What Is Your Love Song?

On memory, mornings, and the impossibility of choosing just one

BTS asked a simple question this week.

“What’s your love song?”

I thought I’d answer it quickly. Drop a title in the comments. Move on with my day.

Instead, I ended up wandering through twenty years and more of memory.

This was not where I expected my thoughts to travel this week.

Music has never behaved in neat, singular ways in my life. Songs attach themselves to people. To cities. To seasons. To versions of me that no longer exist in quite the same way.

Some are romantic.
Some are devotional.
Some are quietly catastrophic.

The One That Still Feels Young

There’s something about SUGA’s verse in Just One Day.

It isn’t grand. It isn’t sweeping. It’s restrained, almost shy. The longing feels so specific – that early, hopeful kind of love where one day together would be enough.

Not forever. Not possession. Just presence.

It’s tender without being dramatic. And that’s why it lingers.

The One That Opens the Curtains

DAWN’s Dear My Light plays most mornings.

It doesn’t demand attention. It creates atmosphere. There’s devotion in it without desperation. It feels like light stretching across a quiet room before the world wakes up properly.

Some songs are soundtracks.
Some songs are scaffolding.

The One That Breaks Me On Purpose

If I want to feel everything properly, it’s James Bay’s Us.

That song rearranges the furniture inside your chest. I’ve listened to it on repeat for hours before, letting it unearth whatever it needs to unearth.

There’s a strange comfort in choosing to sit with emotion rather than outrun it.

The Ones That Belong to Chapters

Then there are the songs that don’t belong to now at all.

Cutting Crew’s I Just Died in Your Arms.
Bon Jovi’s Always.
Lifehouse’s You & Me.

They’re not daily listens anymore. They’re markers. Emotional timestamps. If they surface unexpectedly, I don’t feel grief. I feel gratitude.

I lived.
I loved.
I was changed.

The Ones That Never Leave Rotation

Taeyang’s Eyes, Nose, Lips still appears regularly.

And there are dozens of others. Songs I walk to. Study to. Cook to. Game to. Songs that aren’t technically “love songs” but are love songs to life, to movement, to being here at all.

Which brings me back to the original question.

What’s my love song?

It depends.

On the season.
On the memory.
On which version of me is listening.

Music shifts as we do. Love does too.

Maybe that’s the real answer.

This whole spiral started with BTS asking “What’s your love song?” and I’m glad they did.

So now I’m curious.

If someone asked you to pick just one… would you?
Or would you find yourself wandering too?
If you feel like sharing, tell me yours in the comments. I’m always looking for new songs to fall into.