Anyone listening to this in 2024?

For all the people who loved someone who didn't love them back. This is your song.

It’s like grieving someone who’s still alive and boy does that hurt.

*This is one of those songs* *where you want to sing along *but keep your mouth shut so* *your heart can feel it instead...*

If you're watching this in 2021, I love you and you're not alone

Fun fact: Raitt recorded the vocal track for this in one take. One. Take.

That is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

It's a terrible feeling to wake up and realize that you've been loving someone who never loved you or cared for you the same way you loved them and it's true you can't make the heart feel something that's not there. you can give your all but if it is not reciprocated dry your eyes, swallow your hurt, and move on because you deserve better. spoken from the heart that you need to protect.

Lyrically, this is one of the saddest songs ever written. Nothing hurts quite as much as unrequited love.

The worst hurt is when someone awakens your love with no intention of loving you back and then leaves without no explanation; just cut you off like you never meant anything to them.

I am 72 and have been listening to this for a long time. It is so simple and blames no one. Heartbreaking.

Pov 2024: Dear future generations, please let this masterpiece rise again

She perfectly captures the excruciating pain of a broken heart

A beautiful song , not much of a Bonnie Raitt fan but her voice is therapy for a lonely 62 year old male who has high blood pressure and hates his job . Very tired thank you any one who reads this.

Of course we’re listening to Bonnie in 2024…one of the greatest songs ever!

A haunting sadness. Something everyone can relate to. To love and not be loved back….even in 2024

2020 listening here. Can’t sleep.

There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn't even jump puddles for you.

I’ll always loved this song by Bonnie Raitt, long before I even experienced what she was singing about in this song but I do now. This song is dedicated to all the people who’s waking up from unrequited love. It hurts but you gotta let go of people who don’t love you.

Hands down one of THE best love songs ever!

Can we talk about how absolutely perfect (and important) Bruce Hornsby's piano work is on this track, though?

The older I get, the more I appreciate this song...

I'm grateful that for the past 15 years that we've been together, i've not had to listen to songs like this to relate. I hope everyone who does have to, that your heart heals quickly and fully

A love never returned but never forgotten

"I close my eyes. Then i wont see.. the love you dont feel when youre holding me". Thats heartbreaking felt that girl

That moment when you realize you've invested your heart and soul and they can't feel you is a slow dance thru hell..

In 1996 I met this tall gorgeous blue eyed guy at a diner I worked at when I was 16. I fell totally and completely in love with this man. But I worried he didn't love me the way I loved him and i would play this song over and over and cry so hard...but you know 29 years and 2 children later, he is still with me and I have to honestly say...this man loves me so much more now than I loved him then..he does everything for me and our children he is a hard working provider. I can walk up to him and put my hand on his shoulder and he seems to forget everything and anything just to touch me back with chills all over his skin. Every single day when he's gone to work I can almost guarantee you that he calls me at least 5 times or more just to tell me he loves me. he's a construction worker so sometimes he will put me on (Duo) so I can watch him work and so he can see me. He has never been mean to me or violent This man loves me beyond words!!! He was diagnosed with heart disease a year ago....what will i do without him by my side. I trust in my lord and savior Jesus to keep him with me.💔 ❤❤❤ I love you Lenny!

I cried with this song more than 100 times during my last breakup. It was therapeutic. Even 6 years have passed, every time I hear this song, my heart is swelled with emotion. The power of music.

This is the saddest, most heartbreaking song ever recorded. A true masterpiece of emotions. Great artists like Adele and Prince have covered this song, but Bonnie's original is untouchable.

In memory of Ed Cherney, the recording engineer who had recorded this song and many other great records. Ed died peacefully last night, October 21, 2019. RIP, Eddie. We'll be missing you.

Almost all of us know the feeling of loving someone that just didn’t love u back.

Thank You Bruce Hornsby, your piano playing adds the beautiful emotions to this song to me. Without your beautiful playing this song just couldn’t mean the same to me! Thank you again!!!!

I don't think that there is a greater pain in life than loving someone that doesn't love you. We think it's us or if we just love them enough that they'll love us back. The bottom line is that you can't make someone love you if they don't.

Let's not overlook the masterful piano playing by Bruce Hornsby. Those slash chords he's playing creates the song's mood.

Never thought I'd find another after my husband of 42 years passed until someone came along awakening in me feelings I thought were dead and gone!! So here I am at 70 yrs.old, crying my eyes out after he lifted me so high and then pulled the rug out! Devastating!!!

To all the tender souls crying as this song plays because your love is not returned... you must realize that none of us can give what we do not have. Some people are not capable of loving. Their inability to love does not make you unlovable, it just means you gave your love to the wrong person. Imagine how God must feel. He created us with a free will to choose Him, and loves us so much. Yet so many of us do not choose Him. The presence of God in your soul is the deepest truest Love you will ever know. That place in your heart longing for love can only truly be filled with God's love. Seek Him. He will never leave you or forsake you. Much love to you.

