Healthiest and Unhealthiest relationships in songs?

I got this feeling on the summer day when you were gone
I crashed my car into the bridge, I watched, I let it burn
I threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs
I crashed my car into the bridge, I don't care!
I love it, I don't care!

You're on a different road, I'm in the Milky Way
You want me down on Earth, but I am up in space
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
You're from the '70s, but I'm a '90s bitch

Bloody love it.

Sorry, Bernard. I tried to be good but tbh I like the bad songs! 😂

My Sharona.
I can always get it up with the touch of the younger kind.

Urrgghh!

Thinking of songs about women being puppets, there's always the Eurovision Song Contest winning "Puppet on a String" sung by Sandie Shaw, written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter.

It has always given me the rage. What a song to have as the one representing our country! Even for 1967 it was icky.

Sorry I've had a read through and realised I was the 500th person to say about Walter Raleigh. I apologize
Great thread OP!

Yes to the Ship song, massive yes. It is special.

I am not a fan (I think I tend to the more ambivalent/darker musical world) but this by the Carpenters is uber positive and rather sweet

We've Only Just Begun

We've only just begun to live
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we're on our way
We've only begun

Before the rising sun, we fly
So many roads to choose
We'll start out walking and learn to run
And yes, we've just begun

Sharing horizons that are new to us
Watching the signs along the way
Talkin' it over, just the two of us
Workin' together day to day, together

And when the evening comes, we smile
So much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow
And yes, we've just begun

Sharing horizons that are new to us
Watching the signs along the way
Talkin' it over, just the two of us
Workin' together day to day, together

And when the evening comes, we smile
So much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow
And yes, we've just begun

(And now I'm having a bit of a cry for Karen)

Another nice healthy one from Meatloaf (another duet)

I gotta know right now, do you love me?
Will you love me forever? Do you need me?
Will you never leave me?
Will you make me so happy for the rest of my life?
Will you take me away and will you make me your wife?

Let me sleep on it (Will you love me forever?)
Let me sleep on it (Will you love me forever?)

I couldn't take it any longer, Lord, I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me like a tidal wave
Started swearing to my God and on my mother's grave
That I would love you to the end of time
I swore I would love you to the end of time

So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive
I'll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I'm praying for the end of time, it's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time so I can end my time with you

Well, it was long ago, and it was far away
And it was so much better than it is today

Oh, sorry, was it already discussed. Yes, it's sad. As was McGowan's whole life history, really. Rollicking good tune, though.

You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip
In that bed

You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy faggot*
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It’s our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing ‘Galway Bay’
And the bells were ringing
Out for Christmas Day

I could have been someone

Well so could anyone

You took my dreams
From me when I first found you

I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you

And here’s an oldie that’s for a nice and simple, sweet relationship - David Essex, If I Could.

And another about unhealthy has anyone mentioned Kelsea Ballerini “Miss Me More”.

I curse Sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid GET. Liverpool.

Itchycoo Park : ' we can miss off school won't that be cool'. He's not grooming anyone - they're both at school. And they're going to ' get high' . Too bad they were ripped off by their manager , Don Arden and wound up broke.

Yes me.

I received a card with these lyrics in from a lad called Nigel after I chucked him.

Same tastes - I love Flowers! it’s fantastic to dance to at full blast in the kitchen or doing an exercise routine!!!

I always thought he was cursing SWR for discovering America and hence tobacco!

anyone said “Dub be good to me” by Beats International yet?

On the healthy list, I have a soft spot for Honey I'm Good by Andy Grammer, because he's saying no because he's taken, but not shaming or judging the other girl. In older songs she'd be bad or tempting him.

It's been a long night here, and a long night there
And these long long legs are damn near everywhere
(Hold up now)
You look good, I will not lie
But if you ask where I'm staying tonight
I gotta be like oh, baby, no, baby, you got me all wrong, baby
My baby's already got all of my love

So nah nah honey, I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I got somebody at home
And if I stay I might not leave alone
No, honey, I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I gotta bid you adieu
To another I will stay true
(Ooh ooh I will stay true)
(Ooh ooh I will stay true)

I love this interpretation but I thought he was cursing Walter Raleigh for introducing tobacco to the UK!

'If you don't know be by now'
Unhealthy! He's protesting too much !!!!

Castles in the Air by the otherwise excellent Don McLean - he's dumping her for OK reasons,
I cannot be part of her Cocktail Generation
Partner's Waltz, devoid of all romance
The music plays and everyone must dance
I'm bowing out, I need a second chance

Fair enough, but he's asking a mate of his to tell her she's dumped!
I'm asking you to say my last goodbye
The love we knew ain't worth another try

Save me from all the trouble and the pain
I know I'm weak but I can't face that girl again
Tell her the reasons why I can't remain
Perhaps she'll understand if you tell it to her plain

She had a lucky escape😏

This is the song. Have I the right by The Honeycombs

Have I the right to hold you
You know I've always told you
That we must never ever part, oh-oh-oh-oh

Have I the right to kiss you
You know I'll always miss you
I've loved you from the very start

Come right back, I just can't bear it
I've got some love and I long to share it
Come right back, I'll show my love is strong, oh yeah

Have I the right to touch you
If I could you'd see how much you
Send them shivers running down my spine, ooh ooh

Have I the right to thrill you
You know I'll wait until you
Give me the right to make you mine

Well, come right back I just can't bear it
I've got some love and I long to share it
Come right back, I'll show my love is strong, oh yeah, alright

Have I the right to hold you
You know I've always told you
That we must never ever part, no, no-no, no, no

Have I the right to kiss you
You know I'll always miss you
I've loved you from the very start

Come right back, I just can't bear it
I've got some love and I long to share it
Come right back, I'll show my love is strong, oh yeah, yeah

Come right back, I just can't bear it
I've got some love and I long to share it
Come right back, right back where you belong, oh yeah
You belong, oh yeah, you belong

At least "working my way back to you" is an apology for his bad behaviour!

never ever - taylor swift