Maybe you’ve just been through a break up, or maybe you’re simply far from the one you love. Either way, sometimes there’s nothing that quite eases the pain like I miss you songs.
Whether someone you care about has gone away for a short time or the person you love has left you for good, the absence of someone you care about leaves you with an obvious hole to fill—and that’s where music and art comes in. Everyone has missed somebody at some point in their life. Luckily some of us have written down our troubles, and a select few have even put them into song.
This playlist of over 60 unique songs about missing someone showcases famous, and not-so-famous I miss you songs from multiple artists and genres.
I Miss You Songs: The Ultimate Countdown
Favorite Lyric:
“There’s gonna be some rainy Sundays wishing and wondering, when I’ll see you again.”
Favorite Lyric:
“And she’s always gone too long, anytime she goes away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’ve been waiting since I toddled for the great relief of having you to talk to.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I get through day but late at night.
Made love to my pillow but it didn’t feel right.”
Favorite Lyric:
“The truth was obscure,
too profound and too pure,
to live it you have to explode.”
Favorite Lyric:
“And though I love you, and you know that.
Well, I no longer know what that’s worth.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Love is now the stardust of yesterday, the music of the years gone by.”
Favorite Lyric:
“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Something always takes the place of missing pieces you can take and put together even though you know there’s something missing.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I should hate you the whole night through
instead of having sweet dreams about you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Emptiness is the place you’re in.
Nothing to lose, but no more to win.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’ll find somebody, wait and see.
Who am I kiddin’, only me.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.
|But I always thought that I’d see you again.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I didn’t know you were looking for more than I could ever be.”
Favorite Lyric:
“And ever since I met you my life’s been a song.
A sad song, a love song with hate in between.”
Favorite Lyric:
“You can find me on the edge tonight.
You could talk me off the ledge tonight. If you wanted to.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Yesterday love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“If you miss me once in a while, then I’ll return to you.
I’ll return and fill that space in your heart.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Now if I seem to be afraid to live the life I have made in song.
Well, it’s just that I’ve been losing so long.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I miss you so much, when I’m singing my song.”
Favorite Lyric:
“It don’t matter who you are.
It’s so simple a feeling. But it’s everything”
Favorite Lyric:
“There’s always room for one more soul down in the human zoo.
I don’t want you to come here though. I want to come home to you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Once I was a lover, and I searched behind your eyes for you.
And soon there’ll be another, to tell you I was just a lie.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Oh, how the ghost of you clings.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’m played out and bleed to please you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I go out on a party and look for a little fun,
but I find a darkened corner ’cause I still miss someone.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Just go back to the places where we used to go and I’ll be there.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Honey, half of me has gone away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’ve been holding out so long.
I’ve been sleeping all alone. Lord I miss you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I never knew how much I missed you, but now I can plainly see it’s a lonesome old town when you’re not around.”
Favorite Lyric:
“It hurts, but something survives.
Though it’s undermined, I’d still like to see you sometime.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Feel further away than I ever did before.
Feel further than I can take.”
Favorite Lyric:
“That taste on your tongue don’t easily slip away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Only the lonely know this feeling ain’t right.”
Favorite Lyric:
“It’s not your lips now that drive me crazy.
It’s just your haunting memory.”
Favorite Lyric:
“It’s a little bit cold for all those concerned, but I’d sell my soul and your soul for a song. So I’ll pour my heart out.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Send it in a letter baby, tell you on the phone.
I’m not the kinda girl who likes to be alone.”
Favorite Lyric:
“But If you loved me, why did you leave me?”
Favorite Lyric:
“Pain in my heart is treating me cold.
Where can my baby be? Lord no one knows.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’m gonna keep drinkin’ till I can’t move a toe and then maybe my heart won’t hurt me so.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Thought I’d visit the club, got as far as the door.
They’d have asked me about you. Don’t get around much anymore.”
Favorite Lyric:
“One more song about moving along the highway.
Can’t say much of anything that’s new.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Lost my nerve. It’s un-nerving.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Guess I’d rather hurt than feel nothing at all.”
Favorite Lyric:
“All you left is our favorite song.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I want my clothes to smell like you do. Like they used to.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I can’t deal with it. I can’t bear to feel this way.
I can’t deal with it. I can ‘t fill these empty days.”
Favorite Lyric:
“So far from me. Way across some cold neurotic sea.”
Favorite Lyric:
“So the years went by. I stayed the same, but she began to drift away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much. Are you still mine?”
Favorite Lyric:
“I’ll always love you and want you too.
How much you’ll never know.”
Favorite Lyric:
“In case you’re wondering, somebody’s missing you.
Really, really, really, really missing you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Do you miss me, like I miss you?
If you miss me, never go away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Just when you’ve got a real good thing, somebody’s always sayin’ goodbye.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I wanna say sorry. Oh, but it ain’t a strong enough word.
For once in my life I’m so sincere and I mean every word.”
Favorite Lyric:
“And by the way, did she mention my name.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I ain’t missing you at all since you’ve been gone away.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Sleight of hand and twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait. And I wait, without you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I have so many questions about love and about pain.
About strained relationships. About fame.”
Favorite Lyric:
“The only time I ever miss you, honey, is when I’m alone or when I’m with somebody.”
Favorite Lyric:
“If someone said three years from now you’d be long gone, I’d stand up and punch them out.”
Favorite Lyric:
“How I wish I could forget those, those happy yesteryears.”
Favorite Lyric:
“But now and then I find myself, thinkin’ of the days.”
Favorite Lyric:
“Now this drifter’s world goes ’round and ’round and I doubt that it’s ever gonna stop.”
Favorite Lyric:
“When I’m feeling lonely, thinking of you only. That’s when I miss you most.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I guess I’ll never be the same since I fell for you.”
Favorite Lyric:
“I never weep at night, I call your name.”
Hopefully, by the time you’ve listened to all 67 of these I miss you songs, your melancholia will have lifted a little. Or… maybe it’ll have gotten worse. Either way: keep your chin up, and focus on the future. I miss you songs can’t heal your heart completely; only time can do that. Hang in there – it’ll get easier day by day!
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