ok, I have not dated since about 1969, just before my wife of 51 years and I started living together, but please believe - as a fellow sociologist 😉 - I can very much relate to the relationships thing. And so, some of my faves here are songs from when my wife and I were starting to be together or even from when we first met as teenagers: I Got You Babe, Unchained Melody, You Really Got A Hold On Me. But then I Melt With You is one of my fave songs ever ever ever - it reaches the heart of loving.
Missing?
Bruce Springsteen’s She’s The One:
Oh, and just one kiss
She'd fill them long summer nights
With her tenderness
That secret pact you made
Back when her love could save you
From the bitterness
A song of love that once was burning, but now is troubled, maybe lost
And Springsteen again, Secret Garden:
She'll lead you down a path
There'll be tenderness in the air
She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stay
A million miles away
Does that capture the realisation that there may always be a deep part of your lover that is theirs alone, unknowable, and always will be? (‘you've gone a million miles, how far'd you get?’)
And if you listen to LeAnn Rimes’ cover of this song, all the feeling she puts into it, plainly from her own relationship experiences, you get it all (as LeAnn has said, ‘This song breaks my heart, I couldn’t hold back the tears covering it’):
From another Jerz boy who first saw Bruce on 1 Nov 1974 (Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, at the end of the Philly El), and was transfixed from the opening notes (a stunningly hypnotic ‘Incident on 57th Street’, w/just Roy Bittan on the piano and the angelic Suki Lahav on violin) to the last encore (I think it was ‘A Live So Fine’) over 3 hours later
So many great songs here!
ok, I have not dated since about 1969, just before my wife of 51 years and I started living together, but please believe - as a fellow sociologist 😉 - I can very much relate to the relationships thing. And so, some of my faves here are songs from when my wife and I were starting to be together or even from when we first met as teenagers: I Got You Babe, Unchained Melody, You Really Got A Hold On Me. But then I Melt With You is one of my fave songs ever ever ever - it reaches the heart of loving.
Missing?
Bruce Springsteen’s She’s The One:
Oh, and just one kiss
She'd fill them long summer nights
With her tenderness
That secret pact you made
Back when her love could save you
From the bitterness
A song of love that once was burning, but now is troubled, maybe lost
And Springsteen again, Secret Garden:
She'll lead you down a path
There'll be tenderness in the air
She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want
Where everything you need
Will always stay
A million miles away
Does that capture the realisation that there may always be a deep part of your lover that is theirs alone, unknowable, and always will be? (‘you've gone a million miles, how far'd you get?’)
And if you listen to LeAnn Rimes’ cover of this song, all the feeling she puts into it, plainly from her own relationship experiences, you get it all (as LeAnn has said, ‘This song breaks my heart, I couldn’t hold back the tears covering it’):
https://youtu.be/AzqEz5gBUQw?si=-yXQ7vBzj4BZ3xL8
This is great, Jack! Never enough Bruce :)
From another Jerz boy who first saw Bruce on 1 Nov 1974 (Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, at the end of the Philly El), and was transfixed from the opening notes (a stunningly hypnotic ‘Incident on 57th Street’, w/just Roy Bittan on the piano and the angelic Suki Lahav on violin) to the last encore (I think it was ‘A Live So Fine’) over 3 hours later
LOVE so fine :)