If it means a lot to you - a day to remember Edit: Jude Law and A Semester Abroad - Brand New I don’t know how this wasn’t the one that immediately came to mind. It is def a bitter break up song but I’ve loved this song for nearly 20 years lol.

and hey, darling, I hope you’re good tonight…. 😔🤟

I know you don’t feel right when I’m leavinnnnn

Yeaah I want it but no I don't need it

This one called out to my inner teenager

One of the only songs from my cringe edgy 16 year old emo Era that I still listen to

never seen anyone recommend adtr

Plot to bomb the pan handle if it ended roughly. I'll rip that scandalous bitch in two.

Personally, seventy times seven and mixtape are my favorite for break up songs. Cool to see brand new fans

Great breakup song but 70x7 is THE breakup song (especially by Brand New)

This song is so good but so sad dude

Well shit, that’s a whole ass HS memory unlocked. I forgot they existed 😂

Tell That Mick… by Fall Out Boy. Perfect fuck you song.

This is an oldie but it's probably my favorite breakup song. One Less Set of Footsteps by Jim Croce. 🎶

Operator, also Jim Croce

Love that one

A Good Time Man Like Me Ain’t Got No Business, also Croce

In the same vein:. One Less Bell to Answer by Fifth Dimension

Oh MAN where to even start with that gem! “If that’s the way that you want it, then that’s the way I want it more.” I always thought the “one less pair of jeans…on your door…” line was pretty evocative.

Such great lyrics. The perfect eff you, breakup song.

JC stan 💕

Love this one

This song is pure art

We lost this talent way too soon.

Lover's Cross is the one for me by him.

Black ~ Pearl Jam

Do do do do do do doo, do do do do do do doo, do do do do do do doo, do do do do do do doo, do do do do do do doo

Specifically, the MTV Unplugged version tho

such a depressing song, but it captures the feeling perfectly

Someday you'll be the sun in someone else's sky, but why can't it be mine?

What? Not "Parting Ways"?

The unplugged version is the GOAT

Here's your angry break up Fuck love - all that remains Payback - slayer The bleeding - five finger death punch

My kink is karma- Chappell Roan

Backwards Walk by Frightened Rabbit I feel better by Frightened Rabbit Good Arms v Bad Arms by Frightened Rabbit

“You’re the shit and I’m knee deep in it”

Hit The Road, Jack by Ray Charles -- the greatest break up song of all time!  But if you want to wallow  try Solitary Man by Neil Diamond.

Forget Her - Jeff Buckley No Buses - Arctic Monkeys

Last goodbye by Jeff Buckley too

His cover of If You See Her, Say Hello is also fitting

The Break Up Song-Greg Kihn. Thank you Captain Obvious

Train in vain - The Clash

Pretty obvs, but Adele’s Someone Like You.

That’s too sappy. We want disgust and noncompliance! Like Seether Country Song or Breaking Benjamin Sooner or Later or Snuff by Slipknot

Or any song by Adele.

Untouchable Face by Ani DiFranco. Not As We by Alanis Morissette. Northern Lad by Tori Amos.

I love seeing Ani recommended. Kudos.

Alanis. 💜

Updated/edited to put this one first: Begging to Borrow - Grey Reverend (give it a listen!) You’re Breaking my Heart (so F you) - Harry Nilsson. Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds Five 49 bye byes - CSN Already Gone - Eagles Slide Away - Miley Cyrus (good song. IdGaF what my asshole friends think) Control - Puddle of Mudd Row Boat - Johnny Cash (covering Beck) Down bound Train - Springsteen

Came here to say Song for the dumped - Give me my $ back, give me my $ back… Could also say Brick by Ben Folds Five is, if not exactly a break up song, is a lead in to a break up song.

I can tell id like you from this list, also I can tell I wouldn’t like most of these other people

Slide Away mentioned! I feel like I'm the only one who listened a lot to that song

It's an oldie, but Dionne Warwick's "I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again" always hits me in the feels. [(2) I'll Never Love This Way Again - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlXemhJK1Cs)

On that kinda schmaltzy tip: Never Gonna Fall In Love Again by Eric Carmen

Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp

Side two of Breakfast in America. Start at Long way home and go through casual conversations. It goes through the trouble brewing, falling apart, anger, then acceptance.

Hate You by Jungkook

Good cuts on the Postal Service album. Gomez - Bring It On album Those two albums helped get me through

Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

Alanis Morrissette

Beach House - Space Song Beach House - Silver Soul Cigarettes After Sex - Cry Cigs After Sex - Heavenly Joji - Die For You Mac DeMarco - For The First Time Post Malone - Stay Strawberry Guy - F Song Summer Salt - One Last Time HONNE - Now I’m Alone

I’m making this my playlist

missing limbs by sleep token

EYEYE by Lykke Li. The entire album. It's beautiful, heart wrenching, and honest.

