Heads or Tails - "Love Story" - 2/10/09

This is my first time participating at Barb's Heads or Tails. I probably couldn't have picked a worse time to join in. With Valentine's Day looming, this weeks prompt is predictably "Love Story". For many of us, Valentine's Day is the saddest holiday of all. I am certainly not qualified to write of love. I will leave it to the professionals. I have included some song titles that speak to me of love, or anti-love. It seems others have shared my experiences with love. I don't want to come off as bitter, that is not the case. Some people are not good at golf, I am not good at love. At least no one ever cut their ear off because of golf. That being said, at the end of this post is a photo of the only love that I can be absolutely certain of, unconditionally.

Love is a battlefield
Love don’t love me
Love hurts
Love and pain
Love is a mutt from hell
Love is dead
Love is a killer
Love in vain
I don’t want your love
Love is blue
Losers in love
Love don’t live here anymore
Love is a stranger
Love’s a hard game to play
Love is a cannibal
Love’s a deadly weapon
Love for sale
Love should be a crime
Love pains
Love will tear us apart
Love to see you cry
Love under fire
Love song for no one
Love on the rocks
Love crimes
Love really hurts
Love lies bleeding
Love kills
Love me no more
Love is the fall of every man
One sided love
Stranger to love
The love that we lost
Unlovable
Tainted love
When love dies
The end of a love affair
U don’t love me
Unforgiven love
When love and hate collide
Tough love
Too late for love
There must be more to love than this
Whatever happened to true love
Too much love will kill you
When love cries
She loves everybody
The line between love and hate
This can’t be love
This aint a love song
The trouble with love is
The remains of our love
There’s not much love here anymore
Love can knock you over
Love is nothing
What do you do when love dies
Wasted love
What is love
We’re sending our love down the well
Walk away from love
Used to love you
We don’t make love anymore
What the hell is love
The price of love
Victim of love
The lonely side of love
Unloved
The game of love
The love I never had
Violent love
Slap of love
Where did our love go
That aint love
When love turns to blue
When your lover has gone
Where does love go when it dies
String of bad love
When love fades
When you took your love away
When the wrong one loves you
When will I be loved
When love is over
So how come no one loves me
Sometimes love just aint enough
The girl I never loved
When love goes wrong
Suffocated love
Strange lover
Out of love
She loves me not
Should have loved me when you had the chance
So sad to watch good love go bad
Scars of love
She can’t love you
Never love again
Since you took your love away
Where has the love gone
Psycho love
I’m not your lover
Our love’s in danger
Nobody here to love
Prisoner of love
She don’t love you
Why don’t you love me
Without love
Wicked love
Where is the love
Price of love
Who needs love like that
One of us is in love
No love
Wounded in love
Pain is love
You don’t love me
Love’s so cruel
My love is dangerous
Who will love me now
You don’t know what love is
Only love can break your heart
One-sided love affair
You can’t make a heart love somebody
Woman without love
Never had a lover
Without your love
My lover’s gone
Love is rare
Love is strange
Never gonna fall in love again
Nobody loves me
No more love
Never felt love
Lovesick blues
Misery loves company
Never love you
Love is dangerous
Love fades
Love’s a loaded gun
Love’s unkind
Love and napalm
Far from love
Love ain’t worth making
Kiss your love goodbye
You’re not in love
You’re love is driving me crazy
You used to love me
You’ll never find another love
Love’s a slap in the face
Love bites
You took your love away from me
Life’s too short to love like that
You love me to hate you
Love and other bruises
You give love a bad name
Just wasn’t love
You say you don’t love me
It’s too late to love me now
It hurts like love
You don’t love me anymore
If you died I wouldn’t cry cause you never loved me anyway
I’m the man who murdered love
I’ll never fall in love again
I just don’t love you anymore
Hate to love
I’m not in love
I’m outta love
I wish I’d never loved you
I never loved you anyways
I love the dead
Love stinks
I don’t love you
He don’t love you
I love you like a ball and chain
I can’t be loved
Gone is my love
He loves you not
Falling out of love
Guess you didn’t love me
I don’t need love
I can’t make you love me
Your love is driving me crazy
Fractured love
Got love for sale
Gloomy love
Fool for your love
50 ways to leave your lover
After the love has gone
Aint Love a Bitch
Don’t kill for love
Desperate love
Faded love
Fools fall in love
Demolition love
All out of love
Don’t say you love me
Anti-Love Song
Betcha she don’t love you
Bye bye love
Chloroform the one you love
Casualty of love
Crazy love

Love Poem - World's Largest Simile? 2/14/08

I didn't quite finish this in time for Valentine's Day. It got kind of carried away. I know some of it is corny (a lot of it) but it is what it is. No one will get it all, but I hope there is something for everyone. It is rough, so don't mind the typos or misspellings. If you would like to add verses, email them to me and I will add them. Maybe we can get into Guiness.

