I'm driving home and long long time came on radio I start listening to the lyrics.And I haven't heard this song in over 30or 40yrs.But these lyrics just tore me up.After reading the comments I realize this song has the same effect on alot of people.And Linda sang the hell out of it,it was her voice that put so much feeling into it.

@MsRocker961

8 ай бұрын

Ya she did 😢

@pauldeangelis7481

7 ай бұрын

I was really holding it together until I read your comment….now I look totally insane walking my dog through my neighborhood on Xmas eve 😂😂

@MsRocker961

7 ай бұрын

@@pauldeangelis7481 Hey let feelings come . We all need the release sometimes . Merry Christmas 🎄

@pauldeangelis7481

7 ай бұрын

@@MsRocker961 I honestly couldn’t help it if I tried. I’m an emotional mess during most hours of the day and hiding it in public isn’t one of my talents 😂😂

@GraceNow

5 ай бұрын

58 here... Some of my mothers music... Just saw all the lyrics 😢 So far in this life , I have yet to find a gal to ride shotgun thru the ever days and seconds of life... With the simple depths of what is truly important in life.. U really never grow old or up... ya just age and mainly the body.. Hurt since the 1st grade...😢 lol Well kinda lol And yes, some from my choices, yet it still hurts.. Sure sux to be right sometimes . Never learned yes dear. As I have aged... The big deals were really small & visa versa. Every second u can, tell the ones u love, I love u, I'm think of u, I am hear for u.......... Life is but a blink Be well brothers and sister. Love is truly the answer. 🫶🤙

“I’m old, I’m satisfied, because you were my purpose”. 😭😭😭😭😭

@waffle6925

Жыл бұрын

i will fvcking bawl dont say that rn

@stevenmitchell850

Жыл бұрын

yes... yes.. what a great line

@NickJoeBrady

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful line, such a moving episode.

@jorgezeballos333

Жыл бұрын

Classic line fromnYHE LAST OF US

@JohnMoore-xf5wy

26 күн бұрын

Yes. ❤

I feel she never got the recognition she so deserves. One of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.

@albert.g1744

2 күн бұрын

x2

One of the best songs ever written

Unrequited love is pure, romantic and painful as hell.

Definitely the Best Female singer ever......I love Linda.....

This song is so emotionally powerful, especially after Frank and Bill, it’s hard to listen to it and not tear up. I’m glad the show exposed us to this song. It truly is a masterpiece.

@jorgezeballos333

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. I never knew about this song by linda

This song saved my marriage, We were so close to ending it, but after watching The Last of Us, I was so moved an called her. I said “Thanks for always choosing love with me, I would feel like a part of me would die if you left and I would not fully recover if we ended it.” We have been fostering good will with each other and things seem to be looking good so far. People who matter are worth fighting for, even if it means humbling yourself. Thanks Last of Us and thank you Linda for softening my heart.

@mgsdesigns22

Жыл бұрын

I wish I saw this comment 1 year ago 😢

@AlyssaHopeByrd

Жыл бұрын

I fought hard for the wrong person for 6 years, even moving thousands of miles away from my loved ones with him for his job because that's what you do for love, right? Well anyway, long story short - he wrecked my life, and I found myself very lost & hopeless until reuniting with my old best friend who has known me since I was 16 (I'm 41 now). I had no idea how deep my best friend's feelings were for me, even romantically, but now we've been together for over a year, and he put this song on our collaborative playlist. I had a beautiful friend who worked on the original TLOU video game that passed away recently, and my lover knows how much this series means to me. Insert instant tears.

@AlyssaHopeByrd

Жыл бұрын

@@gamerxgolu You don't understand the reality of being human and flawed. Also, saying "no offense" is immediately offensive.

@deborahlester4018

Жыл бұрын

Just want to offer encouragement. There were a couple of years, separated by years, when I don't know why one of us didn't pack up and leave. It was miserable. For some reason we just kept staying. At the end of forty years of mostly wonderful, we laughed about what our lives would have lost if... Just keep staying.

