How to Create a Perfect Date Night
MAD 4 IT
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Short Love Letters
Written by Mad 4 It
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Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, which means the season of love is officially upon us. This inspired me to go through my date night playlist and share it with the world. Let’s face it, I’m a hopeless romantic. I love romantic gestures, and happy couples, and all things love related. Love is so magical…the fact that two people can be connected on such a profound level amazes me. So, in honor of my appreciation for love and all of those who have it, I share with you all of my favorite love songs. For those of you in relationships, in love, or even who just have plans for Valentine’s Day, this playlist is for you. It’s a compilation of all of the best love songs from every genre. Find what speaks to you, and share it with your special person. For all the singles out there (myself included) may this playlist inspire you to keep looking for your special person. And, until you find them, buy yourself a bottle of wine and a heart shaped pizza on February 14th and cry your heart out to this playlist. Happy Valentine’s season. If mixed tapes were still a thing this would be much cooler…but either way enjoy my playlist titled Short Love Letters. Scroll all the way down to hear the full playlist!
Serenades:
Mat Kerekes: Reach
“Falling to sleep. You reached out for me. Your body is weak. So you reached out for me.”
Jack Johnson: Better Together and I Got You
“But there is not enough time, and there is no, no song I could sing. And there is no combination of words I could say, but I will still tell you one thing. We’re better together.”
“And when tomorrow’s too much, I’ll carry it all. I got you.”
Ed Sheeran: She, Cold Coffee, Kiss me, and Thinking out loud
“And she already knows how it goes and where she stands, I’ll stay anyway cause she knows me so well.”
“And you can stay with me forever. Or you could stay with me, for now.”
“And your heart’s against my chest, your lips pressed to my neck; I’m falling for your eyes, but they don’t know me yet. And with a feeling I’ll forget, I’m in love now.”
“Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars.”
Bruno Mars : Just the Way You Are
“Oh you know, you know, you know I’d never ask you to change. If perfect’s what you’re searching for then just stay the same.”
Shawn Mendes: Fallin’ All In You
“So close with you on my lips. Touch noses, feeling your breath. Push your heart and pull away, yeah. Be my summer in a winter’s day, love.”
Jason Mraz: I’m Yours
“There’s no need to complicate, our time is short, this is our fate, I’m yours.”
AshleySmashlaay: You
“And I hope you’re trying to stay for awhile now, cause I’m not letting you out of my life now.”
Joshua Radin: My My Love
“It’s all brand new because of you, feels like I’ve known you forever.”
Coldplay: Yellow
“Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, and all the things that you do.”
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Home
“Holy-moley, me oh my, you’re the apple of my eye. Girl, I’ve never loved one like you.”
Hellogoodbye: oh, It Is Love
“Oh, say, wouldn’t you like to be older and married with me? Oh, say, wouldn’t it be nice, to know right now that we’ll be.”
Vance Joy: Crashing Into You, Alone With Me, and Call If You Need Me
“You were the one to visit my darkness, you were the brightest way. You dropped the stone into the well, we’d wait for the sound it made. When it got quiet, you could hear you heart, tell me what did it say?”
“You’re beautiful, but you just don’t see it sometimes, and I don’t know why.”
“You were in the shower, we were talking through the glass. Packing up your suitcase, you were humming to yourself. One day you were smiling. I could tell by how you sounded on the phone. You said, “I’m coming home, babe.”
James Bay: I Found You and Us
“I found you. I can’t believe I get to know you. Noah, I can’t believe I get to show you. I had no one ’til I found you.”
“Used to be kids living just for kicks, in cinema seats, learning how to kiss.”
The 1975: Fallingforyou
“According to your heart, my place is not deliberate; feeling of your arms, I don’t want to be your friend, I want to kiss your neck.”
Passenger: And I Love Her
“She’s a hardheaded woman, and the best one that I know. And I love her, yeah, well I love her.”
Ben Howard: Only Love
“Give me shelter, or show me heart. Come on love, come on love, watch me fall apart, watch me fall apart, and I’ll be yours to keep.”
Bon Iver: Skinny Love
“I tell my love to wreck it all, cut out all the ropes and let me fall.”
Cigarettes After Sex: Keep On Loving You
“And I know all about those men, still I don’t remember. Cause it was us baby way before them, and we’re still together.”
Mira Masa: Blu
“You don’t seem to understand me when I say I’m feeling blu love, blu love. When you touch me in that way, I just don’t know what to do, love, I’m so in love.”
George Ezra: All of My Love
“All my love is yours, all my time is ours, all my reckless dreams, and all my restless hours.”
John Legend: You and I
“And this evening, I, won’t let the feeling die, I never wanna leave your side.”
Ballads:
Tesla: Love Song and What You Give
“Love is all around you. Yeah love is knockin outside your door. Waiting for you is this this love made just for two, keep an open heart and you’ll find love again, I know.”
“Everybody needs a special kind of love, and you’re the only one I’m thinking of. You mean the world to me, you are my only.”
Guns N’ Roses: Patience (Fun fact: the video for this song was shot on Valentine’s Day)
“You and I’ve got what it takes to make it, we won’t ever fake it, I’ll never break it, cause I can’t take it.”
Extreme: More Than Words
“How easy would it be to show me how you feel. More than words is all you have to do to make it real. Then you wouldn’t have to say that you love me, cause I’d already know.”
