Comments on: A song that describes slowly blossoming love that is held back?

Question: A song that describes slowly blossoming love that is held back?

dracomarca — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:14:14 -0800

What's a good song that embodies the feeling of... "you found the person with whom you want to spend a lifetime together... but you're kept from being together (not because there are other people, but other reasons)... and every day it hurts to dream about, in a sweet way." kind of like a song that would describe Jim and Pam's tentative pre-lationship in The Office season 1 on... thanks!

By: wolfnote

wolfnote — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:15:35 -0800

The Beach Boys - "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

By: timsteil

timsteil — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:21:43 -0800

"I've Been Waiting."

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:38:03 -0800

"Tomorrow" - originally by the Durutti Column.

By: feral_goldfish

feral_goldfish — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:46:30 -0800

You might enjoy 'Café Hong Kong' by Future Bible Heroes.
Dear Joe, I had to use your handkerchief
as a tourniquet
it's bloodstained now and torn
Baby
When the war is over
when we all come home
I will wait for you dear
at the Café Hong Kong.

By: feral_goldfish

feral_goldfish — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:02:11 -0800

Mind you that one's more about lovers who've been separated. If you prefer an on-the-job pre-lationship, try 'Life During Wartime' (Talking Heads).

By: Room 641-A

Room 641-A — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:47:20 -0800

Tangerine - Led Zeppelin

Measuring a summer's day
I only finds it slips away to grey
The hours, they bring me pain.

Tangerine, Tangerine
Living reflection from a dream
I was her love, she was my queen
And now a thousand years between.

Thinking how it used to be
Does she still remember times like these
To think of us again?
And I do.

By: Lexica

Lexica — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:39:13 -0800

Billy Bragg - Wishing the Days Away (lyrics)

By: aecorwin

aecorwin — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:02:47 -0800

Think (Let Tomorrow Bee), by Sebadoh, comes to mind:

I think I love you, though I don't know what love means
Girl of my dreams, or a friend that one day leaves?
Could I trust you when I've lied to myself before?
Will I do it all again to taste what I've imagined we could be?

...even though in this case it's less about the couple being kept apart entirely and more about uncertainty causing the narrator to hold back. Or something like that. But it's an incredibly sweet song, and I am saying this as an inveterate prog-rock fan who generally finds romance a tiresome lyrical topic. There's just something intensely genuine about this song that makes up for its lack of robotic space armadilloes.

By: Free word order!

Free word order! — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:09:38 -0800

Morrissey - Come Back to Camden

By: lunasol

lunasol — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:32:37 -0800

Architecture in Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe Me

By: spunweb

spunweb — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:56:42 -0800

"You're Beautiful" by James Blunt

She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

By: griselda

griselda — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:23:12 -0800

The way you want it to be - Delerium

every day and night you're gone
I'll be missing you
but I'm going to be brave
the way you want it to be

By: yarly

yarly — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:42:20 -0800

I can't fight this feeling anymore!

By: TwoWordReview

TwoWordReview — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:46:39 -0800

I Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison

By: mrmarley

mrmarley — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:16:13 -0800

possibly:
I Think I Love You
She's In Love With The Boy

By: geek anachronism

geek anachronism — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:22:06 -0800

PJ Harvey You Said Something or This Mess We're In with Thom Yorke. Probably a little more hopeless than anything though.

By: springload

springload — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:07:40 -0800

Another night in with Tindersticks. Many songs on the same album (Curtains) are distilled bittersweetness, at least to me.

By: shesbookish

shesbookish — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:42:07 -0800

I Can't Love You Now - Sarah Jarosz

By: cynicalidealist

cynicalidealist — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:33:36 -0800

You give me something by James Morrison?

By: pink_gorilla

pink_gorilla — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:06:12 -0800

Falling Slowly from the film Once? (Not to mention the entire plot of the film...)

By: dracomarca

dracomarca — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:29:00 -0800

Thanks for all the recommendations! I chose "I've Been Waiting" from timsteil because it has a pleasant, hopeful 1990's quality... and lovely lyrics

'I didn't think I'd find you perfect in so many ways - and I've been waiting'