Favorite Sad Love Songs

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Yeah happy love songs are always great, but sometimes you need an anthem for unrequeted love or a good ol' fashion "they ripped your balls off and your heart out" break up. So for these occasions which are your faves.

For me.

Sad Lisa Cat Stevens: This song is so beautiful that it nearly brings me to tears each time I here it.

If You Could Read My Mind Gordon Lightfoot: The best song about tragic incompatiblity ever.

Lost Cause Beck: Simply a great song.

[Wiggum]

Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot (Nice on the Lightfoot love, EDJ)
Fire Maple Song - Everclear

These are actually my favorite type of lovesongs, I'll add more later

[Ruby]

At My Most Beautiful - REM

Uninvited - Alanis Morissette

I Grieve - Peter Gabriel

Perfect Blue Buildings - Counting Crows

[Bluntchop]

Cryin' - Rose Royce

[crappertay]

Unrequited: Purple Rain - Prince

Bitch: I Hate U - Prince


there are others if I can think of them

[Evil Dead Junkie]

And I can't believe I forgot my favorite of all time U2's One. "Love is a Temple/Love the Higher Law/ And You ask me to enter/ but then you make me crawl/ and I can't keep holding on to all you got/ when all you got is hurt.

[Ragen]

Gabrielle - Out of Reach (from Bridget Jones Diary)
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me

[Ruby]

Can't forget this one:


Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Yeah but that's about his dead kid, I'm not sure if that's strictly a love song.

[Ruby]

Originally posted by Evil Dead Junkie
Yeah but that's about his dead kid, I'm not sure if that's strictly a love song.



No, it's not strictly a love song. But he did make it out of love for his dead son...so I think it does count.

[phenotype31]

U2's One is an interesting choice.

The song was originally intended as a tribute to the people of East and West Germany when the Wall came down. But as with most U2 lyrics, they are open for interpretation. Over the years the song has come to mean different things to different people.

The two most prevalent are the aforementioned fall of the wall, and homosexuality or AIDS. Bono has stated that it's not a love song, but that he understands how people can see it that way lyrically. And in a way it is a love song, just not traditional romantic love.

Anyways, good call.

[fafhrd]

Does Meatloaf's Confessions by the Dashboard Light count?

Fafhrd

[Cogito]

"Good Friends And A Bottle of Pills," Pantera.

[masterthes]

faf, POO, its Paradise by the Dashboard Light, and I wouldn't consider it a sad song. It's a funny song. Now, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a good sad song.

[drunknmunky]

Mazzy star - fade into you

Sade - hang on to your love/king of sorrow/love is stronger than pride/paradise

Eryka Badu - Next LifeTime

Angie stone - no more rain

Alliyah - Heartbroken/one in a million

portishead - glorybox

Otis Redding - I love you more than words can say

Moby - Porcelain