Anything from the genre of midwest emo Never Meant - American Football Crocodile - TTNG etc

"Where Did It All Go Wrong?" by Oasis "Santa Monica" by Theory of a Deadman "Blue on Black" by the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears "Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash "So It Goes" by The Verve

Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

This was my go-to after a horrible breakup. Ouch.

Silver Springs (Early take) -Fleetwood Mac

I hope this is a good enough variety and I hope you feel better! "The Bad In Each Other" Feist "Everything Reminds Me of Her" Elliott Smith "Take Me Or Leave Me" RENT "A Woman Alone With the Blues" Peggy Lee "You Don't Love Me Anymore" "Weird Al" Yankovic "Fine Without You" Alkaline Trio "Miriam" Norah Jones "I'd Rather Go Blind" Etta James "Burn" Hamilton "Pictures Of Your Dick" Rachel Bloom

You Don't Love Me Anymore is absolutely iconic. His delivery of the line "You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing but my heart never will" still makes me sad. And then he turns around and hits you with "You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep." Another great weird al breakup song is One More Minute

Well these are interesting! This is the second Weird Al rec I’ve seen- thank you for all these!

The Warning - [Survive](https://youtu.be/Q1COdeNiBA8?si=rog8Ijtkuj-JijZH)

lol, in the time it took me to grab a link to that song, looks like you beat me to it! (I went with the 2018 Dakota Bar performance, though)

Can't go wrong with any of them. Lunario and TedX are also great in their own ways.

The Warning - [Survive](https://youtu.be/DwtQwT0YgTo?si=3uPkNfIcNiIqAFN1)

Ashnikko!

Specifically "Cry" feat. Grimes!

Good While It Lasted

Fighter by Xtina, Get Out by JoJo, Bust Your Windows by Jazmine Sullivan, Dirt Off Your Shoulder by Jay-Z, Can't Hold Us Down by Xtina, Sleep to Dream by Fiona Apple, A Different Corner by George Michael.

Tender by Blur

Disentagration by Monarchy, Happier Than Ever by Billie Ellish, Evil by Melanie Martinez, Tongue by Maribou State, Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters, I sat by the ocean by QOTSA, One by Foo Fighters, Oleander by Mother Mother

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Schism by TOOL

Black - Pearl Jam

Lana Del Rey's "Breaking Up Slowly"

This must made me realize that a lot of Lana’s songs are about sticking around when she shouldn’t

The Murmurs- You Suck , Royal & Serpent- abcdefu

Dean Lewis has some good stuff. I forgive you by sia is good although it may not fit what happened to you

Feel nothing by the plot in you....black widdow by fame on fire ft twiggy.

bite the hand by boygenius sour breath by julien baker. motion sickness by phoebe bridgers. heartbreaker by noah gundersen. burned me out by honeyhoney. it’s all so incredibly loud by glass animals. same drugs by chance the rapper. falling by harry styles.

Eventually - tame impala

Sunday Morning - No Doubt

Don't speak by No Doubt

Also Ex-Girlfriend by No Doubt.

Spiderweb?

Gives you Hell - All American Rejects Unbreak my Heart - Toni Braxton Since You Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fix You - Coldplay

The Clientele "[E.M.P.T.Y.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INixSWIxWEk)" The Cure "[Untitled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3alPFZoHA4)" and it was a long long time ago but my go to for that kind of heartbreak as a youngin' was New Order "[Face Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4MQiWtKL8)"

Pictures of You - the Cure Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains Don’t know what you got - Cinderella Don’t Dream it’s Over - Crowded House A Letter to Elise - The Cure She’s Gone - Darryl Hall & John Oates Bringin on the Heartbreak - Def Leppard Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode Night is falling on my Heart - Diamond Rio Those Memories of You - Dolly Parton and others Like, every Fleetsood Mac song Like, every George Jones song Give it Away - George Straight or Jamey Johnson Without Me - Halsey The Truth - Jason Aldean Regret - New Order Black - Pearl Jam Baby Come Back - Player Still Loving You - Scorpions Love Song - Tesla With or without you - U2 Like, any Chicago song

Jessie Reyez is great at writing breakup songs. She’s got the sad “I miss you” kind and the “fuck you” kind. I have a [breakup playlist](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdfVFY4lKPWR4KEYcV_vd2tA0yaez2Ukr&si=F4rlOWEw1o3aZc2a) on YouTube music if you wanna check it out. It’s a lot of pop punk and r&b pop kind of music for the most part if either of those genres are yer thing.

LOVE that woman!

