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Saddest breaking up song?

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Clawdy · 02/04/2021 09:15

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?

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Ifailed · 02/04/2021 11:41

Jilted John, by Jilted John.

VienneseWhirligig · 02/04/2021 11:42

Rites of Passage by Fish

VenusClapTrap · 02/04/2021 11:43

China - Tori Amos was the song that resonated with me during a bad teenage breakup. I listened to that whole album endlessly, so if I hear those songs again now I’m instantly 18 again.

MammaMiaWallace · 02/04/2021 11:48

Angie Rolling Stones

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HerBigChance · 02/04/2021 13:20

Another Sinead one - 'Last Day of our Acquaintance', manages to be clinical and beautiful by turns.

And from a man's point of view: Bill Withers 'Hope She'll be Happier with Him' - Live from Carnegie Hall. Incredible track.

JadeSeahorse · 02/04/2021 13:26

Without me - Halsey!

ginghamtablecloths · 02/04/2021 13:30

Someone Like You by Adele makes me cry.

GenderApostate19 · 02/04/2021 13:50

Say something - Great big world + Christina Aguliera.
Incomplete - Backstreet boys?
Only you - Yazoo.

Keepyourdistance000 · 02/04/2021 13:53

Just Another Day Without You - Jon Secada.

Do You Remember - Phil Collins.

Echobelly · 02/04/2021 13:56

Otis Redding - 'I've been loving you a little too long', the most amazing and moving vocal performance.

RockNRollNerd · 02/04/2021 13:57

@JudyGemstone

Songbird - Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. Actually most of Rumours!
Silver Springs gets me every time. The video with Stevie Nicks singing it at Lindsey Buckingham has so much emotion in it.
HouseOfTheRisingMum · 02/04/2021 14:04

So many good songs mentioned on here. I’m going to have to make myself a playlist...

The song that gives me shivers is I Want You by Elvis Costello. (Although it might be about an affair rather than a break up)

Cookerhood · 02/04/2021 14:06

Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2U pulls my heartstrings every time I hear it.
Also Adele Someone like you

Foxyloxy1plus1 · 02/04/2021 14:52

Separate Lives by Phil Collins
I Don’t Wanna Talk About It by Rod Stewart

ThatOtherPoster · 02/04/2021 14:58

“The End of the World” by Skeeter Davis. 😢

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Clawdy · 02/04/2021 15:13

I Get Along Without You Very Well - several versions, but I love Chet Baker's. Those lines " I get along without you very well, Of course I do, Except to hear your name, Or someone's laugh that is the same..."

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LividLiving · 02/04/2021 15:15

All I Ask by Adele.

It just destroys me every time. No idea why she didn’t release it as a single.

Sally2791 · 02/04/2021 15:15

Don’t Speak.

foreverchangingmyname · 02/04/2021 15:47

Last kiss and All Too Well by Taylor Swift.
The opening bars of both songs take me straight back to my first heartbreak, I feel like a teenager all over again

Elderflower14 · 02/04/2021 15:50

@GenderApostate19

Say something - Great big world + Christina Aguliera. Incomplete - Backstreet boys? Only you - Yazoo.
I saw A Great Big World live in London in 2016... They were absolutely amazing. I met them afterwards and got their autograph and they signed a poster for my goddaughter too...
ZombeaArthur · 02/04/2021 15:53

Black by Pearl Jam

LaBellina · 02/04/2021 15:54

When we were young by Adele

Slow dancing in a burning room - John Mayer

Dreaming with a broken heart - John Mayer

John Mayer is the absolute king of tear inducing songs (in my opinion at least)

Jenthefredo · 02/04/2021 15:55

To the end - blur
I've been lovin you - otis redding
Your Lovin arms - glen Campbell
Think twice - Celine dion
A Different corner - George Michael

Nowifi · 02/04/2021 15:57

Lover you should've come over - Jeff Buckley