♱ love is like religion is a trope commonly found in pop songs and other romantic works where religious imagery and terminology are used to talk about love as though it itself were a faith or as though the beloved were a celestial being.

• cement, citizen — meet me by the lake, i'm ripe with severed faith. you wear the only scar. if i'm a saint, then you're heaven, my only, if i'm a waste, then you're golden, my only, if i'm shame, you're bolder than all of me. i'll give you myself, give you myself any day.
• coming down, halsey — i've got a lover, a love like religion, i'm such a fool for sacrifice.
• the summoning, sleep token — i've got a river running right into you, i've got a blood trail, red in the blue. something you say or something you do, a taste of the divine. oh, and my love, did i mistake you for a sign from god?
• family tree, ethel cain — give myself up to him, an offering, let him make a woman out of me. so take me down to the river, and bathe me clean, put me on the back of your white horse to ride all the way to the chapel, let you wash all over me.
• de profundis, oscar wilde — love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
• like a prayer, madonna — when you call my name, it's like a little prayer
• since our story is a crime itself, g.f. — for love, i will handle your sins. / and for justice? / for justice, i will show you mine.
• crush, richard siken — his lips at my neck, and yes, i do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.
• i'm your man, mitski — you're an angel, i'm a dog, or you're a dog and i'm your man. you believe me like a god, i'll destroy you like i am.
• uma thurman, fall out boy — the blood, the blood, the blood of the lamb is worth two lions but here i am, divide me down to the smallest i can be, put your venom in me. i can move mountains, i can work a miracle, i'll keep you like an oath, may nothing but death do us part.
• take me to church, hozier — i'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies, i'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife, offer me that deathless death, good god, let me give you my life. if i'm a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight, to keep the goddess on my side, she demands a sacrifice.