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?

Taylor Swift & Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol - The Last Time

Lorde - Writer in the Dark

Birdy’s cover of Skinny Love

Christina Perri - Jar of Hearts

I'll never fall in love again Deacon Blue
I should have known better Jim Diamond
Living next door to Alice Smokie
The Bitterest Pill The Jam
Someone like you Adele
Dear Darlin Olly Murs

Toto- I Won’t Hold You Back and another for Level 42 It’s Over.

This Is Our Last Goodbye- Jeff Buckley

Someone Like You- Adele

I'd Rather Go Blind- the Beth Hart version

Bell Bottomed Tear -The Beautiful South
It’s a heart wrenching song about a couple kidding themselves that they can revive a long dead marriage

Let It All Go -Birdy and Rhodes
A really beautiful and haunting song.

Prayer to God by Shellac

Burn - Usher

without me - halsey

In my head I imagine these two songs as a conversation
“Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” by Rose Royce and
“Blame It on the Sun” by Stevie Wonder

“You abandoned me
Where has my love gone?
Love don’t live here anymore...
How can I go on?
Just a vacancy
It seems dear love has gone away
Love don't live here anymore...”

It's already been mentioned but my ultimate is George Michael's cover of 'I can't make you love me'... I cried many tears to that song!!!

Empty rooms by Gary Moore
No regrets by the Walker brothers
Good year for the roses Elvis Costello

I want you by Elvis Costello cuts me to the core every time I hear it. One of only two songs I cannot listen to without crying because they just floor me (the other one is Creep by Radiohead, but that's not a breakup song). I pray to God I'll never go through a breakup again...

Also, how can it be that no one has mentioned Gloria Gaynor - I will survive??? For when you've wallowed and decide he can go fuck himself and it's time to get very, very drunk!

My Old Dutch

An elderly couple, still in love, but entering the workhouse so they know they will never see each other again as men and women are segregated.

Not the whole thing, just a few lines

We've been together now for forty years,
An' it don't seem a day too much,
There ain't a lady livin' in the land
As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.
Sweet fine old gal,
For worlds I wouldn't lose 'er,
She's a dear good old gal,
An' that's what made me choose 'er.
She's stuck to me through thick and thin,
When luck was out, when luck was in,
Ah wot a wife to me she's been,
An' wot a pal!

I can't make you love me- George Michael version

Robyn-Dancing on my own
Lykke Li- Never gonna love again
The Walker Brothers- The sun ain't gonna shine anymore

I remember Never Ever by All Saints being out when I was having a horrible breakup.

The queen of breakup songs has to be Taylor Swift.
Exile with Bon Iver on Folklore is beautiful.
All too well obviously.
Death by a thousand cuts from Lover.

You outta know, Alamos morrisette. Empowering
And another vote for level 42, it's over.

Neil Young, These Lonesome Blues
Carole King, Its Too Late

Indoor Fireworks - Elvis Costello

Roy Orbison 😭

Love hurts
Love scars
Love wounds
And mars...

I'm young
I know
But even so
I know a thing
Or two
I've learned
From you
Really learned a lot
Really learned a lot
Love is like a stove
Burns you when it's hot ...

Love hurts!

This Mess We're In Pj Harvey/Thom Yorke.
Makes my stomach churn listening to it.

White flag- Dido

Even Now - Barry M. "Even now ,when I have come so far, I wonder where you are, I wonder why it's still so hard without you..."