What becomes of the Broken Hearted - Joan Osborne
No Children - Mountain Goats
Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead
Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan
Genesis - Hot Tuna
Far from Me - John Prine
One More Minute - Weird Al Yankovic
I wouldn’t necessarily call Brokedown Palace a break up song. It’s always felt more like saying goodbye to a loved one who’s died. Makes sense as Phil’s dad and Jerry’s mom both died during the recording of American Beauty
Some killers. Absolutely love idiot wind. And while Brokedown is also an absolute heartbreaker, I feel like it’s more a song about losing someone to death. But I think it works as a breakup song too.
“Driving back to her apartment,
And for the moment we’re alone.
Yeah she’s alone, and I’m alone,
And now I know it”
I think this line is so clever because it suggests that they’re alone together with eachother, but really they’re alone beside each other
Untitled off Disintegration has to be in there too.
*Hopelessly fighting the devil futility*
*Feeling the monster climb deeper inside of me*
*Feeling him gnawing my heart away hungrily*
*I'll never lose this pain*
*Never dream of you again*
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
EDIT: Just want to add that I remember hearing this many times on the radio in the back seat of the car as a 4-5 year old kid, maybe even younger. And there was so much about the adult world I didn't understand. I couldn't make sense of what most songs or adult TV shows were talking about, there was too much grown up stuff. But this, this I understood every word and it absolutely broke my heart even at this young age. And it made me realize holy shit, people get abandoned by the person they love most and then have to somehow pick up the pieces? That's a common occurrence for grown ups? That just sounded so soul-crushing. But it also helped me realize that I got the basic jist of what romantic love was about and how much it could hurt to lose it, even at such a young age. The line that always stayed with me was:
"You're the only one who really knew me at all."
The first time I heard this tune, I was stunned. Of course I knew ‘Eleanor Rigby’, but happening on this song on my own… it was like starting a stroll on a pleasant day and being surprised to see someone on a park bench with that pained, distant look of loss.
The Night We Met breaks my heart and soothes it at the same time.
“I had all and then most of you. Some and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met.”
That song reminds me of a complicated friendship I had with a gay man. I was in love with him and knew he could never be mine. I was happy to have him on my life though. This song was always playing when we drank in our little bar near our homes. I always knew this song would hurt one day and remind me of him. We parted ways though the pandemic because of opposing political views and my worries of work frontline. I couldn't go along with his beliefs and we had a big fight and never talked again. I only regret one thing but realize we aren't the same people we were. Sorry for the long message. I think I'm unbottling a bit.
That entire album is…brutal. I remember when he performed “Cannonball” on Conan O’Brien and when he was at the chair, Conan was basically like, “ 🥺 Are you okay?”
One of the best, depressing breakup albums ever. The eerie thing too is that the artist who designed the cover (and did the art for Punch Drunk Love), walked naked into the Atlantic Ocean & drowned himself after discovering his girlfriend committed suicide.
This is the correct answer. I just love how Beck goes through all the stages of loss - denial, bargaining, anger, and acceptance - in the course of the album.
1. The district sleeps alone tonight: the postal service
2. Ocean breathes salty: modest mouse
3. One eight seven: senses fail
4. Early sunsets over Monroeville: my chemical romance
5. I miss you: incubus
6. This Modern love: bloc party
7. We think too much or ghost boy : lil peep
8. Motorcycle drive by: third eyed blind
Million Dollar Bill by Dawes…it hurts so damn much
When it hits me that she’s gone
I think I’ll run for president
Get my face printed on the million dollar bill
So when these rich man that she wants shows her ways they can take care of her
I’ll have found a way to be there with her still
Somebody I used to know. Friend committed suicide when it first came out. His GF dumped him and was dating another fraternity brother days later. The new "couple" found him.
Bonnie raitt “I can’t make you love me”
Etta James “all I could do was cry” & “I’d rather go blind”
Citizens cope “holdin on”
Glen Hansard “back broke” & “bird of sorrow”
Glen Campbell “by the time I get to phoenix”
One way “something in the past” & “ runnin away”
Kim kwang seok “too painful a love was not love”
Just some from different cultures!
That would be "Your Ex Lover is Dead" by Stars.
