Songs about Breaking Up
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(Read only, anymore; sorry.)
Short version of rules
Without using a search engine to find one, write down at least eight words of a song containing the word (or the topic, if it's a general topic).
If it's the newest word, play once, and wait for another player to play before you go again.
On older words, you can play over and over without waiting!
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The snow is really piling up outside,
I wish you wouldn't make me leave here.
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad ~ Meatloaf
I'm not going back to you anymore.
Fin'lly my weakened heart is healing, though very slow.
So stop comin' around my door,
'Cause you're not gonna find what you're looking for.
Release me....will you release me?
Wilson Phillips
They say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it's true
Don't say this is the end
Instead of breaking up, I wish that we were making up again
(Neil Sedaka)
I'm down at the end of lonely street at
Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Presley
Break up to make up, that's all we do
First you love me, then you hate me
That's a game for fools
The Stylistics
It's all right, yeah I'll be fine
Don't worry 'bout this heart of mine
Just take your love and hit the road.
There's nothing you can do or say,
You're gonna break my heart anyway,
So just leave the pieces when you go.
The Wreckers
Oh I bet you wonder how I knew
'Bout your plan to make me blue
"Heard it through the Grapevine," Marvin Gaye
I don’t wanna get inside your mind or your pants,
I don’t wanna waste my time with love and romance,
I want my next ex-girlfriend, my next ex-girlfriend,
I don’t want the fairy tale, and
I don’t want the girl from hell,
And I don’t want to spend the time,
And I don’t need no valentine,
My next ex-girl friend, my next ex-girlfriend
Ex-girlfriend ~ Bowling for Soup
Some other guy is takin' up all your time
And you don't have time for me
Cuz you don't want my love
You don't seem to care a thing about me
You'd rather live without me
Than to have my arms around you
When the nights are cold
And you're so all alone
Roger Miller
You'd think I could learn
How to tell you goodbye
cause you don't bring me flowers anymore
Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand
It's too bad it's too late, you were such a big mistake, please don't call here anymore
"Surf Colorado"
Bowling for soup
My dear Lady Anne
I've done what I can
I must take my leave
For promised I am
Rolling Stones, "Lady Jane"
You left me on the weekend,
without a by-your-leave
Whenever You're Ready (we'll go steady again) Elton/Bernie
And take your cat and leave my sweater,
cause we have nothing left to weather
You'll Think Of Me ~ Keith Urban
So darlin' let me help you with that suitcase
You ain't gonna break my heart in two...
Weird Al, "One More Minute"
Still I wish there was something you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talking anyway
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Bob Dylan
I love you both and this will pure h-e-double-l for me
How I wish that I could stop this d-i-v-o-r-c-e
an old C&W song
We fight we break up
we kiss we make up...
---Katy Perry, "Hot & Cold"
Once you warned me
That if you scorned me
I'd sing the maiden's prayer again
And wish that you were there again
To get into my hair again
It never entered my mind
(Rodgers/Hart)
She doesn't want to have her Young Fresh Fellows tape back
She wants, she wants, she wants to see you twisting
Twisting twisting twisting
She wants to see you twisting
In the wind
They Might Be Giants
I don't expect my love affairs
To last for long
Never fool myself
That my dreams will come true
from "Evita"
I don't like all these people
slagging her for breaking up the Beatles.
Don't blame it on Yokey.
Bare Naked Ladies
I lost my lucky ball and chain, now she's four years gone
She's five feet tall and sick of me with all my rattling on
She walked away from a happy man, I thought I was so cool
I just stood there whistling "There goes the bride" as she walked out the door
They might be Giants
One less phone to answer
One less egg to fry
One less man to pick up after
(I don't know who did it, and I don't really know it)
A hundred and ten miles ain't much distance
But it sure do make a difference
I don't think she loves me anymore
And I warned her of the dangers
Don't speak to strangers
Did by chance she find a romance
Warmer lips to kiss her
Arms to hold her tighter
Stirring new fires in side her
How I wish that it was me
Instead of he that stands beside her
Roger Miller
If that's the way you want it
Well that's the way I want it more
And there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor, in the morning
Jim Croce
No regrets
No tears goodbye
Don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again
No Regrets
Tom Rush
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
Dianna Ross
You've left my heart a vacant lot
I'll fill it with another shot
And yes I guess they oughta name a drink after you
John Prine
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
Kenny Rogers
Oh, and now she's heading out to California
With some money in her pocket she's a rocket on the fourth of July
And she left a little letter said she's gonna make a stop in Nevada
Goodbye, goodbye
Billy Joel
Take back your mink
Take back your pearls
What made you think
That I was one of the girls
"Take Back Your Mink," from Guys & Dolls
So you met someone who set you back on your heels
Goodie goodie
So you met someone and now you know how it feels
Goodie Goodie
So you gave her your heart too
Just as I gave mine to you
And she tore it in little pieces
Now how do you do?
