# Wanted: Break up songs.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 3, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245 "2003-09-03T00:44:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/1 "2003-09-03T00:44:20Z")
Just wanted to get some of your suggestions for break up songs. No country, please, or rock ballads…
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
Rest in Pieces - Saliva
Steal my sunshine - Len
Sway - Liz Phair
My favorite mistake - Cheryl Crow
Disease - Matchbox 20
Constant Craving - K.D. Lang
Eagerly awaiting your suggestions…
Thanks all.
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/2 "2003-09-03T00:51:10Z")
Boyz II Men - _End of the Road_
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### Author:  [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/3 "2003-09-03T00:53:17Z")
I always kind of like more aggressive stuff… like
Breaking the Chains – -- Dokken
or even better
You Fucking Suck – -- W.A.S.P.
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/4 "2003-09-03T01:05:22Z")
Um… “Breaking Up is Hard To Dooooooooooooooo”
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### Author:  [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/5 "2003-09-03T01:19:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> from _verbenabeast_
> I always kind of like more aggressive stuff… like
I agree.
How about “The Kiss” – The Cure.
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### Author:  [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/6 "2003-09-03T01:28:36Z")
How about the “Breakup song”-Gregg Khinn Band.
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### Author:  [@mishypoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mishypoo)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/7 "2003-09-03T01:29:13Z")
i think Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped could work
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/8 "2003-09-03T01:59:11Z")
You’re Breaking My Heart – Harry Nillson 🙂
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### Author:  [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/9 "2003-09-03T02:04:11Z")
Is it happy to be broken up songs or Im sad that its over songs?
How about Nothing compares 2 U- Sinead
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### Author:  [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/10 "2003-09-03T02:04:36Z")
I second **RealityChuck** ’s nomination, [here](http://nilssonian.tripod.com/lyrics/yourebreakingmyheart.htm) are the lyrics.
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### Author:  [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/11 "2003-09-03T02:30:52Z")
Another Girl, And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
Rest Stop, You Won’t Be Mine, Last Beautiful Girl - Matchbox Twenty
It Ain’t Me, Babe, Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan
Here Is Gone - The Goo Goo Dolls
Don’t Leave Me Now - Pink Floyd
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### Author:  [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/12 "2003-09-03T02:31:35Z")
Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You (Joe Pesci)
[Take Your Love and Shove It](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/music/B00000DCHN/002-8649915-0122436)
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/13 "2003-09-03T02:56:20Z")
Lose Again &
I Can’t Hold On - both by Karla Bonoff
Hasten Down the Wind - Warren Zevon
Every Little Bit - Patty Griffin
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### Author:  [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/14 "2003-09-03T03:34:21Z")
Marilyn Manson - The Speed of Pain - it’s awesome.
Leonard Cohen - _Alexandra Leaving_ and The first verse of _In My Secret Life_. Still a cool song. The man with the gift of the golden voice rules.
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### Author:  [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/15 "2003-09-03T04:52:21Z")
“Divorce Song” - Liz Phair
“Control” and “Wild” - Poe
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/16 "2003-09-03T04:52:50Z")
As I said the last time in a thread like this:
Ween - “Baby Bitch”
Shellac - “Prayer to God”
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/17 "2003-09-03T05:01:18Z")
One More Minute - Weird Al Yankovic
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### Author:  [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/18 "2003-09-03T05:18:02Z")
Cup of coffee - Garbage
Best. Break-up song. Ever.
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### Author:  [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/19 "2003-09-03T05:30:09Z")
Grace is Gone–Dave Matthews Band
Smoke–Ben Folds Five
Portishead–Sour Times
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### Author:  [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-break-up-songs/199245/20 "2003-09-03T05:36:17Z")
Quannum - Changed my mind
Cake - I will survive (I know it’s a cover, but I prefer this version)
Tom Waits - Who are you
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