Love shove nahi nahi

There is no talent in writing a mushy love song - the geniuses are those who can make it so real and appealing that even die-hard unromatics like me end up liking it. So this is going to be an open ended list of some songs that I dare to like inspite of being ME!

1. Joan Baez's Love Song to a Stranger: No one can even touch this one. My favorite part:

We spoke not a sentence and took not a footstep
beyond

Our two days together which seemingly soon would
be gone

Don't tell me of love everlasting and other sad
dreams

I don't want to hear

Just tell me of passionate strangers who rescue
each other

From a lifetime of cares

Because if love means forever, expecting nothing
returned

Then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime
to learn

Because you gave to me oh so many things it makes
me wonder

How they could belong to me

And I gave you only my dark eyes that melted your
soul down

To a place where it longs to be

I wish I could be hippy enough to say "Oh I can totally relate to it." Nah, I am too monogamous but still, it is so real that it makes me want to believe it's written about me, and by me!

2. Beth Orton's Central Reservation: i am getting too predictable, huh?

Running down a central reservation in last
night's red dress,

And I can still smell you on my fingers and taste
you on my breath;

Stepping through brilliant shades,

All the color you bring,

This time, this time, this time,

Is whatever I want it to mean.

3.
Beth Orton - Central Reservation


Ok this one may not count as a real love song - it's more a break-up song but what the heck. Bob Dylan's Just Like a Woman - I have to mention it in at least one of my posts! Oh ya, Lay Lady Lay would make a better one right?

4. Tracy Chapman's "If not now": This song from her first album (Fast car) is not too melodious and I don't think it caught the imagination of too many people (not as much as Fast Car and Baby can I hold you tonight - didn't backstreet boys or some shit pick this one up later?)

If not now then when

If now today then

Why make your promises

A love declared for days to come

Is as good as none

You can wait 'til morning comes

You can wait for the new day

You can wait and lose this heart

You can wait and soon be sorry

Now love's the only thing that's free

We must take it where it's found

Pretty soon it may be costly

If now now what then

We all must live our lives

Always feeling Always thinking

The moment has arrived

Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You

Baez's another masterpiece "Diamonds and Rust",
this one makes me want to learn how to be a REAL singer so bad.

Now you're telling me

You're not nostalgic

Then give me another word for it

You who are so good with words

And at keeping things vague

Because I need some of that vagueness now

It's all come back too clearly

Yes I loved you dearly

And if you're offering me diamonds and rust

I've already paid

Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust


And ofcourse, how could I forget, Joplin's Me and Bobby Mcgee

But I'd trade all o' my tomorrows for one single
yesterdayTo be holdin' Bobby's body next to mine

Since I am alos human (!) can I add 2 cheesy ones? I promise they are not Boyzone variety...

Sting's Field of Gold and Sade's By your side. Corny but catchy and immensely singable...