# songs that describe your broken heart **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786 "2019-07-29T01:45:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/21 "2019-07-29T15:13:01Z")
‘Feb.14’ by Drive by Truckers ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/22 "2019-07-29T15:24:18Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ‘Feb.14’ by Drive by Truckers That’s **Drive-By Truckers** , girl! And the song would be _World of Hurt._ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/23 "2019-07-29T15:42:32Z")
Sebadoh - [Willing to Wait](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmFpjfSqQs) Rilo Kiley - [Science Vs Romance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qYgOsi4md8) Rachel Yamagata - [Duet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EO0w9i5wmA) Oh, lover, I’m old You’ll be out there and be thinking just of me And I will find you down the road We’ll return back home to where we’re meant to be ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/24 "2019-07-29T15:53:35Z")
[Evermore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH6jRR3K_40) by Neil Diamond. Came out as I was about to go through a divorce. Probably didn’t help that I immediately learned how to play it on guitar too. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/25 "2019-07-29T16:41:11Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > While it’s not your traditional “you left me for someone else” heartbreak song, Roy Orbison’s “[In the Real World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-8Fxu8TEH0)” will always remind me of a particular moment in my own life, and the lyrics will hit me in the feels every single time. > > If only we could always live in dreams > If only we could make of life > What, in dreams, it seems > > But in the real world > We must say real goodbyes > No matter if the love will live > It will never die > > In the real world > There are things that we can’t change > And endings come to us > In ways that we can’t rearrange > > I love you, and you love me > But sometimes we must let it be From the same album: Windsurfer. “She told him no, no, never, no.” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/26 "2019-07-29T17:11:33Z")
‘The Man That Got Away’ sung by Judy Garland. ‘One Less Bell to Answer’ sung by the Fifth Dimension ‘Since I Fell For You’ sung by Lenny Welch. There. There is the vast bulk of my romantic history, in song, right there. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/27 "2019-07-29T18:11:40Z")
[Just One Smile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYmy8p22gRI) by Blood Sweat and Tears. ---
**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 29, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/28 "2019-07-29T18:44:54Z")
My first girlfriend was in high school, and I was convinced, in that high school way, that we’d spend the rest of our lives together. She was a year behind me in school, but I skipped two years after college, in part so that she and I could go to the same school. Some time after I graduated, things got distant between us. One afternoon I went over to her house, and she and I worked on arrangements for a song, [Killkelly Ireland](https://youtu.be/QRHQAtKbRTk?t=54), she singing and playing guitar, and I on the violin. After we’d worked on the song for an hour or so, she sat next to me on the sofa and very gently broke up with me. That song is forever linked to that moment, and I’ve always thought that’s why I find it so sad; but the first comment on that Youtube video says, > [@](#): > > I’m a truck driver and I was making deliveries in the Boston area around St. Patrick’s day. This song came on the radio. I started crying so hard I had to pull over to the side of the road. I didn’t get the name of the song, or the artist. I have tried to find this song for years. Many thanks to who ever posted this! This song must be the saddest song ever written. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/29 "2019-07-29T18:51:21Z")
Roxy Music’s [“Oh Yeah”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGftnl0KtUY) got a lot of play after my first marriage fell apart. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/30 "2019-07-29T19:07:08Z")
[Far Behind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5KuxYrhfu0) by Jason and the Scorchers. It’s not the deepest or most eloquent song ever written, but the first time I heard it I had just been through the most devastating breakup of my life. Between the lyrics and Jason’s mournful wailing, I felt as if this song had been created specifically to document my emotions at that particular moment. ---
**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 29, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/31 "2019-07-29T19:08:44Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > [Killkelly Ireland](https://youtu.be/QRHQAtKbRTk?t=54) Oh god. I just listened to that song again, and I’m about to break down sobbing. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/32 "2019-07-29T19:34:57Z")
The Boys of Summer. I keep memories of a long-gone girl in my head, like old movies endlessly replayed, too. (But I don’t have a Dead sticker on my car). The Heart of the Matter. I think Don Henly is my separated twin, he writes songs that really hit me in the heart. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/33 "2019-07-29T19:42:23Z")
_Suite: Judy Blue Eyes_ by CSN/CSNY. And as the heartbreak was happening as (and because) my own life was falling apart, the opening lines spoke my truth: _It’s getting to the point where I’m no fun anymore I am sorry Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud I am lonely_ All too suddenly, I had nothing to offer her but my own need and a cry of desperation: _Change my life, make it right, be my lady_ When you dive into the water to try to save someone that’s drowning, you’re likely to get dragged under as well. She had enough of a clue to not try to rescue me. February 1972. What a motherfucker it was. Amazing how you can still feel every bit of it, most of a lifetime later. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Just One Smile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYmy8p22gRI) by Blood Sweat and Tears. Good choice. I love the descending sequence of “My Days Are Numbered,” “Without Her,” and “Just One Smile” that finished up that side of the LP, back in the days of LPs. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/34 "2019-07-29T19:55:01Z")
The Hanks do sad songs very well. [Hank Williams III - I Wish I Knew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRGmyGSEbw) [Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcOLx3tKKU8) ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/35 "2019-07-30T00:04:05Z")
[Looks Like Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IxAN2Rvo4)…The Grateful Dead _But it’s alright cause I love you, and that’s not going to change. Run me around and make me hurt again and again. But I’ll still sing you love songs, written in the letter of your name. The rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain._ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/36 "2019-07-30T00:22:57Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > The last time my heart was broken, I took some solace in Bob Dylan’s [Most Of The Time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbr4ISrjII) I don’t know where I’ve read it, but someone once said that “[If You See Her, Say Hello](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzMVNy0YwE)” is the saddest love song of all time, and whoever it was, he/she was right. I’ve known and loved “Blood On The Tracks” for a few years before, but all the pain, the hurt, desperation and anger that is expressed on this album only really made sense after my first real love broke up with me. That was a long time ago, but I still love to listen to it very much, it’s one of Dylan’s greatest albums, and every time I do I’m still a bit hurting. But it’s also cathartic. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/37 "2019-07-30T19:35:27Z")
Another Roxy Music suggestion: [A Song For Europe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYUwY8jGx0) - but really lost love was almost Ferry’s go to subject matter. There are quite a few others to choose from. j ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/38 "2019-07-30T20:04:48Z")
‘Catfish Bates’ by Don Williams ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/39 "2019-07-30T20:15:00Z")
[If the Phone Doesn’t Ring, It’s Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woXyx_QLgu0) - Jimmy Buffett ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786/40 "2019-07-30T20:32:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Just One Smile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYmy8p22gRI) by Blood Sweat and Tears. That also appears on Dusty in Memphis. Which has a ton of heartbreaking songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-describe-your-broken-heart/837786.md?page=3)