Charli XCX says that a couple’s “first kiss felt just like a drug.” The most sensual suggestion comes on “Without Words”: “Whispered kisses in your ears/The touch so soft and warm/Confessions all of love for you/Yes, without words.” “All of the Stars” includes: “You were lying next to me/I looked across and fell in love.” “All I Want” implies that a couple once shared a bed before death separated them (“When you said your last good-bye/I died a little bit inside/I lay in tears in bed all night/Alone without you by my side”). And a few tracks here include suggestive lyrics that go along with that. Hazel and Gus merge more than just their minds in the movie. “All I Want,” from the aforementioned Kodaline, mingles thankfulness and lament: “So you brought out the best in me/A part of me I’ve never seen/You took my soul and wiped it clean/Our love was made for movie screens/But if you loved me/Why’d you leave me?” In a similar vein, “Strange Things Will Happen,” by Radio Dept., strives to be thankful for the good days in a terminally ill person’s life. “When I’m Alive” (STRFKR) gives a nod to carpe diem. Grouplove’s “Let Me In” finds someone proclaiming, “I’ll be waitin’ for ya’/Catch my hand, I’ll be fightin’ for ya’.” “Boom Clap” (Charli XCX) rightly asserts that love is better than riches. Confucianism doesn’t do the trick either (“Memorized the mantra Confucius said/But it only let me down). “Simple as This” (Jake Bugg) talks about a man looking for meaning in drinking and drugs … and not finding it there (“Went looking for reverence/Tried to find it in a bottle/And came back again/High on a hash pipe of good intent/But it only brought me down”).

“Not About Angels,” by Birdy, tells us celestial beings visit us in our suffering (“‘Cause what about, what about angels?/They will come, they will go, make us special”).

That song also links the ideas of death and sin, suggesting that both must be relinquished or transcended (“It’s with myself I fight/Sin you’ve carried like a corpse/Across your back these days/Let it fall away/Let it fall away”).

Ray LaMontagne’s “Without Words” contrasts life’s frailty with quiet evidence of God’s presence (“I can hear the morning birds/Light upon the branches/And each in turn/Would sing of all God’s praises/Without words”). “All of the Stars,” by Ed Sheeran, suggests that two people are separated by an ocean (which could be a metaphorical stand-in for death), but they find hope looking to the horizon (“So open your eyes and see/The way our horizons meet/ … All of these stars will guide us home”).

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