# Best Falling-out-of-love songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282 "2012-07-24T20:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/21 "2012-07-25T01:27:58Z")
A handful for submission - [The Cars - Drive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFZmRVjUJnY) [REO Speedwagon - Time For Me To Fly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L2T7bWQzEs) [John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GZ3suxRn4) [Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKx8PyE5qQ) [Ryan Adams - Harder Now That It’s Over](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nXE-EkFPzE) [Ryan Adams - How Do You Keep Love Alive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh_xmgnwAv0) ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/22 "2012-07-25T01:49:33Z")
The absolute best song for me of this genre is The Heart Of The Matter by Don Henley. Also good, if not quite right is Nothing Better by The Postal Service ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/23 "2012-07-25T01:58:46Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Also, the sentiment should express hostility, contempt, or that he no longer gives a damn about his former partner. Those pronouns, and the examples offered earlier in the thread, suggest that you’re only interested in songs where the singer/narrator expressing the hostile and contemptuous sentiment for the former partner is male. However, if that’s not the case, I think Nancy Sinatra’s _These Boots Are Made for Walkin’_ would fit your criteria too. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/24 "2012-07-25T02:04:58Z")
> [@Dr.Rieux](#): > > “Weid Al”'s “One More MInute” Fuckin’ A. That song is the best. Know it practically by heart. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/25 "2012-07-25T02:16:21Z")
[Cry Cry Cry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca31znwNRqs), by Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/26 "2012-07-25T02:38:15Z")
Argh - I missed the designation of contemptuous \*only _…_ \*Does not take direction well. ---
**Author:** ![Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Levolor_the_Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/27 "2012-07-25T02:57:52Z")
The original[’Fuck You’ - Harry Nilsson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPrRaXU4U0) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/28 "2012-07-25T03:18:31Z")
“I’m Not Angry” by Elvis Costello ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/29 "2012-07-25T03:41:31Z")
Positively Fourth Street - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/30 "2012-07-25T03:47:47Z")
[“Sail On” - The Commodores](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSex71wwe3I) ---
**Author:** ![Tad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tad)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/31 "2012-07-25T04:22:21Z")
Oh there are a million great ones. [The dB’s Black and White](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWN-adiDNtM) [Peter Case kicking ass in The Nerves’ When You Find Out](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uLEnetEwKI) [The master, Gene Clark, with the Gosdin Brothers in I Think I’m Gonna Feel Better](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poIpzfxYVnY) Amazing live video of [the criminally underrated Artful Dodger KICKING ASS with It’s a Lie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5ONc27RWY) Well this counts, I think, about not taking shit from a girl playing hard to get? [Anyway, a pop masterpiece from The Rubinoos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRL-ecWcf0) The best thing to happen to power pop/punk since the 80s, of course, has to literally die. Go figure. [But you can’t kill amazing songs. The Exploding Hearts’ Sleeping Aides and Razor Blades](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rS5V9mZHA) Perhaps a bit upset about a break up, but still cool as hell, [Merle Haggard is going to break every woman’s heart in the world.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RsycsYGjN0) And he probably could. I will represent the homeland of Canada with some of the best: [Pointed Sticks’ Lies.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfc2LsCPnQ) And also how about [I’m Numb,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8eRf6m-IM) because Pointed Sticks rule. There is so much–too much. It really could go on forever. Cool songs for miles. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/32 "2012-07-25T04:46:17Z")
I don’t know if this counts: [Somebody’s Gonna Love You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDrrJqO7zZM) by Matt Wertz. It isn’t an angry song. It’s more of a you and I both are wasting time and, as of now, we’re just fighting the inevitable trying to stay together. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/33 "2012-07-25T22:30:31Z")
John Mayer - Clarity And I will wait to find If this will last forever And I will wait to find That it won’t and it won’t Because it won’t And I will waste no time Worried 'bout no rainy weather And I will waste no time Remaining in our lives together ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/34 "2012-07-25T23:40:24Z")
Jackson Browne-I’m Alive Yeah, now I’m rolling down This canyon drive With your laughter in my head Gonna have to block it out Somehow, to survive Cause those dreams are dead And I’m alive ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/35 "2012-07-25T23:57:09Z")
What about [Every Breath You Take](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAcf8v01K18&feature=youtube_gdata_player) by the Police? It’s from the point of view of someone stalking his ex-lover who feels if he can’t have her, then no one else can. I would say he no longer cares about his ex, he only wants to possess and control her. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/36 "2012-07-26T04:01:32Z")
“29 Nights” Danni Leigh It’s been thirty long days, twenty-nine nights And I’m still over you “Irreplaceable” - Beyonce I can have another you in a minute As a matter of fact, he’ll be here in a minute ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/37 "2012-07-26T04:13:06Z")
Don’t Think Twice, it’s All Right by Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/38 "2012-07-26T04:29:34Z")
I kinda like Travis Tritt’s [Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLG2jaVdUMo). Country Western is really the best style of music for this type of song. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/39 "2012-07-26T04:44:27Z")
This early Linda Ronstadt number was always a favorite of mine: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s3Nq48sHF8M/hqdefault.jpg "The Stone Poneys (feat Linda Ronstadt) - Different Drum (1967)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-falling-out-of-love-songs/629282/40 "2012-07-26T04:45:47Z")
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