Most heartbreaking lyrics

Share with the rest of us the lyrics you find to be most heartbreaking.

For me it's this one. No matter my mood, I'll choke up each time I listen to it. The lead singer wrote this song for a good friend of theirs, whose fiancee committed suicide. "Briane" is the singer's interpretation of the girl's apology letter from the other side to her man. Gets to me even more because this time last year I was suicidal myself, and thinking about how that would've affected a certain boy in my life completely breaks my heart.

You’re ashamed about all your fears and doubts

All we have left is goodbye

Here's the acoustic version, even more beautiful than the studio one.

And to make it astrologically relevant lol, lead singer/piano/guitarist Alejandro (center) is a Libra. Bass/percussion player Daniel (left) is a Libra (that's what a looksmaxing Filipino sexy beast looks like), guitarist Fabian (right) is a Cancer.

Peter Gabriel's "I Grieve":

It was only one hour ago

It was all so different then

Nothing yet has really sunk in

Looks like it always did

This flesh and bone

Is just the way that we are tied in

But there's no one home

I grieve, for you

You leave, me

So hard to move on

Still loving what's gone

They say life carries on

Carries on and on and on and on

The news that truly shocks

Is the empty, empty page

While the final rattle rocks

It's empty, empty cage

And I can't handle this

I grieve, for you

You leave, me

Let it out and move on

Missing what's gone

They say life carries on

They say life carries on and on and on

Life carries on in the people I meet

In everyone that's out on the street

In all the dogs and cats

In the flies and rats

In the rot and the rust

In the ashes and the dust

Life carries on and on and on and on

Life carries on and on and on

Life carries on and on and on and on

Life carries on and on and on

Just the car that we ride in

The home we reside in

The face that we hide in

The way we are tied in

As life carries on and on and on and on

Life carries on and on and on

Did I dream this belief

Or did I believe this dream?

Now I will find relief

I grieve

I have never known peace

Like the damp grass that yields to me

I have never known hunger

Like these insects that feast on me

A thousand teeth

And yours among them, I know

Our hungers appeased

Our heartbeats becoming slow

We lay here for years or for hours

Thrown here or found

To freeze or to thaw

So long we become the flowers

Two corpses we were

Two corpses I saw

And they'd find us in a week

When the weather gets hot

After the insects have made their claim

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

I have never known sleep

Like the slumber that creeps to me

I have never known color

Like this morning reveals to me

And you haven't moved an inch

Such that I would not know

If you sleep always like this

The flesh calmly going cold

We lay here for years or for hours

Your hand in my hand

So still and discreet

So long we become the flowers

We'd feed well the land

And worry the sheep

And they'd find us in a week

When the cattle show fear

After the insects have made their claim

After the foxes have known our taste

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

They'd find us in a week (Lay here for years or for hours)

When the weather gets hot (So long we become the flowers)

They'd find us in a week (Lay here for years or for hours)

When the cattle shows fear (So long we become the flowers)

And they'd find us in a week

When the buzzards get loud

After the insects have made their claim

After the foxes have known our taste

After the raven has had its say

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

I'd be home with you

"Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Jeff Buckley

Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners

Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water

And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong

But tonight you're on my mind so you never know

When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it

Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun

And much too blind to see the damage he's done

Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one

So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn

Will I ever see your sweet return

Oh will I ever learn

Oh lover, you should've come over

'Cause it's not too late

Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in

Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him

My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come

It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder

It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her

It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter

It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

Well maybe i'm just too young

To keep good love from going wrong

Oh... lover, you should've come over

'Cause it's not too late

Well I feel too young to hold on

And i'm much too old to break free and run

Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done

Sweet lover, you should've come over

Oh, love well i'm waiting for you

Lover, you should've come over

'Cause it's not too late

Am I better off dead?

Am I better off a quitter?

