![]() ![]() “Sometimes I think that love is just a tumour you’ve got to cut it out,” he laments, and if you weren’t sure he was feelin’ bad, he lets you know that “sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.” Ouch. Love doesn’t always flow both ways, but Elvis Costello still only has heartspace for one in this relentless but sweet song about jaded tunnel vision. Elvis Costello ‘ The Attractions “Lipstick Vogue” The song is always threatening to take off, especially on the building chorus that revels in newfound simplicity, and finally does at the coda when Harvey and her lover finally escape, “like some modern day Bonnie and Clyde,” and are “on the run again.”Ĥ. ![]() Of course, she’s transfixed the entire time (“like a gypsy/ you dance in circles/ all around me/ and all over the world”). Electrified from the start, the music jogs alongside Harvey’s images of movement and flight, from time travel to exotic birds and landslides. Harvey “was really in love” when she wrote this. Starry-eyed with her arms out, spinning around the streets of Manhattan, P.J. The video for this song couldn’t have captured the emotion behind it any better. Lord knows a few of those sentiments have leaked into a song or two over the years, so here are my Top 5 fave love songs, High Fidelity-style, ‘case you were wonderin’: V-Day is all about those messy feeeelings that lift us up and weigh us down. Valentine’s Day is no time for stuffy ‘best of’ lists attempting to rank love songs in order of popularity or social relevance. ![]()
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