Damhnait Doyle - Another California Song
Can’t have a musical thread without that friggin’ Ellis Dee coming in with a Zappa reference:
My personal all-time favorite break-up song:
Go Cry On Somebody Else’s Shoulder
He has others, including, but not limited to:
I Ain’t Got No Heart
How Could I Be Such A Fool
You Didn’t Try To Call Me
Any Way The Wind Blows
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Yo’ Mama
Bamboozled By Love
Harder Than Your Husband
Jumbo Go Away
To call him a prolific writer would be an understatement.
Sorry, but ASIG is about starting a relationship after having been hurt in the past. Not about breaking up.
I’ll second the Ben Folds songs Smoke and Song for the Dumped, and offer a few more of his:
Selfless, Cold and Composed: “Come on, baby, just throw me a right to the chin. Just one sign that’ll show me that you give a shit. But you just smile like a bank teller, blankly telling me ‘have a nice life.’”
Julianne: “I’ll sing a song, but it won’t be the blues, cuz I don’t miss Julianne”
Fair: “Well, he shouted out his last words, and stumbled through the yard, and she shattered her last china plate, and spun off in the car”
And, on a related note, just about anything by Counting Crows.