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Picture this: You lot've orchestrated the perfect at-abode appointment for your meaning other, featuring candles, wine, and a lovingly habitation-cooked (or lovingly ordered via app) dinner. Only but equally your person texts you that they're on their mode, you realize that you lot take no thought what sort of music to play to retain the romantic ambience. After all, y'all can't have your early 2000s guilty pleasance songs come up on shuffle while you're trying to stare lovingly into your partner'due south optics (zilch ruins the mood like the distinctive "youuuuuu" at the start of "Soulja Male child." And yes, that example is based on a true story).

Anyhow, I've got you covered with my list of the most beautiful, hopeful, and achingly romantic songs ever written (in my humble opinion). You'll accept your trounce/partner/Bumble engagement swooning.

"ROS" - Mac Miller

Most romantic lyrics: "I'grand in your heart, I'm in your dream/ And so fuck the world it's you and me"

Rationale: When the outside world becomes cruel, many couples plough inward and develop that us-against-the-globe mindset. In "ROS," Mac Miller captures what information technology's similar to feel close to someone, spending much of this song describing the little things he loves about his partner, like her "stained glass" eyes, butterscotch-scented skin, and kiwi-flavored lips. The lyrics are intimate in every way, and Mac delivers them with his feature rawness.

"These Arms of Mine" - Otis Redding

Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "These arms of mine, they are lonely/ Alone and feeling blue/ These arms of mine, they are yearning/ Yearning from wanting you"

Rationale: This vocal hits me right in the chest. It's impossible not to feel your artillery and chest agonized like Reddings' when he sings about burning to hold his lover. The music crescendos around his smooth vocalization every bit he begs,  "And if you would allow them hold you/ Oh, how grateful I would be." Information technology's such a sweet, earnest plea for love, and its focus on physicality is pretty sexy, too.

"Ex Factor" - Lauryn Hill

Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "Run across, no i loves you more me/ and no ane ever will"

Rationale: No one knows how to obliterate me emotionally quite similar Lauryn Hill does. In "Ex Factor" (and on this whole album, allow's be real), she'southward vulnerable, baring all her devotion to her boyfriend. We recognize straightaway that her relationship is toxic, but Colina'south honesty is and then beautiful that we humble listeners have no selection simply to sit down, transfixed, and listen.

"Skinny Love" - Bon Iver

Most romantic lyrics: "Told my dear to wreck it all/ Cutting out all the ropes and let me fall"

Rationale: When this song came out in 2007, I was in middle schoolhouse. I could not finish singing it as I traipsed through my business firm, virtually-tears as I crooned well-nigh "the sink of blood and crushed veneer," as though my twelve years on earth had been rife with tragic love affairs.

Nevertheless, this vocal notwithstanding holds up. Bon Iver is a master at depicting what information technology's like to fully surrender yourself to someone while aware that they may hurt you in the end. I notwithstanding sing this song while I lounge around my footling studio apartment, cartoon on real-life experiences this time, though I clinch y'all that none of them involved blood-filled sinks or crushed veneers.

"Leather and Lace" - Stevie Nicks & Don Henley

Virtually romantic lyrics: "Lovers forever, face up to confront/ My city, your mountains/ Stay with me, stay/ I demand yous to love me/ I demand you today/ Give me to me your leather, take from me my lace"

Rationale: This is Stevie Nicks' lyricism at its most poignant. She wrote "Leather and Lace" herself and and then performed it with Don Henley (of The Eagles) while they were dating. This duet is cute in and of itself, but their chemistry and passion for each other makes it all the more than impactful. An ex played this for me once, unprompted, and I recollect thinking, My God, dude. Why would y'all do this to me?

Wrecked.

The Way You Look Tonight" - Frank Sinatra

Virtually romantic lyrics: "Lovely, never, never change/ go along that breathless amuse/ won't you please adjust information technology?/ 'Cause I love you/ Merely the mode yous look this night"

Rationale: Ah, aye. The song that plays at every nuptials on earth. Popular songs are pop for a reason, though, and this one endures because of the accepting, unconditional sort of love that it depicts. In add-on to Sinatra's version, I'one thousand as well partial to Fred Astaire'southward rendition in the 1936 film Swing Fourth dimension and the sweetness nonetheless natural language-in-cheek visuals go along with information technology.

