Apple Cider Love Songs

For the past couple weeks I have been having a recurring nightmare. In this dream I am at a music show with a large audience. I am standing on the crowded dance floor with a girl in front of me. She is my girlfriend in the dream. She turns around and reaches her hand out for me to grab. At this point I become completely horrified, because she is wanting us to slow dance to a song that just started playing.
I’m not appalled at the fact that she wants to slow dance. I taught myself how to slow dance from extensive internet research, and practising alone in front of a mirror. No lie. I have no shame in telling you all that.
Anyway, what shocks me is the song she wants to dance to. Prepare yourself, Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor. I can't believe that she wants THAT to be OUR song! Is she serious? At that point in the dream I pretend I don't notice her hand, and do anything to distract her. There by saving our relationship, because if she really wants Nothing Compares 2 U to be our song. I don't think I could look her in the eyes anymore.
I don't even know who you are anymore!

Yeah . . . That dream is actually a nightmare to me, and it has been recurring. Sometimes the song changes, to something equally as horrifying. I hope this dream will stop. It is upsetting. Why can't I just dream about me being in Superman comics like last night again? For real, it was awesome!

I am so content in this moment. I had a beautiful, peaceful evening. I spent the night walking by the river and around Broadway with a warm cup of apple cider, and my favourite love songs playing in my headphones. I don't think anything could have made it more enjoyable. I love apple cider. It has such a calming effect on me. I am so lucky to live in a city as beautiful as Saskatoon. We have the gorgeous river, so full of life, for us to enjoy. Right there beside the best street in the city, Broadway, where there is always a friendly face or adventure waiting to happen.

Here are just a few of the songs that played tonight on my walk. They perfectly fit the mood I was in.

Apple Cider Love Songs:

Skinny Love - Bon Iver (the live version from Jool Holland)

I seriously get goosebumps, and or cry, every time I hear this song. This is my absolute favorite song. From 2:50 on, it has the most emotion in a song I've ever heard. Especially when he sings, "Now all your love is wasted, then who the hell was I?"

Band of Horses - I go to the barn because I like the
"I'd like to think that I am a mess, that you'd wear with Pride."

Pretty much sums up what I want to be to someone.
Really every word to this song I connect with.

"outside, by your doorstep
in a worn out suit and tie.
i'll wait for you to come down
where you'll find me, where we'll shine."

When I really like someone I feel like they radiate the light of the Sun. When I'm with them, I add my own light and together we are bright enough to light the world.
If I was a love song, I think I would be this song.

Regina Spektor - Samson
"And history books forgot about us, and the bible didn't mention us.
The bible didn't mention us, not even once.
You are my sweetest downfall.
I loved you first."

One of my favorite lyrics ever. How could a love as profound as our not be recorded, or even noticed by the world?

Kate Nash - The Nicest Thing
A simple, cute love song. The little things about love that sometimes mean the most.

"I wish you had a favourite beauty spot that you loved secretly,
'Cause it was on a hidden bit that nobody else could see."

Ugh. Just makes my heart melt.

Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
What might have been lost. Don't bother me. Someday my pain.
Those lyrics combined with the build up to the train like drums at the end is just overwhelmingly beautiful, and painful. If the hollow feeling of a break up had a sound, it would be this song.

Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
I like this cover of the song much more then the original Postal Service version.

I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They're perfectly aligned

I wish I could use this as a pick-up line.

Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
I love the way his voice goes high at the end of his words.
Having sex to this album may, or may not be a goal on my list of things to do ;)

Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
I don't know what it is about this song, but I can't stop listening to it. Only a small portion of the reason I can't stop playing it is due to it being in Twilight, I swear.

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine
My favorite band. Comparing the beauty of Canada's wilderness, to the beauty of a woman is magic. Genius, Great Lake Swimmers, Genius.

Band of Horses - No one gonna love you
Not all love songs are happy. There are many sides to love, and one of them is the dying out of a relationship. This song covers it pretty well.

Great Lake Swimmers - Where in the world are you?
I heard this song live when they played at Amigo's. No words can explain how good it was, the entire crowd started swaying and couples held each other.

Tegan and Sara - Nineteen
"I feel you in my heart and I don't even know you"... Sometimes love catches us off guard. And sometimes we are completely unaware of it, until it comes up and punches us right in the heart.

Love you, you were all mine.
Love me, I was yours right?

Our relationship meant something, right? Blink once for Yes, twice for No.

Kings of Leon - Closer
Vampire love song. Spooky, and haunting.

Tegan and Sara - Call It Off
Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at
Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at
But now we'll never know

This is the song I listen to when a relationship doesn't get a chance. When other things, life, get in the way of a fair shot.

Missy Higgins - Where I Stood
See I thought love was black and white
it was wrong, or it was right
But you aint leaving without a fight and I think I am just as torn inside

Love is a lot of things, but it is rarely simple.

Auqalung - Strange and Beautiful
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful
You'd be so perfect with me
But you just can't see
You turn every head but you don't see me

Story of my life. Fuck.

Band of Horses - The Funeral
Meshell Ndegeocello - Beautiful
Cat Power - I Found A Reason

To the girl in my nightmare, take note. Any of the above mentioned songs are acceptable options to be our song. Please, stop trying to make me dance to Sinead O'Connor. Please.