# sugget to me some sad love songs or break up songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791 "2002-03-12T05:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/61 "2002-03-15T08:42:51Z")
_Throw Your Arms Around Me_ by Hunters @ Collectors. Who? They’re an Aussie pub band, so you probably haven’t heard of them, but this song is worth looking for. _I dreamed of you at night time And I watched you in your sleep I met you in high places I touched your head and touched your feet So if you disappear out of view You know, I will never say goodbye Though I try to forget it You will make me call your name and I’ll shout it to the blue summer sky_ It has been covered by Pearl Jam too, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Kloudes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@Kloudes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kloudes)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/62 "2002-03-15T18:13:56Z")
Hmm… Definitely been there before… Here are my suggestions… So Sad to Say- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The World Has Turned- Weezer And So It Goes- Billy Joel Hope things work out for you. ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/63 "2002-03-15T21:13:24Z")
My condolences, I’ve been there too. Mary Chapin Carpenter: Come on Come on, Rythm of the Blues, Savage Garden: The Lover After Me, I Don’t Know You Anymore Hope things get better for you. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/64 "2002-03-15T21:30:21Z")
I will second “Romeo & Juliet” - Dire Straits & “Heart of the Matter” - Don Henley. Here’s some other personal choices: [The Angels](http://rec.horus.at/music/etheridge/lyrics2.html#4) – Melissa Etheridge (nearly wore this one out…) [Losing My Religion](http://www.reallyrics.com/lyrics/R002800090002.asp) R.E.M (ditto) [When She Loved Me](http://www.songlyrics.co.nz/lyrics/s/sarahmclachlan/when.htm) Sarah McLaughlin (just change the gender…) ---
**Author:** ![foxfiregrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@foxfiregrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxfiregrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/65 "2002-03-15T22:46:40Z")
Dar Williams has a couple softer break up songs that I kind of like. **February** and **If I Wrote You** are the ones that come to mind. Ani Difranco’s **Untouchable Face** is a good one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/66 "2002-03-18T03:37:52Z")
Right now, I know exactly how you feel. I’d suggest “Sit and Listen to the Rain” by **Whiskeytown** ( I think someone might have mentioned Ryan Adams earlier; Whiskeytown is his old band), as it perfectly captures that stare-at-the-wall-for-days-in-emotionless-shock feeling that some people go through. -_Gonna ride down to the river, where it runs_ _Gonna watch TV, and pray for decent reruns_ _Sit around and dream away what I’ve become_ _Used to feel so much, now I just feel dumh_ ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/67 "2002-03-18T15:50:03Z")
Wow, I’d forgotten Mary Chapin Carpenter. And, for more Depressed Women of Country Music stuff, Nanci Griffith (Late Night Grand Hotel, Boots of Spanish Leather), Emmylou Harris (Blackhawk, Goodbye) and the Cowboy Junkies (the entire Trinity Sessions album, played over and over until memorized). You may also want to try Jonatha Brooke’s _Inconsolable_. But only in case of emergency. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/68 "2002-03-25T22:14:03Z")
Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone For a pick me up though try Pep talk by the descendents ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/69 "2002-03-25T22:52:08Z")
Sorry that you need the songs, but these are some ones I’ve sound useful. _Sad Song_ by **The Velvet Underground** (probably more appropriate than the Lou Reed remake). Also by **The Velvets** , _Femme Fatale_, _I Can’t Stand It_, _Beginning To See The Light_ (“Here we go again, I thought that you were my friend”). _Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere_ by **Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds** … in fact, about half of the **Boatman’s Call** album. Some selections by **Leonard Cohen** : _One Of Us Must Be Wrong_ _Let’s Sing Another Song Boys_ _Everybody Knows_ _Diamonds in the Mine_ **Lee Hazlewood** - _Just For One Moment_, _The Night Before_. ---
**Author:** ![Tazma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tazma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazma)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/70 "2002-03-26T00:41:00Z")
[I’ll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me](http://web.singnet.com.sg/~namirah/lyrics/ill_never_get_over_you_getting_over_me.html) by Expose Glad you’re reaching out in your sadness…who knew there were so many sad songs out there? ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/71 "2002-03-26T05:08:37Z")
I have to second Pearl Jam’s Black. And for the harder side… Blood & Fire by Type O-Negative (Bloody Kisses) I Don’t Believe, Shame, What Do I Have To Do, and Why, all by Stabbing Westward (Wither, Blister, Burn, and Peel) And whenever I’m really down I like to listen to In My World, by Anthrax (Persistence Of Time) ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/72 "2002-03-26T05:38:53Z")
Love Stinks, by J. Geils Band Love Hurts, by Nazareth Angie, by the Rolling Stones Are You Lonesome Tonight?, by Elvis I Might Kill Myself If You Don’t Come Over Right Now, by my last girlfriend ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/73 "2002-03-26T06:02:46Z")
An excellent recovering-from-a-breakup song is “Since You’ve Been Gone” by Weird Al Yankovic, from the Bad Hair Day album. ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/74 "2002-03-26T06:45:03Z")
PHILOPHOBIA by ARAB STRAP This entire album was custom written for you. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/75 "2002-03-26T07:00:11Z")
**Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word** Music by Elton John Lyrics by Bernie Taupin Available on the album Blue Moves What have I got to do to make you love me What have I got to do to make you care What do I do when lightning strikes me And I wake to find that you’re not there What do I do to make you want me What have I got to do to be heard What do I say when it’s all over And sorry seems to be the hardest word ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/76 "2002-03-26T10:30:59Z")
Did anyone mention “One is the loneliest number?” Or “Alone again, naturally.” If you need a little humor, “Ding dong the witch is dead” works for me. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/77 "2002-03-26T18:43:46Z")
_Unbreak by Heart_ by Toni Braxton _I Can’t Make You Love Me_ by Bonnie Raitt _In the Ghetto_ by Elvis Presley (I know, I know; I can’t HELP IT. It has such a haunting melody!) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/78 "2002-03-28T07:23:46Z")
This one is for you only if you are a Mountain (Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi). It is called, oddly enough, For Yasgur’s Farm. It’s on their Climbing album. A great album, if you understand Turkish, is Mavi, Mavi by Ibrahim Tatlises. Almost all of the album is the crying, you broke my heart stuff, so you wont need a translator and you can sulk to your hearts content Another favorite one of mine is Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/79 "2002-03-28T08:06:40Z")
If you don’t mind instrumentals, a turned up version of Jeff Beck’s rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Cause we’ve ended as lovers” will do the trick. While there are no actual lyrics to the song, it’s still one of the saddest I’ve ever come across. ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791/80 "2002-03-28T15:16:35Z")
The Trinity Session by the Cowboy Junkies - the entire CD especially, Blue Moon, Misguided Angel and I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry and besides it’s an excellent CD. and when you’re starting to get over your ex… Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Ella Fitzgerald’s cover [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sugget-to-me-some-sad-love-songs-or-break-up-songs/97791.md?page=5)