"Everlasting Light" - The Black Keys

Well-nigh romantic lyrics: "Permit me exist your everlasting light/ Your railroad train going away from pain/ Love is the coal that makes this train coil/ Allow me be your everlasting low-cal"

Rationale: If you read the lyrics without the music, the whole song sounds kind of similar a late nineteenth century verse form. The love in this song is so pure and hopeful, and yous'll definitely gain cool-points by playing The Blackness Keys on a first date.

"To Know Him Is To Love Him" - Amy Winehouse

Most romantic lyrics: "To know, know, know him/ Is to love, love, love him/ Only to see that smiling/ Makes my life worthwhile"

Rationale: No 1 does unbridled dear similar Amy Winehouse. Her soulful voice takes center stage in this Phil Spector embrace, and if yous're not already in love, information technology will make you want to exist.

"Like Real People Exercise" - Hozier

Most romantic lyrics: "I will not inquire you where you came from/ I will not ask you, neither should you/ Honey, merely put your sweet lips on my lips/ Nosotros should just kiss like real people do"

Rationale: Here, Hozier is trying to convince his love interest to forget that they both take pasts (who doesn't?) and to just honey him. There'south a sense that both people in the song consider themselves odd in some way (once more, who doesn't?), and that they've been searching for partners like each other for ages. "Similar Real People Exercise" reminds u.s.a. of how miraculous it feels to love and exist loved back.

"Tin can't Have My Eyes Off You lot" - Franki Valli & The Four Seasons

Nearly romantic lyrics: "You're merely too good to be true/ Tin can't take my optics off of you/ You lot'd be like heaven to touch/ I wanna concur you so much"

Rationale: To quote every Boomer from my domicile land of New Jersey: They merely don't make 'em like this anymore. And it's truthful―this vocal manages to balance emotional and sexual yearning without existence crude.

And only... the gratitude Valli feels when he sings almost loving his girl and then much that he thank you God he's live. My Lord. They actually but practise non make 'em quite like this anymore.

"Forrest Gump" - Frank Bounding main

Most romantic lyrics: "My fingertips and my lips/ They burn down from the cigarettes/ Forrest Gump, you run my mind, male child/ Running on my mind, boy"

Rationale: This is Frank Body of water's virtually criminally underrated song and I will fight anyone who has anything negative to say virtually it. In fact, I one time made a very loud, spirited defence of this song when I was in high school, right afterward Ocean's sick-received functioning of it at the 2013 Grammys.

The song is told from the perspective of Jenny in the 1994 picture Forrest Gump. It'due south about a broken, tired person coming back to their pure, indelible love after a great deal of time has passed. It's especially meaningful, in my opinion, because Ocean penned the song in the wake of his very public coming-out.

"Take Me The Way I Am" - Ingrid Michaelson

Most romantic lyrics: "'Crusade I love you more than I could ever hope/ And you take me the style I am"

Rationale: What a throwback! Ingrid Michaelson was responsible for some of the sweetest manic-pixie-dream-girl love songs of the early 2000s, and this 1 was her near pop. Michaelson rejoices in having found a partner who loves her, flaws and all, and she responds in kind, promising to repair what her partner breaks and purchase him Rogaine when his pilus starts falling out. It's a promise to love someone forever.

"I'm Not Expressionless" - P!nk

Most romantic lyrics: "Right across the cigarette and the devilish smile/Yous're my cleft of sunlight/ You can practice the math a thousand ways/ But yous tin can't erase the facts/ That others come and others get/ But yous always come dorsum"

Rationale: This is my favorite era of P!nk's music. In "I'm Not Expressionless," she writes a frank, unapologetic love song virtually beingness a flawed human deeply in love with another flawed human. Waxing poetic near her and her boyfriend's (her future husband, Cary Hart, past the way) tattoos and alluding to her own mental affliction, P!nk eschews all tired clichés about beloved in favor of something far more authentic and affecting.

"Hannah Hunt" - Vampire Weekend

Virtually romantic lyrics: "A man of religion said hidden eyes could see what I was thinkin'/ I merely smiled and told him/ That was only true of Hannah"

Rationale: Oh, Ezra Koenig, how you wound me with your beautiful words! In this song, our narrator seems to be moving around the U.S. with his dearest Hannah until she grows homesick for the east declension. Having lived in New England for effectually 7 years, I'm partial to this song for its "freezing beaches" references, but it's also a gentle tribute to the way time glides abroad when you're with someone y'all dear.

