# I need some miserable songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770 "2005-02-07T05:22:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/1 "2005-02-07T05:22:08Z")
I’m making a “dumped on valentine’s day” mix, because I’m just that cheery. There’s Ben Folds’ “Song for the Dumped,” and The Smiths’ “Unhappy Birthday.” Some more suggestions? I’m looking for songs that are not so much kill-yourself-depressing but rather enthusiastically I-hate-you-la-dee-dah. So please, no “Love Hurts.” Can’t wait to see what comes up… ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/2 "2005-02-07T05:34:59Z")
I have always had a soft spot in my heart (or my head) for Roy Clark’s “Thank God and Greyhound She’s Gone.” Lyrics and tablatures here: > **[Thank God And Greyhound Chords - Roy Clark - Cowboy Lyrics](https://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/clark-roy/thank-god-and-greyhound-7084.html)** > > Roy Clark - Thank God And Greyhound Chords, Tabs, Tablatures for Guitar. + Roy Clark song lyrics . ringtone . MP3 ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/3 "2005-02-07T05:46:45Z")
Hot Hot Heat’s new single, “Goodnight, Goodnight” could do the trick, especially with the snappy refrain: “So goodnight, goodnight / you’re embarassing me / you’re embarassing you!” ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/4 "2005-02-07T08:02:55Z")
Too lazy to look it up, but we just had a heartbreak song thread within the last week or so. One that was posted which is fabulous is Harry Nilsson’s _You’re Breakin’ My Heart_ You’re breakin’ my heart you’re tearin’ it apart so f\*\*k you…\* ---
**Author:** ![spiralscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@spiralscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spiralscratch)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/5 "2005-02-07T08:20:35Z")
> [@buncombe](#): > > I’m looking for songs that are not so much kill-yourself-depressing but rather enthusiastically I-hate-you-la-dee-dah. I think Bob Mould’s “Sacrifice/Let there Be Peace” fits: > [@](#): > > And if you’re planning a future > Of indefinite grace > You’d better start removing > The lines of deceit from your face (Probably half of of the Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du catalog fits this criteria.) ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/6 "2005-02-07T13:42:40Z")
Well, “Take Your Love and Shove it Up Your A\*\*” by Joe Pesci (or a darn good impersonator) is good for a coarse laugh. 'Tis an excellent tonic for the recently dumped. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/7 "2005-02-07T13:49:06Z")
Harry Nilsson’s “You’re Breaking My Heart.” We used to request that for unsuspecting DJs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/8 "2005-02-07T13:54:20Z")
“Leave Me Alone” Natalie Imbruglia “Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone” Jewel ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/9 "2005-02-07T13:59:13Z")
B.J Thomas: Say, won’t you play another somebody done somebody wrong song? And make me feel at home while I miss my baby. So play, play for me a sad melody, so sad that it makes everybody cry. A real hurtin’ song about love that’s gone wrong. So I don’t have to cry all alone. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/10 "2005-02-07T16:38:02Z")
Since somebody got to Nilsson before me, I’ll offer up Richard and Linda Thompson’s “Hard Luck Stories,” with the (IMO) classic put-downs of: > [@](#): > > You still come around 'cause I used to listen > I run a steamship, I don’t run a mission and > [@](#): > > Everyone don’t like something and we all don’t like you ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/11 "2005-02-07T17:07:50Z")
Tom Waits _Blue Valentine_ > [@](#): > > And the ghost of your memory > Is the thistle in the kiss > And the burgler that can break a roses neck > It’s the tatooed broken promise > That I hide beneath my sleeve > And I see you every time I turn my back and > [@](#): > > She sends me my blue valentines > To remind me of my cardinal sin > I can never wash the guilt > Or get these bloodstains off my hands > And it takes a lot of whiskey > To take this nightmares go away > And I cut my bleedin heart out every nite > And I die a little more on each St. Valentines day wow. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/12 "2005-02-07T17:26:34Z")
