# Musically, how do you like your breakup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258 "2016-07-06T20:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/21 "2016-07-07T21:32:56Z")
Angry and bitter ([Mountain Goats - “No Children”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk)): \*I hope it stays dark forever I hope the worst isn’t over And I hope you blink before I do And I hope I never get sober And I hope when you think of me years down the line You can’t find one good thing to say And I’d hope that if I found the strength to walk out You’d stay the hell out of my way\* ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/22 "2016-07-07T22:56:24Z")
Wistful - Glen Campbell _By the time I get to Phoenix she’ll be rising She’ll find the note I left hangin’ on her door She’ll laugh when she reads the part that says I’m leavin’ 'Cause I’ve left that girl so many times before_ Temporary - Glen Campbell \*It’s knowin’ that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleepin’ bag rolled up And stashed behind your couch \* ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/23 "2016-07-07T22:59:44Z")
Bitter and petty: “So Soon” Marianas Trench And I know it seems beneath me But sometimes it’s not so easy To wish you well and let you go And I say it’s just as well That I just can’t keep you for myself I don’t want to see you happier with somebody else ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/24 "2016-07-07T23:17:46Z")
Passive aggressive [Breakup Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_6LkWVWZA0)– Mitch Benn ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/25 "2016-07-07T23:30:52Z")
Inebriated and defiant: “Now I wind up staring at an empty glass _Uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh_ Cause it’s so easy to say that you’ll forget your past _Uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh_ They don’t write 'em like that anymore! They just don’t write 'em like that anymore!” _The Breakup Song_ by The Greg Kihn Band ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/26 "2016-07-07T23:34:49Z")
\*\*Pat Travers \*\* Well I’d rather see you dead. Erase you memory from my head. Ooh I see you all alone, as cold as stone, All alone! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/27 "2016-07-08T01:05:24Z")
Embarrassingly emotional (Chicago: Look Away) If you see me walking by And the tears are in my eyes Look away, baby, look away And if we meet on the street someday And I don’t know what to say Look away, baby, look away Don’t look at me I don’t want you to see me this way ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/28 "2016-07-08T03:17:22Z")
a clean break, you might say: “A Clean Break” - Talking Heads Just beginning to take that love away Just beginning to take that love away In a minute I’ll wash that love away Even now we remember what we used to say Takes a minute to wash that love away Take a clean break: wash that love away desperation: “Bell Bottom Blues” - Eric Clapton Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you? Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back? I’d gladly do it because I don’t want to fade away Give me one more day, please I don’t want to fade away In your heart I want to stay ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/29 "2016-07-08T14:19:54Z")
Stealthy - The Beatles _And when I awoke, I was alone This bird had flown_ ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/30 "2016-07-08T14:37:22Z")
Painful and destructive: They’ll need a crane - They Might Be Giants They’ll need a crane, they’ll need a crane To take the house he built for her apart To make it break it’s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain They’ll need a crane, they’ll need a crane To pick the broken ruins up again To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/31 "2016-07-08T16:18:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Stealthy - The Beatles > > _And when I awoke, I was alone > This bird had flown_ At least she left me the food - Harry Chapin I came back with my paper bag, to find that she was gone. She’d left a six word letter saying “It’s time that I moved on”. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/32 "2016-07-08T16:28:01Z")
Abrupt: Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia Up in my bedroom (making love) I got up to wash my face When I come back to bed, Someone’s taken my place. -Simon and Garfunkel I’ve always been kind of curious why he interrupted the action to wash his face in the first place. Could be a couple reasons… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/33 "2016-07-08T17:17:28Z")
With a whole lot of self-pitying drama, a complete lack of personal accountability, and a lot of suspiciously one-sided accusations: [Gotye:](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gotye/somebodythatiusedtoknow.html) But you didn’t have to cut me off Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing And I don’t even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No you didn’t have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records and then change your number I guess that I don’t need that though Now you’re just somebody that I used to know Now you’re just somebody that I used to know Now you’re just somebody that I used to know ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/34 "2016-07-08T23:46:48Z")
I’m sick of your shit! Annie Lennox - Would I Lie to You? Would I lie to you? Would I lie to you honey? Now would I say something that wasn’t true? I’m asking you sugar Would I lie to you? Tell you straight, no intervention. To your face, no deception. You’re the biggest fake. That much is true. Had all I can take. Now I’m leaving you ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/35 "2016-07-09T03:25:22Z")
With hair spray and eyeliner The Cure, Disintegration \*i never said i would stay to the end i knew i would leave you with babies and everything screaming like this in the hole of sincerity screaming me over and over and over i leave you with photographs pictues of trickery stains on the carpet and stains on the memory songs about happiness murmured in dreams when we both of us knew how the end always is… how the end always is… \* ---
**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:** [July 9, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/36 "2016-07-09T13:52:15Z")
Spell It Out- - Starlight Express And I’m just U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D I can’t seem to stop C.R.Y.I.N.G People look and me and think, “There she goes the missing link” She’s been U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D And I’m just U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D But I’ll get my R.E.V.E.N.G.E He’ll come crawling back one day And I’ll turn to him and say Go away, you B.A.S.T.A.R.D ---
**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:** [July 9, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/37 "2016-07-09T14:08:59Z")
Succinctly - Aspects of Love Love, love changes everything But not always for the best. Love can sometimes be a Most unwelcomed guest. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/38 "2016-07-09T14:18:57Z")
Finite and Forever - Gloria Gaynor And you see me Somebody new I’m not that chained up little person Still in love with you And so you felt like dropping in And just expect me to be free And now I’m saving all my loving For someone who’s loving me ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/39 "2016-07-10T04:10:57Z")
Slow and sad: _The Residents_: Hour by hour day by day love leaks out and goes away. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258/40 "2016-07-11T20:14:22Z")
See it coming from miles away - Blackhawk Every day I brace myself to hear the words I’m scared she’s gonna say And every night I thank the Lord, somehow I dodged a bullet one more day Sometimes there are things a man just knows that he really can’t explain I can’t see a single storm cloud in the sky but I sure can smell the rain [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musically-how-do-you-like-your-breakup/759258.md?page=3)