# I need some "Break Up" songs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 4, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996 "2005-03-04T23:45:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/1 "2005-03-04T23:45:44Z")
Sleeping isn’t working, watching movies isn’t working, lying on my couch and thinking isn’t working, laying on the floor isn’t working, maybe some good songs will.
Can anyone give me some good break up songs, preferably some about the guy getting over the girl? Maybe some about the man getting his heartbroken and being a little pissed at the girl, those might help.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/2 "2005-03-04T23:49:50Z")
_If The Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me_ - Jimmy Buffett
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### Author:  [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/3 "2005-03-04T23:56:09Z")
Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/4 "2005-03-04T23:57:08Z")
I Used to Love Her But I Had to Kill Her - Guns N Roses
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/5 "2005-03-04T23:59:45Z")
[When You’re Alone](http://www.thuismarkt.nl/users/springsteen/Lyrics/WhenYoureAlone.html), Springsteen.
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### Author:  [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/6 "2005-03-05T00:14:38Z")
“Alison”, by Elvis Costello.
Pretty mean, but dead on.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/7 "2005-03-05T00:20:42Z")
Dixie Chicken Garth Brooks has a decent version but it’s been recorded by many.
You never even called me by my name David Allen Coe
Drinking my Baby Good Bye Charlie Daniels
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/8 "2005-03-05T00:23:30Z")
_One More Minute_ by Weird Al Yankovich
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### Author:  [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/9 "2005-03-05T00:25:50Z")
Next Time You See Her - \*\*Eric Clapton
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Under My Thumb - **The Rolling Stones**
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### Author:  [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/10 "2005-03-05T01:00:05Z")
“Gone, Gone, Gone” by Bad Company.
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### Author:  [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/11 "2005-03-05T01:10:12Z")
“I’m Looking Through You” by The Beatles.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/12 "2005-03-05T01:25:56Z")
Kinks, Sunny afternoon
My girlfriend’s run off with my car,
And gone back to her ma and pa, Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty.
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### Author:  [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/13 "2005-03-05T01:26:40Z")
2,000 Miles, Erasure (I need to be at least t=2,000 miles away from you).
Unbelievable, by EMF
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights, Meatloaf
50 ways to leave your lover, Paul Simon
I Hate Everything About You, Ugly Kid Joe
You Oughta Know, Alanis Morisette (Yeah, it’s the girl who’s pissed, but MAN is she pissed. It’s gotta be cathartic, no?)
American Woman, The Guess Who
Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon (He kills his date, does that count?)
Brand New Lover, Dead or Alive
Through With You, Maroon 5
And yeah…Weird Al’s “One More Minute” is an all time favorite, a TRUE classic. I guarantee it will make you feel better instantly.
I’m sure I know of more, but I have to think about it a few minutes.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/14 "2005-03-05T01:27:43Z")
“Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits
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### Author:  [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/15 "2005-03-05T01:46:51Z")
Theres this one Bob Dylan song that I remember hearing a while back, something about switching shoes and hating the girl. Can anyone name that song?
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/16 "2005-03-05T01:51:05Z")
> [@teemingONE](#):
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> Theres this one Bob Dylan song that I remember hearing a while back, something about switching shoes and hating the girl. Can anyone name that song?
Is [this](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob-dylan/21236.html) what you’re thinking of?
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### Author:  [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/17 "2005-03-05T01:57:44Z")
“Thank God and Greyhound She’s Gone” Roy Clark
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### Author:  [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/18 "2005-03-05T02:06:20Z")
[“Lost Cause”](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/beck/15364.html), Beck. Actually the whole CD (_Sea Change_ has a break-up feel.
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### Author:  [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/19 "2005-03-05T03:32:30Z")
“She hates me” by Puddle of Mudd
Its kind of catchy in an earworm sort of way.
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-break-up-songs/292996/20 "2005-03-05T03:36:14Z")
I _would_ recommend “Don’t Leave Me Now” by **Pink Floyd** , but it sort of… ends badly. :eek:
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