"A Song For Y'all" - Donny Hathaway

Most romantic lyrics: "I honey you in a identify/ Where at that place's no infinite or time/ I love y'all for my life/ You're a friend of mine/ And when my life is over/ Remember when nosotros were together"

Rationale: There accept been many versions of this song, but this 1's my favorite. It was too Amy Winehouse's favorite. Donny Hathaway sings this with such feeling that one tin't help but feel he'due south reciting a memoir when he sings his amends to a woman he neglected to settle downwards with considering he was besides decorated performing around the world.

"Maps" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Most romantic lyrics: "Don't stray/ My kind'south your kind/ I'll stay the same."

Rationale: Yes, this song is 90 percent just Karen O singing "Look, they don't love you like I love you," only it's then powerful! If y'all say something the correct way, and the accompanying music is good enough, at that place's no need to embellish much more than. Proof: Beyoncé clearly nods to this song in her 2016 unmarried "Hold Up." "Maps" endures, over a decade afterwards, across genres.

"If I Ain't Got Yous" - Alicia Keys

Nearly romantic lyrics: "Some people want diamond rings/ Some but want everything/ But everything means zero/ If I ain't got yous"

Rationale: This song is all the more touching when you think that she wrote information technology only equally she was kickoff to get famous. She promises that her renown―the fruit of all her labor―along with promises of riches, jewelry, or endless life would all mean nothing if she didn't have her man.

"Pine Tree Lines" - Told Slant

Most romantic lines: "I am the girl my parents made/ Why don't y'all love me anyway/ 'Cause I love the way you take up space"

Rationale: Devastating genius. Lead singer Felix Walworth delivers this vocal then earnestly that his voice literally cracks during that last line. I've never heard a simpler or more startlingly authentic depiction of admiration than loving the way someone takes up space.

"Inevitable" - Shakira

Most romantic lyrics: "To exist fifty-fifty more honest/ No 1 thinks about you/ The manner I do" (Translated from Spanish)

Rationale: Shakira spends well-nigh of this song laying out all her imperfections―that she doesn't know how to brand java, that she doesn't understand soccer, that she oversleeps, etc.―and then proceeds to enquire her man to love her anyway.

"I Found You" - Alabama Shakes

Near romantic lyrics: "I remember all them lonely days/ I traveled out on my own/ Then you brought me everything/ You made my business firm a home"

Rationale: This is a celebration of finally finding your person. And then who amend to listen to it with than your person? Romantic, indeed.

"Rag Doll" - Franki Valli & The Four Seasons

Most romantic lines: "I'd alter her sad rags/ Into glad rags if I could/ My folks won't let me/ 'Cause they say that she's no proficient."

Rationale: Another Four Seasons vocal, aye. I'g from Jersey. Sue me.

Franki Valli declares his unconditional love for a girl much poorer than he is, fantasizing about replacing her tattered clothes with lace and finery. In spite of her poverty, he ends the vocal by crying, "I love y'all just the way you are."

He wants to give everything to someone who tin offer him nothing textile. All he wants is her.

"Since I've Been Loving You" - Led Zeppelin

Almost romantic lyrics: "Simply baby, since I've been loving you, aye/ I'g near to lose my worried listen/ Oh, yes"

Rationale: Man, these lyrics look then underwhelming when written down sans musical accessory. It's tragic.

What makes this song so romantic, to me, is the organ and bass work by John Paul Jones pair with Robert Institute's searing vocals. Information technology's a power blues song that hits you right in the gut. If drastic desire were a sound, this would be information technology.

"You Got Me" - Erykah Badu and The Roots

Most romantic lines: "If you don't worry 'bout where/ I been or who I saw  or/ What order I went to with my homies/ Babe, don't worry, you know that you got me"

Rationale: I cried when I saw this live. Erykah reassures her boyfriend during the chorus that she'll always be loyal to him, while Black Thought (pb MC of The Roots) uses his verses to tell the story of a lifelong romance. It's the best beloved song in hip hop, hands downwards.

"(You Make Me Experience Similar) A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin

Most romantic lyrics: "When my soul was in the lost and institute/ You lot came forth to claim it/ I didn't know but what was wrong with me/ 'Til your osculation helped me name it"

Rationale: Nosotros should heal ourselves rather than wait around for someone to heal united states, but that doesn't mean that love can't be a healing feel. Information technology's really romantic to give thanks someone for making you feel good, and that's precisely what this song (written by the flawless Carole King) is almost.

