And a man, who, when she stares into his soul, stares right back into hers......as the flames flicker and glow.....

I think Lizzie is getting us back to the original point.

Humorous songs about seduction are interesting and fun, but not what we originally tried to talk about here.

"Serenading" someone you already know and love is all very well and good, too.

But what really intrigues me is the situation ~ something I'm just barely able to remember from my long-gone youth ~ where a performer manages to establish eye contact with a total stranger in the audience and, thanks to the use of someone else's words set to music, coupled with one's own ability to portray sincerity, passion, etc., is able to reveal his/her soul clearly enough to bring about a total "instant-karma" meltdown.

Dead-serious expressions of romantic angst are the best; most of the Tim Hardin songbook qualifies, and as I mentioned before, I always found "These Days," written by the then-15-year-old(!) Jackson Browne, to "work for me" as well or better than any other selection. If that means that my true romantic identity was that of an adolescent lonely-boy, well then, so be it.

Another closely-related type of "seduction song" adds a layer of sly humor and may better serve to establish a connection when the listener is an older-and-wider type. I'm thinking of the two "Nashville Skyline" numbers also mentioned earlier, "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You."