# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/61 "2012-11-15T04:20:43Z")
[Glenn Tipton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjA3EbKsl4E)by Sun Kil Moon. This song makes me angry at life then bawl up and cry/scream. ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/62 "2012-12-07T15:52:58Z")
Just talked to a friend going thru a break up and thought of this thread… 1. If you could read my mind… Gordon Lightfoot… sums up my first marriage… ( I don’t know where we went wrong… but the feelings gone… and we just can’t get it back… ) what a line… damn… 2. We just disagree Dave Mason… after the recriminations die down… and the pain subsides. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/63 "2012-12-07T16:23:25Z")
I never even liked the song, but for monhs after my first wife dumped me, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Tell Me on a Sunday” had me bawling uncontrollably. It didn’t even matter that I HATED some of the rhymes (did chimpanzees HAVE to be part of the lyrics?). ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/64 "2012-12-07T16:38:15Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > Nothing beats Nico’s _These Days_ > > [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkgg33\_nico-these-days\_music](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkgg33_nico-these-days_music) > > "I’ve been out walking > I don’t do too much talking these days > These days > These days I seem to think a lot > about the things that I forgot to do > … And all the times I had the chance to > > * * * > > Please don’t confront me with my failures; > I had not forgotten them." > > The anthem of so many of my pity parties. Awesome choice. I love Nico. She’s not for everyone, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/65 "2012-12-07T20:22:54Z")
Hurt by NiN (and/or Dwight Yoakam’s discography, but that’s more than one song) ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/66 "2012-12-07T21:52:37Z")
Only sent, never received. Helps me, if not the recipient. Works for all ailments. [U2, Walk On](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrpS_E6W_N8) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/67 "2012-12-07T21:55:59Z")
Heh. Imo win this one: I Will Always Love You. Either Whitney or Dolly. Gah. I can’t believe I admitted this. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/68 "2012-12-07T22:07:16Z")
On the basis of re-reading the qualifier “terrible”, I rescind Walk On by U2, and submit instead [Marianne Faithfull, Why’d Ya Do It?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVg2sL707gI) ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/69 "2012-12-07T22:35:27Z")
You’re talking terrible and no one’s mentioned Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again, naturally”? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/70 "2012-12-07T22:35:46Z")
For me it will always be Black Star by Radiohead. > [@](#): > > I get on the train and I just stand about now that I don’t think of you > I keep falling over I keep passing out when I see a face like you > What am I coming to? > I’m gonna melt down > > Blame it on the black star > Blame it on the falling sky … ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/71 "2012-12-07T22:48:17Z")
A quick pause for our Daily Moment of Pedantry: _These Days_ is best known as a Nico tune, but it’s actually a cover. The original is by Jackson Browne. It doesn’t really fit the spirit of the thread, but every discussion of breakup songs must include _One More Minute_ by Weird Al. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/72 "2012-12-08T00:44:24Z")
Chad and Jeremy’s _A Summer Song_. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUNMH_3nRo) Enya’s _Flora’s Secret_. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFZJ6jiWJ8) Skeeter Davis’s _End of the World_. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_-biL2ARY) ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/73 "2012-12-08T03:51:25Z")
Matchbox 20-Time to Come Home. Just the first part, over and over ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/74 "2012-12-08T04:46:58Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O6JJjfnNwsY/hqdefault.jpg "Please Mr Please Olivia Newton John") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JJjfnNwsY) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Like\_Pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I\_Like\_Pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Like_Pie)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/75 "2012-12-08T21:57:49Z")
From a fairly new band, “Cold Hearted” by Zac Brown Band. The words and harmonies really get to me. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/76 "2012-12-08T22:16:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Skeeter Davis’s _End of the World_. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2\_-biL2ARY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_-biL2ARY) Ooh, nicely done. _fist bump_ ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/77 "2012-12-09T01:29:11Z")
I thought about the Grease soundtrack “the Worst thing I could do” but Stockard Canning is awesome. So “Hopelessly devoted to you” would have to be it. Or “Do you Really want to Hurt me” because despite my infatuation with that band back in the day, it really really doesn’t hold up. But we need another thread for Good songs for bad break ups! ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/78 "2012-12-09T01:34:47Z")
[Here is the companion thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674947) ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/79 "2012-12-09T06:02:44Z")
[Champagne High–Sister Hazel.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLcDhIWxuY) ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/80 "2012-12-09T06:20:07Z")
Fine, honest, kill any reputation I ever had answer here. All cried out, by Allure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310.md?page=5)