Hopeful Summer - Love Songs Edition
July 23, 2018 9:53 AM   Subscribe

Hi everyone! It's Isaac. You may remember me. I got engaged to my fiancée, Amy, a few months ago. It looked a little bit like this. That was a pretty spectacular moment in my life. And, so, I've been thinking about how all of that came to be. And I got a little bit inspired to make another video that might honor the relationships that made my life possible and what might come for Amy and I in the future. So I hope you enjoy it.

Choir! Choir! Choir! - "Glory Of Love" (Peter Cetera cover)
You keep me standing tall
You help me through it all
I'm always strong when you're beside me
I have always needed you
I could never make it alone

I am a man who would fight for your honor
I'll be the hero you're dreaming of
We'll live forever, knowing together
That we did it all for the glory of love
_____________________________

Vanessa Carlton - "I Don't Want To Be Bride" (c/o Conan)
I like your company
You got a fresh philosophy
Never knew such a gentleman
You can take me on a cheap vacation
I don't wanna have expectations 'cause you
Could be the end of me

And I don't need a house on a hill
A swing on a tree
A grandfather clock
Porcelain for tea
A garden with rose and jasmine

Gonna get drunk on a bottle of wine
No better way to pass the time
Forever by your side

But I don't wanna be a bride
Apologies to your mother
I wanna be your girl
And spend this life with you
But I don't wanna wear white
You know it's too late for that
But can't we keep the ever after
Could it be?
_____________________________

Chris and Morgane Stapleton - "More Of You" (c/o NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert)
When I think of you and the first time we met
And I heard the sound of your sweet gentle voice
My heart took me over and gave me no choice
And right then I knew

It makes me want more of you
Again and again
I fall more in love with you
Than I've ever been
From the moment you wake me up
'Til you kiss me goodnight
Everything that you do
It makes me want more of you

When I look at you now that years have gone by
I think of the memories that time can't erase
And all of the smiles that you've brought to my face
Your love's been so true

It makes me want more of you
Again and again
I fall more in love with you
Than I've ever been
From the moment you wake me up
'Til you kiss me goodnight
Everything that you do
It makes me want more of you

When I leave this earth you'll be holding my hand
And it gives me comfort to know you'll be there
And I'll thank the Lord for the love that we share
You're heaven to me

It makes me want more of you
Again and again
I fall more in love with you
Than I've ever been
From the moment you wake me up
'Til you kiss me goodnight
Everything that you do
It makes me want more of you
Everything that you do
It makes me want more of you
_____________________________

Ray LaMontagne & Damien Rice - "To Love Somebody"
There is a light
A certain kind of light
That never shone on me
Wanted my whole life to be lived with you
Lived with you

There's a way everybody say
To do each and every thing
Oh but what good does it bring
If I ain't got you, if I ain't got you?

Baby, you don't know what it's like
Baby, you don't know what it's like
To love somebody
To love somebody
The way I love you

In my brain
I see your face again
I know my frame of mind
How you got to be so unkind
Have I (?)
Have I grown blind?
But I'm a man
Can't you see what I am?
I live and I breathe for you
But what good does it do
If I ain't got you, if I ain't got you?

Baby, you don't know what it's like
Baby, you don't know what it's like
To love somebody
To love somebody
The way I love you

Baby, you don't know what it's like
Baby, you don't know what it's like
To love somebody
To love somebody
The way I love you
_____________________________

Michael Bernard Fitzgerald - "Care For You"
I'll pick you up 8
We'll go on a date
I'll wear my finest clothes
Take you to a place where no one knows

We'll eat dinner there
And I'll take extra care
To pull out your chair for you
Baby girl I'll care for you

Then our car will arrive
Fanciest limo in sight
In it the things you like
Champagne and the stars above

At the curb at my favorite spot
Ushered in we'll say, "Thanks a lot"
They're playing your favorite song
I asked the DJ to put it on
_____________________________

Pink - Fuckin' Perfect
Made a wrong turn, once or twice
Dug my way out, blood and fire
Bad decisions, that's alright
Welcome to my silly life

Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "No way, it's all good", it didn't slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated
Look, I'm still around

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel
Like you're less than fuckin' perfect
Pretty pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothin'
You're fuckin' perfect to me!

