Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Why and Wherefore I'm Alive: How to Love Your Wife, A Playlist
These are songs that your husband wants to sing to you. He loves you so much. He's just shy. Try not to cry--it's pretty moving. When it gets serious (Kate Bush), just look down and act really vulnerable but heroic. Men are suckers for that!
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we played "let's stay together" at our wedding. i love that song. and eliza played "the luckiest." the only thing about that song that i take issue with is the "what if i was born 50 years before you" part... i don't know, ben, then you'd be a creepy old man who watched children ride their bikes down the street.
ReplyDeleteI think it's pervy and romantic, Hannah.
ReplyDeleteOnce when we were dating, my husband sing/said the lyrics of So Fine, by Guns and Roses to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd that was at the height of his romantic prowess.
So you can imagine how happy I was to discover this play list.
I like that you make it easier for Topher to love me.
ReplyDeletebrilliant, the best playlist yet. as you know, you're a musical genius.
ReplyDeleteFabulous. Two of my all time faves are on this list--She Sells Sanctuary and Catch My Fall (dude, seriosuly, how sexy is Billy's voice on that song? second only to Sweet Sixteen, but that's a pervy song, as we've discussed before). And I think we've also discussed loving Elvis/Declan...he hosted Piano Jazz on my npr station this week and made my rainy monday.
ReplyDeleteAlso, great concept for a list here. I always wanted a boy to sing JT's "Something in the Way She Moves" (well, the Beatles, too)cuz that seemed like a mellow, lasting thing. Very much like what I've got (yay, that).
I missed you in Provo! I mentioned to Georgia at our picnic that I enjoyed reading your whole blog like a book. She laughed at me.
i adore your playlists. i kept blaring your monday cleaning inspiration for a whole week. So, you know, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks once again! Keeping our marriage strong one song at a time.
ReplyDeleteYou would hate me if I weren't too shy to sing these to you.
ReplyDeleteAwww, I like these.
ReplyDeleteWhen my husband and I were newly dating again (we had broken up a few times already; this was kind of a turning point for us chronologically because we never broke up again) he sang "Here, There and Everywhere" to me late one night at his parents' house while playing it on the guitar.
You have to know Matt to really understand the magnitude of that. He is not a musician ("Stairway to Heaven" is the only other song he can play) and is definitely NOT a singer. When he first got the guitar out I was taken aback and more than a little awkward...I kind of wanted to start giggling. But he got the last laugh of course since it was very, very sweet. And the only time he has ever sung to me. And, we got married. (obviously.)
You also might appreciate the fact that since we have been married I have heard him sing occasionally, and the only song he sings is his lullaby to the kids, "Running to Stand Still." He replaced "poison stream" with "pillow dream" after I asked him to stop singing heroin-related songs to our kids. The kids love it and Theo can sing the whole thing (the "pillow dream" version of course).
P.S. This Woman's Work. I love the song and "She's Having a Baby" but the vid for the song makes the movie look so much more dramatic than it was for me. I should probably re-watch it but I am mostly remembering a very young Alec Baldwin, some trying-to-get-pregnant jokes, and fixing up a house.
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