Best Breakup Songs
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"Ghost" - Indigo Girls
There's a letter on the desktop that I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to In our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across With five steps down And I guess that's how you started Like a pinprick to my heart But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost Dark and dangerous like a secret That gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul) When I wake the things I dreamt about you Last night make me blush (don't tell a soul) And you kiss me like a lover Then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river Play your memory like a piper And I feel it like a sickness How this love is killing me I'd walk into the fingers Of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close I'm in love with your ghost Unknowing captor You never know how much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you Can you hear it A cry to be free Oh I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me Now I see your face before me I would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island As the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence And I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles With you always at my heels This bitter pill I swallow Is the silence that I keep It poisons me I can't swim free The river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worse than most In love with your ghost You are shadowing my dreams (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) Songwriters: SALIERS, EMILY ANN |
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| Did anybody mention Sinead O'Conner's "Nothing compares to you"? Also, The Red Hot Chili Pepper's "I Could Have Lied" is just is agony in lyrics AND was written about Sinead! |
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Don Henley, "Last Worthless Evening"
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Love you KU! |
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Angie-Rolling Stones
Sara-bob Dylan |
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Poison & Wine by the Civil Wars, written by John Paul White, Joy Williams & Chris Lindsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzRlcnq_c0 You only know what I want I you to I know everything you don't want me to your mouth is poison your mouth is wine you think your dreams are the same as mine I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I always will I wish you'd hold me when I turn my back well the less I give the more I get back your hands can heal, your hands can bruise I don't have a choice, but I'd still choose you I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I don't love you but I always will I always will I always will I always will I always will Poison & Wine is a musical snapshot about the dichotomy of love - that while it can be the thing that destroys you, it can also be the very same thing that beckons and builds you. This song was our attempt at being as brutally honest about the dangerous and beautiful process of knowing and being known. (-Joy Williams, The Civil Wars) |
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Ooh, I love this thread. A boyfriend once told me that my music collection indicated I might be a severely depressed lesbian I'm actually quite happy but I do have a thing for tragic love songs. This list (and more red wine than I'd like to admit got me through a particularly hard breakup back in the day. Thanks for this thread OP, I think this happily married house wife is going to stream some tragic breakup music through house while LO is napping hehe.
Empty by Ray Lamontagne...so beautiful and soulful! Please Remember Me by Tim McGraw Come Pick Me Up by Ryan Adams I'm so Happy I can't Stop Crying by Sting Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer World Spins Madly On by The Weepies Ghost by The Indigo Girls 9 Crimes by Damien Rice Pictures of You by The Cure Delicate by Damien Rice In Your Atmosphere by John Mayer Bittersweet by Big Head Todd and the Monsters Gravel by Ani DiFranco |
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Elvis Costello: too many to list
More current stuff: Modest Mouse: Broke Peter Bjorn and John: Up Against the Wall |
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Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye |
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| And Just Give Me a Reason by Pink is the perfect ALMOST break-up song. |
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"Smoke and Mirrors", the Color Morale
"Smoke And Mirrors" If you give up on me, then I give up on everything I didn't come this far to not tell you the truth And you'll know it's true because the answers that I tell you will make you all feel sick Feel hateful, feel useless and used, just remember that every piece of trash Was one time itself first used Say the word Say the word and I will go quickly to a light Too much of anyone one thing at a time will leave you blind Say the word and I will go quickly to a light Too much of anyone one thing at a time just left me blind You need to get through what you are going through Some day someone, somewhere will need you If you give up on me, then I give up on everything Back and forth my reason grows, I didn't choose this I was chose Back and forth my reason grows, I didn't choose this and I want to go Home is where the hurt is and no one even knows Say the word and I will go quickly to a light Too much of anyone one thing at a time will leave you blind Say the word and I will go quickly to a light Too much of anyone one thing at a time just left me blind If you give up on me then I give up on everything If you give up on me then I give up on everything |
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A very upbeat breakup song:
Red Rubber Ball Song by The Cyrkle I should have known you'd bid me farewell There's a lesson to be learned from this and I learned it very well Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea If I never hear your name again, it's all the same to me And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball You never care for secrets I confide For you I'm just an ornament, somethin' for your pride Always runnin', never carin', that's the life you live Stolen minutes of your time were all ya had to give And I think it's gonna be all right Yeah, the worst is over now The mornin' sun is shinin' like a red rubber ball The story's in the past with nothin' to recall I've got my life to live and I don't need you at all The roller-coaster… Full lyrics on Google Play |
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The Breakup Song (They don't write 'em)
Greg Kihn Band We broken up for good just an hour before... |
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Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac |
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| Last Request--Paolo Nutini |