Obscure & dusty,but the best EVER “I’m dumpin’ my winter honey
cause it’s warm enough now to go out & chase other girls” song:Summertime’s Callin’ Me by the Catalinas.
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again –
Why is the bedroom so cold? You’ve turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
Yet there’s still this appeal that we’ve kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again –
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose
There’s a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can’t function no more
When love, love will tear us apart again –
Stunningly… I’ve yet to see a vote for Lover You Should Have Come Over" By Jeff Buckley.
“Lonely is the room, the bed is made
the open window lets the rain in
and lying in the corner is the only boy
who dreams he had you with him”
//
"Maybe I’m just too young, to keep good love
from going wrong
to deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I’ve done
oh but lover you should’ve come over
but its not too late"
Or really, if i remember correctly, just about every song on that album. Its a homage to the dumped man. You gotta wonder what kinda woman leaves a guy who looked and sung like him to begin with.
There’s a whole plethora on the Bob Dylan album Blood on the Tracks: Simple Twist of Fate, You’re a Big Girl Now, You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, If You See Her Say Hello, Buckets of Rain.
Cheryl Wheeler - Arrow
Any number of Fleetwood Mac songs particularly off of Rumours or Tusk. Especially Go Your Own Way
Leonard Cohen - Marianne, Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
That’s all I can come up with for now. Bear in mind, most of these are of the sad but gentle, moving-on type, not the “fck 'em, kill 'em, fck 'em, kill 'em!” sort.
*How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies
Perhaps we don’t fulfill each other’s fantasies.
And so we’ll stand upon the ledges of our lives,
With our respective similarities
It’s either sadness or euphoria.[/]i
Excellent gut-ripper: “I Can’t Make You Love Me” as sung by Bonnie Raitt.
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don’t patronize - don’t patronize me
CHORUS: Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power
But you won’t, no you won’t
'Cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t
I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see
The love you don’t feel when you’re holding me
Morning will come and I’ll do what’s right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
CHORUS: Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power
But you won’t, no you won’t
'Cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t
The song It’s Too Late as sung by Carol King started playing on the radio as my girlfriend of seven years and I were discussing how our relationship was failing. As a consequence, this breakup song is forever imprinted on my brain.
“Everyday I Write the Book” and “You’re Not the Only Flame in Town” - Elvis Costello
“Heartbreak Hotel” - Elvis Presley
and my all-time favorite…
“The King Is Gone (and So Are You)” - George Jones
Last night I broke the seal
On a Jim Beam decanter that looked like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone jelly bean jar
I cleared us off a place
On the warm little table that you left us
And pulled me up a big old piece of floor
I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba dabba do
The King is gone
And so are you
(Gotta love any breakup song that references both Elvis and The Flintstones.)