@deborahlester4018

Жыл бұрын

​@@gamerxgolu Not necessarily true . Every relationship is different, darling.

This always makes me cry. I loved him so deeply and he just walked away after 20 years together.

@GraceNow

5 ай бұрын

🫂

@kwren-od3si

3 ай бұрын

Mine left me when I became too sick to earn the money he wanted for his dream lifestyle, and after his daughter turned 18 and moved out. Drained the joint account on his way out. Yeah love sucks

It still hurts me even after 55 years.

@CitizenUSA-kp7xf

5 ай бұрын

I had an instant connection to this song 55 years ago when I was like 9. Who knew it would become the anthem for my life

@sandburgmartin7947

3 ай бұрын

Yes !! Younger adults PLEASE do not let immaturity, hurt, unreasonable ambition, and knee jerk reactions from PRIDE or false bravado rule a rash decision. Patience is a good foil for that. Sometimes a breakup is for something better ahead, sometimes not.

72 years old next month. This was a great song back in the day and it still is. Was fortunate to see Linda in 73 in California. So pleased a new generation is getting to know her amazing voice and catalogue of songs. Good luck in life everyone. Find love and hold on to it xx

@smangamakhanya9345

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😌💟

@caturlifelive

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir

@LsTinyDanc3r

Жыл бұрын

To:@Vaan Happy Birthday!🎂 Greetings frm Detroit, Michigan USA😉

@vaan1520

Жыл бұрын

@@LsTinyDanc3r Well, thank you very much. Love from the UK xx

@LsTinyDanc3r

Жыл бұрын

To:@@vaan1520 You are very welcome! Hope this Birthday🎂is your BEST one in a long long time (see how I put a line frm Linda's song🎼in there for you!😉). Keep rockin, Blessings frm Detroit, Michigan, USA✌

We may never see another like her folks, enjoy.

At 70 I’m beginning to believe that love lost was God’s way of protecting us. I see some of these people and they weren’t the people you thought they were and you’re much better off. Just hurt like hell at the time.

@nannye211

4 ай бұрын

Thankful for unanswered prayers...God bless

@sandburgmartin7947

2 ай бұрын

Probably in about half the cases some were dealt a better hand the next time around. Considering a national 50% divorce rate that should be almost correct.

@WesleyWyndam-Pryce

Ай бұрын

Whatever floats your boat on beliefs, I guess. But why was this dude busy trying to protect people by giving divine breakups, and then randomly kills my friend's 10 year old son last Saturday? He's got a sick sense of humor.

Check out Linda Ronstadt octave range, holy moley that woman had some range God Bless you L....and she is beautiful in her early 70's

Takes me way back to when my mom would play this over and over again and sing along after my dad left her

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written ❤️

@carloseduardovillegasmerid7658

Жыл бұрын

Really ❤❤❤.

@joemoniz4167

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful Song!

@nancyullrich5447

9 ай бұрын

Yes, written by Gary White

Beautiful words that id love to say to a person who doesnt feel the same. Even when you are certain they feel the same 9 out of 10 times their looking somewhere else. We're in a rat race. Im not i sit back and watch. Eventually even after years it all falls down. The old love generation is gone. Welcome to the narcissistic generation. The greedy generation. The spoilt generation. Love to this generation is money. Its not about how you feel anymore and not that long ago it was all about what you felt. Wether the person was sick healthy rich or poor love was love. God be with the days ❤❤

I hadn't heard this song in a very long, long time. The Last of Us brought me back to this masterpiece. I loved the story of Bill and Frank. One of the best episode of any show ever. Great directing, focusing on the window as the credits roll. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

I believe this song is what made her a superstar.

@markalberici5137

Ай бұрын

Not commercially. YOUR NO GOOD in 1975 did. LONG LONG TIME was minor hit.

