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We all enjoy a celebratory and, dare we say it, slightly sappy love song that revels in the dazzler of man connection. Merely sometimes the track that actually hits abode is more than somber.

Some of the sad dearest songs in this collection accept the capacity to make yous cry, and may even help you mend a broken eye afterwards a breakup. A scattering of '90s classics (Whitney Houston'due south "I Will Ever Love You lot," Toni Braxton'south "Un-Interruption My Centre") and R&B; hits are on the list, as are sweeter numbers that would exist at abode on a Valentine'southward 24-hour interval playlist if y'all're spending the holiday solo. Many sift through the rubble of past relationships (Drake'south "Marvin'southward Room," Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Gene"), while others are near the momentary relief of connection, even if you know it'due south not with the correct person (Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," Bonnie Raitt's, "I Tin't Make You Honey Me"). And emotional classics by Joni Mitchell, Carole Rex, and Fleetwood Mac prove that while sonic way and songwriting changes over the decades, the raw feeling of heartbreak will always be relatable.

You may be trying to rekindle a smothered spark, dealing with quarantine-related long distance drama, or struggling with keeping your dating life going this winter. Whatever's causing you strife, we hope you lot'll find catharsis in one of these pitiful love songs.

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"Someone Similar You" by Adele

Adele is the patron saint of powerhouse ballads, and "Someone Similar You" ranks upwardly there with her very best. Adele'due south voice can soar on superlative of a 30-piece orchestra, just here she'south accompanied past a simple piano function equally she addresses an ex who has moved on and found new love.

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"Landslide" past Fleetwood Mac

The intra-band romantic drama that fueled Fleetwood Mac'due south historicRumorsrecord is well documented, but fifty-fifty before its 1977 release, they were penning love songs that stuck to your ribs. Ane such track was "Landslide," a gorgeous, lilting showcase for singer Stevie Nicks about how love, in all its forms, never stays static.

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"Death by a Thousand Cuts" by Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift has mined the details of her own romantic life to keen success, but onLover's"Death by a Thousand Cuts" she switched her approach, cartoon inspiration from the Netflix rom-comSomeone Cracking.

The track itself is vintage Swift. She fills the twinkling Jack Antonoff production with vivid imagery–haunted clubs, boarded up windows, and harsh hungover mornings. "Decease by a Thousand Cuts" captures the true aftermath of a breakdown, and the way the pain comes in small, unexpected ways, not necessarily all at one time.

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"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston

Anytime a song can be distinguished past a single note, you know that it'due south fabricated an impact. Whitney Houston'south cover of Dolly Parton's "I Volition Always Beloved You," which appeared onThe Babysittersoundtrack, is i of the 20th century's defining ballads. Houston kept the methodical pacing of Parton'due south original, but turned it into a simmering slow jam that fit perfectly into the '90s tendency of moody, glacial radio hits.

Even when yous know exactly what the song is edifice upwardly to, the moment where Houston hits that sky-scraping note on the terminal hook, e'er feels stirring.

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"I Tin can't Brand You lot Beloved Me" past Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt'south 1991 heartbreaker "I Can't Brand You Honey Me" is considered to be amid the best songs ever written. Raitt makes the lyrics, written past Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, absolutely jump off the page, turning the song into a tearjerker about accepting that y'all can't modify the way some other person feels inside.

"'Cause I can't brand you dear me if yous don't / You can't make your center feel something it won't," she sings.

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"Information technology'south Too Belatedly" by Carole Rex

Carole King's landmark 1971 albumTapestryis filled with gorgeous, poignant songs about heartbreak brought to life through King'south brilliant lyricism. "It's As well Late" was one of the anthology'due south most pop tracks. It captures the point at the end of a relationship where there simply isn't much left to say. Both people have tried their best, but information technology's but not meant to be.

"At that place'll be good times again for me and you lot / Just we just can't stay together, don't you feel it, too," she sings.

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"Cuz I Love You" past Lizzo

The title track of Lizzo's breakout anthology sees the multitalented musician indulging her inner diva. From the opening line, she's belting as powerfully every bit she ever has, channeling the spirit of Aretha and Whitney. Much of Lizzo's music explores her ain sense of self-worth and independence, only on "Cuz I Dear You" she opens up almost what she'll do for beloved.

"Got me continuing in the rain / Gotta get my hair pressed again / I would practice it for you all, my friend," she promises.

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"Close to You lot" by Rihanna

Rihanna's 2016 opusANTIsmartly stripped abroad much of the gloss and glitz of popular superstardom, giving her more room to emote as a vocalist. That produced several powerful tracks ("Higher," "Love on the Brain," "Needed Me"), as well as "Close to Y'all," a moving piano song about a human relationship crumbling in wearisome move that plays like a sequel to 2012's "Stay."

"Nada only a tear, that's all for breakfast / Watching you lot pretend y'all're unaffected," she sings.

