20 Heart-Pounding Love Song Lyrics From the '00s That Still Make Us Melt
Whether you were still carrying your high school textbooks to class in a navy Jansport, driving to your college campus in your family's hand-me-down station wagon, or diving headfirst into the so-called "adult" working world in the 2000s (or all three, in succession), music was your constant companion. You carried it in a Discman, then an iPod, and then your phone. You constantly constructed your own life soundtrack from songs you downloaded on Napster (of course, when it was "legal") or ripped from CDs through iTunes. You knew the dances to all the hit songs from watching video after video on MTV. You made mix tapes for each of your crushes with all the songs that expressed feelings that you couldn't -- and then never shared them.
Now that the music from the aughts is firmly in #tbt territory, we can really appreciate the melding of pop, R&B, rock, and Latin dance that defined the decade. These love songs lyrics from the 2000s will take you right back to the longing, the anxious laughter, the weight of unrequited love, and the excitement of flirtation we all felt in those early adulthood days.
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Such Great Heights
While most indie music lovers have heard the soft-spoken acoustic Iron & Wine cover of this digital charmer, they might not know that it was Postal Service who originally released the song in 2003. Both versions of the song deserve spots on your favorite playlists, but only the original has the electrifying energy of the early stages of true love.
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Umbrella
If you were around in the aughts (especially 2007), you probably found yourself at the very least thinking (if not outright singing) "ella, ella, ella" every time you had to dig through the closet to find your umbrella on rainy days. Thanks, Rihanna.
A Thousand Miles
Every girl living in the city has sung the following 2001 Vanessa Carlton lyrics to herself on her commute home: "Making my way downtown, walking fast. Faces pass and I'm homebound."
Well, it's the same way anyone in love knows she'd walk day and night to see the one she's dreaming of.
No One
The pounding drum line of this soaring love song from 2007 drives home the heart-pounding lyrics. Sing it, Alicia Keys!
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The Luckiest
Something about this tender song from 2001 by Ben Folds just reaches in and pulls at your heartstrings. Lovers are the luckiest, indeed.
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I'm in Love With You
Way to make us all super jealous of your boyfriend, Erykah Badu, with this 2000 duet with Stephen Marley! We're especially jealous considering she was probably talking about fellow musician (and hottie) Common, whom she was with around that time ... *fans self*
The Light
Erykah Badu wasn't the only one singing about this relationship in the early aughts -- Common couldn't help rapping her praises in 2000, too. D'awwww.
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Home
This 2009 breakaway indie hit made us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The catchy song from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is still a great sing-along number.
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Hanging by a Moment
If you could only express your love through the use of heavy guitars and smashing drums, the 2000s served up several solid jams for you. Beginning-of-the-aughts hit "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse still shivers with teenage angst -- and reminds us the love butterflies can be drowned with sound.
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