Romantic Songs With Sweet, Meaningful Lyrics

Many love songs feel very similar to one another. But I want to show you a very unique new love song. It’s called “Oh Michelangelo” and it reimagines Michelangelo’s famous painting in the Sistine chapel in which God creates Adam.

Instead of the original meaning of the painting, the protagonist of the song reimagines this the tenderness of that painting as the kind of tenderness that romantic partners would have for each other. Here is the song video:

Now let’s go through the song’s lyrics:

VERSE 1

Poets go mad describing the light you emanate

For centuries they broke their quills, and now it’s my fate.

But I can paint you worlds with my caress.

So I touch the back of your shoulder as you undress

This is a nice opening to the song, especially with the third line “I can paint you worlds with my caress.” And the fourth line isn’t what a typical listener would expect next, with a very sensual line of “So I touch the back of your shoulder as you undress.” This is all an intriguing start. But it gets better as the song heads into the chorus.

CHORUS

Ohhh Michelangelo

Painted God and Adam in the sky

Ohhh Michelangelo

In the painting, I see my love and I

The chorus directly states that the protagonist or the singer is challenging the status quo and rejects the original idea of the painting. Instead God giving birth to Adam, the protagonist of the song sees “my love and I.”

VERSE 2

My fingers gliding along your silhouette.

You’re breathing with me – our souls have met.

Our eyes close as my fingers track

New Sistine chapels along your back

This, in my opinion as the writer of this song, is the most lyrically powerful verse. The second line of this verse was incredibly difficult to write. How do you truly put into words that magic moment where a touch is just perfectly gentle. The line “You’re breathing with me – our souls have met” was quite a breakthrough for me after being stuck on how to phrase it exactly.

And if that wasn’t enough, the next two lines are some of my best poetry. “…as my fingers track new Sistine chapels along your back.” is a unique and imaginative line and I still can’t believe I wrote it. After this line the chorus repeats. It’s slightly longer than the first chorus.

CHORUS

Ohhh Michelangelo

Painted God and Adam in the sky

Ohhh Michelangelo In the painting,

I see my love and I.

His brush didn’t show her glory.

I’ll guide his hand to repaint it with her and I in the story.

This is a little daring from the protagonist to suggest he’s repaint something better than Michelangelo, but I guess all is fair in the name of love. After the second chorus, the song enters the bridge, which is typically a unique and different part of a song.

And we surrender in ethereal sublime.

Where souls touch and forever intertwine.

With hearts in heaven while still on earth below,

We’ll paint the world better than Michelangelo

This is again quite daring to say you’ll paint the world better then Michelangelo. But that’s this song. It isn’t afraid to reimagine things.

VERSE 3

Moments or centuries later, I open my eyes.

We levitated in our touch, I realize.

Each day in our flight I find new words to express

That feel as though they were a caress.

Isn’t that the most romantic thing ever, to keep finding amazing things to say to your partner that make them feel it was a caress? I think it’s best way to live if you find someone who tells you that and someone about whom you can keep thinking up amazing things all the time and tell them.

Sweet Love Song: How Can I Tell You by Cat Stevens

This is a sweet love song. It’s unassuming yet stands large among other love songs.

Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers

This is a great song, and the Righteous Brothers performed it to their strengths. It’s sung quite high for a male voice, and they not only sing this in an amazing way, but they also convey so much emotion in their performance.

This is an example of one of the truly best love songs of all time. But when I examined the lyrics of this song, and looked at the poetic content of the lyrics, it was good, but not great, and thus is didn’t make it to my list of love songs with the most poetic lyrics. If you’d like to see my list of love songs with the most poetic lyrics, here is the link to that post with the most poetic love songs with the analysis of their best poetry lines. And here is a page with most poetic songs overall.

Sad Love Songs

There are many sad love songs about early breakups, mistakes made, or just regret. They are often melancholy and emotional. One of the best ones that comes to mind is The Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen, Halleluja by Leonard Cohen, and a duet by Leonard Cohen and Julia Felix called Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye.

Open-Ended Love Song

This is another romantic, but sad love song about losing love and longing for it. It’s about a couple of dream of each other, but never see those dreams come true in real life, so they resort to living in their dreams their whole lives.

LYRICS:

Every night she slept dreaming of me.

And in my dreams, she was all I could see.

We met on the stars as we closed our eyes

Swirling around each other in midnight skies

VERSE 2:

We painted sunsets lavender

While sharing dreams in love whispers.

Until sunrise broke the spell – time to part.

Waking apart missing half of our hearts

VERSE 3

After years I came to her door

To give her the flowers my heart grew for her

But I tripped on my words and couldn’t confess

How for years I dreamed of her caress

VERSE 4:

She was dying to melt in my arms

But hesitated to reach for my palms.

We stood silently and I began to leave

Back to live in the dreams we weave.

BRIDGE:

Dreams kept love alive while decades flew by I met her later

Her eyes still with pain of our last goodbye

We melted into a clutching embrace.

But this vivid dream ended with only silent walls to face.

WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR – A BALLAD FOR LOST LOVES

This is a song about lost loves that we still hang onto and think about. Sometimes we wonder what might have been. Sometimes we are not sure why the other person sailed away from us. Here is the page with the song and the lyrics.

Sweet Love Song: Annie’s Song by John Denver

It’s possibly overly sweet. This song doesn’t have tension like many other dramatic songs do. But what this song lacks in tension it makes up for with the quality of John Denver’s vocal performance. He has a great voice that just flows. In fact, that can be a theme in John Denver’s songs. Many of them are pretty but lack tension. Only one of his songs comes to mind that has tension, and that’s Leaving On A Jet Plane.

Vineyards Of Love by Alex Genadinik

I took the melody for this song from one of Bulat Okudzhava’s songs, but re-wrote the lyrics in English, and turned it into a love song. The original song was a big hit due to its pretty melody and deep lyrics. I tried to convey the same feel of the song with my version.

More Different Kinds Romantic Songs

There are different kids of love songs. Some songs have a sweet and positive message while just as many love songs are about heartbreak or crushes that don’t work out. Love certainly doesn’t treat everyone equally. While some people manage to remain in love others live in the part of life after the breakup, and sing about their loneliness.