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"Both Sides At present" past Joni Mitchell

Inspired past Saul Bellow'sHenderson the Pelting King,Joni Mitchell'due south "Both Sides Now" is an ode to shifting perspectives and to understanding someone's motivations that were previously alien to you. Every bit with Mitchell'south all-time music, it'south depicted through gorgeous nature imagery–clouds that await similar "ice cream castles," and "angel hair"–and sung in her delicate, lilting cadence.

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"I Don't Dearest You Anymore" by ANOHNI

From the climate crisis to the casualties of drone strikes in the Middle Due east, ANOHNI has a souvenir for using the style and structure of dance music to tell urgent stories. "I Don't Love You lot Anymore" is relatively straightforward–even its video is just a six-minute shot of the singer–merely her voice is and then stunning and wounded that you hang on every word.

"Y'all left me in a cage / My only defense was rage," she sings, her phonation crimper into a slight snarl, mimicking the mode heartbreak and then often hardens into anger.

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"Stay With Me" by Sam Smith

Sam Smith has written enough of songs about the bluer side of romance, only their hitting single "Stay With Me" goes to a dissimilar place. The track is somewhere betwixt booze-fueled longing and sober honesty. Smith knows that the connection they share with the song'due south subject is nothing like truthful honey, merely still a favorable alternative to isolation.

"Deep down I know this never works / But you can lay with me so it doesn't injure," they plead.

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"Dreaming With a Cleaved Eye" by John Mayer

John Mayer's "Dreaming With a Broken Heart" morphs from a delicate piano ballad to chugging blues rock jam, showcasing the latitude of Mayer'due south talent that made him such a star throughout the '00s. His breathy, raspy voice is uniquely suited for songs like this: smooth and sultry, just emotional on the surface.

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"Tears Dry on Their Own" by Amy Winehouse

With the aid of producer Salaam Remi, Amy Winehouse made "Tears Dry on Their Own," a modern spin on the long lineage of Motown's lamentable love songs. It even flips Marvin Gaye and Tami Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain Loftier Enough."

Winehouse's smoky, velvet-lined jazz society vocalization is put to great employ here, restrained and conversational on the verses, gradually swelling in volume and tone on the hook to match the song'due south horns.

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"Requite My Love to Rose" by Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash originally penned "Requite My Honey to Rose" back in 1957, just it proved to be such a staple of his catalog that he rerecorded it multiple times, including for his 2002 recordAmerican IV: The Man Comes Around.

The runway is vintage Greenbacks. It's a masterclass in storytelling, as he stumbles upon a dying homo by the railroad tracks who, in his terminal moments, tells Cash to go run across his beloved Rose and their son. He even expresses that he wants his wife to observe a new person to love.

"Tell my Rose to endeavour to observe another / 'Cause information technology ain't right that she should live alone," Greenbacks sings.

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"Skinny Dear" by Bon Iver

There are approximately 1 meg covers of Bon Iver's "Skinny Love," only none of them hit your gut quite similar the original (Birdy's piano-powered take comes closest). The song, which helped turn Bon Iver into an indie phenomenon, is minimalist in its presentation, just cinematic in emotional scope. Throughout, Vernon'southward vocalization croaks and breaks, as if he'due south struggling to get the words out.

"Y'all're in a relationship because you need assist, but that's not necessarily why you lotshould be in a relationship. And that's skinny. It doesn't have weight," Bon Iver'due south Justin Vernon told Pitchfork near the vocal. "Skinny love doesn't have a chance because it's not nourished.

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"Irreplaceable" by Beyoncé

Beyoncé gear up bated the delicate love songs with "Irreplaceable," a nautical chart-topping ode to knowing your worth and not letting anyone effort to lower it. The song plays as a prelude to some of her meatier work onBeyoncéandLemonade,and sees her sending an unfaithful former flame out the door expeditiously.

"Rollin' her 'round in the machine that I bought y'all / Babe, drib them keys / Hurry up before your taxi leaves," Beyoncé warns.

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"Drew Barrymore" by SZA

On "Drew Barrymore," SZA gets all psyched up to run across someone at a political party, only to find that they showed up with another girl. The vocal captures the whiplash of collywobbles turning to stone in your stomach, as she sings achingly virtually how sometimes romance and disappointment can feel as linked as hangovers and alcohol.

"It's hard plenty you got to treat me like this / Alone enough to allow you treat me like this," SZA laments.

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"Fix You" by Coldplay

Written by Chris Martin equally a tribute to his so-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow'south late father, "Fix You" is one of Coldplay'due south well-nigh affecting songs in a discography filled with enough tearjerkers to flood a stadium. Though the song primarily deals with death and moving on from that kind of loss, its lyrics are easy to graft onto a romance.

