Angry and bitter (Mountain Goats - “No Children”):
*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*
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
*
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
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
**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!
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
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
Stealthy - The Beatles
And when I awoke, I was alone
This bird had flown
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
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”.
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…
With a whole lot of self-pitying drama, a complete lack of personal accountability, and a lot of suspiciously one-sided accusations:
Gotye:
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
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
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…
*
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
Succinctly - Aspects of Love
Love, love changes everything
But not always for the best.
Love can sometimes be a
Most unwelcomed guest.
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
Slow and sad:
The Residents:
Hour by hour
day by day
love leaks out
and goes away.
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