# Best Breakup Songs Ever.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 12, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578 "2002-05-12T02:51:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mrsbunnie2you](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsbunnie2you)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/1 "2002-05-12T02:51:14Z")
List your favorite breakup songs. My personal favorite at this particular moment happens to be Alanis Morrisette’s “You Oughta Now”.
Thanks!.
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### Author:  [@Willow\_fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willow_fire)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/2 "2002-05-12T03:09:26Z")
God I love that song too…I play it really loud when ever I am P.O.ed at my hubby. He figures out REAL quick he is in dutch!
But my favorite (has been since i was a kid) break up song has got to be
Sad eyes by Robert Johns
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/3 "2002-05-12T03:11:40Z")
I like an old classic by Harry Nilsson, “Your Breaking My Heart”.
Your breaking my heart;
Your tearing it apart;
So f\*\*\* you.
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/4 "2002-05-12T03:15:58Z")
Weird though it may seem, I tend to play Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A’Changing” and “It Ain’t Me” over and over during them rough spots.
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### Author:  [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/5 "2002-05-12T03:27:20Z")
_Just One Of Those Things_ - Cole Porter
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### Author:  [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/6 "2002-05-12T03:48:13Z")
_Song for the Dumped_ by the Ben Folds Five.
> [@](#):
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> So you wanted to take a break
> Slow it down some, and have some space…
> F\*\*K YOU TOO!
> I want my money back, give me my money back you b\*tch! …
> And don’t forget to gimme back my black t-shirt!
Pretty much sums it up, from a guy’s perspective anyway.
-Dirty
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### Author:  [@Sinyster1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinyster1)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/7 "2002-05-12T04:21:37Z")
I hate everything about you by Ugly Kid Joe
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### Author:  [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/8 "2002-05-12T04:23:39Z")
“I Wanna Be Around”, by Tony Bennet:
I wanna be around to pick up the pieces,
When somebody breaks your heart,
Some somebody twice as smart as I!
A somebody who,
Will swear to be true,
Like you used to do with me,
Who will leave you to learn,
That misery loves company,
Wait and see!
I wanna be around to see how he does it,
When he breaks your heart to bits,
Let’s see if the puzzle fits so fine!
And that’s when I’ll discover,
That revenge is sweet,
As I sit there applaudin’
From a front row seat,
When somebody breaks your heart,
Like you broke mine!
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/9 "2002-05-12T05:01:22Z")
“Must have been Love”, by Roxette.
This is going to Cafe Society soon, I think…
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### Author:  [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/10 "2002-05-12T05:09:05Z")
“If You Leave” by OMD
> [@](#):
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> If you leave I won’t cry
> I won’t waste one single day
> But if you leave don’t look back
> I’ll be running the other way
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### Author:  [@caffeine\_overdose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caffeine_overdose)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/11 "2002-05-12T05:09:44Z")
How about “50 Ways to Leave your Lover”
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/12 "2002-05-12T05:33:04Z")
“Positively Fourth Street” by Bob Dylan. One of the best songs in the world to play about someone that you absolutly hope get’s run over by a truck in the next thirty seconds. Every single line in that song is brilliant.
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### Author:  [@ejrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ejrn)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/13 "2002-05-12T05:40:41Z")
Yup, Bob Dylan wrote some great break-up songs. Don’t forget “Don’t Think Twice.”
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/14 "2002-05-12T06:00:53Z")
“Devil Woman” by the Phunk Junkeez \*\*perfectly[/b[ described one of my breakups.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/15 "2002-05-12T06:57:24Z")
GQ is for questions with factual answers. Polls and surveys normally go in IMHO, but since this is about music I’ll send it over to Cafe Society, our arts forum.
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### Author:  [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/16 "2002-05-12T07:23:03Z")
“Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Tom Petty and “Ain’t That Lonely Yet” by Dwight Yoakum
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### Author:  [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/17 "2002-05-12T07:32:49Z")
“Since You’ve Been Gone” by Weird Al Yankovic.
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### Author:  [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/18 "2002-05-12T09:45:24Z")
“Please Do Not Go” by the Violent Femmes
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/19 "2002-05-12T10:12:28Z")
Ween, “Baby Bitch”
> [@](#):
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> It’s been a while since I’ve seen you smile
> But now you’ve come back again
> Came into the room and you saw my girl
>
> And you asked her how long it’s been
> “A year” she said and you shook your head
> Said “I’m surprised it’s gone on that long”
Just perfect.
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### Author:  [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2002, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-breakup-songs-ever/108578/20 "2002-05-12T10:13:44Z")
Also, “Lovefool” by the Cardigans.
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