They say I'm better off now

Then I ever was with her

As they take me to my local down the street

I'm smiling but I'm dying trying not to drag my feet

They say a few drinks will help me to forget her

But after one too many I know that I'm never

Only they can see where this is gonna end

But they all think I'm crazy but to me it's perfect sense

And my mates are all there trying to calm me down

'Cause I'm shouting your name all over the town

I'm swearing if I go there now

I can change her mind turn it all around

And I know that I'm drunk but I'll say the words

And she'll listen this time even though they're slurred

Dialed her number and confessed to her

I'm still in love but all I heard

Was nothing

***RIGHT HERE***

So I stumble there, along the railings and the fences

I know if I faced her face, that she'll come to her senses

Every drunk step I take leads me to her door

If she sees how much I'm hurting, she'll take me back for sure

***RIGHT HERE***

And my mates are all there trying to calm me down

'Cause I'm shouting your name all over the town

I'm swearing if I go there now

I can change her mind turn it all around

And I know that I'm drunk but I'll say the words

And she'll listen this time even though they're slurred

Dialed her number and confessed to her

I'm still in love but all I heard

Was nothing

She said nothing

Oh, I wanted words but all I heard was nothing

Oh, I got nothing

Oh, I got nothing

Oh, I wanted words but all I heard was nothing

Oh, sometimes love's intoxicating

Oh, you're coming down, your hands are shaking

When you realize there's no one waiting

Am I better off dead?

Am I better off a quitter?

They say I'm better off now

Than I ever was with her

And my mates are all there trying to calm me down

'Cause I'm shouting your name all over the town

I'm swearing if I go there now

I can change her mind turn it all around

And I know that I'm drunk but I'll say the words

And she'll listen this time even though they're slurred

Dialed her number and confessed to her

I'm still in love but all I heard

Was nothing

She said nothing

Oh, I wanted words but all I heard was nothing

Oh, I got nothing

I got nothing

I wanted words but all I heard was nothing

Oh I got nothing

I got nothing

I got nothing

I got nothing

Beloved Wife

You were the love

For certain of my life

You were simply my beloved wife

I don't know for certain

How I'll live my life

Now alone without my beloved wife

My beloved wife

Oh, I... can't believe

I've lost the very best of me

(x2)

For fifty years simply my beloved wife

With another love I'll never lie again

It's you I can't deny

It's you I can't defy

A depth so deep.. into my grief

Without my beloved soul

I renounce my life

As my right

Now alone without my beloved wife

My beloved wife

My beloved wife

My love is gone she suffered long

In hours of pain

My love is gone

Now my suffering begins

My love is gone

Would it be wrong if I should

Surrender all the joy in my life

Go with her tonight?

My love is gone she suffered long

In hours of pain

My love is gone

Would it be wrong if I should

Just turn my face away from the light

Go with her tonight?

😭 ... heartbreaking

Putting all the usual relationship cheese aside, this is Sufjan Stevens in the wake of losing his estranged mother to stomach cancer in 2012. It is probably the song that makes me appreciate every moment I have with loved ones moreso than any piece of poetry I've read.

My baby's gone and I don't know why

She let out this morning

Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky

She left me without warning

Sooner than the dogs could bark

And faster than the sun rose

Down to the banks on an old mule car

She took a flatboat across the shallow

She left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river's wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

Tobacco standing in the fields

Be rotten come November

And a bitter heart will not reveal

A spring that love remembers

When that sweet brown girl of mine

Hair black as a raven

We broke the bread and drank the wine

From a jug that she'd been saving

She left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river's wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

Baby's crying and the daylight's gone

That big oak tree is groaning

In a rush of wind and a river of song

I can hear my true love moaning

Crying for her baby child

Or crying for her husband

Crying for that river's wild

To take her from her loved ones

She left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the river's wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

