Best Breakup Songs

[Anonymous]

I think a good song for when you are wallowing and crying after a break up is Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo

I also like Sheryl Crow's My Favorite Mistake:

I woke up and called this morning,
The tone of your voice was a warning
That you don't care for me anymore.

I made up the bed we sleep in.
I looked at the clock when you creep in.
It's 6 AM and I'm alone.

Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending,
To the bad day I was just beginning.
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake.

Your friends act sorry for me.
They watch you pretend to adore me.
But I am no fool to this game.

Now here comes your secret lover,
She'll be unlike any other,
Until your guilt goes up in flames.

Did you know when you go it's the perfect ending,
To the bad day I'd gotten used to spending.
When you go, all I know is you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake.

Well maybe nothing lasts forever,
Even when you stay together.
I don't need forever after, but it's your laughter won't let me go
So I'm holding on this way.

Did you know could you tell you were the only one
That I ever loved?
Now everything's so wrong.

Did you see me walking by, did it ever make you cry?
Now you're my favorite mistake
Yeah you're my favorite mistake
You're my favorite mistake

[Anonymous]

Definitely Bonnie Raitt, I Can't Make You Love Me. Just reading it above almost made me start wailing and re-living past break-ups.

[Anonymous]

Gravel-- Ani DiFranco

and oh, oh,
let me count the ways
that i abhore you,
and you were never a good lay
and you were never a good friend
but, oh, oh, what else can i say...
i adore you

[Anonymous]

Breakdown by Mariah Carey

[Anonymous]

Rascal Flatts: Praying for Daylight

This song always cracks me up! The first lines are...

I've got the lights turned up
The door is locked, the bedroom TV's on
Doing the only thing that gets me through the night
Since you've been gone

Which always makes me think that the guy's beating off. Yes, I'm 12.

Great breakup song: Nickel Creek's "Somebody More Like You"

I didn't hear you say you're sorry
the fault must be mine
I wish you all the best of luck
at finding somebody more like you

You said you'd love me always, truly
I must have changed
'cause you don't need me like you used to
I hope you find somebody more like you

I hope you finally find someone
someone that you trust
and give him everything
I hope you meet someone your height
so you can see eye-to-eye
with someone as small as you

You came out of nowhere, made me smile
Then tore me in two
Saying, "We're very different people"
So dear, I hope you find somebody more like you

I hope you find somebody more like you

[Anonymous]

4 pages and no one has said Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley!

[Anonymous]

Miss You: Rolling Stones
Jackson: Lucinda Williams
Joy: Lucinda Williams
Still I long for your kiss: Lucinda Williams. (okay, basically anything on her Car Wheels on the Gravel Road album).
White Flag: Dido
Must I Paint You a picture: Billy Bragg
Before He Cheats: Carrie Underwood

[Anonymous]

Pp here. I forgot "Bitterest Pill" by The Jam!

[Anonymous]

"good bye to love" by the carpenters, but cover by American music club is what I cried too.

[Anonymous]

You and I - Jazon Mraz.
I listened obsessively a few years back throughout a break-up.

"Cause you and I both loved
What you and I spoke of
And others just read of
Others only read of the love, the love that I love....

And it's okay if you have to go away
Oh just remember the telephone works both ways
And if I never ever hear them ring
If nothing else I'll think the bells inside
Have finally found you someone else and that's okay
Cause I'll remember everything you sang"

[Anonymous]

Patty Loveless - How Can I Learn to Say Goodbye

[Anonymous]

Please Remember Me - Tim McGraw (sorry, probably not many country fans here)

"You'll find better love, strong as it ever was... please remember me"
and
"Remember me when you're out walking, when I can't hurt you anymore"

[Anonymous]

So, good-bye, dear, and amen
Here's hoping that we meet now and then
Well, it was swell fun, but
It was just one of those things
-- Cole Porter

[Anonymous]

Don't think twice it's alright by Bob Dylan

It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on
Don’t think twice, it’s all right

It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe
I’m on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin’ anyway
So don’t think twice, it’s all right

It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal
I can’t hear you anymore
I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I’m told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
But goodbye’s too good a word, gal
So I’ll just say fare thee well
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

[Anonymous]

Not usually a Duran Duran fan, but Ordinary World

Came in from a rainy Thursday
On the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV
And the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some are saying
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence
Once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Every one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world
Every one
Is my world