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This song is about the loss of a loved one and how important it is to apologize when we can. "Oh I'm sorry for blaming you / For everything I just couldn't do / And I've hurt myself by hurting you."
This song is about forgiveness, but sometimes sorry is not good enough, and Blake Shelton knows it, as he sings "Well, I'm sorry / But sometimes sorry / Just ain't good enough."
The tale of a regretful father who just didn't have time for his son, and how his son turned out to be just like him, is quite an emotional one.
The lyrics to this song are brutally honest. They go: "I don't care babe who's right or wrong / I just don't love you no more."
'Always on My Mind' found great success in the voices of Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and the Pet Shop Boys. Indeed, it's a great apology song. "Maybe I didn't treat you / Quite as good as I should / Maybe I didn't love you / Quite as often as I could / Little things I should have said and done / I never took the time / You were always on my mind."
This song is all about the struggle of not being the person one wants to be. "Let me apologize for what I'm about to say / But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed / And somehow I got caught up in between."
This song is said to be about Bieber's ex, Selena Gomez. "Yeah, is it too late now to say sorry? / Cause I'm missing more than just your body / Is it too late now to say sorry? / Yeah I know that I let you down."
This song, originally written by Leon Russell, was released posthumously. "I've treated you unkindly but can't you see / There's no one more important to me."
This song is about the singer's ex, but many of us can relate. "So this is me swallowin' my pride / Standin' in front of you sayin' I'm sorry for that night / And I go back to December all the time / It turns out freedom ain't nothin' but missin' you / Wishin' I'd realized what I had when you were mine."
This song is different from the others on this list. Instead of being directed to a lover or an ex, it was written for Erykah Badu’s mother (rapper André 3000 was romantically involved with Badu). He goes "I'm sorry Ms. Jackson (oh), I am for real / Never meant to make your daughter cry / I apologize a trillion times."
Kurt Cobain apologizes in this iconic Nirvana song, singing "What else should I be? / All apologies," and "Everything is my fault / I’ll take all the blame."
The former Beatle apologizes for letting jealousy get the best of him. "I didn't mean to hurt you / I’m sorry that I made you cry / Oh no, I didn’t want to hurt you / I’m just a jealous guy."
Not every apology song needs to be a heavy emotional outpour. 'I Did It' by Dave Matthews Band is a great example. "I did it / Do you think I've gone too far / I did it / Guilty as charged."
This Elton John song from 1976 is a true classic and indeed a beautiful song to say sorry to someone with, even though sometimes it's hard to admit we've done wrong. The lyrics include emotional lines such as "What do I do to make you love me? / What have I got to do to be heard? /What do I do when lightning strikes me?" and "It's sad, so sad / It's a sad, sad situation."
Released in 1999, Amy Lee's passionate singing really makes this apology song quite powerful. "Can you forgive me again / I don't know what I said / But I didn't mean to hurt you."
This 1982 tune really is a heartfelt apology song. It's the perfect song to say sorry with after a couple has spent some time apart. "I will make it up to you, I promise to / And after all that's been said and done /You're just the part of me, I can't let go."
This song is all about regretting not treating your loved ones as they should have been treated, and even apologizing to future lovers in advance. "Sorry to my unknown lover / Sorry I could be so blind / Didn't mean to leave you / And all of the things that we had behind."
This is yet another classic apology song. The lyrics go: "Baby come back, any kind of fool could see / There was something in everything about you / Baby come back, you can blame it all on me / I was wrong and I just can't live without you."
The Canadian singer-songwriter gets straight to the point in his 1993 hit 'Please Forgive Me,' with words such as "Please forgive me, I know not what I do / Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you."
It's not easy to swallow our pride and apologize, and Joey Ramone sings about this in this 1977 punk rock tune. "Swallow my pride / And things were lookin' grim / But they're lookin' good again
/ Swallow my pride."
We've all said things to loved ones that we regret saying. Cher expresses this feeling in her famous song. She goes: "If I could turn back time / If I could find a way / I'd take back those words that have hurt you."
Adele sings this poignant song about her ex and makes us all regretfully think about past mistakes. The lyrics include lines such as "I must've called a thousand times / To tell you I'm sorry for everything that I've done [...] Hello from the outside / At least I can say that I've tried / To tell you I'm sorry for breaking your heart."
One of Prince's most famous songs, 'Purple Rain' begins with the apologetic heartfelt lyrics "I never meant to cause you any sorrow / I never meant to cause you any pain."
This 1960 song encapsulates what apologizing is all about. "I'm sorry, so sorry / That I was such a fool / I didn't know /Love could be so cruel," Brenda Lee sings.
The former Oasis front man starts this song with some powerful lyrics: "In my defense, all my intentions were good / And heaven owns a place somewhere for the misunderstood / You know I'd give you blood if it'd be enough."
The Canadian singer-songwriter admits she's done wrong in 'So Sorry.' The whole song is a long apology, starting with "I'm sorry / Two words I always think / After you've gone / When I realize I was acting all wrong."
The singer apologizes to her lover after a fight, singing: "I apologize / Oh, believe me I do / I apologize / Honest and true / Because I know I was wrong / So I sing you this song / And I'm tryin' to get through / To make it up to you, yeah."
This 2011 hit got us all thinking about the times we did wrong, and had us wondering if "it's too late to apologize."
If you're anything like Madonna and seem to have a hard time forgiving someone, then this one is for you. "Please don't say you're sorry / I've heard it all before."
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Elton John once said that "sorry seems to be the hardest word," and he's probably right. Apologizing doesn't come easy for many of us, but it's something most of us have done, and ought to do throughout our lives. And what better way to say sorry to someone then by expressing our apologies through a song?
In this gallery, you'll find a number of tunes to say sorry to someone with. Click on for more.
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It's never too late to apologize
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Elton John once said that "sorry seems to be the hardest word," and he's probably right. Apologizing doesn't come easy for many of us, but it's something most of us have done, and ought to do throughout our lives. And what better way to say sorry to someone then by expressing our apologies through a song?
In this gallery, you'll find a number of tunes to say sorry to someone with. Click on for more.