I’m here because The last of us ep3 Joel and Ellie listening to this song after Bill and Frank died, good song

@bnewmanish

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@markjamesdelarosa4541

Жыл бұрын

hahaha same

@juannobru5211

Жыл бұрын

hahaha me too

@nehemiahedward

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@anthonypaspa7416

Жыл бұрын

I think everybody is here because of that☺️

So was wunderschönes kann heutzutage kaum noch einer die Stimme geht mir nicht mehr aus dem Kopf.Danke für dieses Lied ❤

That episode is going to hurt me for a long, long time

@Hechicera86

Жыл бұрын

😭😭🍓🍓🤧💓💓💓💓

@teekay3747

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@leeworsley7761

4 ай бұрын

Still one of the best

@marinacastrodominguez4245

4 ай бұрын

@@leeworsley7761 of course, probably my favourite with episode 8

now, this song will always remind me of Bill and Frank. On how they lived their lives loving each other. On how Bill actually just lived liking one person which is Frank feeling like it’s his purpose in life. Them dying both after the wine drinking slaps so hard because Frank is sick but Bill just doesn’t wanna be left alone so thinking that better be with him for eternity. Love always wins indeed :))

We just lost our second son to cancer. Thank you Linda for this song ❤

@debbiejimenez5492

6 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry 😢

@plheuck

4 ай бұрын

So very sorry for your loss. As I've gotten older, I realize that we never die, we just change planes. I truly believe we never lose each other now. God bless you.

@AnneNeziol

4 ай бұрын

So sorry for your heartbreaking losses.

I think this is now my favorite Linda Ronstadt song.

Linda , in opinion is the greatest female singer ever , she makes the hair on my arms and the back of my neck stand up every time I hear her sing from her heart

A voice that many people can't concur. One of the greatest voices I've heard in my 55 years ❤❤❤

I just watched episode 3 and can't stop listening this song. It has become another reminder of someone I've loved very much deeply, unrequited and it's been 5 years. 💔 "A love that never was"

@Hechicera86

Жыл бұрын

🥺😭💓💓💓

@fyrfytr9925

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Broke my heart.

@lynnpoint6395

Жыл бұрын

I'd like to be able to say time heals this wound but it doesn't, it just scars it over. 5 years? Try decades. But if you love someone so much that you'd die for them, you also must love them enough to live for them. And loving someone doesn't mean you can't also find some level of love and even happiness with someone else. So be sure to live a life...and maybe someday you'll slowly begin to realize that it is worth living. Good luck.

@earnest.despair

Жыл бұрын

@@lynnpoint6395 hello and thanks for such a good reply. It was love at first sight, back in time she used to be my instructor in college and I was her favourite student. She's something 8 years elder than me. But I never confessed her as she was about to get married that time and later on she got divorced too. She came to know about my feelings from others and then one day she asked me, I confessed but she said she don't trust men for relationships anymore as something went seriously wrong which led to her breakup after her newly wedding. So today I'm actually moved on from her, I totally focus on myself my lifestyle my goal my fitness everything. But sometimes things and surroundings make me reminisce her just like this song. It may sound funny but I don't even talk to girls and women much as whenever I do I try finding her resemblance, sometimes I miss her and can't control my tears, idk why this happens, but it is what it is. I still love her tho.. lol 💔

@maxhendrix6846

Жыл бұрын

I understand that.

Lyrics ❤ are so very true.💕😇

After hearing this song on AGT with Ruby Leigh singing it I can’t stop listening to it. And I looked up Linda Ronstadt singing it, I could relate to this song once in my past. Now I have a man that loves me the way I use to love that someone in my past. And I love him the same way so don’t ever give up on your SoulMate cause the two of yours love is going to last 🎶“A long long time”🎶

Linda R... ❤❤❤❤❤❤. One of her finest songs....lyrics reach deep.. plus she was very beautiful......❤

This song just broke me☹. Been dealing with losing '' a love that never was'' for over 2 years now.. Its scary how related i feel to this song. Anyone else feels like this?

