What's your favorite love song?!

I am a very sentimental person. I love looking through old photo albums and remembering. I can be instantly transported back to certain times in my life simply by putting on different scents. (I recently found an ancient bottle of Bath & Body Works Country Apple lotion and had some major high school flashbacks!) I'm addicted to Facebook because it helps me reconnect with special people, places & times in my past. And finally, I love thinking back over the musical soundtrack of my life. Earlier this week, I heard the following song on the radio. I hadn't heard it in years, but I still remembered every chord- even the sound of the guitar player's fingers on the frets. It was actually the first thing I learned to play on the guitar, although I've long since forgotten it. I hope you enjoy the video- if you can ignore the black fingernail polish and 90's hair-band hair.




Hearing this song made me think- what would I consider the best love songs of all time? I can't even begin to list them. I'd have a million different criteria- there'd be a list for creative lyrics (which would have to include "That's how your love makes me feel" by Diamond Rio.) I could list songs by the melody and musicality, by the mushiness factor, by all sorts of things. But at the end of the day, the best songs to me are the songs that make me remember. I think about dancing my first slow dance to "Everything I do (I do it for you)" by Bryan Adams. I remember smiling dreamily whenever I heard certain songs in high school- including our prom theme "Now & Forever" by Carole King. I think about the time my friends made me watch Pure Country in college and how I still love the song "I cross my heart" by George Strait. I remember my Uncle Tye, and his memorial service, and my deepened appreciation for Cole Porter and the Gershwins whenever I hear an old standard. I can immediately flashback to the summer I met & fell in love with John by hearing any number of songs- some of them aren't even love songs; they range from worship songs to Destiny's Child! Of course there are the wedding songs that remind me how I blessed I am to be married to him. I also remember the summer we fell in love with parenthood and one tiny little girl, all while listening to John Mayer's "Daughters." I could go on & on, but I won't try to bring more songs to mind just for the sake of blogging. I'll wait, and let the songs and memories find me. It's so much more fun that way!

"Memories, like fingerprints, are slowly raising..."
~Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town by Pearl Jam