"Our Song" vs. "My Song"

I have a guy friend, and if you know him, you know that The Goo Goo Dolls' Iris is his favourite song. It doesn't stem from a big romance; his brother gave him Big Shiny Tunes 3 when he was 10, and from what he said, it was "love at first sound". I understand this, as Iris is a fantastic song. The weird thing is, every girlfriend he's ever had has tried to transition it from "his song" to "their song". From high school, girls have written the various lyrics on their notebooks, in their MSN screen names and Facebook statuses. Two of his exes even had a little catfight over the whole thing, a "excuse me that was our song can you please not have it in your screen name kthanks" kind of thing. At first, I thought it was kind of tacky, him recycling this song for all of these girls, so one day, I asked him why he thought this was always happening.

He told me something that was kind of sweet: "All of my girlfriends have thought that Iris came on during some special intimate moment between us, but in reality for me the song creates intimate moments. If it comes on in the car, all of a sudden you're not just driving home from the movies, you're driving in the prettiest night ever and the moon is suddenly bright and gorgeous. If you happen to be sitting in a restaurant, the song makes the room seem smaller and it feels like everything else has fallen away. Hell, if you're grocery shopping and it comes on, it's a big cheesy ballad to sing to each other into carrots. I'm not going to pin one song to one moment, if the song has the capability to draw me back to something special in every relationship I've had. I'm not going to give that up, because one particular moment has ended."

I, as an overanalyzer and general lover of music, can relate to this. There have definitely been times when a song has come on and imprinted itself on to a special moment, but there are just some songs that inspire you to make things happen for yourself. For instance, Bright Eyes' The First Day of My Life. I feel like that song could make digging a grave romantic.

What do you think? Do you have a song that keeps coming up during romantic moments? Would you "give up" a song that you loved cause it was one of your and your ex-SO's "songs"? Do you have your own song?