Top Five Love Songs

If you spend Valentines Day canoodling with your Valentine, you usually want the environment to be perfect. Refined food like homemade spaghetti and a five dollar bottle of sparkling grape juice will elegantly whisk you and your lover off to a picturesque seaside resort in southern Italy. The sweet caresses of dim lighting may lull you and your valentine into a saccharine ambiance. Music can set a romantic and tender mood. But with oodles of love songs, choosing the proper tunes for you relationship can be difficult. So here are five songs for five different relationships.

“Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Babe” by Barry White is suitable if you have troubles expressing that soaring love for your valentine. “How can I explain all these things I feel?” This low-spoken love poem will make any girl feel appreciated with lyrics like, “Girl, your love for me is all I need and more than I can stand, oh well, babe.” The echoing wishful guitar and the softly shuttering cymbals should set the perfect low-key atmosphere for your date with a valentine who satisfies you.

“Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton, with a tingling magical intro and soft vocals has become an icon of the love genre. But with a closer look, this song would be appropriate for the insecure relationship. “Do I look alright? And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight.” If she has to ask you to tell her she’s beautiful, then she’s not sure how you feel or she’s compliment fishing. The girl can tell that Clapton is nervous because she asks him, “Do you feel alright?” In the last verse, Clapton admits that he got a headache from going on the date.

If you are creeping on a girl, then you might sing her “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. Sting whispers into his prey’s ear, “Every step you take, I’ll be watching you.” According to RollingStone.com, this song was The Police’s biggest hit. The lyrics embody the type of love that psychologists known as ‘mania’. Mania is a possessive, passionate, jealous and controlling love. If that is your kind of lovin’, then “Every Breath You Take” by The Police is your song.

This brings us to “Your Song” by Elton John, a humble piano melody. If you are an ‘external processor’, then you can relate to Elton, who processes his love by talking the listener through metaphors and the reasons for his song. But in the end, he says, “Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean, yours are the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen.” If you have to talk yourself through your feelings with your valentine, then this is your song.

If those fail, then there’s the classic “My Girl” by The Temptations. With its melt-your-heart vocals and staccato snaps, this song will put your valentine on cloud nine. If you want a girl to know that she has you, then play her the Temptations. But don’t be too tempting in your mood planning.