@earnest.despair

Жыл бұрын

😞💔

@GroundedSolidarity

Жыл бұрын

I’m a new widow. It truly resonates with me. This game always left a pit in my stomach..we played together he knew how much the story meant to me. I have these feeling All over again now that he’s gone ❤

@mgsdesigns22

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s been a year now and I can only control my emotions, still not fully over her if I’m honest with myself sighhhh

@RafikKarimi

Жыл бұрын

@@GroundedSolidarity Sorry for your loss

@Hechicera86

Жыл бұрын

Same 😭🥺

What a voice. Itll not be equaled for a long long time.

If that song were Country and Western, it would be called a tear jerker. Her vocal rendition is magnificent, but try also listening to the backup instrumentals.

A magnificent song and songstress. She’s still alive. I wonder if she understands this new-found love many people have for her ❤

@SuperHappyFunAJ

Жыл бұрын

Apparently it's blowing up on Spotify.

@MsRocker961

7 ай бұрын

I’m sure she does . Linda has Parkinson’s but she knows what’s going on. So hard for a singer to wake up and not be able to sing anymore.

@sandburgmartin7947

3 ай бұрын

​@@MsRocker961We need a good address to send a handwritten card or letter. God bless Linda Maria Ronstadt, her family, and her caregivers. She deserves the best of love and caring.

Her voice is impeccable

31 year old from India listening to this. Out of time and out of place and yet loved the song so much. I came here through Last of Us.

A true classic and one that moves me deeply each time i hear it.linda ronstadt is a legend and one of my very favorite singers ever!💯💋❤️🌹👏👍🏆🥇

I'm so happy this song has made its round again. Such a classic!!!!!!

Truly beautiful 😍

Deeply melancholy. Listening to this song brings back heart piercing, bittersweet memories from the depths of youth ⚡️💔😢

@sandburgmartin7947

3 ай бұрын

Well stated. From many decades ago it opens the old heart scar.

This Song has So much meaning to each of US. The lyrics 🎼🎶🎵 are ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!! ❤ God bless you Linda Rondstadt 🙏🏽🌹

I heard this song for the first-time last summer watching the last of us on HBO. I heard of Linda Ronstadt before, but don't know any of her songs. After listening to a lot of her other songs, I'm now a fan

The song is extraordinary.

This song leaves me speechless and in tears

After Frank...I mean , Bil sang this, it has been tattooed in my mind. What a great song. Bill's version is beautiful too. Thanks TLOU 👌

One of the few songs that slays me if left alone with it.

I just watched this episode of The Last of Us with this song. It’s crazy on how a song can come into your life that exactly explains how you feel. There’s this girl that I’ve loved for years now. The line “cause I’ve done everything I know to try and make you mine and I think I’m gonna love you for a long long time” is fitting. This song speaks volumes for how feel. But like the comic book in the game stats. I’m going to endure and survive

Not here from show everyone’s talking but still getting over a breakup and found this.Feel this to my core.

@jodioldfather6636

Жыл бұрын

Me too

Thank you for this almost forgotten classic 🎵 🎶 🙏🍀💐

Wow. What an incredibly sad song made real by extraordinarily emotional singing by Linda. This song hits raw and deep.

I had not heard this song since I was in High School. I am married to a wonderful man, and after watching the Last of Us, I remembered the song and reminded how in love I am with my Partner. I love you Chris, and I think I am going to love you, for a long long time.

I am from Indonesian and i like Song 80's from USA Especially song Linda long time like my life❤

The producers of the last of us chose a phenomenal song. That being said y’all should look up willin by Linda.

I have listen to every artist play this song all instruments, but this original has too be the very best, is amazing how Ronstadt nail it to perfection, nobody has done it better. truly a master piece,

Totally forgot about this classic! This is the power of a song like this…you can hear it for the first time in years and it instantly takes you away.

