Music for the Heart
Music speaks the universal language of love. It speaks to the soul even when lyrics are absent and makes love easier to communicate when at a loss for words. It has the power to evoke or bring clarity to repressed feelings. Most importantly, it reaches deeply into our hearts and can make us feel a bit less alone.
While quarantine has made days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months, we can all feel lonely now and then. We are each missing someone, whether that be a pet, parent, sibling, friend or significant other.
To warm up your heart during these trying times, give this Spotify playlist a listen: “Unconditional Love.” The playlist has only has 10 songs—though they are all very different in tempo and genre—but each one contains lyrics that touch on what it means to have unconditional love.
Here are the ten songs and the lyrics in each that explain unconditional love:
All of Me – John Legend
“ ‘Cause all of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges. All your perfect imperfections”.
2. Best Part – H.E.R, Daniel Caesar
“I just wanna see. I just wanna see how beautiful you are. You know that I see it. I know you're a star. Where you go I follow, no matter how far”.
3. Get You The Moon – Kina, Snow
“And if I could I'd get you the moon and give it to you. And if death was coming for you, I'd give my life for you”.
4. Always – Gavin James
“You're in my head, Always, always. I just got scared. Away, away”.
5. The Book Of Love – Gavin James
“The book of love has music in it, in fact that's where music comes from. I love it when you sing to me and you, you can sing me anything”.
6. I Get To Love You – Ruelle
“I get to love you. It's the best thing that I'll ever do. I get to love you. It's a promise I'm making to you: Whatever may come your heart I will choose, forever I'm yours, forever I do”.
7. You Are The Reason – Calum Scott
“I'd climb every mountain and swim every ocean, just to be with you”.
8. Together – Us The Duo
“No matter what you're going through, I'll be right next to you. There's nothing that we can't do together. If you ever need a hand to hold reach out and I'll grab yours. There's nothing that we can't do together”.
9. I Will Spend My Whole Life Loving You – Kina Grannis
“Oh believe me, I've been counting my stars cause I will spend my whole life loving you”.
10. Once in a Lifetime – Landon Austin
“I'm under your skies, I'm caught in your eyes. Don't you know you stop the room and all that I can see is you. I'm standing where the lightning strikes. I know this doesn't happen twice. You must be my once in a lifetime, in a lifetime. You must be my once in a lifetime”.