50 Best Best Songs About Forbidden Love
Forbidden Love Songs That Sting in All the Right Places
There’s a weird electricity to the kind of love you’re not supposed to have. The kind that makes you flinch when someone asks too many questions or when your phone lights up at the wrong time. It’s messy. Charged. Stupid, maybe. But every once in a while, a song hits that nerve so cleanly it feels like someone ripped a page from your own life and hit play. These aren’t sweeping ballads begging for permission. These are tracks that live in the sneaking around, the tension, the unspoken everything people don’t want to admit they’ve felt.
It’s not the fantasy people like to romanticize. It’s side glances across a crowded room. Long drives with too much silence. Arguments that start from nothing because you’re both carrying too much. And in the middle of it, a lyric lands and you don’t even breathe for a second. You’ve got Lana Del Rey whispering like it’s a confession. Steve Lacy turning self-sabotage into melody. Or SZA tracing the outline of a situation everyone’s pretending isn’t real. These songs don’t tidy it up. They sit in the ache, in the pull, in the lines crossed and then blurred until no one can name what this thing actually is.
They’re not designed for clean endings or playlists that make sense. But they stick. They crawl into your head and sit there like a memory you shouldn’t be thinking about. These are the tracks you blast alone or send in the middle of the night with no context. If you’ve been thereor halfway thereyou know the feeling. These pop, rock, country, and R&B songs know it too. Here’s the list.
Top 10 Forbidden Love Songs
1. 'Love Story'—Taylor Swift
2. 'Dark End of the Street'—James Carr
3. 'Don't Stand So Close to Me'—The Police
4. 'Saving All My Love for You'—Whitney Houston
5. 'Secret Love Song'—Little Mix ft. Jason Derulo
6. 'Jessie's Girl'—Rick Springfield
7. 'Me and Mrs. Jones'—Billy Paul
8. 'I'm on Fire'—Bruce Springsteen
9. 'Layla'—Derek and the Dominos
10. 'Unthinkable'—Alicia Keys
Songs About Secret Love #11—20
11. 'Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)'—Buzzcocks
12. 'Something to Talk About'—Bonnie Raitt
13. 'The Hardest Thing'—98 Degrees
14. 'Daytime Friends'—Kenny Rogers
15. 'Through the Barricades'—Spandau Ballet
16. 'The Other Man'—Sloan
17. 'You're Beautiful'—James Blunt
18. 'Love the One You're With'—Stephen Stills
19. 'Young Girl'—Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
20. 'Borrowed Angel'—Mel Street
Songs About Unapproved Romance #21—30
21. 'Secret Lovers'—Atlantic Starr
22. 'Confessions Part II'—Usher
23. 'Your Woman'—White Town
24. 'I Can't Make You Love Me'—Bonnie Raitt
25. 'If Loving You Is Wrong'—Luther Ingram
26. 'Angel of the Morning'—Merrilee Rush
27. 'My Best Friend's Girl'—The Cars
28. 'I Was Checking Out She Was Checking In'—Don Covay
29. 'Into You'—Ariana Grande
30. 'The Girl of My Best Friend'—Elvis Presley
Relationships With Complications #31—40
31. 'Amor Prohibido'—Selena
32. 'Sweetest Taboo'—Sade
33. 'You've Never Been This Far Before'—Conway Twitty
34. 'The Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love)'—Journey
35. 'Tryin' to Love Two'—William Bell
36. 'Love in the Dark'—Adele
37. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley ft. Alison Krauss
38. 'The Crying Game'—Boy George
39. 'Need You Now'—Lady A
40. 'I Hate Myself for Loving You'—Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Forbidden Love Songs #41—50
41. 'Unfaithful'—Rihanna
42. 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)'—Rupert Holmes
43. 'Don't Stop Believin''—Journey
44. 'Di Dapat'—Muriel
45. 'Careless Whisper'—George Michael
46. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
47. 'Where the Wild Roses Grow'—Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue
48. 'The Chain'—Fleetwood Mac
49. 'Love in the First Degree'—Alabama
50. 'I Got a Name'—Jim Croce
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