No One's Gonna Love You

Band of Horses : No One's Gonna Love You
"Anything to make you smile, you are the ever-living ghost of what once was."



Holy hell batman, I'm obsessed with the subtle sweetness tucked inside this song! I heard it a long time ago, but I just recently found this song again, and it took on an entirely new meaning to me.

"No one is ever gonna love you more than I do."


A line that I think we can all relate to if we've felt as though we've found the happy to our days - the half that made you whole. You can declare it with such sureness, and I think that's a beautiful thing. It's no coincidence that a similar lyric also appears in one of my favorite songs of all time - Yeah Yeah Yeah's : Maps. Karen Oh opens her mouth and speaks with a shake, "Wait, they don't love you like I love you." It's that positivity that I think makes love, love. You know that no other human is capable of admiring in detail the same human being as you. The way their mouth looks when they talk, how they smell, their weird little flaw that you couldn't be more obsessed with. It's in those details of knowing, REALLY knowing someone inside and out, that makes you positive that truly, no one could ever love this person more than you do.

I think this song is simply trying to state just that. The lead singer wasn't there for all of his girlfriend's past relationships, but he can bet his life that none of them came close to experiencing the love that they have in their relationship. Not even close. Also, that egocentric attitude that two people madly, insanely, head over heels in love feels: No two people have ever loved each other more passionately than them. As humans we have and will always be very egocentric. When we watch a movie, read a book, or listen to a song, we immediately try to compare it to our lives. If there are a few similarities, you think you are them. How many stupid couples have you heard say, "OMG the Notebook is so us, baby!!!" It's just human instinct to assume every thing is about us. However, that egocentric attitude given to a couple in love, makes it feel like it's them against the world. They are certain no couple has ever felt more in love than them. Kinda Romeo and Juliet-ish nishhhh, but I think it's cute that myself along with probably tons of other couples think that they will go down in history for loving each other more than any human being has ever loved before.