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15 Songs About Imperfect Relationships And The Frustration They Bring

blonde girl looking out over water and thinking about her imperfect relationship and its challenges

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Relationships can be challenging. Sometimes they can go from seemingly perfect to imperfect overnight. These songs about imperfect relationships will have you feeling not so alone. We’ve curated a few of our favorites whose lyrics strike a chord with how it can feel in those moments.

leave – gnash

Lyrics: “I’m not saying I know how to save this
I’m just saying we’ve been here before”

Skinny Love – Birdy

Lyrics: “And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
And I told you to be balanced
And I told you to be kind”

July – Noah Cyrus

Lyrics: “Find someone that loves you
Better than I do, darling, I know
‘Cause  you remind me every day
I’m not enough, but I still stay”

Fear of Being Alone – Lennon Stella

Lyrics: “It’s the fear of, it’s the fear of being alone
Got me staying when I know (Ah)
It’s the fear of, it’s the fear of being alone
Got me never letting go (Ah)”

Love In The Dark – Adele

Lyrics: “You have given me something that I can’t live without
You mustn’t underestimate that when you are in doubt
But I don’t want to carry on like everything is fine
The longer we ignore it all the more that we will fight”

Losing You – Aquilo

Lyrics: “Tell me what I could have done
Looking back I tried my best”

Incomplete – James Bay

Lyrics: “I breathe out now and we fall back in
Just like before we can re-begin”

Believe – Mumford & Sons

Lyrics: “I had the strangest feeling
Your world’s not all it seems
So tired of misconceiving
What else this could’ve been”

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Gravity – Sara Bareilles

Lyrics: “Set me free
Leave me be
I don’t wanna fall another moment into your gravity”

Poison & Wine – The Civil Wars

Lyrics: “I wish you’d hold me when I turn my back
The less I give, the more I get back

All We Have – Ok Sweetheart

Lyrics: “You’ve got your vices I’ve got mine
As long we stay in these lines
I’m sure we’ll be okay”

Grow As We Go – Ben Platt

Lyrics: “You say there’s so much you don’t know
You need to go and find yourself
You say you’d rather be alone”

Just Be – Paloma Faith

Lyrics: “You wear me out with frustration and heartache and anger
But we wait for the wave just to wash it away”

Older – Sasha Sloan

Lyrics: “The older I get, the more that I see
My parents aren’t heroes, they’re just like me
And loving is hard, it don’t always work
You just try your best not to get hurt”

To Build A Home – Cinematic Orchestra

Lyrics: “And I built a home
For you
For me
Until it disappeared
From me
From you”

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