Aerosmith: I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing
“I could spend my life in this sweet surrender, I could stay lost in this moment forever. Oh every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure.”
Secondhand Serenade: Fall For You
“But hold your breath because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again, don’t make me change my mind or I won’t live to see another day. I swear it’s true because a girl like you is impossible to find, you’re impossible to find.”
Oldies But Goodies:
Etta James: At Last
“You smiled, you smiled oh and then the spell was cast. And here we are in heaven, for you are mine at last.”
Van Morrison: Crazy Love
“Yeah when I’m returning from so far away, she gives me some sweet lovin’ brighten up my day, yes it makes me righteous, yes it makes me whole, yes it makes me mellow down into my soul.”
Marvin Gaye: Lets Get It On
“We’re all sensitive people with so much to give, understand me sugar, since we’ve got to be here, let’s live, I love you.”
Elton John: Your Song
“Anyway the thing is what I really mean, yours have the sweetest eyes I’ve ever seen.”
The Magnetic Fields: Kiss Me Like You Mean It
“I pinch myself, it’s like I’m dreaming it, he says come here baby and kiss me like you mean it.”
Taste of Country:
Chris Stapleton: Millionaire and Tennessee Whiskey
“They say ‘love is more precious than gold.’ Can’t be bought and it can’t be sold. I got love, enough to spare. That makes me, a millionaire.”
“I’ve looked for love in all the same old places, found the bottom of bottle always dry. But when you poured out your heart I didn’t waste it, cause there’s nothing like your love to get me high.”
Kane Brown: Heaven
“Everybody’s talking about heaven like they just can’t wait to go, saying how it’s gonna be so good, so beautiful. Lying next to you, in this bed with you, I ain’t convinced. Cause I don’t know, I don’t know how heaven, heaven, could be better than this.”
Thomas Rhett: Die a Happy Man
“If all I got, is your hand in my hand, baby, I could die a happy man.”
Eric Church: Like a Wrecking Ball
“Imma find out what that house is made of, been too many nights since its felt us make love. I wanna rock some sheetrock, knock some pictures off the wall, and love you baby like a wrecking ball.”
Lee Brice: I Don’t Dance
“Love’s never come my way, I’ve never been this far. But you took these two left feet, and waltzed away with my heart.”
Grooves:
Mac Miller: My Favorite Part
“It’ll be alright, babe. See, me, I got you covered, Imma be your lover, you might be the one. If it’s only tonight, aye, we don’t need to worry, we ain’t in a hurry rushin’ into love.”
Tyler, The Creator: See You Again
“20/20 20/20 vision. Cupid hit me, cupid hit me with precision. I wonder if you look both ways when you cross my mind. I said, I said, I’m sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of chasing. You’re the one that’s always running through my daydream, I, I can only see your face when I close my eyes. Can I get a kiss? And can you make it last forever?”
Ella Mai: Boo’d Up
“Feelings, so deep in my feelings. No this ain’t really like me. Can’t control my anxiety. Feeling, like I’m touching the ceiling. When I’m with you I can’t breathe. Boy, you do something to me.”
Maroon 5: Sunday Morning
“That may be all I need, in darkness she is all I see. Come and rest your bones with me. Driving slow on Sunday morning, and I never want to leave.”
Explicit Content:
G-Eazy: Some Kind of Drug
“I’m on some kinda drug, can’t explain, all the ways you get me high.”
Somo: Ride, Show Off, and We Can Make Love
“You look in my eyes, and I can see the skies, I’m so high, but I ain’t smoked yet, I’m just coming down from this.”
“This love hits like rocket ships from outer space, I’m in the highest place with you.”
“Tell me you love me even if you don’t I wanna make love tonight, I don’t care.”
Lucky Daye: Concentrate
“This drivin’ me crazy. Let’s get curious, took it serious, take the best of life off with you, baby.”
I’m not sad anymore:
Blink 182: First Date
“When you smile, I melt inside. I’m not worthy for a minute of your time. I really wish it was only me and you. I’m jealous of everybody in the room.”
Mayday Parade: I Swear This Time I Mean It
“You could crush me, please don’t crush me. Cause baby, I’m a dreamer, for sure. And, I won’t let you down, I swear this time I mean it.”
The Wonder Years: Hey Thanks
“Hey thanks. For everything. For putting up with me when I get cranky, I know I’m such a pain. And yeah, thanks. For losing everything with me, the night we went to Atlantic city.”
New Found Glory: Hold My Hand
“The way your words keep me in line, I know what I’m here for…waking up to the grin of your eyes, it’s something I’ll get used to.”
Death Cab for Cutie: I’ll Follow You Into the Dark
“You and me, we’ve seen everything to see. From Bangkok to Calgary and the soles of your shoes are all worn down. The time for sleep is now, but there’s nothing to cry about cause we’ll hold each other soon in the blackest of rooms.”
Man Overboard: I Like You
“I like your face, that’s why I stare. You’re everything I hoped a girl could be.”
Front Porch Step: If I Tremble
“And if I tremble at the sight of you, it’s not because I’m cold. It’s because I’m staring at the girl I want to love me when I’m old.”
Sleeping with Sirens: James Dean and Audrey Hepburn
“And how the hell did you ever pick me, honestly? Cause I could sing you a song, but I don’t think words can express your beauty.”
That’s the playlist! Happy Valentine’s Day.
xx
Maddisen V.