Saddest "Break-Up" song

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  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    Agree with "9 Crimes" by Damien Rice.

    Also, hard to admit this, but there was a time when I could definitely relate to "That Particular Time" by Alanis Morissette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESzySJn1lZo
    "If you love someone, set them free... if someone loves you, don't fuck up" - EV
  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    ummm, i'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned:

    i still recall the taste of your tears
    echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
    my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
    scraping through my head till i don't want to sleep anymore

    come on tell me
    make this all go away
    ou make this all go away
    i'm down to just one thing and i'm starting to scare myself
    make this all go away
    you make this all go away
    i just want something
    i just want something i can never have

    you always were the one to show me how
    back then i couldn't do the things that i can do now
    this thing is slowly taking me apart
    grey would be the color if i had a heart

    i just want something i can never have

    in this place it seems like such a shame
    though it all looks different now, i know it's still the same
    everywhere i look you're all i see
    just a fading fucking reminder of who i used to be

    come on tell me
    make this all go away
    you make this all go away
    i'm down to just one thing and i'm starting to scare myself
    make this all go away
    you make this all go away
    i just want something
    i just want something i can never have
    i just want something i can never have

    nin - something i can never have
  • megatron
    megatron Posts: 3,420
    bright eyes- haligh haligh, a lie, haligh

    this is a personal fave
    not sure about saddest
  • JH165252
    JH165252 Posts: 20
    Hope You Never - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    neil young - birds

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9OjIC6nDk

    replacements - bent out of shape, when it began

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLiVtSjyfRs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS-1waMLk9k

    westerberg - lookin' out forever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOl8VKHDjcM
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  • slightlystoned
    slightlystoned Posts: 229
    Ben harper- Walk Away
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    "Goodbye" by Eddie Vedder is my favourite, its so brutal, painful, descriptive and dragged out.

    That and Damien Rice - "The Blower's Daughter", especially the last few lines:

    "Oh, did I say that I loathe you?
    Did I say that I want to leave it all behind?
    ...I can't take my mind off of you (repeated)
    I can't take my mind...
    My mind
    My mind............Till I find somebody new"

    brilliant. so hurt and angry, and the very last line is completely realistic, knowing that he'll be fine and move on as soon as he finds someone new.
  • Yield151
    Yield151 Posts: 267
    Rueb wrote:
    Dave Matthews Band - Grace is Gone

    "...One drink to remember and another to forget. Excuse me please, one more drink. Could you make it strong, 'cause I don't want to think she... broke my heart, my Grace is gone. One more drink and I'll move on."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPfwCZchhg

    Quite an alcoholics break-up song, but it still breaks your heart.



    i agree ..... this was my other choice alonf with Some Devil
  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6CvErYkVQ
    definitely a spine tingler. fucking gorgeous and heart wrenching.

    Incubus - Mexico
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNuCGqwYbVE
    beautiful.

    Soundgarden - Zero Chance
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAhcNm17Y0
    absolutely incredible. another spine tingler. doesn't necessarily have to be about break up, but it fits the bill.

    Radiohead - Nude
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl3M40- ... re=related
    incredible. could have multiple meanings, but can definitely relate to a breakup.

    i also agree 100% with the neil young - birds post and the dave matthews - some devil post.
    and of course, come on now, good 'ol pj with black!
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  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    it's not really sad, but past the sad stage into the redemption phase of the breakup;
    "flat tire" by Athenaeum
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  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    River by Joni Mitchell
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    I Can't Make You Love Me-Bonnie Raitt absolutely breaks my heart everytime I hear it.

    She's still in love, he isn't.

    The best lyric is "Morning will come, and I'll do what's right. Just give me till then to give up this fight... And I will give up this fight."
  • offhegoes32
    offhegoes32 Posts: 418
    Just came across this thread, "Lost Cause" by Beck was the first one that came to mind for me, but I see it came up. Other really heart-breaking ones I can think of that haven't been mentioned yet:

    Elliott Smith- Everything Reminds Me of Her
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0Pvslqb_Y

    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Echo

    I've always loved both of these songs, but I can imagine them being very painful to hear during a break-up.
    No time to be void or save up on life, you gotta spend it all.
  • Save Me
    Save Me Posts: 147
    And So It Goes - Billy Joel. One of the greatest and most heartbreaking songs ever.

    "So I would choose to be with you.
    That's if the choice were mine to make.
    But you can make decisions too.
    And you can have this heart to break.

    And So It Goes, And So It Goes,
    And you're the only one who knows."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHO6a2H-pqY
    "The Wild is chasing after me. Hot on my trail won't leave me alone. All I can see is your blood right in front of me, and I can't kill The Wild." Me
  • BlackCorduroy
    BlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    It makes no difference- The Band
    BrokenGlass wrote:
    The Band - It Makes No Difference

    Here's the great performance from The Last Waltz - Danko just tugs at your heartstrings:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7r12Rg490

    Just went back and notice this was already mentioned. excellent call. I have to say though, I''ve never liked the last waltz performance of it. He completely doesn't nail my favorite part ("Since you've been gone...rattle the walls)...Eddie and MMJ's version of it is mind-blowing
  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    November Rain ~ Guns N' Roses ~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkG6Za6w5s

    Wish you were here...
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  • DDowning21NJ
    DDowning21NJ Posts: 106
    Cant believe im the first to bring out dylan.

    Bob Dylan - If you see her say hello

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WbR4QW6KR8

    and about every other song on blood on the tracks.
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  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    Human Touch ~ Bruce Springsteen ~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A

    Wish you were here...
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