Did you know that Bonnie recorded this song in one take? She didn't think she could get the raw emotion more than once. Somehow that makes this song even more powerful than it already is.

I couldn’t make him love me after 16 years...siting here with a broken heart and spirit packing my belongings. I know the road ahead me will be rough. But my children and I will make it❤️

If you listening to this in 2024, you're LEGEND!

Here I am, Christmas 2023 and feeling this beautiful, timeless song. Bonnie will always touch my heart and I'm so sure many others.

Most painful lyric of the song for me is "I close my eyes, then I won't see, the love you don't feel, when you're holding me" 😭

I know went through a situation like this just before I met my husband. I want to encourage anyone who is going through this situation to be strong and know that you are special, beautiful, and worthy of love. You don't have to convince or beg anyone to love you. Sometimes it takes us a while to realize this for ourselves, but I can testify that after I became strong enough to let the person go who was not returning the love that I was giving the healing process began. It was rough, many crying nights...I liken it to withdrawal and while I thought I'd be alone for ever (because as we know rejection does a beat down on your self-esteem) I met my husband and he showed me what it was to be loved as you are without trying to work like a slave for it. If I can have it so can anyone else. Peace & Blessing xoxo

These words hit home for me. I'm alone again at 64. This song makes this big man's heart break wide open. I'm done trying now.....

How do we get so caught up in someone who has been straight about their feelings from the beginning and yet share passionate kisses and touches that should be nothing but love. How is this possible?😔

This song dispells a sad truth that I had to accept today. One-sided love will always rob you of your peace. ❤️

The lyrics hit differently after you've loved and lost.

Still can't listen without crying all these years later. This song immediately transports me back nearly 2 decades to my first and most significant heartbreak and all the the difficulties of that time and place in life. Such a beautiful, sad, universally relatable song.

I have to thank my mother for my love of this song. She was in an unhappy marriage for decades & looking back I didn't realize at the time the connection she felt. Hauntingly beautiful, powerful & sad. Thank you Bonnie

I heard a girl in rehab sing this acapella our last night in front of the entire facility after realizing and accepting her long term relationship was over and she was accepting it. One of the most beautiful and painful moments I’ve ever experienced in a group setting. An absolutely perfect song on every level. ❤

When I was 5, I remember watching my mom sing this song. At the time, my dad was doing drugs and mentally and physically beating her. She used alcohol to escape a lot and dealt with a lot of stuff for me and my sister. Randomly yesterday I heard this song for the first time in 25 years and I was balling my eyes out. I felt all of her pain and suffering and had me on my knees. It takes a lot for me to cry but this song hit so close to home and now im calling my mom to tell her about it.

1993 and this was on repeat. Still brings tears and memories. Now I know it was for the best.

For everyone making positive comments about this song were all connected in a special way

"It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go." ~ J.C. Watts When you're still in love but realize your love will never be reciprocated... It is MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to leave/set that person free than it is to feign blissful ignorance & stay put bc the change will be (temporarily) painful. OF. COURSE it's easy to leave when you don't GAF or aren't truly in love. But that is NOT what this song is about. She's in love but is setting him free bc she understands she cannot change his feelings about her. Why KNOWINGLY live a lie? We aren't immortal!

No matter how many covers to this song, this version will always be the best.

surely one of the most beautiful songs ever written ❤️

Who's listening to this in 2024

Too many times in my life have I had this song on repeat for hours, days, months. Here I am again, after 17 years. My soul is crushed. Thank you, Bonnie, for giving voice to such pain.

Beautiful explanation of how rejection feels😰🙌

Unrequited love is painful beyond belief .............this song hurts but describes my pain beautifully............

Late night drives with my mom and little sister in Massachusetts. This playing on Delilah ❤

30 years of being alone in a relationship. The saddest thing is not dieing alone but with people who make you feel alone.

One of the most beautiful songs ever written.

Her voice is so beautiful & so relaxing .

I saw her this past Saturday and she sang this with a voice that still rings out like a bell and filled with emotion.

In a way, this a brave statement of acceptance. Time to move on, no delusions. There is strength in the pain.

The hardest thing to do is accepting that you love someone that doesn't love you in return the same. Letting go of a person who became a part of you is like killing off a part of yourself I hope one day to let that person go and be able to feel loved by someone who loves me as much as I do them. Time just isn't on my side lately I really connect with this song on that level

I’m trying to find the right words. There aren’t any. There are no words to describe the perfection of this beautiful piece. This is artwork!

Ended my situationship last night. I finally asked if this will ever pan out and she said that as hard as she has tried, she can't love me the same way. This song really hits close to home.

When loving someone with all your heart and soul hurts when the love isn't shown in return, I think this song was made for anyone who poured all their love into that one person only to find out they never loved you

Not many songs can make a 49 year old, African American, former Marine like me cry like a baby. Congratulations Bonnie. This is one of those songs.

If you can listen to this and NOT get choked-up ... you are OVER IT. Congratulations.

