# Saddest love song ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518 "2007-08-14T03:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/1 "2007-08-14T03:33:00Z")
Not the most depressing, but the saddest. Not the same thing at all. For me, it has to be [Crying](http://www.links2love.com/love_lyrics_69.htm) sung by **Roy Orbison**. Because, I think, it’s sooo real. The first line “I was all right for a while” gets me. Then we learn that she loves him, but not “that way”. And he still loves her, but for him it _is_ “that way”. ☹ Been there, eh. And then, there’s those beautiful pipes. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_Samaritan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bad\_Samaritan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Samaritan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/2 "2007-08-14T03:38:56Z")
Billy Vera’s \*\*At This Moment \*\* comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/3 "2007-08-14T03:42:37Z")
Teen Angel by some unknown late 50’s artist. It’s doubly annoying because it’s a fairly good tune but the lyrics suck. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/4 "2007-08-14T03:44:59Z")
I vote for Janis Ian’s _Jesse_, sung by Roberta Flack. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/5 "2007-08-14T03:50:00Z")
For me, it’s a little known song by a now defunct group called “Weddings, Parties Anything”. > [@](#): > > **For a Short Time** > > Sometimes you can say more in a drunken hour or so > Than some people get across in a life of lying low > And sometimes you can feel more for someone you’ve barely kissed > Though you don’t see it at the time, or the moment that you’ve missed. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/6 "2007-08-14T03:50:03Z")
**"Free Falling"** : Because it reminds me of the love of my life(or so I thought at the time) . **"Boys of Summer"** , **Too Much Time on My Hands**",“ **More Than a Feeling** ”: Same reason, different loves of my life. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/7 "2007-08-14T03:54:33Z")
Dire Straits’(s?) “Romeo and Juliet” always seems so heartbreaking to me, for some reason. Especially the last verse: I can’t do the talk Like the talk on the TV And I can’t do a lovesong Like the way it’s meant to be Can’t do anything But I’d do anything for you Can’t do anything 'Cept be in love with you. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/8 "2007-08-14T04:06:07Z")
“If I could change your mind” by Alan Parsons Project ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/9 "2007-08-14T04:13:30Z")
I vote for _Marie_ by Randy Newman. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/10 "2007-08-14T04:43:39Z")
_Never Let Me Go_ by Katie Webster is the sort of song Sony invented the ‘repeat track’ button for. Drinking recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/11 "2007-08-14T04:50:16Z")
“Black” by Pearl Jam is pretty damn sad: “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be the star in somebody else’s sky, but why can’t it be mine?” ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/12 "2007-08-14T04:50:16Z")
For me it’s _Eternal Flame_ by the Bangles, mostly because it reminds me of my unrequited high school crush. Another really sad love song: _Love, Me._ It makes me cry because of some older relatives that passed away recently, the husband one year after the wife. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/13 "2007-08-14T04:56:27Z")
[A Better Place to Be](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/A-Better-Place-To-Be-lyrics-Harry-Chapin/279436569082520E48256CAA002CB33B) or [Taxi.](http://www.lyricsdepot.com/harry-chapin/taxi.html) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/14 "2007-08-14T05:26:18Z")
**Unbreak My Heart** by Toni Braxton. The sadness in her voice during that song is palpable. I well up every time. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/15 "2007-08-14T05:26:36Z")
No love for Morris Albert? Nah. Me neither. _Everybody Loves a Clown_ by Garry Lewis and the Playboys always does something to me, though. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/16 "2007-08-14T05:32:50Z")
_Someday You Will be Loved_ by Deathcab for Cutie. Can’t listen to it without tearing up. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/17 "2007-08-14T05:38:04Z")
[QUOTE=commasense] I vote for _Marie_ by Randy Newman. [/QUOTE] [Marie](http://www.lyricstime.com/townes-van-zandt-marie-lyrics.html) by Townes van Zandt is pretty heartwrenching too. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/18 "2007-08-14T05:39:52Z")
At Seventeen, by Janis Ian. A girl who wants to be loved, but no one will look at her because she’s plain. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/19 "2007-08-14T06:46:16Z")
_Tennessee Waltz_, by Patsy Cline. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saddest-love-song-ever/415518/20 "2007-08-14T06:46:48Z")
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