'i cant make you love me' is the saddest song i've ever heard. i love it but i cant listen to it too many times or it will reduce me to tears

Turn down the lights
Turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me.
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't.
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holdin me
Mornin will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight.
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't.

i forgot about the version johnny cash did of 'hurt'

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I feel some songs more deeply than others... But here are a few sad ones that resonate...

I Can't Get Over You - Gap Band
Tick Tock - Raphael Saadiq
I'm Just Wanting You - Jesse Johnson
Human - Human League
Promises Can Break - The System
Truth Hurts - Usher
Let Me kNow - Tony! Toni! Tone'!
Do What I Gotta Do - Ralph Tresvant
Changed - Maxwell
The Root - D'Angelo
Wasted Time - MeShell NdegeOcello
Tangerine - Prince
Somebody's Somebody - Prince
Thinkin' Bout Love - Karyn White

...and so many more.

wasted kisses - Prince the artist

bobsteezy said:

bobsteezy said:

uhh which album was this song on?

17 days

missfee said:

It is from House of Music (1996). ...Written by Raphael Saadiq & "Spanky" (his guitar is perfect).

I Cried For You by Katie Melua - heartbreaking but also stunningly beautiful

"As tears goes by" the rolling stones
"Mother" John Lennon

Carole King - Almost the whole tapestry album

Tomorrow is a Long Time--Bob Dylan

If today was not an endless highway,
If tonight was not a crooked trail,
If tomorrow wasn't such a long time,
Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',
Only if she was lyin' by me,
Then I'd lie in my bed once again.

I can't see my reflection in the waters,
I can't speak the sounds that show no pain,
I can't hear the echo of my footsteps,
Or can't remember the sound of my own name.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',
Only if she was lyin' by me,
Then I'd lie in my bed once again.

There's beauty in the silver, singin' river,
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky,
But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty
That I remember in my true love's eyes.
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',
Only if she was lyin' by me,
Then I'd lie in my bed once again.

bobsteezy said:

I have all of 3T's albums, i guess i can't quite get the tune in my head of this song...

missfee said:

...But I love you still
And I always will
And if you want to go
Baby just let me know

bridge;
Girl I tried so hard
to works things out
But there's no one to blame
Cause neither one of us was wrong.
You see I'm too far gone
And I'm still holding on

If you believe in me
Like I believe in you
Baby if you still want me
The let it show

let it show...


...spanky plays the blues, and a Kelvin Wooten string arrangment takes flight.

...Ringing a bell yet?
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bobsteezy said:

OHHHH MY GOODNESS, I REMEMBER IT NOW!!!

"Cats In The Cradle". It makes me think about how fast my young son is growing up. And "My Place In This World" By Michael W. Smith for personal reasons.

Stevie Wonder ---> These Three Words

For some reason Sly's Hot Fun In The Summertime makes me sad

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Vanessa Williams - "Dreamin'" has me in tears sometimes because at one point i could totally relate to that song.
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Tori Amos: Tear in Your Hand, China, A Sorta Fairytale, Bells For Her, Winter, iieee, Northern lad

Erykah: Green Eyes, 2000 AD

Janet: Come Back to Me, Anything

Metallica: Mama Said, The Unforgiven

Pink Floyd: Any coulour you like

Michael: Stranger in Moscow

Madonna: Promise To Try, In this Life, Love Tried to Welcome Me

Sam Cooke - "A Change is Gonna Come"

Donny Hathaway - "A Song For You"

Hanson Broken Angel
George Benson Everything Must Change
Phyllis Hyman Living All Alone
MeShell Ndegeocello Fool of Me
Lalah Hathaway I Gotta Move On
MeShell Nedegeocello Aquarium

The Story - In the Gloaming

Jonatha Brooke - Inconsolable

Patty Griffith - Living with Ghosts

Dido - White Flag

John Mayer - Wheel, Comfortable

Donny Hathaway - Giving Up

Rahsaan Patterson - The Best

Meshell -- all of "Bitter."

India.Arie -- Heart of the Matter

Stevie Wonder -- I Never Thought You'd Leave in Summer

Jump - Mexico

Alana Davis - Lonesome Road

Mariah Carey - Butterfly

Saves the Day - Wednesday the Third

Dave Matthews - Stay or Leave

and about a hundred others...

Hmm, a few more...

Boyz II Men - Four Seasons of Loneliness

Sweetback - Hope She'll Be Happier

Sting - Ghost Story


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brownsugar said:

Very sad song.

Some that make me really sad:

"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" Al Green

"When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" Marvin Gaye

"What A Wonderful World" Louis Armstrong

"Johnny Was" Bob & The Wailers

John Mayer - Stop this train

brownsugar said:

Yes this song is depressing...but great...I love Bonnie Raitt's version the best.

ThreadBare said:

Big CO-sign!

that song 'something in the past' by one way is pretty sad to.

so far away-carol king

its too late-carol king

i love 'tears in heaven' the acoustic version by eric clapton too