valentine's day playlist.

here's the top ten off the top of my head representing that crazy thing love, and its flipside- anguish.

1. can't let go- mariah carey.

i think this might be the first song i ever "experienced" emotionally as a young pup.
didn't i cherish you right
don't you know
you were my life

2. make you feel my love- adele

this song is the perfect example of why i am not quick to fall in love these days. because once i do fall- i fall fully.
when the evening shadows and the stars appear
and there is no one there to dry your tears
i would hold you for a million years
to make you feel my love

3. ex factor- lauryn hill

when love is not enough.
tell me who i have to be
to get some reciprocity?

4. no woman no cry- bob marley

(self-explanatory.) because everything really is gonna be alright.
in this great future
you can't forget your past
so dry your tears i say

5. song cry- jayz

gave me perspective on how it might feel to be the one who left but must still remember.
they say once a good girl's gone bad
she's gone forever.
i'll mourn forever
shit, i got to live with the fact that i did you wrong forever

6. i'm no good- amy winehouse

and then i developed perspective on what it means to be the one who mourns forever...
there'll be none of him no more
i cried for you on the kitchen floor

7. sleep to dream- fiona apple

at some point, one finds the value in herself.
this mind
this body
and this voice
cannot be stifled
by your deviant ways

8. half crazy- musiq soulchild

sometimes friendships should remain at that.
lately i got to watch what i say
cuz you take things personal nowadays
you used to laugh
now you get mad
damn, i just want my friend back

9. how do i- leann rimes

this song was/is the song of grieving me and my husband's break up.
without you
there would be no sun in my sky
there would be no love in my life
there would be no world left for me
and i
baby i don't know what i would do
i'd be lost if i lost you
if you ever leave
baby you would take away everything real
in my life

10. trenchtown rock- sublime

because no matter how much pain the world hurls at me, music has ever seen me through, comforted me, helped me rage, and given me a reason to live.
one good thing about music
when it hits you
you feel no pain