Love songs are where we get our passion, our soulβand most of our worst ideas. Throughout human history, oceans have been crossed, mountains have been scaled, and great families have blossomedβall because of a few simple chords and a melody that inflamed a heart and propelled it on a noble, romantic mission. On the other hand, that time you told that girl you just started seeing that you would " catch a grenade " for her? You did that because of a love song. And it wasn't exactly a coincidence that she suddenly decided to "lose your number" and move back to Milwaukee to "figure some stuff out.
Love songs are great, but you have to be smart about them. That time you held that boombox over your head outside your ex's house? You did that because of a love song and let's be honest, a scene in a pretty popular movie.
And 50 hours of community service later, you're still not back together. Love songs are great. They make our hearts beat faster. They inspire us to take risks and put our feelings on the line. And they give us terrible, terrible ideas about how actual, real-life human relationships should work. Here are six love songs that sound romantic but aren't, and one song that doesn't sound romantic but totally is:.
A lush garden of soft horns and breezy melody. A tie-dye swirl of sound. A landscape of haunted innocence with some of the most heartrending lyrics ever committed to the back of a surfboard. If you're traipsing through a meadow in a sundress with your beloved and not playing "God Only Knows" on your phone, you should really stop and start over. If you're lazily bumping a beach ball over a volleyball net and "God Only Knows" isn't playing somewhere in the back of your mind, you need to rethink the choices that got you to this point.
If you're a video editor compiling footage of grainy hippies frolicking in the mud and you're not underscoring it with the opening chords of "God Only Knows," you are doing it wrong. It's a song that just feels like love. Pure love.
