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We all enjoy a celebratory and, dare nosotros say information technology, slightly sappy love song that revels in the beauty of human connection. But sometimes the track that really hits dwelling house is more than somber.

Some of the sad dear songs in this collection have the capacity to make you cry, and may even help you mend a cleaved heart afterwards a breakup. A handful of '90s classics (Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," Toni Braxton's "United nations-Break My Heart") and R&B; hits are on the listing, as are sweeter numbers that would be at home on a Valentine's Solar day playlist if y'all're spending the holiday solo. Many sift through the rubble of by relationships (Drake's "Marvin'south Room," Lauryn Hill'south "Ex-Cistron"), while others are about the momentary relief of connection, even if you know it'south not with the right person (Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," Bonnie Raitt'due south, "I Can't Make Yous Love Me"). And emotional classics by Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Fleetwood Mac prove that while sonic style and songwriting changes over the decades, the raw feeling of heartbreak will always exist 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 yous strife, we hope yous'll detect catharsis in one of these sad love songs.

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"Someone Like You" by Adele

Adele is the patron saint of powerhouse ballads, and "Someone Similar You" ranks upwardly there with her very best. Adele's voice tin can soar on top of a 30-piece orchestra, only here she's accompanied by a simple pianoforte part as she addresses an ex who has moved on and found new dear.

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"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac

The intra-band romantic drama that fueled Fleetwood Mac's celebratedRumorstape is well documented, but even earlier its 1977 release, they were penning love songs that stuck to your ribs. 1 such track was "Landslide," a gorgeous, lilting showcase for vocalizer 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 great success, merely onLover's"Decease by a Thousand Cuts" she switched her approach, drawing inspiration from the Netflix rom-comSomeone Groovy.

The runway 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 One thousand Cuts" captures the true aftermath of a breakdown, and the way the hurting comes in small-scale, unexpected ways, not necessarily all at one time.

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"I Will E'er Love You" by Whitney Houston

Anytime a song can be distinguished by a single notation, you know that it's made an impact. Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," which appeared onThe Bodyguardsoundtrack, is i of the 20th century'south defining ballads. Houston kept the methodical pacing of Parton'south original, but turned information technology into a simmering slow jam that fit perfectly into the '90s trend of moody, glacial radio hits.

Even when you know exactly what the song is building up to, the moment where Houston hits that heaven-scraping annotation on the terminal hook, e'er feels stirring.

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"I Can't Brand You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt's 1991 heartbreaker "I Can't Make You Love Me" is considered to be amidst the best songs ever written. Raitt makes the lyrics, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, absolutely jump off the page, turning the song into a tearjerker virtually accepting that y'all can't change the style some other person feels inside.

"'Crusade I can't make you dear me if you don't / You can't brand your heart experience something it won't," she sings.

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"Information technology's As well Tardily" by Carole King

Carole Male monarch's landmark 1971 albumTapestryis filled with gorgeous, poignant songs about heartbreak brought to life through King'southward vivid lyricism. "It's Too Late" was one of the album'southward most popular tracks. It captures the point at the end of a relationship where there just isn't much left to say. Both people have tried their all-time, but it'south just not meant to be.

"There'll be proficient times once again for me and y'all / Only we simply tin't stay together, don't y'all feel it, too," she sings.

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"Cuz I Love You" by Lizzo

The title runway of Lizzo's breakout anthology sees the multitalented musician indulging her inner diva. From the opening line, she's belting equally powerfully as she e'er has, channeling the spirit of Aretha and Whitney. Much of Lizzo's music explores her ain sense of self-worth and independence, but on "Cuz I Dear Yous" she opens up about what she'll do for beloved.

"Got me standing in the rain / Gotta go my hair pressed again / I would practice it for yous all, my friend," she promises.

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"Close to You" by Rihanna

Rihanna'due south 2016 opusANTIsmartly stripped away much of the gloss and glitz of pop superstardom, giving her more room to emote as a vocalist. That produced several powerful tracks ("College," "Love on the Brain," "Needed Me"), every bit well as "Close to You," a moving pianoforte vocal about a relationship aging in slow motion that plays like a sequel to 2012's "Stay."

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

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"Both Sides At present" by Joni Mitchell

Inspired by Saul Blare'southHenderson the Pelting Rex,Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides At present" is an ode to shifting perspectives and to agreement someone's motivations that were previously alien to y'all. As with Mitchell'southward all-time music, it'southward depicted through gorgeous nature imagery–clouds that look like "ice cream castles," and "angel hair"–and sung in her delicate, lilting cadency.

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"I Don't Beloved Y'all Anymore" by ANOHNI

From the climate crisis to the casualties of drone strikes in the Heart East, ANOHNI has a souvenir for using the style and structure of trip the light fantastic music to tell urgent stories. "I Don't Love You Anymore" is relatively straightforward–even its video is simply a half dozen-infinitesimal shot of the singer–but her voice is and so stunning and wounded that you hang on every give-and-take.

"Yous left me in a cage / My but defense was rage," she sings, her voice curling into a slight snarl, mimicking the style heartbreak so often hardens into acrimony.

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"Stay With Me" past Sam Smith

Sam Smith has written plenty of songs well-nigh the bluer side of romance, merely their hit single "Stay With Me" goes to a different place. The track is somewhere between booze-fueled longing and sober honesty. Smith knows that the connection they share with the song's subject field is nada like truthful love, but still a favorable alternative to isolation.

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

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"Dreaming With a Broken Heart" by John Mayer

John Mayer'south "Dreaming With a Broken Middle" morphs from a delicate piano ballad to chugging dejection stone jam, showcasing the breadth of Mayer'south talent that made him such a star throughout the '00s. His breathy, raspy voice is uniquely suited for songs similar this: smooth and sultry, but emotional on the surface.

