What's Your Favorite Love Song?

Music is an important aspect in my life. There isn't a day that goes by when I don’t hear it. It’s as important as food and water. If I ever didn’t hear it, my heart would starve.

I take it so serious that I don’t like to to miss any part of the song. If someone talks over a song, I’ll turn it off until a time where I can hear the whole thing uninterrupted.

I like songs where I just melt into them. And I will listen and listen and listen and listen. I try to put myself in the place of the songwriter first. How they must have felt when they wrote the song? What happened to make them write it?

Then I think of how I would sing it, (if I sang), where I would put the emphasis for the best emotional effect, how I would arrange it, produce it, and how other singers would sing it, etc.

There is a whole production in my head. At one point in my life, I considered going into the music business, as a recording engineer/producer, but like I have said so many times, my hands were guided to this keyboard to tap out a melody in words.

I can’t say enough about a good love song. One that makes you stop whatever you’re doing and let the melody and lyrics take you to another place.

Music transports us from here to there. We can recall specific instances in our lives with music - a graduation, prom, wedding, etc. When we are depressed, we don’t want to hear happy songs to get us out of it, we would rather hear sad songs just to know that someone else has been through what we are going through.

When we are happy, music can only make us happier. Our Soul relates to the sound we hear when we are in tune with ourselves. That’s the key to music, to be in tune with our spirit.

My musical taste spans years and genres. When my grandmother died, my mother inherited her record collection and she continually played it throughout my childhood. I heard Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and more. Thus, my musical grasp extends beyond my years.

I have too many favorites to list, but one song that has always been a favorite is, The Rose sung by Bette Midler. It has all the elements of an exquisite song, arrangement, vocals, melody, lyrics, and the freeze factor. (where it freezes you in your tracks.)

To me, the song is about finding our true purpose and blossoming into our own being. It is overcoming the fear of living and learning to love all that we are. It is the kind of love song that goes beyond a romantic love song. It dives right into the fabric of the Soul with reason, rhyme and tender hooks that embed themselves under our skin.

We search to find something outside of ourselves when it has always been there staring at us. After searching in the darkness, we find that we are the light at the end of the tunnel. We really are.

For those of you still searching, this song is for you. For those of you who have found yourself, this song is for you. For those who don’t know where to look, this song is for you. For those who have always known, this song is for you. You are a love song.

The Rose


Some say love, it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
that leaves your Soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the Soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

If you could put your life into a song, what would it be? If you opened your heart, what love song would be in it? Play me your tune.