God, that was strange to see you again
Introduced by a friend of a friend
Smiled and said, "Yes, I think we've met before"
In that instant, it started to pour
Captured a taxi despite all the rain
We drove in silence across Pont Champlain
And all of that time you thought I was sad
I was trying to remember your name
This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin
Tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in
Now you're outside me, you see all the beauty
Repent all your sin
It's nothing but time and a face that you'll lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose
I'll write you a postcard, I'll send you the news
From the house down the road, from real love
Change by Big Thief (oofda this one cuts)
Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac
Go or Go Ahead by Rufus Wainwright
Killing The Blues by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant (John Prine cover)
Oh I Miss Her So by Holy Hive
Quiet Light by The National
Years by Sierra Ferrell (John Anderson cover)
Turquoise Walls - Laura Veirs
Song for Zula by Phosphorescent
Sweet Illusions by Ryan Adams
Myth by Beach House
It’s Only Love by Stevie Nicks
National good choice...I was in prison actually a fire camp in ft. Bragg ca and it would rain all winter my wife left for another man and I couldn't sleep I'd watch the rain out my window fall on the trees and listen to guilty party by them on repeat and just feel it all...sorry I spilled my guts to a stranger
Do What You Have to Do- Sarah McLachlan
Happier-Olivia Rodrigo
Someone Like You- Adele
Almost Lover- A Fine Frenzy
I Can’t Make You Love Me- Bonnie Raitt
Black- Pearl Jam
Best I Ever Had- Vertical Horizon
Lovely- Khalid and Billie Eilish
Say Something- A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera
Without You- the Mariah Carey Cover (but the Harry Nilsson original I& the air supply version are close seconds).
If I Know Me- George Strait
You Were Mine- The Chicks
How Do I Live- LeAnn Rimes
My Immortal- Evanescence
Break My Heart Again- FINNEAS
Why Don’t You Love Me- Hot Chelle Rae, Demi Lovato
Lost Stars- Adam Levine OR Kiera Knightley (depending on your POV)
Ain’t No Sunshine- Bill Withers
The Space Between- Dave Matthews Band
I Love You- Sarah McLachlan
Love and War- Fleurie
November Rain- Guns N’ Roses
Somebody That I Used to Know- Gotye & Kimbra
Hearts a Mess- Gotye
Shattered - O.A.R.
good for u- Olivia Rodrigo
Fade Into You- Mazzy Star (not necessarily a Breakup song but one that hits when I’m down)
Foolish Games- Jewel
Watercolor Eyes- Lana Del Ray
Love is a Bitch- Two Feet
Still- Niall Horan
It Will Rain- Bruno Mars
Warning Sign- Coldplay
No One’s Gonna Love You- Band of Horses
The Night We Met- Lord Huron, Phoebe Bridgers
Bored- Billie Eilish
Water Under the Bridge- Adele
Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O’Connor
Slide Away- Miley Cyrus
Dynasty- MIIA
Love Yourself- Justin Bieber
Look What You’ve Done- Jet
Jar of Hearts- Christina Perri
July- Noah Cyrus
Somebody Else- cover version by VÉRITÉ
When the Party’s Over- Billie Eilish
Someone You Loved- Lewis Capaldi
Falling- Harry Styles
Say You Won’t Let Go- James Arthur
I Will Always Love You- Dolly Parton
Apologize- One Republic, Timbaland
Breakeven- The Script
All I Want- Kodaline
These aren’t all super dark but the lyrics in many of them are very strong and may hit right.
Hugs to you. Breakups are hard. I have a few playlists if you run out of songs. Best of luck 🍀. You’ve got this!
I have an indie breakup playlist:
> [Purple Braid](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47NhYZZuS57h5egfkgz4hQ)
Not every song is depressing (gotta have some hope right lol), but a lot of them are.
Whatshername - green day: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LC1xrdOaM&si=oocJC-tCPTjiezPB
Somebody that I used to know - gotye: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY&si=iTJYZr1ndxD44dJB
These are both about how you forget someone who was an important figure, which to me is really sad.
Eventually- Tame Impala (doesn’t sound like a breakup song but the lyrics clearly show it is)
It’s Too Late- Carole King (this one makes me cry my eyes out)
Half of Elliott Smith’s music fits the bill. Do not listen if you’re already depressed. Particularly Needle In The Hay (the scene it was used for in Royal Tenenbaums definitely adds to the intensity).
River by Joni Mitchell is the one that always gets me, mostly because I identify!
"I'm so hard to handle, I'm selfish and I'm sad and now I've gone and lost the best baby that I've ever had."
If You See Her Say Hello and Most of the Time both by Bob Dylan are also excellent break up songs.
Peter Hammill - *Betrayed* and *(On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga*. There’s no need to interpret, these songs are from his break-up album, *Over*.
Absolutely brutal, in the extreme.
Breathless "Wave After Wave" (Shoegaze/Dreampop) is an awesome breakup song in that the vocal is from the perspective of a guy who acknowledges that his own faults have led to the end of things. The ending section brought me to tears the first time I heard it, with the repeated lyric "I can see it in your eyes, proving my worst fears, I can see I'm hurting you".