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"Tears Dry on Their Own" by Amy Winehouse

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

Winehouse's smoky, velvet-lined jazz club voice is put to bully use here, restrained and conversational on the verses, gradually swelling in volume and tone on the claw to lucifer the song's horns.

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"Give My Love to Rose" by Johnny Cash

Johnny Greenbacks originally penned "Give My Love to Rose" back in 1957, only it proved to be such a staple of his catalog that he rerecorded it multiple times, including for his 2002 recordAmerican Four: The Man Comes Around.

The rail is vintage Cash. It's a masterclass in storytelling, as he stumbles upon a dying man by the railroad tracks who, in his final moments, tells Greenbacks to become see his dear Rose and their son. He even expresses that he wants his wife to notice a new person to love.

"Tell my Rose to endeavour to find another / 'Cause information technology ain't right that she should live solitary," Cash sings.

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"Skinny Love" by Bon Iver

There are approximately 1 million covers of Bon Iver'south "Skinny Dearest," only none of them hit your gut quite like 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, but cinematic in emotional scope. Throughout, Vernon's voice croaks and breaks, equally if he's struggling to go the words out.

"You're in a relationship because yous need help, simply that's non necessarily why youshould be in a human relationship. And that's skinny. It doesn't accept weight," Bon Iver's Justin Vernon told Pitchfork about the song. "Skinny dearest doesn't accept a hazard because it's not nourished.

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"Irreplaceable" by Beyoncé

Beyoncé prepare aside the delicate love songs with "Irreplaceable," a chart-topping ode to knowing your worth and non letting anyone try to lower information technology. 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 car that I bought you / Babe, drop them keys / Hurry upwardly before your taxi leaves," Beyoncé warns.

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"Drew Barrymore" past SZA

On "Drew Barrymore," SZA gets all psyched upwardly to run into someone at a political party, merely to find that they showed up with another girl. The song captures the whiplash of butterflies turning to stone in your stomach, as she sings achingly about how sometimes romance and disappointment tin feel as linked as hangovers and alcohol.

"It'due south difficult enough yous got to treat me similar this / Lonely plenty to allow yous treat me like this," SZA laments.

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"Fix You" by Coldplay

Written by Chris Martin as a tribute to his then-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow'due south tardily father, "Set up You" is one of Coldplay'due south most affecting songs in a discography filled with enough tearjerkers to alluvion a stadium. Though the song primarily deals with expiry 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 Man" by Bruno Mars

Few A-listers are equally adept at lost love ballads equally Bruno Mars, who has topped charts and fabricated eyes water with songs similar "Talking to the Moon," "It Will Pelting," and "When I Was Your Man." The latter is perhaps the all-time of the lot, inspired past '70s pianoforte ballads like The Commodores' "Still," and featuring one of Mars' most searing hooks.

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

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"Play a Sorry Song" past The Supremes

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

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"Alive With the Celebrity of Love" past Say Anything

Say Anything's "Alive With the Glory of Love" bristles not just with the urgency and desperation of young dearest, just because of its spooky backdrop. The song is about the relationship between singer Max Bemis' grandparents, who are Holocaust survivors, and their time hiding from the nazis.

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"Un-Pause My Heart" past Toni Braxton

The '90s were the aureate era of irksome jam ballads, and only a few songs captured that crying-in-a-rainstorm melodrama as well every bit Toni Braxton's "United nations-Break My Heart."

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

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"Your Manus Property Mine" by Xanthous Days

Yellowish Days' George  van den Broek was just 17 when he broke through with "Your Hand Holding Mine," but that's difficult to guess by the sound of his voice. Van den Broek has a commanding baritone, often likened to young man alt outsider King Krule.

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"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison

A quintessential '80s power ballad, what Poison'due south "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" lacks in subtlety information technology more than than makes up for with center-on-the-sleeve candor. Long earlier his reality show renaissance, Bret Michaels was giving his all to this raw chart-topper.

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"Wicked Games" past The Weeknd

Long earlier he was an A-lister large 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 striking was "Wicked Games," a fiery runway about 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 anxiety in a higher place the instrumentals dirty guitar and bass.

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

Most somber love songs come up from a singular perspective:I'minjure.Idon't beloved y'all anymore.Idon't want to be alone. What makes Gotye and Kimbra'due south "Somebody That I Used to Know" so singular and enduring is that it offers both perspectives on a failed human relationship, shifting vantage points in the middle to remind u.s.a. that even though we may demonize an ex, nosotros're rarely free of arraign.

And the vocal clearly resonated with fans, condign 1 of the most successfulHot 100entries ever, going viii-times platinum in the U.S., and turning the previously unknown Gotye into a star.

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"Giving Upwardly" by Whitney

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

A deviation from the sunnier sound of their debut album, "Giving Upward" all the same exists in the same land-soul-indie rock universe, with twangy guitars, dusty piano, and vocalizer 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 i of 2019'southward inescapable pop smashes. Tyler, the Creator originally wrote it to give to Justin Bieber, afterwards offering it to Rihanna, earlier ultimately claiming information technology for himself. It'southward hard to picture the song with anyone else on lead vocals. When he pleads, "Don't leave, information technology's my fault," the desperation is palpable.

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"when the party's over" by Billie Eilish

Some sad love songs are chiliad and sweeping, but Billie Eilish'southward "when the party's over" cuts in the consummate other direction. With hundreds of layers of vocal harmonies and Eilish'southward trademark hushed tones, the song feels like it'due south being sung into your ear from two inches abroad.

There's an almost religious quality to the lead melody and how information technology's accented 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-Gene" past Lauryn Hill

This song brings u.s. into the button-pull of a dysfunctional human relationship, one that often gets right up to the breaking point without ever crossing that concluding threshold.

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

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