Best Break Up Songs EVER!

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Best Break Up Songs EVER!
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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 10:41am
I was reading the post by milton about have "a song" and it ran through my head that gee, maybe we can make new memories with new songs. Maybe anyone who is interested can add on a song or two that they think is great for break-ups. I'll get it started. Here are a few I find very helpful:

Ben Harper, from "Welcome to the Cruel World": Walk Away (warning...this one is a gut wrencher, but sooooo appropriate)

Ani Difranco, from "Dilate": Untouchable Face (good, angry, inteligent f--k you kind of a song about breaking up and encountering your ex)

The Detroit Cobras, from "Life, Love, and Leaving": Can't Miss Nothing



If anyone is interested in adding on to this list, that would be awesome!

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Registered: 05-26-2004
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 11:04am
I like "Happy Now?" by No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom)- It's a good song to play loud when you're feeling empowered. Like a f*ck you, its your loss buddy! I think i'll play it now...

You had the best

But you gave her up

'Cause dependency might interrupt

Idealistic will so hard to please

Put your indecisive mind at east

You broke the set

Now there's only singles

There's no looking back

This time I mean it

Are you happy now?

How is it now?

Are you happy now?

Are you happy?

The uncertainty you had of me

Brought clouded shady company

The tenderness habitual

A seldom-fading ritual

You killed the pair

Now only one is breathing

There's no looking back

This time I mean it

Chorus

No more leaning on your shoulder

I won't be there, no more bother

If you feel you just might want me

That's too bad, I'm not that easy

The contemplator all those years

Now you must adhere

To your new career of liberation

You've been cast all by yourself

You're free at last

You broke the set

Now there's only singles

There's no looking back

This time I mean it

Chorus

You're by yourself

All by yourself

You have no one else,

You're by yourself

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Registered: 01-07-2004
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 11:32am
"The Power of Goodbye" by Madonna!! It's kind of a techno-ish type song, but great!!

Your heart is not open, so I must go

The spell has been broken, I loved you so

Freedom comes when you learn to let go

Creation comes when you learn to say no

You were my lesson, I had to learn

I was your fortress, You had to burn

Pain is a warning that something's wrong

I pray to god that it won't be long

There's nothing left to lose

There's no more heart to bruise

There's no greater power than the power of goodbye

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Registered: 06-03-2004
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 12:07pm
guess maybe I should add some of the lyrics from the break-up songs I picked, since everyone else is, and i think its a great idea.

The Ben Harper songs goes something like this (i'm going from memory, so bear with me)and its much better heard than read, since some of the beats get a little off when you are reading it (forgive me, i am a music freak...)





"OH NO...here comes that sun again

means another day without you my friend

and it hurts me too look into the mirror at myself

and it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else,

***yeah, it's so hard to do, but so easy to say,

sometimes...sometimes, you just have to walk away...walk away

head for the door

so many people to love in my life

why do i worry about one?

you put the happy, in my ness, you put the good times into my fun

****

we've tried the goodbye, for so many days

we walk in the same direction, so that we may never stray

they say if you love somebody, you have got to set them free

but i would rather be locked to you than live in this pain and misery

****

they say time will make all this go away

but its time that has taken my tomorrows

and turned them into yesterdays

and once again that rising sun is going on down

and once again you my friend, are nowhere to be found"








.......The lyrics to the Ani Difranco song will have to come later because I can't remember them off the top of my head, but the chorus goes something like this

f--k you, and your untouchable face

and f--k you for existing in the first place

who am i...that I should be vie-ing for you touch?

could ypu please just tell me that much?

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Registered: 07-16-2003
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 12:22pm
".......The lyrics to the Ani Difranco song will have to come later because I can't remember them off the top of my head, but the chorus goes something like this"

"f--k you, and your untouchable face

and f--k you for existing in the first place

who am i...that I should be vie-ing for you touch?

could ypu please just tell me that much?"

LOL....I think I may just have to download that song! I find it oddly speaking to me.

Lois

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Registered: 06-07-2004
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 12:39pm
I've been listening to this song for weeks now...

Michelle Branch, "Goodbye to You"

Of all the things I believed in

I just want to get it over with

Tears form behind my eyes but I do not cry

Counting the years that pass me by

I've been searching deep down in my soul

Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old

Feels like I'm starting all over again

The last three years were just pretend

And I say

(Chorus:)

Goodbye to you

Goodbye to everything that I knew

You were the one I loved

The one thing that I tried to hold on to

I used to get lost in your eyes

And it seems that I can't live a day without you

Closing my eyes, and you'll chase my thoughts away

To a place where I am blinded by the light, but it's not right



And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time

I want what's yours and I want what's mine

I want you

But I'm not giving in this time



And when the stars fall I will lie awake

You're my shooting star

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Registered: 05-30-2004
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 1:05pm
I happen to like "It Only Hurts When I Breathe" by Shania Twain.