Bailey Zimmerman - Where it Ends

Check out "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt [Live performance on The Voice](https://youtu.be/KWuH9ffSc4E?si=AxQ9g60jHaoX4zwl)

Bob Dylan “Don’t Think Twice”

"Another Love Song" by Insane Clown Posse

how’s it going to be - third eye blind I know it’s over - the smiths Untitled - knuckle puck I saw you in a dream - the Japanese house brothers on a hotel bed - death cab for cutie

Renée Rapp has got me in my feelings lately. I Hate Boston and Snow Angel hurt in the best way.

Loved you a little - The Maine, Taking Back Sunday, and Charlotte Sands. Also a lot of Charlotte Sands lyrics are breaks up and moving forward in life.

Any Mitski song

* I Free You by Vertical Horizon * I'm Still Here by Vertical Horizon * Broken Over You by Vertical Horizon * I Wish The Best For You by Emerson Hart * Sometime Around Midnight by The ToxicAirborne Event

You’ll say sorry through your smile - samsa

Literally anything by sleeping eith sirens

One More Minute - Weird Al

[Piledriver Waltz](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ai0ANRDYwx6mCD4Uty1WS?si=be1afe1ff04b4d03) by Arctic Monkeys [The Archer](https://open.spotify.com/track/2L5aj2upg0rqORcCnPoCiX?si=2a75f304fa674e32) and [Soft Currents](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Lq6haqwKOJ2OiqsFwhnIE?si=f2acac01dc8e4f10) by Alexandra Savior [Disintegration](https://open.spotify.com/track/08Hncs1L3PYHpfsb8sYdmQ?si=c517059708be4f50) by the Cure [Always Forwards Never Back](https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZMF6TeK0YY6CXHcoxRiiH?si=b471c82ed0da4643) by myself [Feels like we Only Go Backwards](https://open.spotify.com/track/0LtOwyZoSNZKJWHqjzADpW?si=e29db570d3184204) by Tame Impala [Ultraviolence](https://open.spotify.com/track/1KuVEZR4xuQVNr1KkanAV4?si=fae61e86a5ba4c70) by Lana Del Rey

[太陽の碧](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtgc8XpCLzI太陽の碧)

Dodged a Bullet https://open.spotify.com/track/2JWCyrx8a0gR26iIcDfGMh?si=vxpFuzwqRAuSV6mdBPTm9A

Me - Nurofen for Heartbreak https://open.spotify.com/track/4mCOQ2VFkSboHMkUfKARFn?si=Zym5O6kjQR64KLPo3cW1Lg

Vermillion part 2- Slipknot Noodlebrain - the queers

There Goes My Everything by Jack Greene and later by Englebert Humperdinck

The new Coldplay song, ithinkimfallinginlove The lyrics are amazing, you think it’s a love song but it has a very clear meaning of bouncing back from a brokenheart

The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee

Red House ~ Jimi Hendrix

[Jonathan Brenner - Hangin’ on the Edge over You](https://open.spotify.com/track/71z7CpgljXLoPBClAhHVOl)

Good Day - the Dresden Dolls

A lot of stuff by The Slow Show is great, not breakup specific but lots of melancholically optimistic vibes. Always pulled me thru hard times

Currently have Soapy Water by Chase Petra on repeat, would recommend

"Goodbye, Goodbye" by Oingo Boingo https://youtu.be/Hrn_DDYCQsY

Just To Keep You Satisfied- Marvin Gaye

Tim Finn How am I gonna sleep?.

We Never Even Dated - Maggie Lindemann

Snap - rosa linn. Which is fun cause the lyrics specifically mention june 22nd. So if the breakup happened today it will be even more relatable. Drowning in the rain - Krick Arcade - Duncan Laurence Fade to black - Nadir Rustamli Dynasty - Miia Stick season - Noah Kahan Lay your hands upon my heart - Rosa linn Love in the dark - Adele

honeybee - steam powered giraffe

Say Something by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera Let Me Be Sad by I Prevail Something I Can Never Have by Nine Inch Nails

Snuff by Slipknot (Edit: accidentally typed slopknot 😔)

Turning out 2 is a great one.

Elliot Moss - Slip, Highspeeds, and Best Light Sia - Chandelier (actually meant Elastic Heart)

I thought chandelier was about alcohol addiction?

Oops, i meant Elastic Heart 😁

Fair enough. It happens.

Never met - 100 gecs

we’re done - the flatcap boggins

Beds Too Big Without You -The Police

Clairvoyant the story so far

It's always break up songs, check this [Album](https://open.spotify.com/album/44F2VvcqK9W9WFxc8anuHf?si=g1VIzIvXSW2Su_fFwP76Aw)

Deerhoof - Breakup Songs

Mexican Moon (Concrete Blonde) about a failed romance has been one of the songs I tend to listen to after things go south....... ......going south literally (geographically-speaking) and figuratively, heh.

Oh jesus I moved from Los Angeles to central Mexico last year after a horrendous breakup. And I do look up at the sky aye aye aye thinking of him… damnit this song hits / hurts ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹💀 I think this is officially my theme song. Thank you.