Well, I’d say check out some of the classic country songs - for every ‘sob your eyes out drunk at the bar’ tune there’s also a ‘you left and you suck and this is why’ song, usually either clever or cynical as all hell. Here’s a list of titles (from [dribbleglass.com](http://dribbleglass.com)) - google for the artists. All I Want From You Is Away I’m So Miserable Without You, It’s Almost Like Having You Here Are You Drinkin’ With Me, Jesus? Billy Broke My Heart at Walgreens and I Cried All the Way to Sears How Can I Miss You if You Won’t Go Away? I’m Under the Table Over You Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goal Posts of Life Welcome to Dumpsville, Population Me If Love Were Oil, I’d Be a Quart Low I Bought the Shoes That Just Walked Out on Me She’s Acting Single, I’m Drinking Doubles Is It Cold In Here, or Is It Just You? We Used to Kiss on the Lips, But It’s All Over Now My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don’t Love Jesus Thank God and Greyhound She’s Gone I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life How Come Your Dog Don’t Bite Nobody But Me? You Ain’t Much Fun Since I Quit Drinkin’ I Don’t Know Whether to Kill Myself or Go Bowling You’re the Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly If You’re Gonna Do Me Wrong, Do It Right I Fell for Her, She Fell for Him, and He Fell for Me You Were Only a Splinter as I Slid Down the Banister of Life She Got the Gold Mine and I Got the Shaft My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, and I Sure Do Miss Him Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart If You Want to Keep the Beer Real Cold, Put it Next to My Ex-Wife’s Heart If Whiskey Were a Woman, I’d Be Married for Sure If You Can’t Live Without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead? I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim is Getting Better If You Don’t Leave Me, I’ll Find Someone Who Will ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/13 "2005-02-07T17:58:30Z")
Blues Traveler’s _Alone_ did it for me when I got dumped. Of course, all it did for me was to make me cry… ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/14 "2005-02-07T18:32:01Z")
Voltaire’s “Ex-Lover’s Lovers”: > [@](#): > > I saw you with him. You looked so happy. > All of that can change, 'cause I am so lonely > and I have lots of time to send you straight > to the devil. I’m taking my time > to plan your demise. > What if I were to cut you up and mail each part > to a different town? It would take the most > brilliant private eye the rest of his life > just to put you together. OK, maybe a bit extreme… ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/15 "2005-02-07T23:22:51Z")
“Are You Happy Now?” by Richard Shindell You took the toaster when you went You never paid your half the rent You took the spices from the rack But you don’t have to put 'em back 'Cause in your haste on Halloween You left your camera on the bed Where we played roles in black and white You left a roll of black and white I set the timer, thought of you Put the lens up to my head I took a photograph for you What comes out gray is really red So are you happy now? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/16 "2005-02-07T23:30:56Z")
Roy Clark - Thank God and Greyhound You’re Gone Toby Keith - How Do You Like Me Now Spike Jones - You Always Hurt The One You Love ---
**Author:** ![down\_by\_law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@down\_by\_law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/down_by_law)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/17 "2005-02-08T00:19:40Z")
yeah, i just got dumped last month. great time of the year for that, really. check out **the wrens** ’ album, _The Meadowlands_. it’s basically a concept album of a breakup. _happy_ is a good dumped song. also pretty much anything by **morrissey** , but you probably already knew that. maybe _speedway_, i’ve always liked that one. yeah, i’ve been listening to entirely too much morrissey lately. not good when you’re already depressed. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/18 "2005-02-08T00:40:28Z")
**The Tubes** : "Love’s a Mystery (I Don’t Understand) “Real, almost real I could feel the life flow into my veins. Done, now it’s done I have fallen for the final time I can’t get up again …” ---
**Author:** ![jweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/19 "2005-02-08T03:05:06Z")
Ween - Piss Up A Rope Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard - I’m Leavin’ Now. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770/20 "2005-02-08T03:07:29Z")
David Alan Coe - Cum Stains On The Pillow 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-miserable-songs/288770.md?page=2)