Songs about unrequited love

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited May 2008 in Other Music
Any recommendations?
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  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Tearjerker - RHCP
    The Opening Act - Drive By-Truckers(althought thats more personal interpretation):)
    Elliott Smith probs has a few.
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • triangleman12
    triangleman12 Posts: 193
    Ani Difranco - Sorry I Am
    Beth Orton - Sweetest Decline
    R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=unrequited+love+music&meta=
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Possibly the most brutally sad song I've ever heard:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgBxUpUlAE

    Possibly the best love song ever (unrequited in a way):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2QmQhYZEvQ

    "Did I dream you dreamed about me?"

    and a stunningly beautiful song about some really rather contentious content. It's certainly about kinds of unrequited love but seemingly familial/incestuous love :o nevertheless, the song is amazing and the final minute is some of my favourite music ever. The final line is heartbreaking.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVBJMvfduM (ignore the video)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    reeferchief wrote:
    Elliott Smith probs has a few.
    I Figured You Out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPbB9Qs3JAE
    Mr Goodmorning - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaEmcrhcXrQ
    True Love - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4x0RKasggg
    Alameda - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEKhQcTmHQ
    Kings Crossing (in a kinda abstract way) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8J-D6p5_Eg
    Miss Misery - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJnxOGMSOk
    I Can't Answer You Anymore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKJtnOViz0
    Talking to Mary
    Placeholder
    Going Nowhere - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYcQBp5t4VA
    See You Later- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMjTWiWs_Yc
    Not Half Right - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jyqKSM2tQ

    A few of them are more about jealousy than unrequited love I guess.
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • see_the_world
    see_the_world Posts: 172
    Two good 'uns off the top of my head:

    Jimmy Eat World - Kill
    Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt
    If I knew where it was, I would take you there...
  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhnDxwjzDG8

    Jeff Buckley - Once I Was (Tim Buckley cover)

    Amazing song written by Tim about leaving Jeff and Jeff's mom behind. Performed by Jeff at a tribute to Tim, which was also his first major performance. About unrequited love on so many levels it's crazy. Listen for the very end when the string on his guitar breaks and he finished a cappella. Chills everytime.
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • Gardenparty
    Gardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Maybe more of a breakup but the love is missing

    No Ones, Gonna Love You - Band of horses
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    redmosquito10 wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhnDxwjzDG8

    Jeff Buckley - Once I Was (Tim Buckley cover)

    Amazing song written by Tim about leaving Jeff and Jeff's mom behind. Performed by Jeff at a tribute to Tim, which was also his first major performance.

    That sentence is just head blowing.:D
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    The entire Pretty Hate Machine album by Nine Inch Nails
    You can't spell "dumb" without DMB
  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    reeferchief wrote:
    That sentence is just head blowing.:D

    You should have read it the first time I tried to type it out; I used their last name as well and got lost before I managed to say who actually performed the song.
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    Estranged http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxpG1PgrSZA&feature=related
  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind is the king of all heart broken albums..just the darkest, saddest lyrics EVER, damn i related to these words so well a few years back, glad i got over it......but if you are feeling low, listening to someone sings lyrics like this lets you know you ain't alone.....check out these songs/lyrics:

    standing in the doorway ("don't know if i saw you if i would kiss you or kill you, probably doesn't matter to you anyhow")

    trying to get to heaven ("you broke a heart that loved you, now you can seal up the book and not write anymore")

    not dark yet ("she wrote me a letter, and she wrote it so kind, she put down in writing what was in her mind. i just don't see why i should even care, its not dark yet, but its getting there...i've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies, i ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes")

    to make you feel my love ("i know you haven't made your mind up yet, but i would never do you wrong")
    "I'll tell you what: If all I had was Pearl Jam, and I didn't have another band in the world, I would not be worried. Because in there is the essence of making great music. You don't have to use it all at once, but it's there." - Neil Young
  • Brainofdz
    Brainofdz Posts: 1,617
    Weezer- Only In Dreams
    Coldplay-Shiver
    "Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"

    When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"

    I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
  • russmc
    russmc Posts: 91
    Sparklehorse - Most beautiful widow

    "Many years later
    The glassy month of december
    I stood with my hands in my pockets
    Trying to avoid
    A shiny wedding portrait
    Hanging on that old woman's wall
    'cos I knew you'd be wearing a smile
    That'd be too painful to look upon"
    Surreal Art that Entices the Mind
    http://www.russmcintosh.com
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    All Or None
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


    9/29/04;6/27/08;6/30/08;8/23/09;08/24/09;5/17/10
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,238
    Is Love Enough? by Michael franti and Spearhead

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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