For my first real post on a website who's tagline is "It's About Love", I figured I would wax lyrical on the topic as an exercise in both writing code and creative writing.
Intrinsic qualities of love
The Beatles are perhaps most famous for their assertion that "love is all you need". Whether this observation is profound or platitude is topic of debate. Freddie Mercury dodged this question by referring to love as a crazy little thing. Jimi Hendrix would rather confront love with a message aimed directly at it.
Pat Benatar offers a counterpoint to idea that love is a bare necessity, preffering to view it as an avenue of combat. John Lennon was working to detail a vision of Real love around the time of his passing, which the Beatles that survived him were able to fully realize.
Giving and taking love
Meat Loaf has a whole laundry list of the things he would or wouldn't do for love. His companions in the Jim Steinman Extended Universe, Air Supply, have plans to make love out of nothing at all. This is essential to them because they've been all out before.
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin prefers to consume love in large quantities.. With such large amounts of love, the Bee Gees conclude that a reservior of love must be quite deep. While Jefferson Airplane asks you, the individual, about finding somebody to love, Queen, as a collective, asks the world.
Stephen Stills has the simplest solution to reconciling our relationship with love by loving the one you're with.
It comes from the heart
Jerry Garcia would like to inform you of the consequences of imparting love onto a foolish heart. Janis Joplin doesn't care about the nature of your heart, she'll offer up a piece of her's all the same.
The heart and emotions that come from it are fairly frequently compared to celestial events. The classic Yes lineup theorizes that there is a heart of the sunrise we enjoy every day. Bonnie Tyler famously compared what overwhelming amounts of love did to her heart to a total eclipse.
When Jon Anderson rejoined a Yes lineup that was seeking a more commercialized sound, he helped craft a firm stance that being in posession of a lonely heart was preferrable to having a broken one. For those who did have their heart broken, the Bee Gees were obsessing over mending it long before they raised awareness of the affliction known as (Saturday) night fever.
It is in our best interests to build a society that is closer to the heart. As this goal will take all of us to accomplish, the best angle to reach those we want to join our side is straight through the heart.
What did we learn from all of this?
That you don't need to include "love" or "heart" or anything else of that sort ("romance", anyone?) in a song title to be able to speak authoritatively on these topics.
In turn, this means that the best way to show genuine love is to be genuinely yourself.