# Sad Love Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485 "2005-12-01T00:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/21 "2005-12-01T17:00:40Z")
Burt Bacharach, “Anybody Who Had a Heart” and “Make It Easy On Yourself”. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/22 "2005-12-01T19:07:57Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straights Find the Edwin McCain cover, if you can. It’s marvelous. I recommend “One Step Up” by Bruce Springsteen, NOT the album version (which isn’t very good at all), the live/acoustic one. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/23 "2005-12-01T20:31:05Z")
How could I have forgotten “At This Moment” Billy Vera-also performed by Tom Jones “Love on the Rocks” Neil Diamond while I’m thinking lounge singers. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/24 "2005-12-01T21:54:30Z")
Trout Fishing in America has a song called “You Can’t Get There from Here” about a long-ago relationship that includes these lines: “I’ve got a box of old photographs And every image came true Funny, they almost told the future See I’m not in the picture with you.” Good song. ---
**Author:** ![bauble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@bauble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bauble)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/25 "2005-12-01T22:11:46Z")
My girlfriend of the last six years and I just broke up and I’ve been wearing out Warren Zevon’s “She’s Too Good For Me”, “El Amor de mi Vida” and “Please Stay”. After **cbawlmer** ’s post, I’m thinking that I really like Ringo Starr’s “Photograph”: “Everytime I see your face, It reminds me of the places we used to go But all I’ve got is a photograph, And I realize you’re not coming back anymore” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/26 "2005-12-01T22:15:10Z")
“Blond in the Bleachers” or “Help Me” by Joni Mitchell. And then there’s that Broadway show-tune staple “50 percent of him” - the anthem for desperate codependants everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/27 "2005-12-01T22:23:27Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > I second Dolly’s “I will Always Love You” – it amazes me that people sing it at weddings, apparently not listening to the words. I came in to nominate this song, but can’t believe that people sing this song at weddings?! Do they also sing _Give My Love to Rose_ because it has the word ‘love’ in the title? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/28 "2005-12-01T22:38:29Z")
> [@teemingONE](#): > > I’m looking for songs where the singer is not getting the girl but is desperately in love with her. Watching Alice - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/29 "2005-12-01T22:57:49Z")
Oh yeah, “Here Comes My Baby” by Cat Stevens. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/30 "2005-12-01T23:00:44Z")
_Northern Sky_ by Nick Drake. Astonishingly wistful. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/31 "2005-12-02T00:08:44Z")
The song I’m thinking of is, maybe, “The Last Song” by (I think Edward Bear). Some of the lyrics go like this, whatever it is: It’s the last song…I’ll ever write for you … You’ll come looking for the light and it won’t be there… But I looove you, oh, Yes I do! …etc. Really heart-tugging. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/32 "2005-12-02T00:09:59Z")
I thought of a few more: “That’s The Way” by Led Zeppelin “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” by the Beatles “Saw Red” by Sublime (the acoustic version) I’m not familiar with the songs the OP uses as examples, if he could give some more well-known examples (possibly of songs from this thread) that matched what he’s going for that would be helpful. Also the famous “Girl From Ipanema” matches the OP’s description, lyrically at least, to a T. I don’t really know whose version of that song is definitive though. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/33 "2005-12-02T00:14:42Z")
Macarthur Park MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don’t think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it And I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, no! Oh, no! No! Oh, no!! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/34 "2005-12-02T00:15:41Z")
Diary, David Gates & Bread "The love she waited for was someone else…not me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/35 "2005-12-02T00:17:27Z")
“You Always Hurt the One You Love” by the Ink Spots or Mills Bros. is a bit more of a general hurtin’ love song, but it’s nice and mellow. “Solitary Man” by Johnny Cash or Chris Isaak (don’t kill me, but I think I may prefer the latter version) ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/36 "2005-12-02T01:42:15Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > “You Always Hurt the One You Love” by the Ink Spots or Mills Bros. is a bit more of a general hurtin’ love song, but it’s nice and mellow. Most Ink Spots songs kinda fall into that category. Another especially good one from the group is “Maybe”. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/37 "2005-12-02T01:50:24Z")
Earth Wind and Fire’s _After the Love is Gone_ _Something’s Always Wrong_ by Toad the Wet Sprocket _I Can’t Make You Love Me_ by Bonnie Raitt ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/38 "2005-12-02T02:04:56Z")
I immediately thought of “That’s as close as I’ll get…” by Aaron Tippin. > [@](#): > > Maybe I’ll never watch you dressing > I won’t sound too familiar on the phone > But I can touch your hand accidentally > And take that moment home ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/39 "2005-12-02T02:21:26Z")
“New Orleans” by Cowboy Mouth. > [@](#): > > That cake must taste great > But I’ll pass when you offer me some ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485/40 "2005-12-02T03:10:46Z")
I can’t believe nobody has yet nominated “Love Hurts” by Nazareth (OK, maybe not smooth enough for the OP) and “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor. Two classic tunes. Slightly tackier, but still a reasonable pop song that qualifies is Atomic Kitten’s “Whole Again.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sad-love-songs/333485.md?page=3)