50 famous sad LOVE SONG LYRICS you relate to…

Karie Tran
7 min readJun 14, 2020

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  1. I don’t know why I cry. But I think it’s cause I remember for the first time since I hated you that I used to love you (Used to love you- Gwen Stefani)
  2. Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there? Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again? Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? (Elvis Presley)
  3. For you I could pretend like I was happy when I was sad. For you I could pretend I was strong when I was hurt (Fake Love- BTS)
  4. You said I love you, and I said it too. The only difference is I didn’t lie to you.
  5. Looking back on the memory of the dance we shared beneath the stars above. For a moment all the world was right. How could I have known you’d ever say goodbye (The Dance- Garth Brooks)
  6. I wonder if he knows he’s all i think about at night.
  7. Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. Only know you’re been high when you’re feeling low. Only know you love her when you let her go…(Let her go)
  8. With you I’m a beautiful mess, it’s like we’re standing hand in hand with all our fears upon the edge (We The Kings — Sad Song)
  9. If all the rules are meant to bend. And you swore you were my friend. Now I have to start all over again. Cause no one’s going to take your place. And I’m scared I’ll never save. All the pieces of the love we made. (Christina Perri- Sad song)
  10. Take your broken heart … As if you care, I know you got your own stuff going on … I hold my keys … Reminds me of the time when i was really sick and i had too much … Are you working hard my darling, we’re so worried, always thinking of you … looks him up and down with a Botox frown, he’s well used to that look by now. (Courtney Barnett)
  11. Without you, I feel broke
    Like I’m half of a whole
    Without you, I’ve got no hand to hold
    Without you, I feel torn
    Like a sail in a storm
    Without you, I’m just a sad song
    I’m just a sad song. (We the Kings — Sad Song)
  12. “When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.”(― Alanis Morissette)
  13. “I know if we’re face to face, she’ll come to her senses. Every drunk step I take leads me to her door. If she sees how much I’m hurting, she’ll take me back for sure.” — Nothing, The Script.
  14. “And deep down I know this never works but you can lay with me so it doesn’t hurt. Oh, won’t you stay with me? ’Cause you’re all I need.” — Stay With Me, Sam Smith
  15. “Now, here it comes, the hardest part of all. Unchain my heart that’s holding on. How do I start to live my life alone?” — The Art Of Letting Go, Mikaila
  16. 4. “I see your blue eyes every time I close mine. You make it hard to see. Where I belong to when I’m not around you? It’s like I’m not with me.” — I Never Told You, Colbie Caillat
  17. 5. “You said, ‘Goodbye, it’s not the end. And if you need me, I’m still your friend.’ Well, that’s easy for you to say cause you caught it by the handle and I caught it by the blade.” — The Blade, Ashley Monroe
  18. 6. “I still don’t know how to act, don’t know what to say. Still wear the scars like it was yesterday but you’re long gone and moved on. But I still don’t know where to start, still finding my way. Still talk about you like it was yesterday but you’re long gone and moved on.” — Long Gone And Moved On, The Script
  19. 7. “But if you love me, why’d you leave me? Take my body, take my body. All I want is and all I need is to find somebody. I’ll find somebody like you.” — All I Want, Kodaline
  20. 8. “Do you know that I went down to the ground, landed on both my broken-hearted knees. I didn’t even cry ’cause pieces of me had already died.” — Ghost, Ingrid Michaelson
  21. 9. “You only know you love her when you let her go.” — Let Her Go, Passenger
  22. 10. “And the tears come streaming down your face when you lose something you can’t replace. When you love someone but it goes to waste, could it be worse?” — Fix You, Coldplay
  23. 11. “I thought that I’d been been hurt before but no one’s ever left me quite this sore. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to breathe me back to life.” — Stitches, Shawn Mendes
  24. 12. “How can I begin again? How can I try to love someone new, someone who isn’t you?” — How, Regina Spektor
  25. 13. “The silence isn’t so bad till I looked my hands and feel sad. ’Cause the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.” — Vanilla Twilight, Owl City
  26. 14. “I tried to sever ties and I ended up with wounds to bind like you’re pouring salt in my cuts.” — Fix A Heart, Demi Lovato
  27. 15. “Another shot of whiskey, can’t stop looking at the door. Wishing you’d come sweeping in the way you did before. And I wonder if I ever cross your mind. For me it happens all the time.” — Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
  28. 16. “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?” — Big Yellow Taxi, Counting Crows
  29. 17. “So I’ll check the weather wherever you are ’cause I wanna know if you can see the stars tonight. It might be my only right.” — Split Screen Sadness, John Mayer
  30. 18. “And when we meet, which I’m sure we will, all that was there will be there still. I’ll let it past and hold my tongue. And you will think that I’ve moved on.” — White Flag, Dido
  31. 19. “And I’ll take with me the memories to be my sunshine after the rain.” — It’s So Hard To Say Godbye To Yesterday, BOYZ II MEN
  32. 20. “Oh, I thought that we could be the greatest story that I tell. I know that it’s time to tell you it’s over but I don’t wanna love somebody else.” — I Don’t Wanna Love Somebody Else, A Great Big World.
  33. We deny the pain that lies deep in our hearts. Well maybe that’s the pain we can’t hide cause everybody know that we’re both torn apart(Water run dry- Boyz II Men)

34. You told me not to cry when you were gone, but the feeling’s overwhelming, it’s much too strong. — Sam Smith, “Lay Me Down.”

35. I wish that I could wake up with amnesia, and forget about the stupid little things. — Five Seconds of Summer, “Amnesia.”

36. Just make me feel special, and make me feel loved. Make me feel something, lately life’s made me numb. -Gnash, “Ilusm.”

37. Don’t know if I’ll be fine without you. — Gnash, “Feelings Fade.”71.) “Don’t you go texting me, telling me wish you were next to me.” — Gnash, “Feelings Fade.”

38. “What do I do now that you’re gone? No backup plan, no second chance, and no one else to blame. All I can hear in the silence that remains are the words I couldn’t say. — Rascal Flatts, “Words I Couldn’t Say.”

39. Take your records, take your freedom. Take your memories I don’t need ’em. Take your space and take your reasons, but you’ll think of me. — Keith Urban, “You’ll Think of Me.”

40. I can’t believe you were the one to build me up and tear me down, like an old abandoned house. — Daughtry, “Over You.”

41. Turn the music up a little bit louder, just gotta get past the midnight hour.” — Christina Aguilera, “Just a Fool.”

42. I should’ve known all along you gotta move or move on when you break up in a small town. — Sam Hunt, “Break Up In A Small Town.”

43. You’re gonna break my heart anyway
So just leave the pieces when you go. — The Wreckers, “Leave the Pieces.”

44. I can’t drive without seeing your face in all the windows at the spots of all of our places. — Gnash, “U Don’t Get Me.”

45. If it isn’t love, why do I feel this way? — New Edition, “If This Isn’t Love.”

46. If you think getting over me was hard, try getting over you. — Jackie Lee, “Getting Over You.”

47. Now you’re just somebody that I used to know. — Gotye, “Somebody That I Used To Know.”

48. You were my only, you were my first
You showed me lonely, and you took me in when I was hurt
But the most important thing you ever gave me
Was the one that hurt the most. (Thank you for the broken heart — J Rice)

49. “When I’m not drinking bay, you are on my mind.
When I’m not sleeping you know you’ll find me crying.” (Jackson Frank- Love you should’ve come over)

50. “Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love’s gone behind” ( Heart of Glass- Blondie)

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