Just watch this video for one of my answers I guess (especially unrequited love, but also some of the realities of a relationship). (Doh! this gets cut off... if you can find the full version I fully recommend it, not only for the music, but the rest of the "love story")
If there's one thing I'd criticize silly love songs for (the concept, I actually don't mind the McCartney song) it's lack of creativity. Heaping praise on someone gets pretty boring, and is frankly unrealistic. Part of love is learning to acknowledge someone faults and seeing them as a person, not as something to idolize. Being that it's one of my favorite albums it's impossible for me to talk about this topic without mentioning 69 Love Songs, and I think approaching love realistically and uniquely is something that Stephen Merritt does really well on that album. Take this song, which is pretty standard lyrically but stands out because of the beautiful lines "You may not be beautiful, but that's not for me to judge. I don't know if you are beautiful because I love you too much":
And on the flip side, he approaches falling out of love in a deeper way than the general "I'm so sad you're gone" sentiment. Part of me feels like I'm just saying that I like these songs better than other songs, but I really think he communicates the details of these feelings in songs like this:
To balance out the happy/sad in this post and to make the page load even slower, here's a Nick Cave song I really like. This one dives into more standard love song tropes but I think the "leave you as you are" sentiment again keeps it from being sappy and keeps it grounded.
Link _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
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