"Jade" - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Most romantic lyrics: "Nosotros tin't help but follow, she's Buddha, but watch her/ She moves like an one-time gypsy woman but swears she'southward a girl/ And all that she asks we'll allow her/ For Jade is the girl of the hr"

Rationale: Alex Ebert wrote this vocal for Jade Castrinos when they were both still dating and even so the frontpeople of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The vocal is a quiet dear alphabetic character to Castrinos―you could imagine Ebert singing it to her at night by the bivouac while the rest of the band is asleep (that'southward this ring's vibe, really). It's a shame that we no longer get to spotter the sweet human relationship between these talented musicians, but at least we'll always have this hippie love vocal.

"Wild Horses" - The Rolling Stones

Most romantic lyrics: "Graceless lady/ Yous know who I am/ You know I can't let you/ Slide through my easily/ Wild horses/ Couldn't drag me away"

Rationale: I of the wildest bands of the '60s and '70s also happened to write one of the nearly poignant songs most honey and devotion. This is near a long, deep intimacy between two people, and of being physically unable to resist the person you lot adore.

"Jim Bogart" - The Front Bottoms

Most romantic lyrics: "I would sleep meliorate on your floor/ Than I would ever in my bed/ And if your carpet makes my face itch/ It'd even so be heaven in my head"

Rationale: "Jim Bogart" opens with the above lyrics, sung with atomic number 82 singer Brian Sella's signature raw vocals. He abandons all pride in his dearest for this daughter, promising to do his guitar every night, to sleep on her floor without complaint, and to to ignore his doctor'due south advice―all to win her honey. We shouldn't have to debase ourselves for love (*rolls eyes* yeah, yes yes), but this is art. And if nosotros're existence honest, this sentiment is relatable for anyone who's prayed for their love to be reciprocated.

"Loving You" - Elvis Presley

Most romantic lyrics: "If I'm seen with someone new/ Don't be bluish, don't y'all be bluish/ I'll be faithful, I'll be true/ Always truthful, true to you"

Rationale: Elvis tells his dear not to get jealous or to believe the hype effectually him and other women, reassuring her that she's the one for him. Although multiple sources have claimed that Elvis did, indeed, cheat on his married woman, Priscilla, this remains his sweetest honey song.

"Melissa" - The Allman Brothers Ring

Virtually romantic lyrics: "Knowing many, loving none/ Bearin' sorrow, havin' fun/ Only back home he'll ever run/ To sweet Melissa"

Rationale: Here, the Allman Brothers sing about a traveling musician who tin't become over his sweetheart no matter how many other women he meets. She always ends upwards resurfacing in his mind, and eventually, he always returns to her.

"My Old Man" - Joni Mitchell

Most romantic lyrics: "He'south my sunshine in the morning/ He's my fireworks at the terminate of the day/ He's the warmest chord I always head/ Play that warm chord, play and stay, baby"

Rationale: Mitchell's soaring mezzo-soprano meanders through a portrait of her human relationship in this song, insisting throughout that, "We don't need no piece of newspaper from the city hall." She's proverb that she doesn't need external validation of the human relationship―this man gives her all she needs to experience secure in their bond.

"Devil In a New Dress" - Kanye Westward, Rick Ross

Nigh romantic lyrics: "Put your easily to the constellations/ The mode you look should be a sin, yous my awareness"

Rationale: Kanye Westward is a pretty polarizing figure, but this is still one of my favorite albums of all time. Information technology'due south a bittersweet tribute to his infamous relationship with Bister Rose, and this vocal encapsulates the often-sexy, always-complicated connexion between 2 people who aren't good for each other, yet can't stay abroad from one another.

"Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)" - Erykah Badu, Common

Most romantic lyrics: "Only that is all behind me/ 'Cause at present in that location is no other/ My love is his and his is mine/ A friend became the/ Dear of my life"

Rationale: Conventional communication tells us to fall in dearest with someone who tin be our  friend, too. This song is virtually two lifelong best friends who observe their manner back to each other afterward fourth dimension spent apart. With her famously beguiling voice, Erykah Badu captures the joy of being truly known past one'south partner.