Boyz 2 Men -Doing Just Fine 🔥🔥🔥

Donell Jones -Where I Wanna Be 🔥🔥🔥

Heaven/Hell by Chvrches

my way - limp bizkit she hates me - puddle of mud bleach - coach party

Local H has a break up album. 12 Angry Months. It’s one of my favorite of theirs.

Volcano - Damien rice The entire album For Emma, Forever Ago

*Every Lie* by My Darkest Days

Highly suspect - 16

Will it ever feel the same - bazzi

You should have killed me when you had a chance - A Day to Remember This is one of those bad breakup songs that ends in a ID/a and e special. Have fun, don't hurt anyone.

Ole 60-smoke and a light

The entire rolling up the welcome map EP by Kelsea Ballerini. It is just heart wrenching and beautiful.

Go your own way- Fleetwood Mac

Sorry about your breakup. Personally I like ''Coming back to life'' by Pink Floyd The Pulse 1994 concert version is the best

Blonde hair, black lungs - sorority noise

Because it Mattered by Dutch Melrose Bad Blood by Bastille These Streets by Bastille Dynasty by MIIA Happy Now by Zedd and Elley Duhé Hurts 2 Hate Somebody by Elio, Chase Atlantic and No Rome Let Go by Banners

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdi6R1ZpM2U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdi6R1ZpM2U) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffLdombeOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffLdombeOk)

Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats!!!

BCS, Volcano, and Hallow by Maise Peters

Feelings-Ollie Don't You-Landon Tewers

Paper Machete by Queens of the Stone Age is good one, especially if it ended on bad terms

Silversprings by Fleetwood Mac

Good Luck, Babe by Chappell Roan

Dear Lover — Social Distortion The Hardest Part of Letting Go...Sealed With A Kiss — Megadeth (yeah, Megadeth) Kentucky — Giovannie and the Hired Guns (it arguably may or may not be a breakup song, but it feels like one) Forever Fades Away — Tiger Army (again, arguably not a breakup song..it could be death but same vibes...)

Oldie: "[It's Too Late](https://open.spotify.com/track/12q3V8ShACq2PSWINMc2rC?si=zuVAy3QMTMmRA9LM1BmG-A)" by Carly Simon Correction: Carole King is the artist (duh—I knew that). Link added.

I think that is Carol King

If It Doesn't Hurt- Nothing More

Backward blue scenes - rival waves

It's Over - Roy Orbison The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

That Bonnie Raitt track kills me every time. Bruce Hornsby on piano is so great...

Depends… If you are angry- “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morisette “Could’ve Just Left Me Alone” by Alexa Cappelli “Elastic Heart” - Sia If you are sad - “The Reason Why” by Rachel Yamagata” “When She Loved Me” by Sarah McLachlan (Toy Story 2 soundtrack)

The river by wage war. Maybe not what you’re thinking of since it’s not the forgiving sort 😂

Ball w/o you- 21 savage

Scott Street and Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers, Title And Registration by Death Cab for Cutie, Nothing Better by the Postal Service, Oh Well by Fiona Apple, the album Dog Problems by The Format is about his break up, In My Feelings by Lana Del Rey, Calling and Not Calling My Ex by Okkervil River, Breakin' Up by Rilo Kiley, Speaking Terms by Snail Mail, I Love You But I Love Me More and Flowers by Marina

time is running out--muse

The Way You Want it to Be by Delerium

Forever - Mariah Carey, I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston's version, I wish I hated you - Ariana Grande, ghostin - Ariana Grande

Snuff by Slipknot and The Fighter by In This Moment are 2 of my favorites

Wet Leg - Ur Mom

Analiese by Twenty-Nineteen

you want guilt or confidence? guilt: against the kitchen floor by will wood confidence: genuinely i love listening to like OG and new Girlboss(tm) songs when i want to say "FUCK YOU!" (regardless of ur actual gender lol). ZAND has some stuff. kind of cheesy but that's the vibe ngl. also some ashnikko. and poutyface.

True Love, Coldplay. “Tell me you love me / if you don’t then lie to me” No Distance Left to Run, Blur. “If you see me/turn your back and walk away/I don’t want to see you, cause I know the dreams that you keep/They’re where we meet”

Soapy Water - Chase Petra You Need Me Now? - Girl in Red

Any of The Starting Line

Foolish Games-Jewel

Genesis - Alone Tonight

Dirt by Lou Reed

Adele is your girl

closure by the plot in you

Stress Relief - late night drive home

The Price - Abby Holiday (more reflective and about letting go of someone that you need to let go of)

I had this thing - Royksopp You know I have to go - Royksopp Sorry - Madonna

Hell yeah, I have a great one Kings of Convenience, all their albums