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Top 10 Sad Songs About Love

Updated on October 15, 2015

I feel you, I have been there

Have you ever felt sad breeze running through your veins after a break-up with your lover?

Well, I have, all the sudden I started unconsciously listening to sad songs, over and over again, I could not get enough of them, and the good and ugly memories we spent together, comes back to me as a movie trailer, all the sad and joyful moments, all the happiness and smiles we offered for each other, it was hard letting it go, it was cruel to see my sky again colored blue.

Love did this to me, so I decided to make a list called "Sad songs about love" listing all the great sad songs about break-up, and being apart from your lover.Enjoy the list, if you do like it and have a few seconds, please make a comment and/or share it, so other people can get to it.

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Whitney Houston

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#1: "I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU" (1992)

Song Facts:

The lyrics are sorrowful in the sense that the singer will always love the person she is singing to, yet she knows they are not right for each other and must let him go. It is often misinterpreted as a song about people who will be together forever, and even gets played at some weddings because the title led them to think so, without going deep into the meaning.

Songwriter:

Dolly Parton (1974).

Eminem and Rihana

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#2: "LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE" (2010)

Song Facts:

Neglecting your chores about your lover will cause somehow or another of raising arguments, and when they do reach the top without cooling it down, it leads to the physical violence later on, you have hurt somebody who you once shared your heart with and loved and never though you will be away.

Songwriter:

Skylar Grey and Eminem

Toni Braxton

#3: "UN-BREAK MY HEART" (1996)

Song Facts:

This heartbreaking emotional song, Braxton sends a message to her former lover by begging him to return, to undo all the pain he has caused, and be close once again and bring love with him like the old days.

Songwriter:

Diane Warren

Adele

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#4: "ROLLING IN THE DEEP" (2010)

Song Facts:

Adele addresses her former boyfriend on this revenge song, he left scars mark in her heart, which makes her think that they almost had it all, and kind of telling him in the same time, that it is his lost, even though she still carries her scars with her.

Songwriter:

Adele and Paul Epworth

The Police

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#5: "EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE" (1983)

Song Facts:

Sting wrote this song after separating from his first wife, he expresses the jealousy and surveillance (Stalker).

Regarding the common misinterpretation of lyrics, it still highlights love when you love someone but they don't love you back. "Can't you see, you belong with me".

Songwriter:

Sting

Sinéad O'Connor

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#6: "NOTHING COMPARES 2U" (1990)

Song Facts:

This one was inspired by a member of The Family band member who had just broken up with his girlfriend. Tears shed on the video by O'Connor was real and not intended to happen, sometimes the mind tells you something and the heart tells you something else, spontaneous it is.

Songwriter:

Prince - The Family (1985) Original

Timbaland and OneRepublic

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#7: "APOLOGIZE" (2007)

Song Facts:

The song is about the pain of a relationship going wrong and the necessity of moving on, after she moved him into the air, which felt good. Then, his girl cuts him down, breaks up with him, but just when he's walking away, she's like "I'm sorry" but he's like "It's too late to apologize.

Songwriter:

OneRepublic (Ryan Tedder, Zach Filkins, Drew Brown, Brent Kutzle and Eddie Fisher)

Lady Antebellum

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#8: "NEED YOU NOW" (2010)

Song Facts:

I have listened to this song many, many times, and watched the video, too many times more. I love this song, so much that I was kind of blinded not to notice for the first time that in the Video, he is wearing a wedding ring and she is not! Is there a hidden message here, to the meaning of this song?

Songwriter:

Lady Antebellum (Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott, along with co-writer Josh Kear)

Jewel

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#9: "FOOLISH GAMES" (1995)

Song facts:

Jewel wrote this song at age 16, about a relationship that she was in (it was only paper and ink) because the other party did not know anything about it. She, after a while realized that she cannot sell herself short in relationship only one sided.

Songwriter:

Jewel Kilcher

Gary Jules

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#10: " MAD WORLD"

Song Facts:

Even though this one is not very much about love between two lovers at least, it inflames the feelings of you and me, makes us swim in the universe, and look towards the blue planet down below in an illusory way.

Songwriter:

Roland Orzabal

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