I’ve been involved with my wife since I was 17 years old. I’m 32 now. We’ve been exclusive for 15 years. She is the most remarkable person I’ve ever met in my life and she is my closest friend.
I think “All I Want Is You” is an awesome love song. I wish I could have written it for Sheila. Especially tonight. She and I are in a lot of pain tonight. It’s a long story that I’m not going to be telling you.
Sheila and I danced to “Nancy With the Laughing Face” performed by John Coltrane at our wedding. It was the only Coltrane tune we could find that we could actually dance to. If you know me, you know how important John Coltrane is to me. If you know Sheila, you know how important my love of John Coltrane is to her. It was a lot of fun.
But, whatever. Use this as an open thread to talk about love songs. If you can find your love song on You Tube, post it. If you can’t, tell us a story. It doesn’t have to make sense. Love is always a bit funny.
In my life, nothing was more meaningful than a song by Van Morrison called A Town Called Paradise. But that was twenty years ago now.
I have three that really matter more than any others:
1. Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. Maybe it’s a stretch to call it a love song. I dunno. Here’s the first verse, you tell me:
2. Into the Blue by Luka Bloom. Astral Weeks was the song I played for my sweetie. She played this one in return:
3. You Are Too Beautiful – Composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, performed by John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. This, you’ll just have to dig up on your own.
I’m a very lucky man to have such love in my life.
Some couples have a song that’s their song. My wife and I have entire bands that work that way for us.
Like Wilco (“I’m the Man who Loves You”)…
…and Elbow (“Fugitive Motel”).
“Fugitive Motel” lyrics:
My old favorite:
(I never had much luck with love until I met my wife.)
My current favorite:
My wife’s favorite:
Another possibility:
That U2 show was a rough one in many ways. If I recall correctly it was something like a week after Bono’s father died.
You recall correctly.
Ghost of a Chance
Like a million little doorways
All the choices we made
All the stages we passed through
All the roles we played
For so many different directions
Our separate paths might have turned
With every door that we opened
Every bridge that we burned
Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace
I don’t believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don’t believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don’t believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there’s a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last…
Like a million little crossroads
Through the back streets of youth
Each time we turn a new corner
A tiny moment of truth
For so many different connections
Our separate paths might have made
With every door that we opened
Every game we played
Somehow we find each other
Through all that masquerade
Somehow we found each other
Somehow we have stayed
In a state of grace
I don’t believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate
I don’t believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state
I don’t believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above
But I believe there’s a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last…
……
Listen here:
Ghost of a Chance
Our personal favorite…20 years this August.
Double Fantasy. It was the second time for both of us, together now for 27 years.
Better version here, embedding disabled by request.
The Momcat has been with me for 35 or 36 years now. Been married almost 34 (I think – she could tell you…). Divorced once, lasted almost a year. And to this day why on earth she puts up with me is one of the great mysteries of my life.
I once danced to Coltrane’s version of “My Favorite Things” from his live at the Village Vanguard album. I was by myself and I was very, very high. And long before the age where everything was videoed. If you plan on trying, pull the shades down first.
I met my wife via the Internet almost 7 years ago and 2 children. I believed that I would always be alone and that Love would always evade me. Two failed relationships and the tragic loss of another due to a drunk driver, before I was 40. I was listening to the Proclaimers on my commute to work, a disk my wife suggested, two weeks after we had physically met. I heard this song, I MET YOU and that night after work I proposed, we were both shocked, I tell you I was shocked. We were married three months after we met and have an incredibly loving and beautiful relationship. The relationship I have always wanted for my life. I have two wonderful children who strike me with AWE everyday and whom I love with all my being. Great Spirit has truly blessed my life.