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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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Handsoffstrikesagain · 02/04/2021 20:30

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Angel2702 · 02/04/2021 20:33

Whitney Houston Where do broken hearts go.

Ilovemyhairbeingstroked · 02/04/2021 20:36

End of the road boyz to men
How am I supposed to live without you Michael Bolton / Zack Attack (when Kelly dumped Zac - Saved by the Bell 😂

ImAlrightThanx · 02/04/2021 20:41

Vermilion Part 2 - Slipknot (not at all a typical slipknot song- more of a Ballard than whatever category slipknot is in!)

Jemenfouscompletement · 02/04/2021 20:42

Roméo and Juliet Dire Straits

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foreverchangingmyname · 02/04/2021 20:45

@wildthingsinthenight

You Could Be Happy - Snow Patrol. Gives me a pain in my chest
Oh I forgot about this song! Always brings me to tears
BigSandyBalls2015 · 02/04/2021 20:55

All out of love!! Forgot about that one!

HopingForRainbow2021 · 02/04/2021 21:00

Snow Patrol - You Could be Happy
Such a beautiful song

HopingForRainbow2021 · 02/04/2021 21:00

@wildthingsinthenight ah just saw you beat me to it!

schroeder · 02/04/2021 21:01

To the End - Blur
My god that whole album is so full of pain and beauty.

Cocopogo · 02/04/2021 21:02

Unbreak my heart Toni Braxton

BertieBotts · 02/04/2021 21:03

Ani DiFranco - You Had Time

JamieFrasersBigSwingingKilt · 02/04/2021 21:04

Black by Pearl Jam. It's heart wrenching. These lyrics get me every time.

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Oh can't it be in mine?

Whereismymojo · 02/04/2021 21:05

@MrsSchrute

No Distance Left To Run by Blur.

So so sad.

Yes!!!! Ohh so sad. I listened to it recently. Was that Damon and justine’s break up song, or did I make that up?
LuluJakey1 · 02/04/2021 21:06

Gloria Estefan 'I'd Do Anything for You'. My first boyfriend dumped me just before I went on holiday with my parents when I was a teenager. I listened to this over and over on my Sony Walkman,

BertieBotts · 02/04/2021 21:06

And Carly Simon - Coming Around Again

Baby sneezes
Mummy pleases
Daddy breezes in
So good on paper
So romantic
But so bewildering

You pay the grocer
Fix the toaster
Kiss the host good-bye
Then you break a window
Burn the soufflé
Scream a lullaby

Whereismymojo · 02/04/2021 21:07

@Jemenfouscompletement

Roméo and Juliet Dire Straits
Love this too! But I don’t think it’s sad Shock
Swipeleftagain · 02/04/2021 21:07

Based on a recent breakup

Sword from the Stone - Passenger
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

And yes to Good Year for the Roses and All I Ask - if I’d known that night would be the last night 😢

EachandEveryone · 02/04/2021 21:09

BbC4 right now seems to be dedicating an evening to Fleetwood Mac

pointythings · 02/04/2021 21:10

Just Another Girl - the Killers
Stay - Blue October
When All Is Said And Done - Abba

Pretty much everyone on this thread is nailing it.

Robin233 · 02/04/2021 21:12

Losing you -Brenda Lee
It's not unusual - Tom Jones
Nothing compares - Sidead o Connor
Crying - / it's over - Roy orberson
I will always love you - Dolly Parton
You and me - Tammy Wynette
As soon as I get over losing you - Tammy Wynette
There he goes - pasty cline
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you - pasty cline
She's got you - pasty cline
Little miss lonely / Helen shapio
End of the world / skiter Davies.
So many ..,,

NanTheWiser · 02/04/2021 21:14

Scott Walker’s “If you go away”, originally written by Jacques Brel, “Ne me quitte pas” :

schroeder · 02/04/2021 21:14

@EachandEveryone

BbC4 right now seems to be dedicating an evening to Fleetwood Mac
Oh god I always get sucked into those documentaries and they break my heart. I always end up sozzled and weeping!?ConfusedSad I am not even much of a Fleetwood Mack fan
Whereismymojo · 02/04/2021 21:18

@Thewishingchair123

The Cars - Drive. Such a sad but beautiful song.

Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together in electric dreams. Not necessarily a break-up song but could listen to it again and again whilst reminiscing.

I’m an eighties chick, can you tell Grin

Oh god, Drive is such a beautifully sad song
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