So you lie awake just singing the blues all night
Goodie Goodie
So you think that love is a barrel of dynamite
Hooray and Hallelujah
You had it coming to ya
Goodie goodie for her
Goodie goodie for me
And I hope you're satisfied you rascal you
Ella sings it (double breakup song about an ex being dumped :)
One thousand umbrellas upturned couldn't catch
all the rain that drained out of my head when you said
we were over
and over I cried
'til I floated downstream
to a town they call Misery
oh oh Misery...
"1000 Umbrellas" - XTC
Get your tongue outta my mouth
'Cause I'm kissin' you goodbye
-Ray Stevens
Girl, don't go away mad...
Girl, just go away!
some 80's big-hair band
I'll never hold what could have been
On a cold and lonely night
-Tiffany
Stranded at the drive-in
Branded a fool
What will they say
Monday at school?
from "Grease"
It was a slap in the face
How quickly I was replaced...
"You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morrisette
since you did a playlist....
The Roger Miller songs I played were **"Engine, engine number 9" and "In the Summertime"
The Ella song is "Goody Goody" (on playlist.com the versions by "demensions" or "frankie and the teenagers" are ok)
TMBG songs are **"Lucky ball and chain" and "Twisting"
I put stars by the ones that I found on playlist.com
When love congeals
It soon reveals
The faint aroma of performing seals
The double crossing of a pair of heels
"I wish I were in love again", Rogers & Hart, Ella sang it
The girl that I loved she was winsome
I tried all I knew her to please
But apparently I couldn't please her as well
As the man on the flying trapeze
[...]
That big muscled scoundrel should swing through the trees
But my love he has stolen away
The man on the flying trapeze (I like the Burl Ives version)
I was dancing
With my darling
To the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced her to my darling
And while they were dancing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me
I remember the night
And the Tennessee Waltz
Now I know just how much I have lost
Yes, I lost my little darling
The night they were playing
The beautiful Tennessee Waltz
(Stewart/King)
Breaking up is never easy I know
But I have to go
Knowing me know you it's the best we can do
ABBA
She says, are you okay, can you hear me, open your eyes.
I'd love to, but I can't stand to see you so happy without me, so f**k you.
Hit The Floor by Thirst
How my poor heart is breaking
No misery can tell
He left me no warning
No word of farewell
"Wildwood Flower," traditional
(I looked for a version to share from Playlist, but nobody does it as well as my mom and granny did.)
Tuesday morning
Please be gone I'm tired of you
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Are you going away with no word of farewell?
Will there be not a trace left behind?
Well I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
Tom Paxton
And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain
Fleetwood Mac
she brought me flowers
just to say:
she's packed her bags, she's leaving
she's on her way
she brought me flowers
and that's ok
cause some things last forever
and some just fade away
"flowers" (reamonn)
there's a danger in loving
somebody too much
and it's sad when you know
it's your heart you can't trust
there's a reason why people
don't stay where they are
baby, sometimes
love just ain't enough
"sometimes love just ain't enough"
(patti smyth & don henley)
He had it coming, he had it coming
he only had himself to blame
if you'd have been there
if you'd have seen it
I'm betting you would have done the same.
I saw this coming but still I am caught by surprise
All of this time I knew
That I'd be losing you
That doesn't mean that it's okay
That doesn't mean I'm ready
When You Go
Jonathan Coulton
We're just friends, just friends,
That's the way it should be
I'll be friends with you
And you be friends with me
It's exciting, it's neat,
Classify it as swell
You can count on me to be
YOUR INCREDIBLE FRIEND FROM HELL!!
-a very bitter break-up song by one of those novelty-songs-for-morning-radio guys...maybe Tim Cavanaugh, I'm not sure. From the late 80's.
Yup. Cross-posted. :)
I want to go where I will never hear your name
I want to lose my sorrow and be free again
I'm Alive
Jackson Browne
Well it's too late, baby,
Now it's too late.
Though we really did try to make it.
Something inside has died,
And I can't hide and I just can't take it.
--"It's Too Late," Carole King
By Christmas time, she had left my side.
(Chorus:)
It's that same old bluegrass story:
Another woman's come and she's gone.
But don't you feel sorry for me;
I've still got my banjo and a song.
--"Same Old Bluegrass Story," Wright Brothers Overland Stage Company
I broke a heart,
Was gentle and true.
Yes, I broke a heart
Over someone like you.
Learned my lesson,
Left a scar.
Now I see how you really are,
You're no good, you're no good,
your're no good,
Baby, you're no good.
--"You're No Good," Linda Ronstadt
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