Many have tried to cover this but never come close to the achingly beautiful song. This will always be my favorite song. I'm also a huge Bonnie Raitt fan and a fan of Bruce Hornsby. I'm grateful I grew up with their music.

The most powerful ballad ever recorded. Ever. By the way, it was recorded in ONE take.

So many people have done covers of this song..I have listened to over 30 different artists, from amateurs to professional performers..all I have to say is: No one sings this song as beautifully, as tender, as heartfelt as the original artist, who we fell in love with almost 24 years ago. The legendary Bonnie Raitt owns this song. Bonnie: you are amazing! 

After all these years, it's still so heart wrenchingly beautiful, rendered with so much love and sorrow in her magnificent, one of a kind voice. It still brings tears to my eyes.

This song is a hauntingly beautiful ballad that captures the heart-wrenching feeling of unrequited love. The song's emotional depth is conveyed through soulful vocals and poignant lyrics, making it a timeless classic that resonates with anyone who has experienced the pain of loving someone who doesn't feel the same way.

I will never love any other version of this song more than this one

Who else still listening 2019? 😊

This never gets old…❤

I am still so very much in love with my very best friend and my heart jumps every time I hear her voice. Maybe it's not meant to be romantic romantic and I understand that but, she has my heart like no woman I have ever met. This song gives me tears of longing and wanting her love so much. You know who you are my friend and can never stop the feelings I have for you. I LOVE YOU❤

I am an African American man and I love this song. Need I say more? Heart breaks has no color, gender or greed. I love this song. I love Bonnie Raitt... Sue me for appreciating real music.

Bonnie's version is the standard, period. It's grown people music, not young love and giddy romance. It's about real life, lived over time. It's about the resignation, the struggle towards acceptance, the love in spite of the loss, it's the void AFTER the anger, the rage, the hurt and betrayal are over. It's about moving on with integrity in spite of the scars. It's the 62-year-old lady finally leaving her once whirlwind/long since bad 40-year marriage after decades of abuse, it's the 53-year-old mom of college aged kids who finds out her husband's been cheating on her with a woman half her age and has spent the past 2 years fighting out and now finalizing her messy divorce with a man she still loves but knows that it's over with. It's about LIVED experience, about the subtleties and contradictions and complexities of ending life-changing, decades long relationships and the quiet aftermath once the dust has started to settle. Bonnie doesn't try to oversing, overemote, over share. Her character knows what she's been through and has nothing to prove to anyone. She's just saying goodbye, with love and affection for what once was and is proudly moving forward with the rest of her life, scarred and weary but with gentle hope in what might still be ahead for her. She's saying in spite of the pain, life still moves on, so one should do it with dignity and grace.

I'm 79 now and this beautiful heart breaking song brings back my first love at 22. Oh, where have those years gone? I will always love him. ❤

Absolutely love this song, and nobody can sing it like Bonnie Rait.

My heart is in this song after 28 years of marriage he left. But God has delivered me from that heart ache, thank you Bonnie for singing what we are feeling.

I don't care how many artists remake this song..this is the best of the best. I love it🥰

Turn down the lights Turn down the bed Turn down these voices inside my head Lay down with me Tell me no lies Just hold me close, don't patronize Don't patronize me '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 I'll close my eyes, then I won't see The love you don't feel when you're holding me Morning 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 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

This song is 🔥...a beautiful, heartbreaking song that transcends time. It is as haunting today as it was when it was released 30 years ago.

just created an account to leave a comment here. All the famous singers who covered this song did well in their own ways, but personally, no one could reach to my heart as deeply as Bonnie did. Even after few decades, this song doesn't age or go stale. classic.

This song has an important message for anyone going through a heavy breakup: No matter how much you try, sometimes, the other person doesn't WANT it to work out, in the end. You can try to change their mind and try to fix their heart, but sometimes, it's best to let go.

She is reminding you, we all go alone, WISDOM.

An absolutely cathartic sense of relief and happiness just washed over my soul while listening to this song, realizing and fully accepting that the relationship I've been in for over 4 years is not ever going to work how I'd like it to, and what my next step is. It hurts, but less than the sheer agony of trying to force something to work that never will.

57 year old big biker type. Song still brings a tear. Living one of the greatest love affairs ever 22+ years married. Feel so so sad for those who don’t find their true love. My wife and I’s love could move a mountain.

Bonnie Raitt sings this as if it is actually happening, as she sings it. She paints the picture with her voice, extremely well, beyond description.

I listened to this song in 1989 when my fiancé broke my heart. Such a beautiful song and artist.

In my ocean of sadness for him again, and it feels like I’m crashing around and drowning in my ocean of tears.. I’ll be ok, it just hurts because I think I love him more then he loves me… 😢

No other song captures unrequited love like this song. Pure class 👌

Its 2023...and this song still makes me cry....the most powerful song of my lifetime! 😢

Hello to everybody who’s watching this in 2024. 😊

Bruce Hornsby’s piano is hauntingly beautiful