# Your terrible go-to heartbreak song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310 "2012-04-29T09:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/41 "2012-05-01T01:55:39Z")
You said terrible, so… [Time For Me to Fly - REO Speedwagon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L2T7bWQzEs) “I make you laugh, and you make me cry. I believe it’s time for me to fly” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/42 "2012-05-01T03:10:45Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > [Honey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g). > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Wow. Very strong performance. [A stronger performance,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBdbRqflUg) now with more Officer Judy! ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/43 "2012-05-01T04:02:54Z")
I’d put my vote out for Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow and pictures Declan ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/44 "2012-05-02T01:56:07Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Oops, sorry. I’ll claim temporary dyslexia. By the time I got to the reply button, I had already reparsed the title in my head as “Your go-to terrible heartbreak song.” :smack: Yeah, I somehow changed it to “terrible heartbreak song” in my head too. out of the Wayback machine: Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/45 "2012-05-02T03:02:48Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys. I don’t even know what the lyrics are supposed to mean. But it’s awesome to sing along with after a crappy breakup. I can’t believe this. You do not listen to Backstreet Boys when you’re wallowing in a breakup. > [@tanstaafl](#): > > You said terrible, so… > > [Time For Me to Fly - REO Speedwagon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L2T7bWQzEs) > > “I make you laugh, and you make me cry. I believe it’s time for me to fly” This is pretty awful, yup, but those pants make up for it. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/46 "2012-05-02T06:54:59Z")
**Rita Coolidge** - _We’re All Alone_ Last time I had a broken heart I played this one song over and over and it was fucking terrible. God I HATED that song, so I tortured myself endlessly with it. The melody is maudlin and the lyrics are bad 7th grade poetry. If I owned a gun I would have shot the stereo and then myself. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/47 "2012-05-03T02:00:09Z")
No link, for which you should probably be grateful: **I’m Not Lisa** ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/48 "2012-05-03T02:14:14Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > For me, it’s “I Am a Rock” by Simon & Garfunkel > > For whoever lived in the apartment above mine about 25 years ago, it was “At This Moment” by Billy Vera. That song was played about twenty-five times _in a row_. Apparently Alex P. Keaton was living above you. I was going to recommend “Goodnight Elisabeth” by The Counting Crows as a good song to listen to to make yourself feel bad about getting dumped, but apparently that’s not what the OP is about. So, nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/49 "2012-05-05T02:05:37Z")
“Freebird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd (I can’t hear the song without bawling) “Time” by the Alan Parsons Project :(:(:(☹ ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/50 "2012-05-05T03:18:10Z")
Eric Clapton’s version of “Further On Up The Road” ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/51 "2012-05-05T03:46:36Z")
“The Way That I Love You” - Ashanti \*…but there it was, it was you and her, you left your Sidekick on the nightstand and I read everything you did and everything you said, and now I’m standing here looking like, “damn” I thought it was you and I now all i have to say is “why?” \* Hot damn, that is bad, complete with product placement (next verse includes “You left your credit card receipts inside the Beemer”), but hell if I don’t pretend I’m not an awkward white girl and attempt to go all sassy Ashanti when I’m pissed-off and sad. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/52 "2012-11-12T04:38:58Z")
[One Less Bell to Answer.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnp7Uwf1o3c) ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/53 "2012-11-12T04:57:02Z")
Ani DiFranco, Untouchable Face. Nope, I don’t care what you say. When your boyfriend leaves you for a chick he marries two weeks later (and divorces two years and two kids after that), these lines are perfect/ terrible: “tell you the truth i prefer the worst of you too bad you had to have a better half she’s not really my type but i think you two are forever and i hate to say it but you’re perfect together so fuck you and your untouchable face and fuck you for existing in the first place” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/54 "2012-11-14T04:09:55Z")
“_Babe_”, by Styx. Back in 1980 my girlfriend broke up with me and broke my heart. She was my first love, and this was my first heartache. My whole chest ached. Babe by Styx was on the radio then. Even now when I hear that song, my heart hurts a little. '\*Cause I’ll be lonely without you And I’ll need your love to see me through Please believe me, my heart is in your hands 'Cause I’ll be missing you Babe, I love you Babe, I love you Ooh, babe\* ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/55 "2012-11-14T06:00:29Z")
Eagle’s Best of My Love Dxxxxxx Marina Del Rey, CA 1974 11 p.m. Saturday night. you’re killin’ me with recalling this. But, 3 months later we were back together. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Rahne\_McCloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rahne\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rahne_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/56 "2012-11-14T18:53:20Z")
“C’est la Vie” Emerson, Lake & Palmer ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/57 "2012-11-14T19:10:27Z")
Kinda good tune, if you’re a big band style crooner as I am, but also kinda sappy - _Music Maestro Please,_ a big hit in 1938. “Swing ooooout! - Tonight I must forget.” ---
**Author:** ![retired-annuitant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@retired-annuitant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/retired-annuitant)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/58 "2012-11-14T20:06:16Z")
Looking at the Rain – Gordon Lightfoot ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/59 "2012-11-14T20:08:34Z")
John Denver’s [I’m Sorry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOuOMxnUpXI) ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/60 "2012-11-15T03:56:18Z")
Garth Brooks’ _The Dance_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310.md?page=4)