Top Ten Saddest Love Songs

Whether it's a song about a recent breakup or memories of an old lover, any love song that can bring you to tears belongs on this list.

1. Lovers - Jackie Evancho

   

   Your criteria say, "Any love song that can bring you to tears belongs on this list." Well, one glance at Jackie's audience after she finishes this song will justify her position here.

   Even if you did not see the movie House of Flying Daggers, where the heroine is dying in the snow with her first love and her husband already dead next to her (having killed each other with swords), and did not know that the song's final line "Your voice still echoes... in my heart" is her last dying thought, Jackie's otherworldly voice makes you feel it in your soul.

2. When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan

   

   Starts out with beautiful images of everlasting love and transitions to heart-wrenching forgetfulness.

3. Creep - Radiohead

   

4. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You - Colin Hay

   

   The name speaks for itself. Accepting that you will never be with someone but knowing you will never get over them.

5. Sometime Around Midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event

   

   The lyrics are something all of us can relate to.

6. Love Hurts - Nazareth

   

   Hard rock song about the pain love brings.

7. Skinny Love - Birdy

   

8. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

   

   One of the best musical adaptations of William Shakespeare's epic tragedy!

9. Good Life - Francis Dunnery

   

   About someone whom you aren't meant to be with but still love.

10. Fire and Rain - James Taylor

    
The Newcomers
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    Wrapped in My Memory - Shawn Smith

    
12. ?

    Never Too Close - Gordon Lightfoot

    
The Contenders

13. Fix You - Coldplay

    

14. Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt

    

15. Romeo and Juliet - The Killers

    

    I agree, it's a good song, but the original by Dire Straits is better.

16. Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson

    

17. Martha - Tom Waits

    

18. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

    

    Song about being forced to accept that someone will never love you.

19. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

    

    Love. It's the best, most heartwarming song on Earth and so sad. It makes me wonder if she had someone who had left her and she thought about them and could not get over them.

    I love Whitney Houston, and it's really sad she is gone. No one can be an original singer like her. That's her song, and nobody can say otherwise.

    Heart-touching and mind-blowing!

20. White Flag - Dido

    

    I remember introducing "White Flag" to my loved one, and now I feel awful listening to it.

    Knowing someone doesn't want to be with you, but knowing you won't ever be able to forget them.

21. With or Without You - U2

    

    Song about a relationship that has too many bumps, but you still can't forget about it.

22. Someone Like You - Adele

    

23. Say Something - Jackie Evancho and Cheyenne Jackson

    About a break-up in progress, with each waiting for the other to "Say Something." From Jackie's PBS special "Awakening - In Concert."

24. My Immortal - Evanescence

    

25. Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

    

    It's always very sad when a baby or small child dies.

26. Without You - David Guetta

    

    Song about not being able to live without someone.

27. The Power of Good-Bye - Madonna