You wrote to us in droves, like swarms of angry cupids, some wanting to take advantage of our Valentine’s Day album giveaway, some merely wanting to share their innermost feelings about LOVE.

So, what did you have to say for yourselves?

Here are a few of the responses we got (sorry, couldn’t publish them all - partly due to sheer numbers, partly for the sake of decency!)

LOVE IS…

…that indefinable feeling that sticks two together even when the glue stops working

… always being on your side even when you’re not on your own side.

…a hungarian poetry recital

…sadly slowing down my heart

…not buying your girlfriend a Valentines Day card or present, and her being remarkably calm about the let down.

…never running out of Marmite!

…champagne at lunch time and chunky Fanny Burney through a drunken haze in the afternoon.

…nearly as good as getting a free album

…freedom?

… someone that understands you when everyone else is left scratching their heads

… pain…

…never lost, just sometimes misplaced.

…everything

…A nice cup of tea being made for you just round about 3 in the afternoon. (biscuit/roll up optional)

…the only true adventure that keeps me guessing, sustained by action, communication and belief in yourself as much as trust in the other.

…a universal common thing that melt all the living things

…was and always will be exhausting- in a good way mostly.

…patient … a losing game … in the air … blind … just another word i never learned to pronounce

…very difficult and not hollywood-like at all, but usually worth the effort (if it’s really real…)

…like a new pair of Doc Martens, when you first get them you can’t stop looking at them, the longer you have them the better they become including creases and scuffs, you just love them for being them :-) x

…getting stuff free, especially good music!

…saying ‘I love you’ and doing (free) nice things every day and not just because it’s Valentine’s Day and the media say that you should spend lots of money doing it!!!

…food for the soul, devour it while you can!

…love is someone drawing on you with a biro

…the enemy of apathy.

…like a box of chocolates: you didn’t ask for it in the first place but you just can’t help dipping-in, pinching all the good stuff & feeling guilty about throwing away the hard bits.

…not what you think it is…

…wanting to spend all your time with someone, but understanding when they can’t!

…the slowest heart attack you will ever have.

…a pain in the heart, arse and wallet

…knowing someone has your back and you will always have theirs

…cabbage and chocolate soup.

…better than a warm trombone

…giving me a free download of an album. love is loving a free download. love is defining love.

…not for me

…a near-death experience.

…either a fools game or the most powerful force in the universe

…what happens when you didn’t believe in it anymore.

…blind… So why is lingerie so popular?!?

…a good excuse for a drink.

…usually over in the morning!!!

…like a plane ride - a huge amount of anticipation and uncertainty, a quick take off and takes ages to land. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes you get cheated. And it’s bloody expensive too.

…incurable

…an illusion lost in the mist of some distant misunderstanding, and a constant warmth embracing my solitary heart.

…never having to say ‘that’s disgusting’

…a fascinating combinations of chemical reactions in the brain. Rather than making love seem less special that fact we can understand it makes it even more immense.

…whatever you want it to be

…a green-eyed monster.  No, that’s jealousy.  Oh wait, what’s the difference?

…short-sighted

…the ultimate selfishness.

…not about looking in each others eyes …. it’s about looking in the same direction

…gleefully severing off an appendage of your choice then through the subsequent off-kilter blinking, nauseating pain and suffocating dizziness finding that the flailing, spurting stump has in its sanguinary writhings produced a dazzlingly accurate replica of your true and only heart’s desire, Les Dennis

…fighting the battle between my instinctive selfishness and the desire to make other people happy. If you can find balance from the chaos, you might occasionally glimpse real love.

…a morpheme which, through convention,now represents a feeling of affection from one human to another. Love is misleading. You don’t need to be loved back in order to love. But surely the more love you give, the more you will get back. Be loving.

…short and life is always over in the morning. …never having to go to Surrey. …the giving of an umbrella in a back street boozer in Salford.

…not a crackhouse, it’s a crackhome.

…Complicated… painful… obsessive…. hardwork.. but also beauteous, joyful, carefree and passionate….. to quote Tennyson “It is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all”

…complicated..frustrating…obsessive…hard work…and yet beauteous, joyful, carefree, passionate….

…difficult, frustrating, heartbreaking… but always worth it

…the tragicomedy that makes life more than an empty stage…and we all know something is better than nothing..

…free, at least, it should, but every year as the 14th draws near, we wrestle ideas from behind blind eyes and between deaf ears in a crass attempt to tempt the attentions of those who are subjects of our amorous intentions, only to find that behind the lines that divide the sexes, the lovers , the ex’s, that money talks, but bullshit walks………

…everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

…a dangerous and exiting poison that makes us think for a brief moment that our life has meaning. But when you’re alone, you realize that love is a horrible mirage and the only true love is the love for yourself. Women let me go…

And here’s a new one from Louis Barabbas:

LOVE IS…not some open road we walk in pairs. It is an open wound we salt with promises.

“Found Drowned” by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six is now on general release.

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