# Unrequited love songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 22, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451 "2008-04-22T20:51:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451/41 "2008-04-28T01:18:32Z")

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This may be the place to find a song my girlfriend desperately wants  
circa 1994 done by a one-hit wonder girl band  
it’s really got a stalkerish feel to it and the key (i.e. only) part my gf remembers is something about waiting or standing by his gate or something.

I’ve been hunting for 2 years and about to have her hypnotised to get more info on the song. (I’m only half-joking about that last part.)

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**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451/42 "2008-04-28T01:49:45Z")

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My favorite unrequited love song of all time: [Mary’s Prayer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3CYUCBnYE) by _Meet Danny Wilson_.

Choked me up when I was a teen, chokes me up now.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451/43 "2008-04-28T02:37:05Z")

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“Crying” by Roy Orbison

“Just My Imagination” by the Temptations

“Midnight Confessions” by the Grass Roots

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**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451/44 "2008-04-28T19:01:48Z")

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[That’s as close as I’ll get to Loving You](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/tippin-aaron/thats-as-close-as-ill-get-to-loving-you-3744.html) sung by Aaron Tippin. Great song:

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I won’t be there when you need holding  
But I’m sure that he can pull you through  
But I can sing this song to everybody  
And pretend it’s not about you

That’s as close as I’ll get to loving you  
Even though there’s nothing else I’d rather do  
I can dream, I can hope, I can scheme but still I know  
That’s as close as I’ll get to loving you

That’s as close as I’ll get to loving you  
Even though there’s nothing else I’d rather do  
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[Somone Else’s Star](http://www.theromantic.com/lovesongs/someoneelsesstar.htm) sung by Bryan White. Not quite unrequited love song, but close enough to depress me when I was younger and alone…again.

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I guess I must be wishing on someone else’s star.  
It seems like someone else keeps gettin what I’m wishing for.  
Why can’t I be as lucky as those other people are?  
I guess I must be wishing, on someone else’s star.  
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**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrequited-love-songs/446451/45 "2008-04-28T22:44:02Z")

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It’s a bit elliptical in places, but

[You Were Right](http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858493176) by **Badly Drawn Boy**.

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