QotD: Top 5 Break-Up Songs
What are your top five break-up songs?
Submitted by gt.
OOOOOhhhhh this is going to be good.
As usual my top lists are always subject to change but here goes:
5. Only The Lonely (Roy Orbison)
This song is one of the most perfect post break up dive song.
It has a bluesy melody, excellent vocals, and lyrics that portray the sorrow, heartache, and process of moving on.
4.Stuart And The Ave. (Green Day)
More of a bitter breakup, the angst is a wonderful backdrop for when you're tired of your soon to be ex walking all
over you. I especially love the line "I'm beat down, and half brain dead: The long lost king of fools. I may be dumb but I'm not stupid enough to stay with you"
Keep it around for when you realize you've been had for the last time.
3. Lost Horizons (Gin Blossoms)
This alternative gem is another great dive song. Not only does the character focus on alcoholism, and depression compounded by heartbreak, but it has one of the most endearing lines in the pantheon of heartbreak songs:
"She had nothing left to say. So she said she loved me. I stood there grateful for the lie."
2. In A Letter Never Sent (Even in Blackouts)
When one comes to the realization the other party doesn't requite their love the letter indeed is rarely sent.
At least not the one one initially was going to. "In a letter never sent I said I need you, and it told you I'd always be true. But the letter's still here, and you're nowhere near. And I doubt that you'd even care"
1. I Was Losing You All Along (The Mr. T Experience)
When getting led on by someone we are deeply in love with, the rose tinted glasses often times obscure what is obvious to everyone else to our own eyes. That the other party doesn't love us at all. In some cases, we're being used by such a person who knows full well we would do anything for them. So they use us until they get around to being blunt. Still other times, they try, and try to be forthcoming, but we're too busy with our heads in the clouds to hear them. Both of these have happened to me, and I'm sure no matter how hard I try to be prepared to prevent it ultimately it might very well happen again. If any of you have suffered the same fate, this song is for you.
"I was losing you, all along.... there were things I listened to, that sounded wrong, but I couldn't notice they were so strong, but at the time, seemed like they were nothing, and YOU TOLD ME NOT TO WORRY ABOUT THEM As time went on. I was lo----sing you.......all along....."
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