"A Sunday Kind of Love" - Etta James

Almost romantic lyrics: "I want a Sunday kind of honey/ A dearest to last past Saturday dark/ I desire to know it's more love at first sight"

Rationale: We've all been at this point before. If Etta James were to accept written this vocal today, she would have been explaining that she was sick of ane-night-stands and Tinder/Bumble/Hinge dates that go nowhere. She'd be saying she was tired of sweaty strangers in bars shouting into her ear, over deafening music, asking if she wants to take a shot.

Instead, she'd want something substantial. Someone to relax and binge Schitt's Creek reruns with on the weekends.

May we all find that Sunday kind love.

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"Baby I'm Yours" - Arctic Monkeys

Most romantic lyrics: "Babe, I'yard yours/ And I'll exist yours until the stars fall from the heaven/ Yours until the rivers all run dry/ In other words, until I die"

Rationale: This vocal sounds like information technology was written in the '50s or '60s. In some ways, it's your run-of-the-mill slow vocal, but there'south something charming about the Chill Monkeys being the ones to perform this retro pledge of devotion.

"She Will Be Loved" - Maroon five

Virtually romantic lyrics:"I don't mind spendin' everyday / Out on your corner in the pourin' pelting"

Rationale:I recollect listening to this song in middle schoolhouse, wishing that the boy I had a crush on would beloved me plenty to stand exterior my window in the pelting. In retrospect, that would take been awkward and inconvenient to explain to my mother, and these days I would probably find such behavior creepy (when I'thousand in my pajamas in my apartment, peacefully eating Takis and watching The Sopranos, the terminal thing I need is a man standing outside, watching me from the street like something out of The Exorcist), only the sentiment of this song still stands.

"Because the Night" - Patti Smith

Most romantic lyrics: "Come up on, now, endeavour and empathize/ The way I feel when I'thousand in your hands/ Accept my hand, come up undercover/ They can't hurt you now"

Rationale: In this song, which was originally written by lyrical legend Bruce Springsteen, Smith promises her lover that he'south safety with her. If you've read Smith's book Just Kids, you'll probably heed to this vocal and think of her and Robert Mapplethorpe singing and dancing to it down the streets of lower Manhattan.

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"La Vie En Rose" - Edith Piaf

Most romantic lyrics: "When he holds me in his arms/ And he speaks to me softly/ I run into the world through rose-colored glasses" (Translated from French)

Rationale: You definitely know this song. It's the go-to for every romantic scene in every American picture show about French republic. And, granted, it'south a great pick for a dinner date, peculiarly if y'all want to become a little slow dancing started.

"Someday" - The Growlers

Most romantic lyrics: "Just stay for ane more than dark/ Ane day you're gonna be my wife/ Yous'll never accept to worry again/ I'g gonna be your human"

Rationale: It sounds atomic number 82 vocalist Brooks Nielsen's at present-wife was getting really sick of his bullshit, and that he wrote this vocal as a plea to get her to say. It's poetic, energetic, and hopeful, and it would have worked on me, besides, tbh.

"Wouldn't It Be Squeamish" - The Beach Boys

Most romantic lyrics: "Wouldn't it exist dainty if we were older?/ Then we wouldn't accept to expect so long"

Rationale: This is sung from the perspective of someone who's already certain most who he wants to spend the rest of his life with. And he's wishing that the residuum of his life could start right now.

"Stay" - Rihanna, Mikky Ekko

Most romantic lyrics: "Not really sure how to feel most it/ Somethin' in the mode you lot move/ Makes me experience like I can't live without you"

Rationale: Dear isn't a formula. In that location's no real logic to why we fall in love with some people but non others, and Rihanna hits the smash on the caput when she says it'southward just "something in the way [he] motility[south]." Information technology's reminiscent of The Beatles' vocal "Something." Speaking of which...

"Something" - The Beatles

Nearly romantic lyrics: "Something in the fashion she moves / Attracts me similar no other lover / Something in the way she woos me / I don't want to leave her now"

Rationale:This song is a tiresome, dreamy ode on an otherwise bluesy album. George Harrison was the Beatle who penned it, writing that he wasn't certain what exactly triggered his beloved or whether it would abound.  All he knew was that the dearest was there, and that that should be enough.

