Anyone listening to this in 2024?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

That is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

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

She perfectly captures the excruciating pain of a broken heart

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.

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

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

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

This is a masterpiece of Bonnie Raitt, to anyone who gave your all to someone who didn't appreciate it, look at it as their loss. Love this song

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

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.

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

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.

A love never returned but never forgotten

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.

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.

Hands down one of THE best love songs ever!

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

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

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. ❤

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

When you want someone so bad, but you can't have them.

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❤️

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.

Who's listening to this in 2024

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

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" 😭

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

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

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!!!!

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

"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!

Anyone listening in 2024????? Anyone hearing????😎🤣😥

surely one of the most beautiful songs ever written ❤️

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

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

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

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

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.

My mother used to sing this song and cry because my dad left her for another woman. Still hurts me to hear... *edit* allow me to clarify, my mother did not do this in front of me, she thought I was asleep or distracted. I only found out why she was crying as an adult bc I asked her. It was as an adult that the circumstances were explained to me. My pain was that of pure empathy, not abuse. Much love to you all.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

This never gets old…❤

Languid, soulful, soaringly beautiful and bonnie absolutely owns this wonderful song. Come back to it again and again over the years. Absolutely beautiful

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.

Beautiful explanation of how rejection feels😰🙌

Bruce Hornsby’s piano is hauntingly beautiful

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

One of the most beautiful songs ever written.

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.

She is the most wonderful woman I’ve ever enjoyed in my life! I’m 70 and all of our children and grandchildren know and love and know all of her music!

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

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

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

I was searching for a song, I accidentally clicked on this, and it was heaven. Best mistake ever. What a hurtful lovely song. A woman finally faces reality whilst accepting her and it.❤

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.....

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

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

My Mommy's favorite song...miss you Mom❤

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

I'll never forget this song. I was leaving Amy's house late on a Sunday night. I knew it was over. I did my best to make it work. As I drove off onto Pellissippi Parkway this song came. I cried those sad tears.

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

A song that hits you harder late at night while listening to it

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

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.

I don't care who they are- No One cant touch Bonnie's version of this song. Its THE BEST

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.

The piano is everything

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.

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

This song ...where do I begin? Thank you Bonnie!!! I cry everytime as it brings me back to a time in my life when I knew I was holding on to something that was gone :( Saw her in person up close and cried sooo hard when she sang this wow! the emotions overflowed but in a good way today.

Her voice is so beautiful & so relaxing .

2020 listening here. Can’t sleep.

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.

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.

This song has been covered by everyone and i mean everyone.... But I always come back to Bonnie who really gives life to her song as she was feeling these emotions as she wrote this masterpiece. Thanks Bonnie for your voice and sharing this amazing song with the world. ❤ amazing

The worst part is no matter how much u love someone u will never b enough for them if they don’t love u back. Just try and move on for yourself.😥

30+ years after the heartbreak, living a good life with a good family... this song I can only listen to alone. It's perfect.

This song, sung by Bonnie Raitt, goes straight through me. Thank you, Bonnie.

1 word ....Masterpiece