You're so mean, when you talk, about yourself you were wrong
Change the voices in your head, make them like you instead
So complicated, look how big, you'll make it
Filled with so much hatred, such a tired game

It's enough! I've done all I can think of
Chased down all my demons, I've seen you do the same
Oh, pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than fuckin' perfect

Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothin'
You're fuckin' perfect to me
The whole world's scared, so I swallow the fear
The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer

So cool and limed and we try, try, try
But we try too hard and its a waste of my time
Done looking for the critics 'cause they're everywhere
They don't like my jeans, they don't get my hair

Exchange ourselves and we do it all the time
Why do we do that, why do I do that?
(exasperated) Why do I do that?

Yeah

Oh, pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel
Like you're less than fuckin' perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothin'
You're fuckin' perfect to me!
You're perfect, you're perfect
Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feel like you're nothin'
You're fuckin' perfect to me
_____________________________

inspired by it being my 41st birthday on this beautiful day, and Glinn's comment on MetaTalk which reminded me of my deep, deep, deep love of Isaac Lamb's lip-dub proposal

(a few previouslies here)
posted by bologna on wry (6 comments total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Beautiful proposal.
posted by Gadgetenvy at 11:08 AM on July 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


To avoid posting all of the lyrics of the love songs I share, I'll just post the lines/verses I like best.

The winters whirl the windmills 'round, she winds his muffler tighter
And they sit in the kitchen, some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.
And he sees her for a moment, calls her name,
She makes the bed up singing some old love song,
A song Margaret learned when it was very new.
He hums a line or two, they sing together in the dark.
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zuiderzee.
Long ago, I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me.


-

I get so tired working so hard for our survival,
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive.


--

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time
Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song
Right me when I'm wrong
Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you
Maybe I'm a man and maybe I'm a lonely man
Who's in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Maybe I'm a man and maybe you're the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won't you help me understand

--

All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dreams
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for you
Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all they really were doing
Was waiting for love
Don't need to be alone
No need to be alone
It's real love, it's real
Yes, it's real love, it's real
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:10 PM on July 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


Oh, and this is sweet - here's an article about that couple, posted almost exactly a year ago, talking about "how did they meet" and "and then what happened".

They apparently got a shit-ton of offers, everything from "come be the host of this reality show" to "we'll give you a brand-new car to drive down the aisle in" or something, but they turned them all down except for the offer for funding to produce that second video. They actually sound very sweet.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:23 PM on July 23, 2018 [2 favorites]


Aww. Our first dance at our wedding was the Chris Stapleton “More of You” song. We love it.
posted by samthemander at 3:30 PM on July 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


Everything Else Disappears - Sister Hazel

Remember to breathe
Remember to hold your head high
Remember to smile some
And just listen a while

You've practiced enough yeah
That's what I told myself
So I nervously asked you your name
And that's when the world seemed to stop

And I died when you looked up like that
Took my breath away
Knocked me flat on my back
I knew right then and there
In that first second stare
It would be a while

Everything falls out of focus
You walk through the door
And one thing that's clear to me
Helplessly hopeless
I'm all right with that
In a room full of people
Everything else disappears

We talked for hours
About the sun and moon
How it chases her round and round
It's just trying to light up her face
And we sat on your car
While the light from the stars
Poked holes in the sky
And you told me the tales of your heart
And how it'd been broken

And I cried when you talked about that
Yeah what I would've given to take it all back for you
Right then and there
In that first second stare
I knew we would be a while

Everything falls out of focus
You walk through the door
And one thing that's clear to me
Helplessly hopeless
I'm all right with that
In a room full of people
Everything else disappears

I thought that I'd known you forever
I felt like I'd finally come home
After all of these lifetimes
You still take my breath away

Everything falls out of focus
You walk through the door
And one thing that's clear to me
Helplessly hopeless
I'm all right with that
In a room full of people
Everything else disappears
posted by ceejaytee at 5:31 PM on July 23, 2018 [1 favorite]


These are all so good!! LOVE!
posted by bologna on wry at 9:34 AM on July 24, 2018


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