Top 10 Saddest Beatles Songs

Believe it or not, this has just finished playing on the radio and I was in that relaxed state where you really listen to the lyrics and let them take you on a journey with them. Forgive me, but I'm not ready to come back yet.
Beautiful list by the way!

When I listen to this song, it makes me feel as if I mourn my memories.

Beautiful but simple melody lyrics that can make you tear up

There are other sad songs, but this is the sad song.

I get emotional every time I listen to it... I know its not about that but I always think about how much Paul misses John and longs to see him in heaven "don't keep me waiting here, lead me to your door"

It makes me pour some tears sometimes. Its meaning is like saying "trust in me again, don't bring me down".

I cryed while listening to this, I've had things going on in my life, and this song just... I can't describe with words... it helped

The last Number 1 hit from the Beatles before they endeed. It has even more sense than just what the song says.

About two old people who are lonely and cross each others paths everyday but are too shy to meet each other. Then, one of them dies and the other feels sad.

Two old people are lonely. One of them dies. Only one person shows up at her funeral.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

One of the saddest, yet best Beatles songs to date!

This song is beautiful. A sad stroy about a girl who runs away from home because she is depressed and feels ignored and not loved. It Shows the thoughts of the child, "She's leaving home after home after living alone for so many years", and the parents thoughts, " we never thought of ourselves, never a thought for ourselves, we struggled hard all our lives to get by". Paul and Johns voclas are beautifully done. Amazingly sad song.

It may be sad because 1. It may be about suicide and meeting her unborn brother and how he would've been. 2. It's about 2 parents crying about their daughter leaving/committing suicide. The lyrics was also perfectly described.

When I first heard this it made me sad... very sad... and so I listened to it over and over and it made me more sad when I look into the lyrics... so this should be on 1. BEATLES forever

One of my favorite sad Beatles songs. Reading the other comments, I can see how suicide was implied but where’s the part about the unborn brother? To me it’s just a sad story about a daughter leaving home.

I've recently revived my appreciation for this song while listening again to the entire phenomenal Revolver CD. anyway, For No One is so well done and personally felt.

It's so sad and beautiful about a relationship that "should have lasted years" but fell short

The song is so beautifully portrayed even though having a sad message.

Absolutely amazing. Makes me cry every time.

The fact that this is lamenting about how John lost his mother when he was just 17. It brings me to tears. Losing someone so dear to you is heartbreaking to think of. The other meaning sings of Johns ever-deepening love for Yoko Ono. I don't care what you say about her, John was allowed to love her, and he did.

John never really new his mother and the fact he dedicated a song in honor of his mother (the person that caused so much pain and sadness in johns life) is powerful.

Definitely the saddest John song

I always liked this song

I wasn't putting the white album version on here, I intended for the anthology version because it's so hauntingly sad but beautiful.

I may have the mind of a 50 year old, but still I weep to this song in Anthology

In my top 3 Beatles songs but it is not really sad.

i like it

The song is sadder when you think of the backstory. It's about Paul seeing a vision of his mom who died of breast cancer when he was 14. What makes it worse is she never told him.

The song is sad sir Paul McCartney mother died because of breast cancer
And Linda McCartney (sir Paul McCartney wife) died of breast cancer

How is this not number 1? this is so sad, even if the lyrics aren't!

You can feel this song right down to your bones

I love this song so much-

Nothing touches this in terms of pure emotional force.

This is the greatest Beatles song in HISTORY!

Beautiful song

Best song ever

A definite Top 5 contender...along with "She's Leaving" "Fool on the Hill" "Eleanor Rigby" and "The Long and Winding Road"

Listen when facing difficulties, it help me to carry that way

The third last Beatles song

This song makes me cry a lot.

Absolute beauty! SO simple and calming!

Makes me cry every time it ends

Not the best beatles song but definitely the saddest...Amazing song, one of John's greatest, and the greatest soft song of all time

Played at the funeral for someone close to me, so it kinda has to be this song.

If you listen Johnny Cash cover of this song you'll understand.

Lovely melody that represents the songs overall feeling.

That haunting instrument before the Beatles start singing "Let me take you down.." makes me think of a sad, lonely, tragedy house in the middle of nowhere.

I don't understand why this isn't on the list, but Because is. This song was the last Beatles song ever, and the way it all came together was beautifully sad.

It's so hauntingly beautiful, plus the fact that this was a demo from the deceased John Lennon, it just feels so sad.

Listen to John Lennon's original performance on the acoustic guitar, much slower, and it conveys his message much more clearly.

It's a tale of unsolicited failure and a strive for a better life. Such a sad little tune

Definitely in my top 3 saddest Beatles songs.

Avant garde make me feel crazy

The best hit by the Beatles at all- the top of their creative peak!

Totally love this one

Well it even says "sad song" in the lyrics.

The last song recorded by the Beatles. This is where the legend ends. that's why I find it to be the saddest song

A look into John Lennon's depression. "Yes I'm lonely wanna die" "In the morning wanna die" "In the evening wanna die" "I feel so suicidal"