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"Androgynous" - The Replacements

Most romantic lyrics: "And they love each other so/ Androgynous/ Closer than we know, love each other and then/ Androgynous"

Rationale: This vocal is about two not-binary people falling in beloved, which is pretty cool for a song from 1984. Our primary characters, archetypically named Dick and Jane, love each other regardless of gender. The Replacements make a compelling argument about why traditional gender roles and clothing should make no difference if yous're truly in love with someone.

"I'll Be Seeing Y'all" - Billie Vacation

Nearly romantic lyrics: "I'll find you in the morning sun/ In every lovely summer'due south day/ In everything that's right and gay/ I'll ever think of you"

Rationale: You know when you're freshly in dearest (or heartbroken), and everything reminds you of that person? That'south what this song is most. Everything around Holiday―the natural world, a park, a cafe, a carousel―is a fond reminder of her beloved.

"Sunday Processed" - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment

Most romantic lyrics: "You lot've got to motion it slowly/ Take it in my body like it's holy/ I've been waiting for yous for the whole week/ I've been praying for you, you're my Lord's day candy"

Rationale: The Social Experiment is the hip hop commonage that boasts members such as Adventure the Rapper and Vic Mensa (the former of which is featured heavily on this song). Jamila Woods performs the chorus to this vocal so sweetly that it's easy to forget the sexual implications, and she and Chance tell the story of a couple that spends a week at a fourth dimension missing each other, captivated in thoughts of i some other until they're finally reunited.

 "Come As You Are" - Nirvana

Most romantic lyrics: "Come as you lot are/ Every bit you were/ Equally I want yous to exist"

Rationale: There are many interpretations of what this vocal means, ranging from mental wellness to friendship to commentary on inauthenticity. But, to me, "Come up As You Are" works as the ultimate grunge beloved vocal; as a promise to love and capeesh someone just the way they are.

 "Delight, Please, Please" - James Chocolate-brown

Most romantic lyrics: "Baby delight, infant please, delight me/ Baby delight, baby please don't get/ Don't go, I said infant, don't baby/ I dearest you then"

Rationale: This song is nigh entirely comprised of James Brown repeating "please," and, supposedly, he got a lot of flack from his producers about that earlier its release. Merely, similar the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps," this rail's magic lies in the passion with which it's delivered–and James Dark-brown is zip if not passionate.

 "I Will Always Dearest You" - Dolly Parton

About romantic lyrics: "And I hope life will treat you kind/ And I hope that you have all/ That you always dreamed of/ Oh, I practice wish you joy/ And I wish y'all happiness/ Just higher up all this/ I wish yous love"

Rationale: Without a dubiety, you're familiar with Whitney Houston's rendition of "I Volition Always Beloved Y'all," merely I dearest Dolly Parton's soft-spoken, land version likewise. Where Houston belts, Parton croons, making this a great alternative for when you lot want to hear this song on a placidity evening in.

 "Songbird" - Fleetwood Mac

Most romantic lyrics: "And I wish you lot all the love in the world/ But nigh of all, I wish it from myself/ And the songbirds go on singing/ Like they know the score"

Rationale: Fleetwood Mac'south members were notorious for hooking upwardly within their ranks, and Christine McVie (writer and primary vocaliser on this song) was no exception. This is a unique love vocal, because it does unconditional love unlike whatever other: It illustrates how it's entirely possible to love someone and want the best for them while accepting, admitting sadly, that you might not be that best thing.

 "Kickoff Day of My Life" - Vivid Eyes

Most romantic lyrics: "But I realized I need you/ And I wondered if I could come home"

Rationale: This Brilliant Eyes track makes me wish I was better at playing guitar. Frontman Conor Oberst makes a frank plea for his beloved, telling her, "I'1000 glad I didn't die before I met you lot," and asking for permission to arroyo. It's an exercise in startling honesty, and the outcome, like the whole album, is profound.

 "Sea of Love" - True cat Ability

Most romantic lyrics: "Come up with me, my love/ To the body of water, the sea of love/ I wanna tell you lot/ How much I beloved yous "

Rationale: Originally, the last song on this list was going to be T.I.'s "Whatsoever You Like" because I'one thousand determined that it volition play at my wedding one 24-hour interval (I'thou non kidding), but "Bounding main of Love" is too romantic to refuse. With minimal instrumentation, True cat Ability delivers a brief but heartfelt honey letter whose genius lies in its profound simplicity. 10/10.

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