Love

Songs that deal with love more or less straightforwardly or sincerely. It can be love between two people, or for a thing -- basically any mention of that emotion, as long as it's unaccompanied by stated or implied souring. C'mon, guys, they've written a few!

Central theme

• After You - "We had a date at eight, we had a table for two"
• All Expenses Paid - "All expenses paid, and all in the name of love"
• All The Lazy Boyfriends
• Ampersand
• Another First Kiss
• Ana Ng
• Anyone Can Fill My Shoes - "To too much love for only one?"
• Bangs - "Once with a girl I fell in love some time ago"
• Big News - "You see your love gone dead"
• Coffee Table Of Love
• Concrete And Clay
• Contrecoup - The narrator's head injury made him limerent
• The Darlings Of Lumberland
• Dashiki Lover
• Down In The Boondocks - "I love him, he loves me"
• Downtown Girls
• The Day That Love Came To Play
• First Kiss
• Friday Night I Want To Go To The Disco - "Our lives romance"
• Funnier Than Love
• I Can't Be Sure
• I Enjoy Being A Boy - "... in love with you"
• I Love To Sing
• I Love You For Psychological Reasons
• I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You - "Now I see that love is all that I'm thinking of"
• I'm Your Boyfriend Now
• Impossibly New - "With love that's impossibly new"
• The Joker
• Love Is Eternity
• Make It The Same
• New York City
• Never Knew Love
• Nice 'N' Easy
• Number Two
• One Of A Billion Boys
• Out Of Jail - "Stranger could have loved that town ... I wish I'd gotten to know her before I fell in love"
• Plain As The Lie On Your Lips
• Portable Trouble Spot - "She says she loves you but she's just a pretender"
• Pet Name
• Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love
• S-E-X-X-Y
• She's An Angel - "We both said, 'I really love you'"
• (Since You Joined) The Corporation - "When you told me that you loved me"
• Sleeping In The Flowers - "I got a crush"
• Small Town Suburban Boy - "I call up my girlfriend, I ask her to go to the movies"
• Stormy Pinkness (Love Version) - audience chanting "love!"
• That Thing You Do
• Too Real - "And it's only love that I feel"
• Too Tall Girl
• Tractor
• Valentine
• We've Got A World That Swings
• What Is Everyone Staring At? - "Haven't they seen two people in love?"
• Withered Hope - "I'm in love with you"
• Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?
• Yeh Yeh - "My baby loves me"

Briefly mentioned

• Applause Applause Applause - Kisses and hugs
• Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys - "They've been forced to live / In a land of love"
• Bread Hair - "If you love me, you needn't the whole wheat crop"
• Definition Of Good - "Laughing at the same thing, looking into your eyes"
• Dog - "She's a dog who wrote the book of love / And then devoured it"
• Don't Cry - "And it's all I can do just to say 'I love you'"
• ECNALUBMA - "Marry me and be my wife"
• Empty Boulevards
• The End Of The Tour - "Never to part since the day we met ... We kissed at the overpass"
• Even Numbers - "She loves me, she loves me not"
• Everybody Knows It - "Love is like a..."
• Fascinating Friends - "Take him out to a place I know"
• For Science - "I'll be her love slave ... He'll be her love slave forever"
• Four of Two - "I was planning to say I was in love with her"
• Georgy Girl - "Bring out all the love you hide"
• Half A Boy - "Now love's not only for the curious", "Now love is only for the curious"
• Fingertips #3: I Hear The Wind Blow - "I'm the one who loves you so"
• I Palindrome I - "'Beloved,' I said"
• If I Wasn't Shy - "I'd ask you, if you don't mind, to kiss you a hundred times"
• I've Got A Match - "Love people are there / The smell of love is everywhere"
• John Lee Supertaster - "Loves ice cream and pie"
• Kiss Me, Son Of God - "That you love me, and I love me"
• Letterbox - "Too late or soon to make noise about love"
• Man, It's So Loud In Here - "When they start the love machine and I can love again"
• Mario Speaks - "We'll live on love--the love we have for sophisticated head-bobbing music!"
• Museum Of Idiots - "Every piece of me will say 'I love you'"
• Name - "They're gonna love you for this"
• Nice Is Good, Mean Is Bad - "Love is good, hate is bad ... love is better than hate."
• Now That You're One Of Us - "These are the things we love to do"
• Piece Of Dirt - "A woman's voice on the radio can convince you you're in love"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "Well it's a mighty zombie talking of some love and posterity ... You need some lo-lo-loving arms"
• Rhythm Section Want Ad - "There's a place for those who love their poetry"
• Rock Club - "We love all the people"
• Say Nice Things About Detroit - "There I was anticipating / Some kind of love"
• Spider - "We love you, Spider!"
• Spines - "Gonna make you fall in love again... Gonna make you fall in love with spines"
• Stand On Your Own Head - "I love the world"
• Theme From Flood - "Why is the world in love again?"
• This Ape's For You - "He wants to love you"
• This Boy's In Pieces
• With The Dark - "She's in love with her broken heart; she's in love with the dark"
• Why Must I Be Sad? - "I love the dead ... muscle of love"
• Women & Men - "Bringing with them messages of love and everywhere they go, love will grow"

Honorable mentions

• I C U - The live action video for the combo release of Here Come The ABCs seems to imply the male X has a crush on the female X. Moreso, this song could possibly be interpreted as someone "C"-ing their "X"-lover in public doing "O K" after a breakup.

See Also

• Love Gone Sour