Songs to write Loving Wives stories to

[big_cane_sugar]

I actually never intended it to be a troll story (although all of the commenters are convinced otherwise), I wrote it as a fun little exercise playing into as many of the interracial cuckolding tropes I could think of and dialing it all up to eleven or twelve. No regrets.

My style exactly. I didn't think about the racial angle but I tried something similar with John's Wife Needed Money (So she had my baby). You did much better than I did, but I think I hit the notes I was aiming for lol

 

[big_cane_sugar]

I scrolled through and didn't see "Back Door Man." Sorry I missed it, but even if it was posted already, it deserves to be posted again (and again):

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

My style exactly. I didn't think about the racial angle but I tried something similar with John's Wife Needed Money (So she had my baby). You did much better than I did, but I think I hit the notes I was aiming for lol

You might want to edit the hyperlink in your comment. You double-pasted the link so it doesn't go anywhere.

 

[offkilter123]

A funny thing happened to me on the way to writing the ultimate BTB story: I discovered that writing a believable, emotionally resonant reconciliation story is a more fun, more interesting challenge than sending a cheating wife off to a Mexican whorehouse. That’s not to say that there’s not a place for a cheating wife in a Tijuana brothel, but a redemptive arc makes for a more compelling story (in my opinion).

I have written two songs based on the songs of Jim Steinman written for the Meatloaf album, BAT OUT OF HELL. The two stories are Bat out of Hell (based on the song of the same name) and A Duet for Three which uses the song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights as a plot device. Both stories have been well received with nearly 130k cumulative views and over 5000 scores.
4.54 / 2.7k 61.5k 237 (BOOH)
4.41 /2.7k 73k 167 (ADFT)

If you know anything about LW (hope you have a hazmat suit) you know that a red H for a reconciliation story is very unusual and I am a little surprised that Bat Out of Hell has been able to maintain that score consistently.

It’s not about the song. A story written using Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, will be worlds away from a story using Chris Cornell’s version of the song. Are the different? Obviously. Is one version better than the other version? That’s up to what you bring to the conversation. (But the correct answer is, and will always be: Chris Cornell.)

 

[Actingup]

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I have written two songs based on the songs of Jim Steinman written for the Meatloaf album, BAT OUT OF HELL. The two stories are Bat out of Hell (based on the song of the same name) and A Duet for Three which uses the song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights as a plot device.

Now I’m dying to know whether you’ve got an ensemble scene in the Paradise story where everybody at the party is belting out the duet and final chorus sections! Has anybody tackled a Meatloaf musical yet?

 

[Gamblnluck]

A funny thing happened to me on the way to writing the ultimate BTB story: I discovered that writing a believable, emotionally resonant reconciliation story is a more fun, more interesting challenge than sending a cheating wife off to a Mexican whorehouse.

Funny how that works. Your work has been well received in LW. It seems you know how to do it. NOT some of these who never accomplished it but chose to condemn the readers rather than their abilities.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

You might want to edit the hyperlink in your comment. You double-pasted the link so it doesn't go anywhere.

Thank you!

 

[LightningSeed]

Which is still not a turn-on, a fetish, nor an erotic concept. There is a large chunk of the readership there who are not reading for titilation at all, but simply as you say, for justice, and while ether is nothing really wrong with that in itself, it's kinda fucked up that they come to an erotic website to find a fantasy concept that is not erotic. It's this subgroup of the readership there that brings the toxicity. Now it's one thing that this group wants to give such negative reactions to stories with zero basis on storytelling or hotness, just simply if justice was served, but it's another for so many in this group to destroy entire catalogs over it - which is itself horribly ironically unjust. So there are a great many there reading and reacting under the guise of justice, that are really only after revenge - spiteful oppressive revenge.

I wish there were separate categories: one for non-monogamous wives, and one for revenge fantasies. But in hopes of getting this thread back on point, I humbly suggest this song as a writing soundtrack for the justice warriors.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

That song was written by the same writer who wrote September by Earth Wind and Fire and the theme song to Friends. She said that it turned out all right but it wasn't her best song.

