bittersweet - great little songs about brief encounters?

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I'm thinking "girl at the bus stop" here

― betty swollocks, Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Ran"- Flock of Seagulls

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

'baby on a plane' --Lisa Germano

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sex With Strangers" -- Marianne Faithfull

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song" by Jeffey Lewis

― billislord, Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ten Seconds to Love" by Motley Crue

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

....which always strikes me as a pathetic ode to premature ejaculation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Does "A Little Lost" by Arthur Russell qualify?

― djdee2005, Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Louise, by the Human League, which actually begins with the words "When he saw her getting off the bus"...

― Palomino (Palomino), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Walking to You" by Everything But the Girl....details running into the new boyfriend of an Ex.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"start!" by the jam

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"knapsack" by amy rigby -- in which she has a mad crush on the guy who checks bags at the bookstore

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

'Today I Met The Boy I'm Gonna Marry' - Darlene Love

(OK, so it could be about a mutual whirlwind romance, but I always like to imagine it's a deluded fantasy growing from an encounter that he's probably forgotten already - it breaks my heart more that way)

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Similarly, I used to hear Hand in Glove as a song about an unrequited love at first sight, this not being revealed until the last line casts its pathetic shadow. But now think it's supposed to be about an established relationship, and the "I'll probably never see you again" is just Morrissey being melodramatic.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT "Little Thing" by dave matthews

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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