No wonder there are so many love songs.
There are so many ways of getting love wrong.
Most celebrate one or more of these.
There’s more mileage in them than in ecstasy,
a much rarer state to which we all aspire,
happy to burn in love’s all cancelling fire ,
shortcomings forgotten, emotions turbo-charged,
our lives in an instant totally enlarged.
These songs are the apex of creativity
even as they approach ineffability.
*what are some of your favourite love songs?
John Malone 
Ah, such is the ineffable poetry of John Malone.
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it’s always risky speaking of the ineffable with mere words —
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Wonderful! Especially the line, happy to burn in love’s all cancelling fire
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love is all forgiving, Bob: that’s what’s so wonderful about it 🙂
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“There are so many ways of getting love wrong.”
Love songs do work upon the above theory.
Or maybe we as listeners think too much.
Lost in thought…
Well written. 🙂
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I have always been moved by love songs: I would say there are more songs written about love than any other topic —
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I, and Love, and You by Avett Brithers
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don’t know this one, Beth; will look it up —
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Brothers
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just played it, Beth: beautiful and poignant, so sweetly sung and the haunting refrain: ‘Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in ‘ —
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glad you liked it. an americana music group from the south, write and play all their own music.
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there’s so much good music we don’t hear down under but I suspect that’s true of everywhere 😦
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Oh man, my favorite. As illusive as love can be, I’m still a believer. https://youtu.be/7er_xx7Wmg8
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beautiful song in happier times; it’s sad that Yoko had to live all those years without the love of her life: a courageous woman —
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Indeed. I sing this song to my littles in hopes they will know the truth about love. We must all be courageous in matters of the heart.
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my ex and I played ‘Double Fantasy’ album which I bought her for Xmas that year of John’s murder and we had a quiet cry by the Xmas tree before the rellies arrived —
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Oh my; so that was Christmas, eh? My record play and I are reunited and I’m having warm fuzzy feeling playing some albums.
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it’s good to get reunited with one’s record player 🙂
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Indeed. 😃
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I haven’t got a favourite John, but then again, I’m not in love!
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I’m sure you are , Hobbo; your poems referencing Mrs, H suggest it 🙂
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10cc, ‘I’m not in love,’ my favourite!
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thank you, Hobbo: that’s one of mine too 🙂
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You’re welcome. Glad that’s been cleared up. 🙂
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everyone has a favourite love song, Hobbo: I should say mine: it’s ‘Layla’ by Derek and the Dominoes 🙂
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The guitar riff in that is awesome! 🙂
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ahh what often is referred to as ‘the million dollar riff’ 🙂
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Fantastic love poetry to the love song.
“Every rose has its thorn” sums up the love of my life, my wife! Sung by a 90:ies band Poison.
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agreed, Ulle: that is still an amazing song 🙂
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Wonderful last two lines, John. And ‘love’s all cancelling fire’ was fantastic.
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thanks, Matthew: the Muse and I worked overtime getting this one out 🙂 and, of course, the paradox: how does one speak of the ineffable ?
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Nick Cave “into my arms”. There are probably others. What about the Aranjuez Concerto by Joaquin Rodrigo?
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agreed; my favourite Nick Cave song which I still play is ‘The Ship Song’; it’s sad that he lost his son 😦
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Favorite song:
“Wondr’ing Aloud” Jethro Tull
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don’t know this one; must check it out; the only Jethro Tull song that I know is ‘Thick as a Brick’
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Oh, there’s so much fantastic Jethro Tull. 🙂
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he was very big in this country with the ‘Thick A A Brick’ album but then radio stations stopped playing him 😦
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Hi John , as long as humans desire love, someone will write songs about it.
It’s the universal theme. ❤
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you got that one right, Eden; the theme of most films and books too 🙂
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There are so many ways of getting love wrong…you can say that again. 🙂🙂
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