 

[gunhilltrain]

A funny thing happened to me on the way to writing the ultimate BTB story: I discovered that writing a believable, emotionally resonant reconciliation story is a more fun, more interesting challenge than sending a cheating wife off to a Mexican whorehouse. That’s not to say that there’s not a place for a cheating wife in a Tijuana brothel, but a redemptive arc makes for a more compelling story (in my opinion).

I have written two songs based on the songs of Jim Steinman written for the Meatloaf album, BAT OUT OF HELL. The two stories are Bat out of Hell (based on the song of the same name) and A Duet for Three which uses the song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights as a plot device. Both stories have been well received with nearly 130k cumulative views and over 5000 scores.
4.54 / 2.7k 61.5k 237 (BOOH)
4.41 /2.7k 73k 167 (ADFT)

If you know anything about LW (hope you have a hazmat suit) you know that a red H for a reconciliation story is very unusual and I am a little surprised that Bat Out of Hell has been able to maintain that score consistently.

It’s not about the song. A story written using Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, will be worlds away from a story using Chris Cornell’s version of the song. Are the different? Obviously. Is one version better than the other version? That’s up to what you bring to the conversation. (But the correct answer is, and will always be: Chris Cornell.)

In "Paradise By the Dashboard Light," I think that marriage is about to go over a cliff. He says he's never going to break his vow but it's not the 19th Century any longer and the divorce rate is now around 50% I think. She seems sick of him too. The song always bugged me as being barely possible but more likely improbable. He never mentions any religious convictions which might motivate him or ethnic identity that would have slowed him down. Men are afraid of divorce because they worry about losing their assets, but that doesn't come up here either. If he doesn't pull the plug soon, then she will.

I'm praying for the end of time
It's all that I can do
Praying for the end of time,
So I can end my time with you!
'

 

[gunhilltrain]

This song tells a story rather well. He knows that there is a lot wrong with him, and he alternates between missing his ex-wife and hating her. Maybe not everybody belongs in a marriage or long-term relationship.

Used to have a wife but she told me I was crazy
Said she couldn't stand the way I fidget all the time
Sometimes late at night I circle round the house
I look through the windows and I dream that you're still mine

 

[Thefireflies]

Paul Kelly has just released a follow-up to 'How to make gravy', titled 'Rita wrote a letter', and it's a savage outcome. Joe's fears were well founded - Rita left him for his brother Dan, and Joe takes his own life. I don't think that it's going to be everybody's favourite Christmas song...

I wonder if the plot twist in Rita Wrote a Letter will dampen the national love for How to Make Gravy? However, To Her Door (He came in on a Sunday, every muscle aching, walking in slow motion, like he’d just been hit…did they have a future? Would he know his children? Could he make a picture, and get them all to fit?) and Love Never Runs on Time (I’ve been asking around, but you haven’t been seen…I never thought we were perfect, oh but darling, what we could have been…) are also about Joe and Rita, where maybe Kelly is suggesting Rita had already checked out of her relationship with Joe by the time he writes to Dan from prison in HTMG.

 

[Actingup]

I wonder if the plot twist in Rita Wrote a Letter will dampen the national love for How to Make Gravy? However, To Her Door (He came in on a Sunday, every muscle aching, walking in slow motion, like he’d just been hit…did they have a future? Would he know his children? Could he make a picture, and get them all to fit?) and Love Never Runs on Time (I’ve been asking around, but you haven’t been seen…I never thought we were perfect, oh but darling, what we could have been…) are also about Joe and Rita, where maybe Kelly is suggesting Rita had already checked out of her relationship with Joe by the time he writes to Dan from prison in HTMG.

Are they really? Is there a source for that? In 'To Her Door' she says 'Shove it Jack, I'm walking out your fucking door'

 

[EmilyMiller]

Songs to write Loving Wives stories to​

This thread reminded me that I once ‘composed’ my own LW song (back in 2023). Just dug it out and submitted it as a non-erotic poem .

