The English-language stage performed many sad love songs. The creativity of foreign singers and singers gained popularity thanks to the talent of the performers, dramatic stories based on real events, glorified feelings: unhappy love, the pain of parting with loved ones and other sincere experiences.
Celine Dion, Goodbye
The song is dedicated to the love of the mother. It talks about that sad and inevitable day when this dear and close person will pass away. The singer also recalls childhood and motherly love and care.
Evan McGregor, El Tango de Roxanne
The song tells about the unrequited love of a man for a woman of easy virtue. He would like to change her life, but he cannot do this, since she does not want to give up her vicious lifestyle.
James Blunt, Goodbye My lover
This song is about parting with a beloved woman. Although the hero of a piece of music feels that he has been used like a toy and abandoned, he does not regret his relationship. But parting is always sad, because so many good things could be in life: children, for many years together.
Guns and Roses, Don’t Cry
This is a very famous rock love ballad. It tells the story of how the main character consoles his beloved girl at the moment of separation. According to the authors, the song was written under the influence of the words of a girl with whom one of them was in love. The singer found himself inside a love triangle. He wanted to get reciprocity from the girl, but she was dating his friend.
At the moment of declaring his love, the author burst into tears, and the girl told him: "Don't cry." These words served as the title for the song.
Madonna, This Used to Be My Playground
This beautiful and sad ballad tells about nostalgia for childhood, about the first, still quite childish love, when you could dream, play, and where you could find friends. The heroine cannot completely say goodbye to that age and often recalls the past. Its values are in conflict with the values of the surrounding world, which requires never to look back, prioritizes future and life experience.
Simply Red, Stars
This song is dedicated to the girl with whom the main character is unrequitedly in love. He would like to be by her side, but is afraid of all the pain she has caused him. In his dreams, he falls to her from the stars and falls into her arms.
Nazareth, Love Hurts
This rock ballad was once a European hit. It tells about unhappy love, full of suffering and pain. The performer compares love with a burning fire and with a cloud that is about to burst into rain.
Scorpions, Still Loving You
This is the case when an impeccably selected melody to uncomplicated words brought the group worldwide popularity. The rock ballad tells about the complexities of interpersonal relationships. The main character of the song makes a mistake, and the girl cannot forgive him. He begs her to give him another chance and keep the relationship. But her pride gets in the way.
Sting, Englishman in New York
The song tells about the hardships of life abroad and love for the homeland. The Englishman moves to New York, where his habits look strange and alien, and even the English language sounds different. The person feels like a foreigner. He finds it difficult to adapt to life in another country, going through the difficult process of immigration, retaining love for his homeland.
Sinead O'Connor, Nothing Compares to U
The song talks about the difficulties in the relationship between a man and a woman. The heroine is experiencing parting with her beloved, but cannot forget him. This song is a plea for the opportunity to start all over again.
Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven
An interesting story is the song that Eric Clapton dedicated to his deceased son. A four-year-old boy fell out of a skyscraper window in New York. The author believes that there is life in heaven on the other side. This song is a premonition of a future meeting in the afterlife.
Tears in Heaven helped the singer survive the tragic event, becoming a kind of therapy. This song is an expression of the most sincere love of a father for his child.
Phil Collins, Another Day in Paradise
The song is dedicated to a street tramp, and it sings about the indifference of the world around. The author does not reveal the name of the homeless person, but assumes that she went through fire, water and copper pipes and experienced a lot of grief in life. The singer calls for pity and condescension in relation to the humiliated and rejected. This song is about love in the universal human sense of the word, about love-compassion, love-mercy.
