this thread is probably going to go no where, but i'm going to try and make sense.

i finally read the lyrics to Tom Tom Club's song Genius Of Love and they have the most effectively romantic lyrics i've ever read. seriously, the line "we went insane when we took cocaine" just sounds so effectively loving to me.

song on youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ypVLtlXy_No

What you gonna do when you get out of jail?
I'm gonna have some fun
What do you consider fun?
Fun, natural fun

I'm in heaven
With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend
There's no beginning and there is no end
Time isn't present in that dimention
He'll take my arm
When we're walkin', rolling and rocking
It's one time i'm glad i'm not a man
Feels like i'm dreaming, but i'm not sleeping

I'm in heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as bootsy collins
Raise expectations to a new intention
No one can sing
Quite like smokey, smokey robinson
Wailin' and shakin' to bob marley
Reggae's expanding with sly and robbie

All the weekend
Boyfriend was missing
I surely miss him
The way he'd hold me in his warm arms
We went insane when we took cocaine.

Stepping in a rhythm to a kurtis blow
Who needs to think when your feet just go
With a hiditihi and a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
Who needs to think when your feet just go ...
James brown, james brown
James brown, james brown

If you see him
Please remind him, unhappy boyfriend
Well he's the genius of love
He's got a greater depth of feeling
Well he's the genius of love
He's so deep.

these sound so much more meaning to me and real than any of the lyrics to Celine Dion's, Whitney's, Mariah's, etc. songs (though i do love Whitney and Mariah), which are over-the-top and all embellshed.

You mean Romantic, but not sappy?

I don't know if I can do the most... start a thread about the least romantic lyrics... or the most hateful lyrics and I can talk about em all day!

Hey, to each his own.  I've always loved this song but talk of incarceration and cocaine don't really blow my skirt  ;D