 

[Thefireflies]

Are they really? Is there a source for that? In 'To Her Door' she says 'Shove it Jack, I'm walking out your fucking door'

Paul Kelly has alluded to it a few times over the years. For example:

"To Her Door, then Love Never Runs on Time, and How To Make Gravy – I've got a feeling it's the same guy," Kelly told Australasian Performing Rights Association's publication APRAp in 2002.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-23/paul-kelly-how-to-make-gravy-sequel-songs/105678956

 

[SebastianHolt]

when one isn't sure ...

 

[SebastianHolt]

when its ...

 

[SebastianHolt]

last call at the bar ...

 

[Actingup]

We've all been bad in our own special ways, but just a reminder of the guidance at the start of this thread: try to share something about a song and why it's meaningful for the theme, don't just post a link. For bonus points, listen to something that somebody else has posted first and comment on that too.

@TheRedChamber was very bad and asked us to listen to a whole album: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (which is obviously an awesome pick). I just wanted to add a little postscript to that. The only time I've seen Fleetwood Mac play was the most recent tour without Lindsey Buckingham, but with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell. I'm so glad that I did, because it was the last time to see Christine McVie, even though she was struggling with her voice. Anyway, what struck me was how obvious it was on stage that without Lindsey there and with the positive influences of Neil and Mike, the rest of the band were relaxed and really fucking happy, and it showed right through the show. Sometimes, you just have to let things die....

Anyway, this was their cover of "I Got You", Neil Finn's breakthrough hit with New Zealand's Split Enz. It's a perfect pop song about paranoid in a relationship.

There's no doubt
Not when I'm with you
When I'm without
I stay in my room
Where do you go?
I get no answer
You're always out
It gets on my nerves!
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying

 

[lc69hunter]

Save the Last Dance for Me. The Drifters

Iris. Goo Goo Dolls

 

[MillieDynamite]

 

[Actingup]

I started this thread with Rick Davies and Supertramp. Given his sad passing, I thought it might be worth another of his songs. This one's more about hook-up culture than infidelity, but close enough. RIP.

 

[MetaBob]

You could write a whole story just about the last two minutes of the live recording of Silver Springs

"Silver Springs is a great old song"
- Stevie Nicks

But my personal favorite (granted, the FMC was an ex-girlfriend rather than married, and wasn't the one who got burned even though she shared the responsibility):

Don't mind the tuba solo that comes out of nowhere toward the end.

 

[dirk2024]

This song may be a bit of a stretch, because it was sung in a cutesy manner by two couples, but the words could be a trigger.

Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band.

For me, I suppose it's because a lot of cheatin' goes on in the afternoon while the hubby is working, so the cheaters have to make the best use of any available time.

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Lookin' forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together make the sparks ignite
And the thought of lovin' you is gettin' so excitin'

And this stanza sticks out to me as well.

Started out this mornin' feelin' so polite
I always thought a fish could not be caught who didn't bite
But you got some bait a-waitin' and I think I might
Like nibblin' a little afternoon delight

 

[Actingup]

This song may be a bit of a stretch, because it was sung in a cutesy manner by two couples, but the words could be a trigger.

Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band.

For me, I suppose it's because a lot of cheatin' goes on in the afternoon while the hubby is working, so the cheaters have to make the best use of any available time.

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Lookin' forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together make the sparks ignite
And the thought of lovin' you is gettin' so excitin'

And this stanza sticks out to me as well.

Started out this mornin' feelin' so polite
I always thought a fish could not be caught who didn't bite
But you got some bait a-waitin' and I think I might
Like nibblin' a little afternoon delight

Great choice! There's a doco about it here - it's a bit of a sad story as the two couples eventually divorced and they got screwed by the record company over royalties. But Bill and Taffy co-wrote 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' with John Denver, so they've got the royalties from that.