We’ve covered ‘mixed tapes’ those loving compilations we have all put together during the courting stages of our lives (note I made the plural.. hollah!) but is there a particular song that you gave or received that to this day rips your damn heart out and slaps it on a plate like a liver and onion special at Mels Diner?
Iman and I got on that topic, how I don’t know. He and I can discuss anything and eventually it rounds up to being a post.
So I shout out to my Facebook peeps (friend me at Helen Bach, btw…) for songs and what I came up with was sorta surprising. As bad ass as some people are is pretty much as sappy as they are.
OK the most romantic song anyone ever gave me was ‘Baby I’m Amazed’, by Joe Cocker. I hate Joe Cocker, I hate that song but Joe Cocker SINGING that song and bam pass the fucking tissues. The most heart wrenching song Ive ever ‘given’ someone was Shameless, by Billy Joel. Yeah Billy Freakin Joel..but seriously listen to the lyrics of that and try not to well up. Hell I well up just thinking about it.
So I present to you a list of songs to rip your lungs out. Feel free to take one or two if your feeling to lazy to come up with one on your own.
Endless Love (are you freakin serious?) Lionel Ritchie?
It Had To Be You- Harry Connick Jr
She- The Monkees (this is a break up song if you ask me but who am I to judge-is cool though)
Hold Me Now- Howard Jones
Thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton
You and Me Against The World- Helen Reddy (I have to just say that the person who gave me this one is a tattooed pierced rocker FREAK so I promised not to blow his cover but HAAAAAAAAAAA dork)
Coin Operated Boy- Dresden Dolls. um my lesbian friends rule
Cherish- The Association
I’m Sorry (South Central Rain)- REM (fail)
Happy Together- The Turtles
If It Makes You Happy -Sheryl Crow (there goes dinner)
Look After You- The Fray
Dismantle Me- The Distillers.
Ill Never Fall In Love again-Bobbie Gentry
Get Here- Oleta Adams
What ever it may be given or received, may you always feel the power of love in music.