In honor of Valentine's Day

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What's your favorite bitter break-up song?

To start you off:

Taylor Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know
Dixie Chicks' Goodbye Earl
Pink's So What

Ready, set, go.....

Comments

[taura_g]

Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places

[bedfull_o_books]

Ooh. Good ones.

[lyonesse]

let's just go with ani difranco:

studying stones
grey
welcome to

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I don't know those. I see a date with YouTube in my future....

[fangirl715]

Would "Untouchable Face" work, too?

[digitalemur]

Kerosene by Miranda Lambert

Oooh, and also White Liar by the same though it isn't _quite_ a breakup song.

Also "Iowa" by Dar Williams. Not really bitter though. But definitely breakup music.

[bedfull_o_books]

I don't know Miranda Lambert. Another one to lookup on YouTube....

Going to see Dar Williams at some point. I should check to see when....

[quietann]

"My Immortal" by Evanescence (this is more in the vein of depressed post-breakup songs.)

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John. An oldie but goodie, based on real things that happened to him with his fiancee.

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I didn't know that Someone Saved My Life Tonight was that autobiographical. It is a great song.

[fangirl715]

Pretty much the whole Captain Fantastic album is about his and Bernie Taupin's struggles as aspiring songwriters (and, in Elton's case, as a performer) in the late '60s. The fiancee in question, IIRC, was physically and mentally abusive to him, but he couldn't bring himself to break up w/her; in the end, she dumped him, and he tried to kill himself w/gas, but managed to leave a window open. Anyway, I seem to recall she was the one who "saved [his] life" by breaking up w/him, since he couldn't/wouldn't leave her, although the support he got from Bernie and other friends certainly helped. (Why yes, I was a big fan back in those days; the album came out just before I started high school in 1975.)

[bedfull_o_books]

I can't imagine Elton John being so helpless in a relationship. Of course that was a long time ago....

[lillibet]

Annie Lennox is my go-to on these occasions, expecially "Walking on Broken Glass" and "You Hurt Me (and I Hate You)".

[bedfull_o_books]

Annie Lennox is fabulous. I love those songs.