Inmeasurably touching interpretation of this song,included in The Last Of Us serie...🥺😢😭

thank you the last if us for this awesome song!!

@tjwash5118

Жыл бұрын

A lot of us have been listening to it for 53 years.

@Hechicera86

Жыл бұрын

🍓🍓😭😭❤️❤️🥺🤧💓💓

@sanazorgui2011

Жыл бұрын

@@tjwash5118 Well you guys are lucky....

@tjwash5118

Жыл бұрын

@@sanazorgui2011 😁 I truly feel that way, been a fan of Linda’s since the early 70’s. Now you have several years to enjoy her!

Never saw the show but relate to this. Found it randomly. Amazing songstress.

Just rediscovered this from the series The Last of Us. Thank you so much for the reminder and memory.

Always loved this beautiful song

I really love this song

Linda was a powerhouse ❤

Came here after watching the Last of Us. I'm glad we have youtube to keep such classics from dying and forgotten. Such a great song.

My god this song is beautiful

This is an incredible song, but just a drop in the bucket of her catalog and hits. She has a way of showing power and vulnerability like no one else. She was a BIG DEAL in the 70's, filling stadiums! Her music will live on forever! Check out two of her other signature songs, Blue Bayou and Desperado. Then dive in!

@reab7542

Жыл бұрын

Desperado.... simply amazing on her vocals!! we were so blessed to grow up with her music🤩

Omg the last of us ! Thanks I forgot about this song and now I can't stop playing it

Never heard this song before ....then saw last of us and now I can't stop listening to it

Linda is my friend though l've never met her. I guess really, l would love to meet her and tell her about all the album's l have of hers and her drop dead gorgeous voice.

After watching Episode 3.......Addicted ❤

I'm young but I really like and love this song❤️

Love will abide Take things in stride Sounds like good advice But there's no one at my side And time washes clean love's wounds unseen That's what someone told me But I don't know what it means 'Cause I've done everything I know To try and make you mine And I think I'm gonna love you For a long long time Caught in my fears Blinking back the tears I can't say you hurt me When you never let me near And I never drew one response from you All the while you fell all over girls you never knew 'Cause I've done everything I know To try and make you mine And I think it's gonna hurt me For a long long time Wait for the day you'll go away Knowing that you warned me Of the price I'd have to pay And life's full of flaws Who knows the cause? Living in the memory of a love that never was 'Cause I've done everything I know To try and change your mind And I think I'm gonna miss you For a long long time 'Cause I've done everything I know To try and make you mine And I think I'm gonna love you For a long long time

@Lori-lp6uc

8 ай бұрын

??????

This song kinda hit me this morning.. I've done everything, Ive tried it all an still I'm still waiting on the day you leave me.. here you are lingering around..

Linda is my favourite female artist of all times,and that’s how my favourite band of all times is the Eagles,Linda has done a lot for them I reckon,anyway Linda Ronstadt is the best female artist of mine,enjoy your retirement life and take care and all the best,your passionate fan from Australia

Great song you have shared. Thank you 😊

holy crap. I'm 44 and have always like to this song. But I never ever thought I'd relate to it in a million years.... And then I met my Twin Flame at work, who happens to be married with a family. We've never done anything more than flirty texts, expressing how bad we want each other....BUT can't do so, .. And the intensity of our eye contacts and gazes..omg... it's indescribable.. it feels like there's a whole other universe out there.. And then at one point he backed off and gave me lame excuses that I can not argue with.... But once he sees me starting to feel better, no longer sad and disappointed that he took the thing I enjoyed the most away... he starts flirting and texting me again.... Just to later give me another lame excuse that we have to stop (usually it's a 1 month on, 2 months off cycle) (reminder we've never kissed and anything beyond that) ... Anyways.. that time in-between the lame excuse and just starting talking again... this song is perfect, I now know what the lyrics all mean

Time washes clean Loves wounds unseen Such a stab of pain from this song.

