You’re Breaking My Heart by Harry Nilssen
I’d have to go with I’m Not Your Man by Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers. Gotta love a kiss-off song that starts out:
Hands down: Sandra Bernhard’s version of Paul Simon’s “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.” By the end of the song she’s progressed from “Drop of the key, Lee” to “Get the FUCK outta here!”
Dylan didwrite this, as vl_mungo confirmed. I guess I have to break it to you that most of the songs on Nick Drake’s Tanworth-in-Arden tape are covers. According to the website, only “Rain,” “Bird Flew By” and “To the Garden” were written by Drake.
Guns N’ Roses- “Used to Love Her (But I Had to Kill Her)”
I don’t believe there’s a title anywhere that says it better than that.
::insert defunct-smackie smiley:: Well, I said I could be wrong. Dylan’s voice freaks me out so I avoid him and I’ve only ever heard Drake’s version. Thanks for the info, though.
The Sugarcube’s Pump
Poe’s Control
Lou Ford’s You Ain’t Worth My Time
and of course, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Ignant and Sh-t which really can’t just have lyrics quoted from it…it has to be heard.
Roy Clark’s Thank God and Greyhound - the song starts out with the singer sadly watching as his woman gets on a bus to leave him, then it kicks into the chorus:
Thank God and Greyhound, you’re gone
I didn’t know how much longer I could go on
Watchin’ you take the respect out of me
Watchin’ you make a total wreck out of me
That big diesel motor is a-playin my song
Thank God and Greyhound, you’re gone.
Save Ferris’ Goodbye
Save Ferris’ Mistaken (emphasis mine - made me bawl every time I heard Mo sing it in concert, it’s way too close to home!)
And of course, as a general kiss-off song, Violent Femmes’ Kiss Off
Excuse me while I go turn up some music now… 
I’m going to have to go with Ray Stevens’ Furthermore
Well, go away and leave me all alone and blue
And never come back to me 'cause I’m through with you
'Cause baby, now that you have done me wrong it’s plain to see
That you no longer want to bother me
I’m sick and tired of all your lying and your cheating
And the way that you have been mistreating me
And lemme tell you friend that you will never get the chance to break my heart again
And furthermore
Yes, furthermore
And on top of that
I don’t love you anyway
I’m listening to ANOTHER one at this very minute. Roses by Outkast.
Bob Mould, “Sacrifice / Let There Be Peace”:
R.E.M., “The One I Love”:
No mention of Scandal’s “Goodbye to You”?
Delivery matters. Sinead’s The Last Day of Our Acquaintance starts with mourning, and ends with a growl - all with the same lyrics repeated:
This is the last day of our acquaintance
I will meet you later in somebody’s office
I’ll talk but you won’t listen to me
I know what your answer will be
And for real self-pity, you can never beat Morrisey (in Smiths incarnation especially):
I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday
I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday
'Cause you’re evil
And you lie
And if you should die
I may feel slightly sad
(But I won’t cry)
Loved and lost
And some may say
When usually it’s nothing
Surely you’re happy
It should be this way ?
And I say “No…
I’m gonna kill my dog.”
And : “May the lines sag, may the lines sag heavy and deep tonight”
Hell, the best kiss off song(s) from a male point of view would be pretty much the entire “Gentleman” album by the Afghan Whigs…
But more specifically, maybe “Now You Know” from that album.
Tell me is it the same? my sweetness, my everything
Is this condescending a comfort at all to you?
Bit into a rotten one, now didn’t we?
Well, baby, now it’s through
“You’re No Good,” as sung by Linda Ronstadt. Kind of a double kiss-off song.
"I Should’ve Known" - Aimee Mann
I should thank you almost
No one could kill it off until you bled it
But I got rid of that ghost
'Though certain habits still remain embedded
With the shadow of a doubt
But baby it was you who fed it
And I don’t know what else to say
But I think you get it
"Next Time That You Leave" - Bob Mould
(Maybe this one isn’t quite a kiss-off, since it sounds like Bob’s giving him one more chance…)
*The next time that you leave
I’m burning everything you own
So you’ll have no reason,
No reason to return
The next time that you leave
I’ll burn out my memories,
I don’t need reminders,
Remind me to forget
You are not a master
Maybe you have mastered
Different games that worked with others
But I am not the others,
You are just a bastard *
Frog Princess by Divine Comedy
Richard Shindell, Are You Happy Now?
“Watergate” by Something Fierce