Now the river's wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters

Love is a wild animal

It breathes you it looks for you

It nests upon broken hearts

and goes hunting when there are kisses and candles

It sucks tightly on your lips

and digs tunnels through your ribs

It drops softly like snow

First it gets hot then cold in the end it hurts

Amour Amour

Everyone just wants to tame you

Amour Amour in the end

caught between your teeth

Love is a wild animal

It bites and scratches and kicks towards me

It holds me tightly with a thousand arms

and drags me into its love nest

It devours me completely

and retches me back out after many years

It drops softly like snow

First it gets hot then cold in the end it hurts

Amour Amour

Everyone just wants to tame you

Amour Amour in the end

caught between your teeth

Love is a wild animal

You fall into its trap

It stares into your eyes

Spellbound when its gaze hits you

Please please give me poison

The last part (bolded) of the final verse (verse 3) is what chokes me up:

[Verse 3 - G-Eazy:]

In that first grade class they came and got me

"Your mom's outside, say goodbye now to everybody"

U-Haul was waiting with all of her things

At least what she could pack

In the time my dad's at work and before he came back

Way to young to comprehend what was happening

"Are we going to grandma's? When are we coming back again?"

Little did I know that we were leaving him by himself

And ten years would pass before Mom sees anybody else

Just us, in middle school I ain't understand

Who Melissa was and why she wasn't another man

Biased and confused they try to explain but nobody can

Wanted what I thought was normal, she had another plan

Such is life, even if it took time for me to accept it

No longer Dad now, but a woman with whom she slept with

Or for the years when a secret was how she kept it

I ain't get it, admittedly I was skeptic

I came around, happiness I see's what you may have found

And that's what's most important

I don’t wanna see you breaking down

I wanna see you smile, I don't wanna see you make a frown

If she loves you, then that's all anybody needs maybe now

By '05 things had gotten worse

Moved to the basement, deep depressions a rotten curse

Hiding in a dark space, her mind and her body hurts

Becoming more reclusive and the pills should have been alerts

So the worse it got, I became more and more afraid

Until one night, I went into that room, on the floor she laid

While in her life you made her happy, thank you for the blessing

It's a classic :

Hold up

Hold on

Don't be scared

You'll never change what's been and gone

May your smile (may your smile)

Shine on (shine on)

Don't be scared (don't be scared)

Your destiny may keep you warm

'Cause all of the stars

Are fading away

Just try not to worry

You'll see them some day

Take what you need

And be on your way

And stop crying your heart out

Get up (get up)

Come on (come on)

Why're you scared? (I'm not scared)

You'll never change

What's been and gone

'Cause all of the stars

Are fading away

Just try not to worry

You'll see them some day

Take what you need

And be on your way

And stop crying your heart out

'Cause all of the stars

Are fading away

Just try not to worry

You'll see them some day

Take what you need

And be on your way

And stop crying your heart out

We're all of us stars

We're fading away

Just try not to worry

You'll see us some day

Just take what you need

And be on your way

And stop crying your heart out

Stop crying your heart out

Stop crying your heart out

Stop crying your heart out

I should have known better

To see what I could see

My black shroud

Holding down my feelings

A pillar for my enemies

I should have wrote a letter

And grieve what I happen to grieve

My black shroud

I never trust my feelings

I waited for the remedy

When I was three, three maybe four

She left us at that video store

Be my rest, be my fantasy

Be my rest, be my fantasy

I’m light as a feather

I’m bright as the Oregon breeze

My black shroud

Frightened by my feelings

I only wanna be a relief

No, I’m not a go-getter

The demon had a spell on me

My black shroud

Captain of my feelings

The only thing I wanna believe

When I was three, and free to explore

I saw her face on the back of the door

Be my rest, be my fantasy

Be my rest, be my fantasy

I should have known better

Nothing can be changed

The past is still the past

The bridge to nowhere

I should have wrote a letter

Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing

The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting

My brother had a daughter

The beauty that she brings, illumination

Don’t back down, there is nothing left

The breakers in the bar, no reason to live

I’m a fool in the fetter

Rose of Aaron’s beard, where you can reach me

Don’t back down, nothing can be changed

Cantilever bridge, the drunken sailor

My brother had a daughter

The beauty that she brings, illumination

Almost anything by Sufjan really...:

Goldenrod and the 4H stone

The things I brought you when I found out

You had cancer of the bone

Your father cried on the telephone

And he drove his car into the Navy yard

Just to prove that he was sorry

In the morning, through the window shade

When the light pressed up against your shoulderblade

I could see what you were reading

All the glory that the Lord has made

And the complications you could do without

When I kissed you on the mouth

Tuesday night at the Bible study

We lift our hands and pray over your body

But nothing ever happens

I remember at Michael's house

In the living room when you kissed my neck

And I almost touched your blouse

In the morning at the top of the stairs

When your father found out what we did that night

And you told me you were scared

All the glory when you ran outside

With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied

And you told me not to follow you

Sunday night when I cleaned the house

I found the card where you wrote it out

With the pictures of your mother

On the floor at the great divide

With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied

I am crying in the bathroom

In the morning when you finally go

And the nurse runs in with her head hung low

And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade

On the first of March, on the holiday

I thought I saw you breathing

All the glory that the Lord has made

And the complications when I see His face

In the morning in the window

All the glory when He took our place

But He took my shoulders and He shook my face

And He takes and He takes and He takes

1)The script -breakeven

What am i supposed to do when the best part of me was always you? ...im falling to pieces

I Can't Make You Love Me - Tank

I'll close my eyes

Then I won't see

The love you don't feel

When you're holding 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

Somethin it won't

Here in the dark

In these final hours

I will lay down my heart

And feel the power if you want

No you won't

Bury me softly in this womb

I give this part of me for you

Sand rains down and here I sit

Holding rare flowers

In a tomb... in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved

See my heart I decorate it like a grave

Oh, you don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be

Look at me now I'm a man who won't let himself be

Down in a hole, feeling so small

Down in a hole, losing my soul

I'd like to fly,

But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they've put all the stones in their place

I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned of the taste

I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth

I will speak no more of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feeling so small

Down in a hole, losing my soul

I'd like to fly

But my wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb

Oh I want to be inside of you

I give this part of me for you

Oh I want to be inside of you

Sand rains down and here I sit

Holding rare flowers

Oh I want to be inside of you

In a tomb... in bloom

Oh I want to be inside...

Down in a hole, feeling so small

Down in a hole, losing my soul

Down in a hole, feeling so small

Down in a hole, out of control

I'd like to fly

But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole by AIC

He left no time to regret

Kept his dick wet

With his same old safe bet

Me and my head high

And my tears dry

Get on without my guyYou went back to what you knew

So far removed

From all that we went through

And I tread a troubled track

My odds are stackedI'll go back to black

We only said goodbye with words

I died a hundred times

You go back to her

And I go back toI go back to... us

I love you much

It's not enough

You love blow and I love puff

And life is like a pipeAnd I'm a tiny penny

Rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words

I died a hundred timesYou go back to her

And I go back to

We only said goodbye with words

I died a hundred timesYou go back to her

And I go back to

Black, black, black, black

Meet you downstairs in the bar and hurt,

Your rolled up sleeves in your skull t-shirt,

You say "what did you do with him today?",

And sniffed me out like I was Tanqueray,

'Cause you're my fella, my guy,

Hand me your stella and fly,

By the time I'm out the door,

You tear men down like Roger Moore,I cheated myself,

Like I knew I would,

I told you I was trouble,

You know that I'm no good,

Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain,

We're like how we were again,

I'm in the tub, you on the seat,

Lick your lips as I soak my feet,

Then you notice little carpet burn,

My stomach drops and my guts churn,

You shrug and it's the worst,

Who truly stuck the knife in firstI cheated myself,

Like I knew I would

I told you I was trouble,

You know that I'm no good,I cheated myself,

Like I knew I would

I told you I was trouble,

Yeah, you know that I'm no good.