I love this song by Linda. Your voice is sensational. For me the best female voice, ahead of Whitney Houston and Barbara Streisand.

@kylecompton3305

Жыл бұрын

I agree! Others matched her power, but nobody matched her sound or her versatility. And I am pretty sure, did not match her # of hits or that big of a catalog of original material.

@tjwash5118

Жыл бұрын

@@kylecompton3305 Linda is by far my favorite singer, more talent and true singing skills (rather than screeching high note skills) than just about anyone. She had a lot of hits but only 2 number one hits and most, if not all of her hits had been hit recordings from the original artist. The artists of today have social media to create a brand and a fan base catapulting them to number one hits, one after the other. Mariah Carey has a slew of number one hits. On the country charts there are a boatload of people with them too. I don’t think Linda cared about having hits. Most of the songs I like best of hers were never a hit.

@MrAjking808

Жыл бұрын

Old on now lol .. not Whitney

Linda's voice is my Kryptonite....

2:18 “No, no. No, wait. No, leave it. Leave it. No, this is good. This is Linda Ronstandt. You know who Linda Ronstandt is?”

Yeah yeah tlou ep 3 brought me here. As it ripped out my heart

1:04 that's when you no longer listen to it but start to feel it

Genius!!!

Hauntingly beautiful song...i wake up to this in my thoughts

So, I'm old!! This song is one of the best she's ever done. For a little trivia. Did anyone know her band the Stone Poneys are the Eagles?? She's had some beautiful tunes!!

@tjwash5118

Жыл бұрын

The Stone Poneys aren’t the Eagles. Don Henley and Glenn Fry joined her band years after her days with The Stone Poneys. When they decided they wanted to be their own band, she helped them, and I believe suggested that they get Bernie Leadon and or Randy Meisner to join them.

@sgtpepper1138

Жыл бұрын

@TJ Wash what you said, op was a bit of a "huh?" Comment.

@williamschettler

Жыл бұрын

Yep I am old also, different drum with the stone ponies was the first song I listened to by Linda and I just fell for her voice.

Tears, only tears, for a long, long time 😢

Love this song! Always have, always will ❤️

I’m a man. This hits me hard knowing I did everything to get my dads affection

@montananana406

7 ай бұрын

Now I AM bawling. I never thought of the song in that way, and it hits hard for me as well.

Thanks for posting. She is one of my favorites! When I sing her music at karaoke, I have to have it placed 1 half or whole step lower. Every singer is unique! I wish she was still well enough to sing--at least for her own pleasure. Just found out she wrote a book called "Feels Like Home in 2002.

Carrie….Linda.. “Once again has awaken. Those With love in their hearts ❤ When life took forever away from us. I sit here listening to a song that always drew a kiss from you.. You once told me .. ”If a kiss was a snowflake, you’d send me a blizzard.” As of now ,I find myself searching through a storm.. Forever ended.. When your many snowflake kisses, became tears down the cheeks you left them on..” I know I’m gonna Love you for a LONG LONG TIME.. One day sooner..

@GraceNow

5 ай бұрын

Wow!

For u Ray,missing you😢 my friend ...❤

🥰👍wonderful lyrics ❤💯sometimes IT takes longer to complete 😔😢💔...

Never heard this song before. It just showed up when I opened my youtube. The lyrics tells everything about me. 😭

VIVA LINDA! 🇺🇸✝️🇲🇽✝️🇺🇸✝️🇲🇽

Easily her best song IMHO. Beautiful and powerful all at once.

Wonderful Song and Artist

‘Most Replayed’ is just the entire song 😭like it highlights the whole song not just a mark at the beginning.. wow

Wanted to find this song because of The Last of Us. I’m not crying you’re crying!

@sweeety969

Жыл бұрын

I ALREADY KNEW I WAS CRYING!

Here because of Ruby Leigh, and because I am sad at the moment and somehow relates to the lyrics. 😅

I love this song, the instrumental