Questions And Questions On Love: List Of Love Song

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Not Enough Love love song
Can’t Live Without Love love song
I Believe In You love song
Do You Love Me love song
You Cheated With Him love song
You Cheated With Her love song
You Cheated With Him and Her Love Triangle love song
He Loves Him, She Loves Her, I’m Left Here All Alone love song
Love Is Cruel love song
Love Is Kind love song
Beggin’ You To Love Me Again love song
You're The Most Wonderful Lover In The Entire World And Universe love song
You Broke My Heart And I’m Gonna Get You Back love song

And….Makin' Love love song
…and anyone who has made serious love knows that you don't need to hear music to make music, unless you are listening to Barry White. Please feel free to add to this list of love song categories.

EXERCISE

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It is a love song.
Q. Are you in love or are you observing love?
A. I’m observing love.
Q. Which category of love song is my song in?
And, this is where a commonality amongst songwriters occurs. We unintentionally chose more than one love song category to write about in a single love song. They get all mushed together.
Use the Love Song Categories list located on Page xx as a guide to help you discover and focus exactly on what type of love song your are writing.

You now have basic knowledge of how to write a verse, chorus, hook, melody with harmony and rhythm. Pick a love song category and begin to write.

Exercise
This is one example of a verse, chorus, hook with melody, harmony and rhythm. Follow the questioning. It is a very helpful example in organizing a song.
For our example we will use the Unrequited Love category: The need to be in love.
The Backstory Of Our Unrequited Love Song
Person #1 is in love with Person #2. But Person #2 is in love with another. Love is out of reach.
Person #1 is yearning for love, and this yearning becomes an obsession that won’t go away. This forces Person #1 to be conflicted about loving Person #2, wants to let go of the neediness, but still believes that the ‘love will …show more content…

Chorus
Why can’t he see me?
I know we are meant to be
Why won’t he look just once?
We could be together - Forever
If he’d see me.
Maybe someday it will be so.

The yearning remains. The feeling of unrequited love holds constant through the entire song.
We also realize that she is aware of her obsession, yet she isn’t completely ready to accept the truth that he doesn’t see her.

Our category is unrequited love and the underlying themes are how obsession can control our actions and trying not to force things to happen and being truthful with oneself.

The listener experiences the feelings of unrequited love along with the impact of what obsession and not being truthful with oneself can do all at one time. Obsession and being truthful with oneself are the underlying themes of this song.

Summary When writing a love song, you must specifically point the lyric and the music toward the love song category it is in. At the same time, a love song can have multiple themes that it emits: Listen to ‘Love Song – If He’d See

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