Your ONE all time favorite love song?

Regiolanthe,
You just may have hit on one of the finest love songs of all time. I never get sick of hearing Neil Young sing that song. That one and "Cowgirl In The Sand"

Slipknot1,

In response to Excitable Boy, I do have to say that Warren Z did put out some pretty romantic tunes in his own fashion. I rarely pull my vinyl Warren - but I did a few months ago - and played his major debut "Warren Zevon". "Backs Turned Looking Down the Path", "Hasten Down the Wind", and "Carmelita" are all songs worthy of any romantic troubadour, even if the romance is a little flawed! I can't say that I paid much attention to his later offerings (although my beautiful wife bought "My Ride's Here" a few years ago so that I could add a "Z" to the CD collection), and it's nice to see him get some belated acclaim.

You might think it really cheesy, and somewhat overplayed in its day, but "Everything I own" by Bread was actually written by David Gates for his late father (who died when he was young). With this in mind I think it's an incredibly moving song.

Wow, it's really hard to narrow it down to just one song. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned, but I'll have to go with Al Green's "Let's stay together".

Regiolanthe,
I was hoping someone would pick up on the tongue-and-cheek nature of "Excitable Boy", given the rather dark nature of the lyric. Thanks for catching it. ;)