25 love songs that will make you cry

Love is one of the main forces that move the world, a feeling that unites people and makes them want to stay together. Loving someone is one of the situations that generates the most emotions, and with the greatest intensity. And these emotions can range from the purest happiness to the deepest pain, something that has inspired numerous arts.

Among them is music, which most people use as a means of expressing their feelings, emotions and deepest thoughts about it. In this article we will review a short selection of 25 love songs (and heartbreak) that are touching.

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25 love songs

Next we will see a total of 25 songs that talk about love (and heartbreak) in very different ways: the feelings that the loved one, unrequited love, a breakup or the wish that it had not occurred or overcoming a relationship are some examples of it.

1. I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston)

A classic of romantic songs, in it Whitney Houston tells us about an immortal love that, however, must face its end.

It's a sad goodbye, in which the wish is expressed that the loved one do well in life and be happy, remaining her presence and the love that she has in her memory.

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2. Boig per tu (Sau)

A melancholic Catalan song that tells us about the feeling of being madly in love (literally boig per tu means crazy por tí in Spanish) of someone who does not correspond to us or in which the relationship is facing difficulties (a fight or even a breakup imminent).

3. Say Something (A Great Big World)

This song from 2014 tells us about a relationship that is failing, in which love has been lost and there is a lack of communication. A relationship in which one of the parties is still in love and that I would have done anything to maintain the bond, but that she is accepting that the time has come to say goodbye. A sensation that is also exemplified in the official video clip through an elderly couple in which she has died, a couple young man in which she decides to end the relationship in his absence and a girl who observes how her parents have a relationship destructive.

4. All of me (John Legend)

A relatively recent song, from 2013, in which the singer expresses his absolute love for the loved person, adoring everything about her, as well as the desire and emotion of giving and giving herself totally to each other the other.

5. Stay (Rihanna)

This song by Rihanna exemplifies the case of a couple that is about to separate, but both have strong feelings for their partner and deep down they would like the other to remain by their side.

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6. I don't want to miss a thing (Aerosmith)

Mythical and well-known song by Aerosmith that accompanied the movie Armageddon, and in which the desire not to miss anything in the relationship is expressed, wanting to make the most of every moment with the person you love and make each of them something eternal, since moving away makes the longing for every aspect of life emerge. she he.

7. Someone like you (Adele)

A well-known song by Adele that tells us about a finished relationship in which one of the parties see how the other has found happiness with a new partner, feeling a great sadness and melancholy towards what was and indicating to the new couple that he wishes him the better and not to worry that she will find someone who means as much to the singer as her ex-partner.

8. Give Me Love (Ed Sheeran)

Ed Sheeran has a large number of love songs in his repertoire. Among them are songs like Perfect or the present Give me love. In the latter, the singer asks for love, feeling alone at the same time as trying to remain in a relationship that no longer exists.

9. Total eclipse of the heart (Bonnie Tyler)

Known song by Bonnie Tyler that expresses the strength of a love which has been maintained for a long time, and the desire and need to preserve it and/or recover the intensity of what our partner did to us feel.

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10. La vie en rose (Edith Piaf)

The prodigious voice of the French singer makes this song one of the most romantic, telling us about how the interaction with the loved one, the contact of his his voice, his skin or simply his image makes our hearts race happily and allows us to see the world as something beautiful.

11. Up where we belong (Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes)

This song, which was chosen as the central theme of the well-known film Officer and a Gentleman, tells us about the love and how it leads us to our destination, overcoming the difficulties that exist along the way to get get together to the place where we belong.

12. With or without you (U2)

Song of the band U2 that expresses the impossibility of living both with the loved one and without it, referring to a stormy relationship that leaves the person confused, on the one hand wanting more and on the other wanting to run away from it.

13. When a man loves a woman (Percy Sledge)

This ancient song, which has been interpreted by many artists since then, expresses different sensations and feelings of those who He sings it about a woman he is in love with, as well as how love makes everything else unimportant.

14. Without You (Mariah Carey)

Classic song that expresses the pain and suffering at the idea that a relationship is ending, the knowledge that the flame is going out and that there is no turning back despite the refusal to forget how important that person has been to us.

15. Take my breath away (Berlin)

When we are in love it is not uncommon to feel that just seeing that person takes our breath away. This song tells us about those feelings that the loved one causes us, or the simple wish that someone awakens that feeling in us.

16. Perfect (Ed Sheeran)

Ballad in which love is expressed towards a person who is special and unique for us, who brings together everything we always want and that we do not believe we deserve. The desire to have that person in our arms. Someone who, while not perfect or perfect, is for us and with whom we dream of having a future.

17. Can't help falling in love (Elvis Presley)

One of the best known songs by Elvis Presley, the singer tells us how he couldn't help but fall in love, and how she wants to share her life with the person who makes her feel that way even though it is rash.

18. Angie (The Rolling Stones)

The Rolling Stones has great songs, being one of those dedicated to love "Angie". In it we are told how despite Angie is a wonderful person, love and the relationship are increasingly deteriorating. Basically it is reminiscent of a conversation prior to a sentimental breakup, in which a review is made of what the relationship has meant and that the time has come to say goodbye.

19. I was love to love you (Queen)

Freddy Mercury also has to his credit a large number of songs dedicated to love. Among them we find I was born to love you, in which she expresses her desire to have something with that person that makes her think that she was born to love her.

20. Summertime Sadness (Lana del Rey)

This song by Lana del Rey is not particularly popular, and after it has been performed and remixed by other authors, but the truth is that it reflects a lesbian love story with tragic final. It is a farewell to the suicide of one of the components of the couple, remembering the one that remains alive all that it has meant to her before undertaking the same action.

21. Woman against woman (Meccano)

A song that refers to the suffering of a couple of women, one of them fearing the repercussions and the social judgment that they would suffer if their relationship became visible. It reflects fear and the need to break through and live love regardless of the opinion of others.

22. When I Was Your Man (Bruno Mars)

Melancholic song by Bruno Mars, in which he remembers the mistakes he made during his relationship with his partner and her wish that, even though she is no longer with him but has found another partner, he values ​​her and does for her what the singer did not do at her time: make her happy.

23. Stay with me (Sam Smith)

Song that tells us about a relationship in which one of the parties has a vision of the relationship as something sporadic or temporary, while the other would like it to stay with it. Although generally associated with romantic love, the truth is that it can be applied to a large number of types of relationships.

24. Angels (Robbie Williams)

Another of the authors with a large number of songs dedicated to love is Robbie Williams, author of songs like Feel or the present Angels. In the latter the singer talk about the importance of love, of having someone to love or an ideal of love, when it comes to feeling strong, safe and sustained.

25. The Scientist (Coldplay)

Coldplay song that refers to the self-reproach that a person makes for not having taken advantage of the relationship and the desire to return to the beginning, when everything was beginning, it was exciting and it was going well.