Hope life's been good to you since you've been gone

I'm doin' fine now I've finally moved on

It's not so bad I'm not that sad

I'm not surprised just how well I survived

I'm over the worst, and I feel so alive

I can't complain I'm free again

Chorus

And it only hurts when I'm breathing

My heart only breaks when it's beating

My dreams only die when I'm dreaming

So, I hold my breath to forget

Don't think I'm lyin''round cryin' at night

There's no need to worry, I'm really all right

I've never looked back as a matter of fact

It only hurts when I breathe

Mmm, no, I've never looked back as a matter fact

Hurts when I'm breathing

Breaks when it's beating

Die when I'm dreaming

It only hurts when I breathe


Of course "I Wish" by Jo Dee Messins is a good one too!

It's not easy saying this to you

It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do

But boy before you go

I want you to know

I wish you strength

When times are hard

Oh I wish with all my heart you find what

you're looking for

I wish you joy

I wish you peace

And that every star you see's within your reach

And I wish you still loved me

I wish that things were different you know that

But still I'm happy for the time we had

You mean the world to me

Baby please believe

I wish you strength

When times are hard

Oh I wish with all my heart you find what

you're looking for

I wish you joy

I wish you peace

And that every star you see's within your reach

And I wish you still loved me

Losing you is tearing me apart

But a part of me will be with you no matter where you are

I wish you strength

When times are hard

Oh I wish with all my heart you find what

you're looking for

I wish you joy

I wish you peace

And that every star you see's within your reach

And I wish you still loved me

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Registered: 05-27-2004
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 1:10pm
I was totally thinking the same thing...I gotta get this song...Thanks.

I've been listening to TUESDAYS GONE, by Metallica. Kinda blues for the mood I was in but then I get mad and listen to ROLLIN by Limp Biskit w/ DMX... I need a good screw you song every now and again, hehe

keep the good songs coming!

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Tue, 06-08-2004 - 2:08pm
For some reason I love the "new" pop/rock song "This Love" from Maroon 5 (long-distance relationship breakup -- it seems to me like one), and that's coming from someone who has liked upto 6 songs in all in the past 6 years. That alone should make my opinion count. Great idea for a post.

Ren
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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 2:20pm
Well, there's sad, there's angry, and there's therapeutic.

Something that makes me feel better (therapeutic) is Hoobastank's "The Reason" - I wish my ex would say the same to me, but it sort of helps me to hear it and imagine the right guy would have said the same.

I'm not a perfect person

As many things I wish I didn't do

But I continue learning

I never meant to do those things to you

And so I have to say before I go

That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me

To change who I used to be

A reason to start over new

and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you

It's something I must live with everyday

And all the pain I put you through

I wish that I could take it all away

And be the one who catches all your tears

Thats why i need you to hear

I've found a resaon for me

To change who I used to be

A reason to start over new

and the reason is You

I'm not a perfect person

I never meant to do those things to you

And so I have to say before I go

That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me

To change who I used to be

A reason to start over new

and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show

A side of me you didn't know

A reason for all that I do

And the reason is you


Sad is Sinead O'Connor's Last Day of Our Acquaintance, an oldie but good:

This is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know what your answer will be

I know you don't love me anymore

You used to hold my hand when the plane took off

Two years ago there just seemed so much more

And I don't know what happened to our love

Today's the day

Our friendship has been stale

And we will meet later to finalize the details

Two years ago the seed was planted

And since then you have taken me for granted

But this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know your answer already

But this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know your answer already

I know your answer already

I know your answer already

My favorite angry, though overplayed, was Alanis Morissette, You Ought to Know:

I want you to know, that I'm happy for you

I wish nothing but the best for you both

An older version of me

Is she perverted like me

Would she go down on you in a theatre

Does she speak eloquently

And would she have your baby

I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother

Cause the love that you gave that we made wasn't able

To make it enough for you to be open wide, no

And every time you speak her name

Does she know how you told me you'd hold me

Until you died, till you died

But you're still alive

And I'm here to remind you

Of the mess you left when you went away

It's not fair to deny me

Of the cross I bear that you gave to me

You, you, you oughta know

You seem very well, things look peaceful

I'm not quite as well, I thought you should know

Did you forget about me Mr. Duplicity

I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner

It was a slap in the face how quickly I was replaced

Are you thinking of me when you f- her

Cause the love that you gave that we made wasn't able

To make it enough for you to be open wide, no

And every time you speak her name

Does she know how you told me you'd hold me

Until you died, til you died

But you're still alive

And I'm here to remind you

Of the mess you left when you went away

It's not fair to deny me

Of the cross I bear that you gave to me

You, you, you oughta know

Cause the joke that you laid on the bed that was me

And I'm not gonna fade

As soon as you close your eyes and you know it

And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back

I hope you feel it...well can you feel it

And I'm here to remind you

Of the mess you left when you went away

It's not fair to deny me

Of the cross I bear that you gave to me

You, you, you oughta know

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Tue, 06-08-2004 - 2:39pm
I thought of another great Sinead song! This one is for the person getting on with their life and the CP who won't let them!!

Jealous:

You're jealous

You just can't stand to see me get along without you

Like I do

You told me to...

Now you're jealous

You don't know how hard it was to be alone without you

and wanting you

Like I do...

I would stayed if you had wanted

I would have been willing

but you said I treat you so badly

I can't be forgiven

You know I would have done anything

to make it through with you

but I don't deserve to be lonely

just 'cause you say I do

Now you're jealous

You don't know how hard it is to be a woman in love with you

when you're so cruel

and so jealous

You don't think about anybody's feelings but your own....

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