your kidneys" (kidney in French can be used as slang for ribs) and 4) It is not "the physical is without a way out", but "physical love AND no outcome" (he says IS not AND). You are grossly mistaken as to the meaning and implication of the the last one.

The song is about two people madly in love.

Edited October 10, 2012 by Roky

[maXx]

Fuckin' Aussie

...are you one ?

you have to admit it's a good song though.

[Bumble's Bridge Pickup]

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sunshine The Werewolf

Cry your eyes bloodshot

while there's still time

'cause soon it's gone

and you'll be so shocked

one queen-sized coffin

that was built for two is your death bed

it belongs to you

tease me baby please me

with the fresh disease

hope riding on a bullet alive tonight you know we couldn't get it right

come save your life tonight you know we'll never get it right

don't try to swim to shore

because you can't go back

say three words

like they're the last you'll speak

curtains drop

concealing

appearances of heaven

destroyer

they'll be another just like you

you're not the only one I'm not the only one

destroyer

watching the fallout fly back up

walking where time stands still see how our love kills

love kills …. (love kills …. love kills)

dropping curtains down

concealing

appearances of heaven

without my existence

you are nothing

without my affection

you wilt… you wilt

we fucked like a nuclear war

release...

fuck off

see how I let you down

watching

fallout fly back up