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"When I Was Your Homo" past Bruno Mars

Few A-listers are equally good at lost honey ballads every bit Bruno Mars, who has topped charts and made eyes water with songs like "Talking to the Moon," "It Will Rain," and "When I Was Your Human." The latter is peradventure the best of the lot, inspired past '70s piano ballads like The Commodores' "Still," and featuring one of Mars' most searing hooks.

"I should take bought you flowers / And held your hand / Should have gave you all my hours / When I had the chance," he laments.

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"Play a Sad Vocal" by The Supremes

Back in the early '60s, Diana Ross and The Supremes' iii other core vocalists were just teenagers, merely they could capture the feeling of a lifetime'southward worth of heartbreak on records similar "Play a Sad Song." Penned by Motown mastermind Berry Gordy, the track has cinematic horns and strings that serve as a plumbing equipment properties for the intertwined harmonies of these preternaturally gifted immature vocalists.

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"Alive With the Glory of Love" past Say Anything

Say Anything's "Alive With the Glory of Love" bristles non simply with the urgency and desperation of immature dearest, but because of its spooky properties. The vocal is about the human relationship between singer Max Bemis' grandparents, who are Holocaust survivors, and their time hiding from the nazis.

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"Un-Intermission My Heart" by Toni Braxton

The '90s were the gold era of tedious jam ballads, and only a few songs captured that crying-in-a-rainstorm melodrama as well as Toni Braxton'due south "United nations-Break My Centre."

The vocal clearly resonated with a lot of jilted listeners, as it was named 1 of the 20 biggestHot 100hits of all time in 2018.

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"Your Hand Holding Mine" by Yellowish Days

Yellowish Days' George  van den Broek was just 17 when he broke through with "Your Paw Property Mine," but that's hard to guess by the audio of his phonation. Van den Broek has a commanding baritone, oftentimes likened to beau alt outsider King Krule.

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"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" past Poison

A quintessential '80s power carol, what Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" lacks in subtlety it more than than makes upwardly for with eye-on-the-sleeve candor. Long earlier his reality evidence renaissance, Bret Michaels was giving his all to this raw chart-topper.

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"Wicked Games" by The Weeknd

Long before he was an A-lister big enough to headline the Super Bowl, The Weeknd was a mysterious figure in the nascent Toronto music scene, writing songs about excess and infidelity that sounded like the aftermath of a post-breakup bender.

His first major hit was "Wicked Games," a peppery runway well-nigh wounded people finding solace in each other and hurting their bodily partners in the process. It's a powerful showcase for The Weeknd's crystalline tenor, which seems to float a thousand feet above the instrumentals muddy guitar and bass.

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"Somebody That I Used To Know" past Gotye ft. Kimbra

Most somber love songs come from a singular perspective:I'mhurt.Idon't love yous anymore.Idon't want to be alone. What makes Gotye and Kimbra'south "Somebody That I Used to Know" so singular and enduring is that it offers both perspectives on a failed relationship, shifting vantage points in the middle to remind united states of america that even though we may demonize an ex, we're rarely complimentary of arraign.

And the song clearly resonated with fans, condign one of the most successfulHot 100entries e'er, going eight-times platinum in the U.S., and turning the previously unknown Gotye into a star.

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"Giving Up" by Whitney

Sometimes relationships fall apart all at once, merely frequently they crumble in slow motion. A missed phone call here, a late night out with no explanation at that place. This kind of disintegration is the subject of Whitney's melancholic "Giving Up."

A departure from the sunnier sound of their debut album, "Giving Upwards" yet exists in the same state-soul-indie rock universe, with twangy guitars, dusty piano, and vocalist Julien Ehrlich's signature reedy tenor.

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"EARFQUAKE" past Tyler, the Creator ft. Playboi Carti

In a different world, "EARFQUAKE" would have been one of 2019'south inescapable pop smashes. Tyler, the Creator originally wrote it to requite to Justin Bieber, later offering information technology to Rihanna, earlier ultimately challenge it for himself. It'south hard to film the song with anyone else on lead vocals. When he pleads, "Don't go out, it's my fault," the desperation is palpable.

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"when the political party's over" by Billie Eilish

Some sad dear songs are one thousand and sweeping, simply Billie Eilish'south "when the party's over" cuts in the complete other management. With hundreds of layers of vocal harmonies and Eilish's trademark hushful tones, the song feels like information technology's being sung into your ear from 2 inches away.

At that place'due south an nearly religious quality to the pb tune and how information technology's absolute by the harmonies, making "when the political party's over" into a vigil for a relationship stuck in the liminal space between friends and lovers.

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"Ex-Factor" by Lauryn Hill

This song brings us into the push-pull of a dysfunctional human relationship, i that oft gets correct up to the breaking betoken without always crossing that final threshold.

If "Ex-Factor" sounds eerily familiar to younger listeners, it'south because Drake sampled information technology for his huge 2018 hit, "Nice For What."

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