"Now, father, you're living in the past. This is the 14th century!" Prince Philip [Sleeping Beauty]

The instant I heard this song I fell in love. It has more of a ballad feel to it then any of the other songs I've posted so far. It's also from one of the albums that I love to listen to when I need to calm down, or when I'm in a bad mood and need to be cheered up. This song in particular fills me with a sense of hope. Someday I will find someone who feels this way about me, and I feel the same about them. That I am just the luckiest person alive to have someone as amazing as they are in my life. Something else I really love about this song is that it's from the point of view of an average guy. Not some awesome, larger than life superstar who had this amazingly beautiful love experience, but a normal guy, who fell in love with a normal girl, and is happier than he every thought he could be.

The video below is from a concert that Ben Folds did in Australia with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and it's beauty makes me want to weep. I hope you fall in love with this song just as much as I did when I first heard it. And, if you have heard it before, listen to this version with the orchestra. It'll blow your mind.

#8 The Luckiest

Ben Folds

I don't get many things right the first time

In fact, I am told that a lot

Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls

Brought me here

And where was I before the day

That I first saw your lovely face?

Now I see it everyday

And I know

That I am

I am

I am

The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you

In a house on a street where you lived?

Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike

Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes

I see one pair that I recognize

And I know

That I am

I am

I am

The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties

And one day passed away in his sleep

And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days

And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong

That I know

That I am

I am

I am

The luckiest