Saddest breaking up song?

[Clawdy]

Listened to Roy Orbison's "Crying" this morning, such a sad breakup song. What's your favourite breakup song, one that really gets to your heart?

I'll be over you -Toto

Freya Ridings - Lost without you

Look for the woman by Scrubius Pip.
' love you too much to leave, don't like you enough to stay'

Leaving Me Now - Level 42
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers
Don't Speak - No Doubt
No Air - Jordin Sparks
Crash - Usher

East 17 Stay another day

I have three. More due to the intense nostalgia of my most recent breakup (this is going back years), than the actual lyrics.

The Absence of God (Rilo Kiley)
Does He Love You (also Rilo Kiley), and
Motorcycle Drive By (Third Eye Blind).

All three capture that lovelorn emptiness of a relationship gone sour.

Kayleigh by Marillion
Missing by Everything but the girl

Oh I just remembered
I'll sail this ship alone by The Beautiful South

It's Over -Level 42

If anyone makes a Spotify playlist from this would you please share??

Ill add Geneva if you have to go to the list

Absolute safest one:
Randy Vanwarmer, Just when I needed you most

Sadest! Not safest

Make it easy on yourself - Burt Bacharach

Randy VanWarmer - Just when I needed you most

Also If it's Over - Mariah Carey

Debbie Gibson -Foolish Beat

Was also going to say Last Request by Paolo Nutini, love that song,

But Thinking of you by Katy Perry cuts deep every time

Madonna 'Take a bow'.

I remember the time I knew I had fallen out of love with my ex and I knew I was going to have to leave him. We were in the car, he was driving, I was gazing out of the window. Coldplay’s “The Scientist” came on. “It’s such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy, no- one ever said it would be this hard.”

Later the same day, the same song was playing in the shop we were wandering around.

I broke up with him a couple of weeks later. I packed up my stuff and he dropped me off at my parents house. As we pulled up outside, wha5pt song was on the radio? Yeah, was a bit of a gut punch, honestly, as we both sat there listening to the words and staring at each other. I still struggle to listen to it.

That Was Yesterday -Foreigner
Breakfast At Tiffany's -Deep Blue Something
Don't Speak -No Doubt
The Flame -Cheap Trick
Someone Like You -Adele

I came back to add

I don’t love you by My Chemical Romance

I need all of these compiled into one playlist!

Colin

Same. I lived in a badly converted flat and through the wall some poor sod was going through a breakup at the same time as I was. Whoever s/he was played The Scientist on repeat. It was simultaneously heartrending and comforting. I still have it on a spotify list ‘only to listen to when feeling robust’

Ooh yes @Mistressinthetulips Kayleigh has definitely made me cry more than once or twice!

MY SENTIMENTAL FRIEND by HERMAN'S HERMITS.

@legohouse

Freya Ridings - Lost without you

Yes! I only really listened to the lyrics very recently. Cried myself to eyes out.

I would also add:
On and On by The Longpigs
Your House (Forgive Me Love) - Alanis
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
And more recently:
Strange - Celeste
“Strangers to friends, friends into lovers, then strangers again...”
Another one where I didn’t realise how gut wrenching the lyrics were until about the 50th listen.
And lastly - Tin Man by Miranda Lambert. Genius lyrics.