I want to say I love you like its never been said
I love you from your toes to the top of your head
I love you like socialites love diamonds and rubies
I love you like Hefner loves silicone boobies
I love you like Boston loves the Red Sox
I love you like geologists love mountains of rocks
I love you like Satan loves triple six
I love you like an addict loves his next fix
I love you like a hunter loves to kill
I love you like a beneficiary loves a will
I love you like Bogart loved Lauren Bacall
I love you like a Tar Heel loves basketball
I love you like a politician loves votes
I love you like a fisherman lives his boat
I love you like a Christian loves Jesus Christ
I love you like a southerner loves his tea iced
I love you like a drinker loves his Jim Beam
I love you like Maslow loved self-esteem
I love you like Richard Petty loves speed
I love you like a boy scout loves a good deed
I love you like a salesman loves a commission
I love you like Aamco loves a transmission
I love you like a bartender loves last call
I love you like a Valley Girl loves the mall
I love you like a singer loves to sing
I love you like a mother loves her offspring
I love you like Texans love oil
I love you like a fencer loves a foil
I love you like a farmer loves rain
I love you like a masochist loves pain
I love you like a golfer loves under par
I love you like Paparazzi loves movie stars
I love you like an accountant loves income tax
I love you like Joe Friday loved facts
I love you like rednecks love number 3
I love you like a patriot loves his country
I love you like Eliza Doolittle loved Henry Higgins
I love you like Al Bundy loves Bigguns
I love you like a convict loves his release
I love you like a warrior loves peace
I love you like Vanna White loves letters
I love you like a credit bureau loves debtors
I love you like Captain Kirk loves warp speed
I love you like Roy loves Siegfried
I love you like Newton loved gravity
I love you like a dentist loves a cavity
I love you like Minnesota loves spring
I love you like gangsters love bling
I love you like we all love puppies
I love you like Mercedes are loved by yuppies
I love you like Bill Clinton loves pages
I love you like employers love minimum wage
I love you like assassins love assault rifles
I love you like the British love trifle
I love you like monsters love nightfall
I love you like haters love nothing at all
I love you like an actor loves applause
I love you like children love Santa Claus
I love you like June Carter loved Johnny Cash
I love you like a pothead loves his stash
I love you like a tribe loves a chief
I love you like surfers love a coral reef
I love you like a pigeon loves to come home
I love you like photographers love Kodocrome
I love you like CSI loves DNA
I love you like a worker loves payday
I love you like a Senator loves a kickback
I love you like a general loves to attack
I love you like Nike loves tennis shoes
I love you like BB King loves the blues
I love you like a geek loves video games
I love you like a lawyer loves shifting the blame
I love you like Pfizer loves erectile dysfunction
I love you like a mechanic loves a malfunction
I love you like a Mexican loves crossing the border
I love you like policemen love law and order
I love you like a surgeon loves an incision
I love you like a optometrist loves faulty vision
I love you like mathematicians love pi
I love you like astronomers love the sky
I love you like the deaf love to read
I love you like critters love feed
I love you like Jessie Jackson loves controversy
I love you like God loves to show mercy
I love you like conspiracy theorists love UFOs
I love you like a coups loves an overthrow
I love you like a burglar loves open doors
I love you like Charlie Sheen loves whores
I love you like Catholics love the pope
I love you like Cheech and Chong loved smoking dope
I love you like a sailor loves shore leave
I love you like Ward loved the Beeve
I love you like grandmas love little babies
I love you like dermatologists love scabies
I love you like corporations love to outsource
I love you like dictators love brutal force
I love you like mailmen love January
I love you like Stephen King loves scary
I love you like New Orleans would love elevation
I love you like celebrities love adoration
I love you like a gambler loves a straight flush
I love you like a model loves an airbrush
I love you like old men love soft toilet paper
I love you like a terrorist loves a skyscraper
I love you like dreamers love idle time
I love you like poets love rhymes
I love you like a musician loves being in tune
I love you like brides love June
I love you like Simon loves to critique
I love you like George Bush loves to misspeak
I love you like Gollum loves rings
I love you like Shakespeare loved kings
I love you like a banker loves piles of cash
I love you like Springer loves white trash
I love you like Milton Bradley loves games
I love you like a pyromaniac loves flames
I love you like a comedian loves smiles
I love you like Steve Irwin loved crocodiles
I love you like a therapist loves paranoids
I love you like a bodybuilder loves Roids
I love you like a mohel loves circumcision
I love you like Asians love long division
I love you like New England loves quaint
I love you like artists love paint
I love you like the Weather Channel loves hurricanes
I love you like critics love Citizen Kane
I love you like skinheads love Idaho
I love you like Aspen loves snow
I love you like magicians love an illusion
I love you like a hemophiliac loves a transfusion
I love you like coeds love spring break
I love you like a fat man loves steak
I love you like Fonzie loves to be cool
I love you like tricksters love April Fools
I love you like Jewish people love lox
I love you like geologists love mountains of rocks
I love you like actresses love their cosmetics
I love you like amputees love their prosthetics
I love you like Hedonists love pleasure
I love you like pirates love buried treasure
I love you like the Hazards loved General Lee
I love you like I hope you love me

