The 5th Greatest Love Song

Rather than give you the Top 5 in one lengthy entry, I will make you wait for it, giving you one song per day. Relish the wordy attention lavished on one single overrated (by me) forgotten (or ill-remembered) song.

5. 'Til You Can't Tuck It In - The Beautiful South (1999)

I like duets. Not the typical syrupy Streisand/Mathis or Blige/B.I.G duets. I like the quirky kooky duets, with wry vocal tradeoffs and mad beats. This song celebrates old love. OLD and LOVE. Do those two words even fit together? Hard to say. Anyway, this song celebrates two aging lovers. First, the sentiments are greeting card-sweet:

Your quick-step is slower
But your spirit's still out on the floor
And you can still hack it
'Cause you know what your feet are free for
And I'll love my dear
'Til you can't tuck it in anymore

Then it gets flat-out weird:

Your quick-step is slower
But your spirit's still out on the floor
When it comes to raw beauty
You've a whole whorehouse waiting in store

And despite the comparison of a woman's beauty to a whorehouse (and no - there is no "got" between "you've" and "a" which make it all the better), it's all as pretty and pure as a dewy morning under puffy clouds. Plus, the song itself is amazing - a rollicking mix-CD centerpiece that never fails to get some folks at the board game party to ask "Who is this?"