Break Up Songs

DamnitAll and I decided that since there's a Sappy Love Songs thread, we needed somewhere to post our favorite breakup songs! (I'm kind of stealing her thunder, shhhh.)

So get angry, get sad, get whatever. Just post em.

 

Good call!


Disclaimer: I kinda hate Taylor Swift. But I DO like this song. It's one of those "turn up the radio and sing at the top of your lungs" songs for me.

 

I feel the EXACT same way about this song. It's one of my angry belting songs, along with "Should Have Said No" The two good TSwizzle songs, in my opinion.

 

I'm going to have to come back to this one, since I exhausted all of my meaningful song mojo sleuthing skills on picking out the sappy ones. So, yeah.

 

CinnamonGirl - grr. Taylor can fuck right on off. Hate her more than you hate Dust on the Bottle.









and... the one I love and hate at the same time. (played way too much during a rough patch a few years back)

 

Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over, it's over now

 

I can't believe I forgot that one!
I have broken down sobbing during it many a time.

 

Ha! Well, that's how I normally feel about her.

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Shit, you guys, this thread has sent me into a major nostalgic livejournal reread. Fuck.



Now that it's over, I don't even know what I liked about you.

 

Um, also. I'll be adding 2309587487 songs to this thread—fair warning.

 

Alright, the opening salvo. I'm kind of going to cheat and link to these instead of embedding them because as much as I dislike impatient people (attn. GeneticShift), I am currently one myself and feel compelled to spit them all out at once. So deal.

Joe Jackson, Breaking Us In Two​

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Todd Rundgren, Can We Still Be Friends (though I much prefer—and therefore linked to—Mandy Moore's version instead)​

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Ani DiFranco, Done Wrong​

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R.E.M., Everybody Hurts​

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Cake, Friend is a Four Letter Word​

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Ben Folds, Gone​

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Sara Bareilles, Hold My Heart​

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Dixie Chicks, A Home​

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Bonnie Raitt, I Can't Make You Love Me​

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Peter Gabriel, I Grieve​

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Three Days Grace, I Hate Everything About You​

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Blink182, I Miss You​

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Guns 'n' Roses, I Used to Love Her​

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Cake, It's Coming Down​

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Muse, Madness​

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Cake, Sad Songs and Waltzes​

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Cake, She'll Come Back To Me​

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NIN, Something I Can Never Have​

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Ani DiFranco, Sorry I Am​

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Tori Amos, Tear In Your Hand​

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Kelly, Txt Msg Brkup​

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Ani DiFranco, Untouchable Face​

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Linkin Park, Waiting For the End​

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Cake, Walk On By​

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Carly Simon, You're So Vain​

We can thank the Ex for these ones. Had it not been for her influence, I probably never would have listened to many of them. From now on I probably won't have any reason to voluntarily listen to them ever again. Thanks again, Ex.

Dolly Parton, The Grass Is Blue​

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Vince Gill, I Still Believe in You​

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Johnny Cash, I Still Miss Someone​

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Blackhawk, I Sure Can Smell the Rain​

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Dolly Parton, I'm Gone​

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Chicago, If You Leave Me Now​

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Indigo Girls, Moment of Forgiveness​

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Vince Gill, Never Knew Lonely​

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David Gray, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye​

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Anne Murray, Tennessee Waltz​

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Vince Gill, Tryin' to Get Over You​

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Ouch, my heart.

 

Why does love have to be so sad, Eric Clapton & Derek Trucks

 

Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers


No Doubt - Don't Speak

 

Damn, we got busy, and I had some errands to run. Okay...now it's Story Time.


I saw Keri Noble at the Southgate House in Newport on a total spur-of-the-moment outing (as in, I left the house approximately fifteen minutes before she was scheduled, and about five minutes after I learned about the gig. Luckily, she had an opening act.) The Infamous Douchebag Ex and I were still together, but barely...I was starting to see what everyone else saw, sort of, but I hadn't worked up the courage to tell him to fuck off yet. I think we were "taking a break" at that point, but I'd give in if he called and wanted sex.

Anyway. Being under his thumb for the better part of three years, I had this almost-silly feeling of being brave and daring and adventurous, just for GOING to the gig, on the fly and by myself. It was a pretty intimate setting, only thirty people or so, and it was just Keri and her piano up on stage.

I remember she talked about writing "Watch Me Walk," but sadly, I don't remember what she said. I just know that when she started singing, it knocked the breath out of me. It was at that point I truly realized that this relationship had an expiration date, and I had to stand up for myself...and walk out of his life. It took me about a month more to actually do it, but this song started the process.

 

i like angry breakup songs.
and no body does an angry breakup song better than fiona.


View: http://youtu.be/L9Wnh0V4HMM



View: http://youtu.be/Fby632bPn0E



View: http://youtu.be/CfTNpbraBbI


and my personal favorite:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F76BU-tMI3Q

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