• Words [The Bee Gees]
    • "You think that I don't even mean a single word I say. It's only words, and words are all I have to take your heart away."
  • I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
    • Duh.
  • I Am a Rock [Simon & Garfunkel]
    • "I touch no one and no one touches me."
  • Song Against Sex [Neutral Milk Hotel]
    • "And the last one tore a picture from the pornographic page, but all the pleasure points attacking, all the looks of love were staged. And it's a lie that you've been giving. It just hurts you every day. So why should I lay here naked when it's just too far away from anyone we could call loving, any love worth living for? So I'll sleep out in the gutter. You can sleep here on the floor. And when I wake up in the morning, I won't forget to lock the door, because with a match that's mean and some gasoline, you won't see me anymore."
  • Hey Julia [Robert Palmer]
    • "I sure would like to handle what's between your ears."
  • Didn't Mean to Turn You On [Robert Palmer]
    • Duh.
  • Sleeping Beauty [Helen Trevillion]
    • "She is love, but oh, never a lover--shrinks away from the touch of his hand, from kisses and candles that stain her affection. Her love is a place he will not understand."
  • How Soon is Now? [The Smiths]
    • "There's a club, if you'd like to go. You could meet somebody who really loves you. So you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home..."
  • Pretty Girls Make Graves [The Smiths]
    • "I could have been wild and I could have been free, but Nature played this trick on me."
  • A Kiss is Not a Contract [Flight of the Conchords]
    • "Just because we've been playin' tonsil hockey doesn't mean you get to score the goal that's in my Jockeys."
  • Built This Way Samantha Ronson
    • "And I wonder if I'm just built this way 'cause every man that I know makes me feel like I'm to blame."
  • Great Big White World [Marilyn Manson]
    • "In space the stars are no nearer, just glitters like a morgue. And I dreamed I was a spaceman burned like a moth in a flame and our world was so fucking gone. I'm not attached to your world. Nothing heals and nothing grows."
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand [The Beatles]
    • "Oh yeah, I'll tell you something, I think you'll understand. When I'll say that something, I want to hold your hand, I want to hold your hand, I want to hold your hand."
  • Flying High
    • "Feel so nice, oh yeah you feel so nice. Wish I could spend the night, but I can't pay the price, oh no, no."
  • Nude
    • "Don't get any big ideas. They're not gonna happen."
  • One Night in Bangkok [from Chess]
    • "I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, sunshine."
  • I Don't Think About It [Emily Osment]
    • "I'm living my life and I don't think about it."
  • Don't Tell Me [Avril Lavigne]
    • "Don't think that your charm and the fact that your arm is now around my neck will get you in my pants. I'll have to kick your ass and make you never forget."
  • Save Yourself [Sense Field]
    • "I want to learn how you save yourself for someone who could love you for you. So many times we just give it away to someone who couldn't even remember your name. Did you save yourself for someone who loves you for you and loves me for me? Give it away to someone who, someone who can cherish your name."
  • I Want to Be Loved
    • "I want to be loved just like everyone I know. I want to be home. Tired of being so alone."
  • Wrapped Up in Books [Belle and Sebastian]
    • "I will say a prayer, just while you are sitting there. I will wrap my arms around you. I know it will be fine. We've got a fantasy affair. We didn't get wet. We didn't dare. Our aspirations are wrapped up in books. Our inclinations are hidden in looks."
  • Affirmation [Savage Garden]
    • "I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality...I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul...I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed."
  • Will Never Marry
    • "I'm writing this to say in a gentle way, thank you--but no."
  • Shores of California [Dresden Dolls]
    • "He's been trying with limited success to get this girl to let him get into her dress. But every time he thinks he's getting close, she threatens death before he gets a chance."
  • Sex Without Sex
    • "Keep all your clothes on."
  • Spaceman [Babylon Zoo]
    • "They would prefer it if you lived off drugs. It's not a curable disease. Your sexuality confounded their world."
  • Your New Twin Sized Bed [Death Cab for Cutie]
    • "But the other side of the mattress and box springs stayed like new. What's the point of holding on to what never gets used?"
  • We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off [Jermaine Stewart]
    • Duh.
  • I Won't Be Crying
    • " I won't be crying when I'm lonely 'cause I'll be making sure I'll have a good time. Ain't nothing wrong when I'm alone now, 'cause I'm alone and I'm proud. I won't be crying when I'm lonely."
  • I'm Still Here [The Goo Goo Dolls]
    • "They can't tell me who to be 'cause I'm not what they see. Yeah, the world is still sleepin' while I keep on dreaming for me. And their words are just whispers and lies that I'll never believe."
  • Don't Touch Me There [The Tubes]
    • "At this moment of surrender, darling, if you really care, don't touch me there.

And of course Victoria Wood

  • Pam
  • Let's Do It

Consider:

  • I'm Gay [Bowling for Soup]
  • Bittersweet Symphony [The Verve]
  • That's What You Get (For Being Polite)

Some might be more quirkyalone

  • Owner of a Lonely Heart
  • I'm Gay [Bowling for Soup]
  • I Don't Think About It [Emily Osment]
  • I Want to Be Loved
  • Affirmation [Savage Garden]
  • I Won't Be Crying
  • I Like Being Left Alone [Robbie Fulks]

MOOOOOOOORE

&

  • (There are plenty of pop songs from recent years whose lyrics focus around love, romance, holding people in your arms etc, and don't mention sex. Daniel Bedingfield's 'If You're Not The One' and 'Never Gonna Leave Your Side' spring to mind as examples.)
  • (I love romantic songs, that's why I love HIM. Lately, I've been getting into Guns n' Roses. Some of their songs are really romantic.)
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