Mar 26 2009 10:57 PM ET

What's the most heartbreaking song of all time?

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  • Crystal

    Eleanor Rigby, followed closely and depressively by Exit Music by Radiohead.

  • hwass

    ALthough I am not a country fan, Colin Raye (?)’s Love Me.

  • Crystal

    Oh, damn. Someone else said “Tears In Heaven.” Good call.

  • shdrew

    I’m going to be showing my age with this one, but for me the most heartbreaking song is Paul Davis’s song “I Go Crazy”. The line “just when I thought I was over you, I see your face and it just ain’t true” kills me every time.

  • Joe C

    ‘I will Always Love You’ by Dolly Parton. Perfect lyrics, melody, arrangement, and vocal.

  • Anonymous

    “Sign Your Name” by Terence Trent D’Arby, hands down.

  • mk

    Long Long Time – Linda Ronstadt
    Ghost in this House – Alison Krauss & Union Station

  • enochbeck

    Sand and Water by Beth Nielsen Chapman
    Last Song for Mother by Nanci Griffith
    Each one reduces me to tears every time…

  • kaydeedee

    “He Stopped Loving Her Today” by George Jones. Breaks my heart every time I hear it.

  • Ellie

    “The Scientist” -Coldplay

  • treee

    fire and rain by james taylor. when you know the background story its just terribly sad.
    signs by block party makes me cry almost every time.

  • treee

    ooh tears in heaven – good call.

  • Brad

    That’s pretty much all I listen to…..
    John Wayne Gacy Jr- Sufjan Stevens
    Good Woman- Cat Power
    Angel- Sarah McLaughlin
    I am ready- Counting Crows
    Delicate- Damien Rice
    etc.

  • stall

    Putting the Damage On–Tori Amos
    “I’m trying not to move/it’s just your ghost passing through”
    or
    A Case of You–Joni Mitchell

  • fredric

    “Communication” by The Cardigans

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