Top Ten Songs About Unrequited Love

The Top Ten

1 Sometime Around Midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event

2 Creep - Radiohead

3 Ava - Famy

4 It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends - Bright Eyes

5 Eternal Flame - The Bangles

6 Love Hurts - Nazareth

7 Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground

8 Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits

9 Youth - Daughter

10 Layla - Derek & the Dominos

Eric Clapton wrote it about his unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, wife of his friend George Harrison from The Beatles.
This song probably should be at #1 because 1) it's a Grammy winner, 2) it's a real story, 3) this particular unrequited love is probably the most complicated one on this list, considering the people involved.

The Contenders

11 Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin

12 Grenade - Bruno Mars

13 I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

14 Marry Me - Thomas Rhett

15 Your Type - Carly Rae Jepsen

"I'm not the type of girl for you I'm not going to pretend I'm the type of girl you'd call more than a friend."

16 Crying - Roy Orbison

17 I Died for You - Iced Earth

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