UNREQUITED LOVE SONGS

[Vexed]

How about the "other" love song. Not about breakups or lost loves, but the love that is not returned.

My first choice would be a beautiful love song that most people may not think of as unrequited. 

"Cherish" - The Association

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCfKvuh_uq8

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could hold you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could mold you
Into someone who could cherish me as much as I cherish you

[Winter2025VA]

I Can’t Make You Love Me. Song by Bonnie Raitt ‧ 1991.

➡️[*** … '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.

[Vexed]

  Aubrey - Bread

And Aubrey was her name
I never knew her, but I loved her just the same
I loved her name
Wish that I had found the way
And the reasons that would make her stay
I have learned to lead a life apart from all the rest
If I can't have the one I want, I'll do without the best

[BeatleloverKT]

Misty blue, Dorothy Moore

[BeatleloverKT]

I’d rather go blind, Etta James

[BeatleloverKT]

Live again, Irma Thomas

[1968Hoya46]

She's Everything: Ral Donner

[Winter2025VA]

@Vexed , thanks for the memories. Has been way too many years since I heard this!!! Nicole 💛

➡️[*** 

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@Vexed wrote:

How about the "other" love song. Not about breakups or lost loves, but the love that is not returned.

My first choice would be a beautiful love song that most people may not think of as unrequited. 

"Cherish" - The Association

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCfKvuh_uq8

Cherish is the word I use to describe
All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside
You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could hold you
You don't know how many times I've wished that I could mold you
Into someone who could cherish me as much as I cherish you.

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[BeatleloverKT]

Nothing compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor 

RIP 🎼💜

[BeatleloverKT]

What you’re doing, Dan Fogelberg 

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Sometimes"  ♫  Gene Thomas {61}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9WV-3iSUOg&ab_channel=Discofelsi

[BeatleloverKT]

As the raven flies, Dan Fogelberg 

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Mission Bell"  🔔  Donnie Brooks {60}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaMZAAYc0IQ&ab_channel=TiborTakac

[millineutron]

Creep -- Radiohead

(Unrequited love from a psycho stalker perspective)

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Send Me Some Lovin'  📨  Sam Cooke {63}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oBiIZPhVg&ab_channel=The45Prof

[BeatleloverKT]

Never be the same, Christopher Cross

[1968Hoya46]

To Love Somebody: Bee Gees  (You don't know what it's like...)

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Triangle"  ▲ Janie Grant {61}

teenage angst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ber1K60Ina0&ab_channel=MarvinCassio

[BeatleloverKT]

  Need you now, Lady A

[1968Hoya46]

I'll Be There: Gerry & The Pacemakers    (This poor guy knows she doesn't love him, and never will, but he's content to be there for her when her relationships blow up. Unrequited love songs are invariably sad because they never have happy endings).

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Born Too Late"  👶  PoniTails {58}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co07rq8E4u8&ab_channel=MIKEMUNROW%27SRETRO

[BeatleloverKT]

Superstar, Carpenters

[BeatleloverKT]

Don’t say you don’t remember, Beverly Bremer

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Tell Him" 😶 Patti Drew {67}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqEJVjmnis&ab_channel=Ariadnimusiclover

[BeatleloverKT]

Too many fish in the sea, Marvelettes 

[ripvanwinkle96]

"The Last Song"  🎼  Edward Bear {73}

love withdrawals video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUO4BGxA6Gs&ab_channel=DJBuddyBoca

[BeatleloverKT]

Till death do us part, Madonna

[1968Hoya46]

Build Me Up Buttercup: Foundations

[BeatleloverKT]

Smile a little smile for me, Flying Machine

[1968Hoya46]

You'll Never, Never Know: Platters