“What’s love got to do with it?” Plenty, apparently, given that love and relationships make up the subject matter for most songwriters (pop especially). For your Valentine’s Day, here are lyrics on love from the lighthearted and the broken-hearted.

Lyrics: “I would have given you all of my heart

But there’s someone who tore it apart.”

Song: “The First Cut is in the Deepest”

- (written by Cat Stevens) cover by Sheryl Crow

Lyrics: “I believe in the power of love.”

Song: “Rescue Me”

- by Madonna

Lyrics: “Nobody knows, honey, where love goes,

But when it goes it’s gone, gone.”

Song: “When You’re Alone”

- by Bruce Springsteen

Lyrics: “I’m gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means

and we’ll fill in the missing colors in each other’s paint by number dreams..”

Song: “Just Say Yeah”

- by Jackson Browne

Lyrics: “If you can’t be with the one you love,

Love the one you’re with.”

Song: “Love The One You’re With”

- by Stephen Stills

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