Love
Updated November 20, 2021
Music is powerful. It's one of the few things that can capture emotion so strongly. Those few minutes of a song can transport you to a completely different time. Music can bring joy, it can bring sadness, or it can bring back some of the sweetest memories.
There are songs and genres of music for every situation: whether you're falling in love, happy about a season, getting over a breakup, mourning a death, or living your life to the fullest, there's a music you can find that matches your life situation. Country, pop, rock, hip-hop, R and B, electronic music, indie: each genre has its own unique characteristics that appeal to different people.
We at Serenis have compiled a list of 50 song lyrics about relationships and heartbreak that we've loved.
On love:
- "And I can't help but declare, cause I see the truth somewhere in your eyes". – Justin Timberlake
- "As a river surely flows to the sea, honey, so it goes, some things are meant to be. Take my hand, take my whole life too, cause I can't help but fall in love with you". – Elvis Presley
- "Take my love. I can never ask for too much. Just everything you are. And everything you do". – Whitney Houston
- "These fancy things will never get in the way. You're part of my entity, here for infinity". – Rihanna
- "I think of you in my sleepless loneliness tonight, if it's wrong to love you then my heart won't let me be right". – Mariah Carey
- "Love is all you need". – The Beatles
- "Because everything about me loves everything about you. Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections". – John Legend
- "Throughout my life. I never loved anyone but you". – The Supremes
- "And when you smile The whole world stops and stares for a while. Because girl you are amazing. Just the way you are". – Bruno Mars
- "Take me into your heart. Cause that's where I belong. And I will never part". – Elvis Presley
- "Well I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know. She shares my dreams, I hope one day I'll share her home". – Ed Sheeran
- "Why do birds suddenly appear, whenever you're near? Just like me, they long to be close to you". The Carpenters
- "Baby it's you. You're the one I love, you're the one I need, you're the only one I see". – BeyoncĂ©
- "You've been my inspiration. Through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.". – Celine Dion
- "Before the day I met you, life was so unkind. But you are the key to my peace of mind". – Aretha Franklin
- "But nothing is greater, than the rush that comes from your embrace". – Leona Lewis
- "Until tonight I only dreamed of you. I can't believe I ever breathed without you. Baby, you make me feel alive and brand new". – Kelly Clarkson
- "Hold me, love me, hold me, love me. Ain't got nothin' but love babe, Eight days a week". – The Beatles
- "Sharing horizons that are new to us
Looking at the signs along the way
Speaking, just the two of us
Working together day by day
Together
And when evening comes, we smile
So much life ahead of us
We'll find a place where there's room to grow
And yes, we're just getting started.". – The Carpenters
- "I knew I loved you before I met you. I've waited all my life". – Savage Garden
- "Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, I'll miss you tomorrow, remember I'll always be true. And then, while I'm gone, I'll write home every day, and send you all my love". – The Beatles
- "I'm on top of the world watching, down in creation and the only explanation I can find, is the love I've found since you've been there – your love has put me on top of the world". – The Carpenters
- "Because after all these years. I still feel everything when you're near". – Camila Cabello
- "Some people just want it all. But it all means nothing. If I don't have you, yes". – Alicia Keys
- "You're still the one I run to/ The one I belong to/ You're still the one I want for life" – Shania Twain
On the heartbreak:
- "I've loved and I've lost, but that's not what I see. So look what I got. Look what you taught me. And for that, I say, thank you, next". – Ariana Grande
- "We found each other. I helped you out of a broken place. You gave me comfort, but falling in love with you was my mistake". – The Weekend
- "I thought I'd been hurt before, but no one has ever left me so hurt. Your words cut deeper than a knife. Now I need someone to bring me back to life". – Shawn Mendes
- "Oh, you broke my heart. I told you I was weak for love, but then you went around and did what you wanted to do, and now I'm crying". – Miley Cyrus
- "You told me I'm not enough, yes. And left me with a broken heart, yes. She fooled me twice and it's all my fault, yeah. He cut too deep, now he's left me with a scar". – Post Malone
- "How come I never heard you say, I just want to be with you? I guess you've never felt this way, but since you left, I can breathe for the first time. I'm moving on". – Kelly Clarkson
- "Yesterday love was such an easy game to play, now I need a place to hide. Oh, I believe in yesterday". – The Beatles
- "And the truth is I miss you. And the truth is I'm lying. When you see my face, I hope it gives you hell". – The All-American Rejects
- "You thought I'd be weak without you, but I'm stronger. You thought I'd be broke without you, but I'm richer. You thought I'd be sad without you, but I love more". – Destiny's Child
- "Now, here comes the hardest part of all. Dissolve my clinging heart. How I start living my life alone?" – Mikaila
- "I think I'll be sad, I think it's today, yeah. The guy who's driving me crazy is leaving, yeah. She's got a ticket to ride… Has a ticket to ride, and he don't care."The Carpenters
- "When night falls, and I stand there with my thoughts, and the image of you being with someone else, well, it eats me up inside, but we've run our course, we've pretended to be okay". – Marshmello and Bastille
- "I still don't know how to act, I don't know what to say. I still carry the scars like it was yesterday, but you're long gone and you've moved on. But I don't know where to start yet, I'm still finding my way. I still talk about you like it was yesterday, but you're long gone and you've moved on". – The Script
- "You only know you love her when you let her go". – Passenger
- "You don't need to know about me. You don't need to know about me. I can have another you by tomorrow. So don't think for a second that you're irreplaceable". – BeyoncĂ©
- "So let me go now. Because time has made me strong. I'm starting to move on. I'll say it now, your chance has come and gone. And you know, it's just too little, too late.". – JoJo
- "And deep down I know this never works, but you can lie with me so it doesn't hurt. Oh, you don't want to be with me? Because you're all I need.". – Sam Smith
- "And when we meet, which I'm sure we will, everything that was there will still be there. I'll let it pass and hold my tongue. And you'll think I've moved on". – Dido
- "Silence isn't so bad until I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are just where yours fit perfectly". – Owl City
- "You know I've gone down, I've landed on both my knees from a broken heart. I didn't even cry because pieces of me were already dead". – Ingrid Michaelson
- "And tears stream down your face when you lose something you can't replace. When you love someone but it goes to waste, it could be worse?" – Coldplay
- "It doesn't always seem like you don't know what you have until it's gone?" – Counting Crows
- "How I can start over? How can I try to love someone new, someone who is not you?" – Regina Spektor
- "I've tried to sever ties and ended up with wounds to bind like you're pouring salt in my cuts". – Demi Lovato
- "Oh, I thought we might be the greatest story I tell. I know it's time to tell you it's over but I don't want to love someone else". – A great big world