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Seriously who did write the book of love? (Original Post)
LynneSin
Aug 2014
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)1. I never liked American Pie, either.
Now as far as the book of love, you can go back to the Ars Amatoria of Ovid, written in 2 AD, and further back to the Kama Sutra, dated to the 200 BCE era.
Everyday.
Everyday.
Everyday I write the book.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)11. Which means . . .
Elvis Costello actually wrote the Book of Love!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)3. I wonder...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)6. who
gvstn
(2,805 posts)4. Nick Lowe has been promising to write the book of HIS love for 30 years.
Sounds like a good read if he ever gets it done...
Now I can remember like it was only yesterday
Love was young and foolish like a little child at play
But oh how lovers change, I never dreamed how easily
'cause now I'm just a shadow of the boy I used to be
And when I write the book about my love
It will be about a man who's torn in half
About his hopes and ambitions wasted through the years
The pain will be written on every page in tears
When I write the book about my love
I was a fool to myself when I kept on runnin' around
And I fared little better when I tried settlin' down
Maybe some magic moment, I've never known one, not for long
For all too soon the magic is in a moment gone
And when I write the book about my love
It'll be a heartbreaking story about love and luck
When I get down on the pages all I felt
It will make the hardest-hearted of critics' hearts melt
When I write the book about my love
When I was young love was fun and I was so happy
I looked so good and I dressed so snappy
Two-tone shoes on my feet big old smile on my face
As I moved and grooved all over the place
Now I'm down in the heels my complexion is bad
'cause my love life is sadder than sad
And when I write the book about my love
It'll be a pop publication, tougher than tough
When I get down on the pages all I missed
It will shoot to the top of the best-sellers list
When I write the book about my love
Love was young and foolish like a little child at play
But oh how lovers change, I never dreamed how easily
'cause now I'm just a shadow of the boy I used to be
And when I write the book about my love
It will be about a man who's torn in half
About his hopes and ambitions wasted through the years
The pain will be written on every page in tears
When I write the book about my love
I was a fool to myself when I kept on runnin' around
And I fared little better when I tried settlin' down
Maybe some magic moment, I've never known one, not for long
For all too soon the magic is in a moment gone
And when I write the book about my love
It'll be a heartbreaking story about love and luck
When I get down on the pages all I felt
It will make the hardest-hearted of critics' hearts melt
When I write the book about my love
When I was young love was fun and I was so happy
I looked so good and I dressed so snappy
Two-tone shoes on my feet big old smile on my face
As I moved and grooved all over the place
Now I'm down in the heels my complexion is bad
'cause my love life is sadder than sad
And when I write the book about my love
It'll be a pop publication, tougher than tough
When I get down on the pages all I missed
It will shoot to the top of the best-sellers list
When I write the book about my love
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)5. I asked the witch doctor
Hope this helps...
Special Prosciuto
(731 posts)7. I think it was a girl named Rama Lama Ding Dong
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)8. I think (?) it was these fellows. They pretty much sucked.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)9. Raj from Big Bang to his girlfriend:
"Do you know the Kama Sutra? If you've ever wondered, wondered who wrote the book of love, it was us."
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)10. Ovid.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)12. Apparently, it was Kathleen McGowan
shenmue
(38,506 posts)13. The Magnetic Fields
rurallib
(62,406 posts)14. Dick Cheney