Thursday Thirteen - #1 - 2/14/08

The topic today was Valentine's Day, but the first thing that comes to mind is my love of music. Though I have no musical talent, music is an instrumental (no pun intended) part of my life. As could probably be expected, the lyrics are much more important to me than the genre of music. I have included some song lyrics that speak to me. I think these probably tell more about me than what I actually write myself. Some are just a line from a song and some I found it necessary to include the entire song, as it was worthy. Here are 13 that come to mind, oh no it is 26. My bad. Once I got started, I couldn't trim it. You are lucky there are not 52. You will note that I generally include pictures with my posts. I can't do that here. It would only detract. The pictures are in the words.

1. I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me

Guaranteed, Eddie Vetter

2. We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how.

Same Auld Lang Syne Dan Fogelberg

3. 'Cos there's something in a Sunday,
Makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin',
Half as lonesome as the sound,
On the sleepin' city sidewalks:
Sunday mornin' comin' down.

Sunday Morning Coming Down – Kris Kristofferson

4 Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white?

I’d Do Anything for Love Meatloaf

5. The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away

He Went To Paris – Jimmy Buffett

6. Yes my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain but I'd of had to miss the
dance
The Dance – Garth Brooks

7. He said drifter can you make folks cry when you play and Sing
Have you paid your dues?
Can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?
He said boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you it's a long hard ride

The Ride – David Allan Coe

9. A smile seemed to come to her slowly,
It was a sad smile, just the same.
And she said, "How are you Harry?"
I said, "How are you Sue?
Through the too many miles
and the too little smiles
I still remember you."
It was somewhere in a fairy tale,
I used to take her home in my car.
We learned about love in the back of the Dodge,
The lesson hadn't gone too far.

Taxi – Harry Chapin

10. I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky

Black – Pearl Jam

11. Hear the lonesome whiperwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry

I’ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That means hes lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams

12. So when you look at me
you better look hard and
look twice:
Is that me
baby
or just a brilliant disguise?

Brilliant Disguise – Bruce Springsteen

13. I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Cant make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you

Fairy Tale Of New York – The Pogues

14. Theres a song that they sing when they take to the highway
A song that they sing when they take to the sea
A song that they sing of their home in the sky
Maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep
But singing works just fine for me

Sweet Baby James – James Taylor

15. one light, one mind
flashing in the dark
blinded by silence of a thousand broken hearts

Minority – Green Day

16. He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

He Stopped Loving Her Today – George Jones

17. hows it going might be what id say
you broke my heart you know
or it looks like rain today
or maybe god i missed you since you went away
your lookin well
or go to hell might be what id say

What I’d Say – Earl Thomas Conley

18. You are like a hurricane
Theres calm in your eye.
And Im gettin blown away

Like a Hurricane – Neil Young

19. And them that don't know him won't like him
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong he's just different
but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys – Willie Nelson

20. Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

Me and Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson

21. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
Sinners are much more fun.

Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel

22. I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.

Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell

23. There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed.
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living,
In my life I've loved them all.

In My Life – The Beatles

24. You can't always get what you want
And if you try sometime you find
You get what you need

You can’t Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones

25. See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans,
Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile
Once he had a future full of money, love, and dreams,
Which he spent like they was goin' outa style
And he keeps right on a'changin' for the better or the worse,
Searchin' for a shrine he's never found
Never knowin' if believin' is a blessin' or a curse,
Or if the goin' up was worth the comin' down

He's a poet, he's a picker
He's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
And he's traded in tomorrow for today
Runnin' from his devils, Lord, and reachin' for the stars,
And losin' all he's loved along the way
But if this world keeps right on turnin' for the better or the worse,
And all he ever gets is older and around
From the rockin' of the cradle to the rollin' of the hearse,
The goin' up was worth the comin' down

He's a poet, he's a picker
He's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
There's a lotta wrong directions on that lonely way back home.

Pilgrim – Kris Kristofferson

26. I feel stupid, and contagious

Feels Like Teen Spirit – Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)