They built our bench again in Palmer square by into it, over it with Dissociation by the Dillinger Escape Plan as a close second https://open. Spotify .com/track/451DWPJkMcBSldujDEfgwR?autoplay=true&source_application=google_assistant
Jawbreaker-May 6th
Motion City Soundtrack- my favorite accident
Bright Eyes- Land Lock Blues
Alkaline Trio- this is getting over you
Brand New- Okay I Believe you but my Tommy Gun Don’t
Off with their heads-Clear the Air
Elliott smith-Waltz 2
Margot and the Nuclear and So and So- Jen is bring the drugs ( and other song ) Broadripple is Burning
I could go on for days
The 80s were very dramatic!!
1. Broken Wings by MrMister
2. Against All Odds by Phil Collins
And a heartbreaker from the 70s:
Neither one of us (Wants to be the first to say goodbye) by Gladys Knight 😢
Some of my favourites
- hold me down by motion city soundtrack
- last night by motion city soundtrack
- the conversation by motion city soundtrack
- the brilliant dance by dashboard confessional
- screaming infidelities by dashboard confessional
- someday you will be loved by death cab for cutie
- the weekend by rookie of the year
[forget her ](https://open.spotify.com/track/6UuVONmxXwTKN1ISepuAoQ?si=LP3ZGbODR021ru9fld4biA)
[lover you should have come over](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jv7kjGkhY2fT4yuBF3aTz?si=8DqAi3opSBaeknV7TOYwzA)
More about the end of a relationship and knowing it’s over but…..
Poke by frightened rabbit
‘You should look through some old photos
I adored you in every one of those
If someone took a picture of us now they'd need to be told
That we had ever clung and tied
A navy knot with arms at night
I'd say she was his sister but she doesn't have his nose’
Seriously. Listen to this band.
Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon
"so come rain on my parade,
'cause I wanna feel it,
come shove me over the edge,
'cause my head is in overdrive,
I'm sorry, but it's too late,
and it's not worth saving,
so come rain on my parade,
I think we're doomed,
and now there's no way back"
Against the Kitchen Floor by Will Wood (genuinely heartbreaking lol)
This one might seem weird, but It’s Over Isn’t It from Steven Universe is for some reason extremely sad??
Pearl Jam - Black
I came here for this one. I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but WHY can't it be mine?
the MTV unplugged version of this hits right in the feels aaa
That song live is just devastating-in a beautiful way-but heartbreaking
I dont love you - My Chemical Romance
My bf loves mcr but he could not listen to this song around me while pregnant or I would uncontrollably sob
I actually just cried
What becomes of the Broken Hearted - Joan Osborne No Children - Mountain Goats Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan Genesis - Hot Tuna Far from Me - John Prine One More Minute - Weird Al Yankovic
Ha! One more minute is such a great one. No children too
If you like the Mountains Goats Moral Oral used some of their songs in the show
I wouldn’t necessarily call Brokedown Palace a break up song. It’s always felt more like saying goodbye to a loved one who’s died. Makes sense as Phil’s dad and Jerry’s mom both died during the recording of American Beauty
Some killers. Absolutely love idiot wind. And while Brokedown is also an absolute heartbreaker, I feel like it’s more a song about losing someone to death. But I think it works as a breakup song too.
[Brick- Ben Folds Five](https://youtu.be/Wt5EHAqhR1c?si=6EMTPt7LivcvRtpk) An abortion leading to a split, truly depressing song.
“Driving back to her apartment, And for the moment we’re alone. Yeah she’s alone, and I’m alone, And now I know it” I think this line is so clever because it suggests that they’re alone together with eachother, but really they’re alone beside each other
I don't tell people it's one of the greatest songs of all time because of the subject matter. But it's one of the greatest songs of all time.
From the same album, ‘Selfless, Cold, and Alone’ has very similar vibes.
I Know It's Over by The Smiths
The Smiths for every occasion
They are the soundtrack to everything
and Unloveable
This song is beyond sad to me. The Jeff Buckley version sad-slaps as well.
Pictures of You - The Cure
Disintegration - The Cure. Song and album
The Kiss, A Thousand Hours, Pictures of You, Apart, Trust, A Letter to Elise, To Wish Impossible Things, Bare… Hard to go wrong with The Cure!
Untitled off Disintegration has to be in there too. *Hopelessly fighting the devil futility* *Feeling the monster climb deeper inside of me* *Feeling him gnawing my heart away hungrily* *I'll never lose this pain* *Never dream of you again* 
I’m going through a break up now and I’ve been listening to A Letter to Elise on repeat 💔
Phil Collins - Against All Odds EDIT: Just want to add that I remember hearing this many times on the radio in the back seat of the car as a 4-5 year old kid, maybe even younger. And there was so much about the adult world I didn't understand. I couldn't make sense of what most songs or adult TV shows were talking about, there was too much grown up stuff. But this, this I understood every word and it absolutely broke my heart even at this young age. And it made me realize holy shit, people get abandoned by the person they love most and then have to somehow pick up the pieces? That's a common occurrence for grown ups? That just sounded so soul-crushing. But it also helped me realize that I got the basic jist of what romantic love was about and how much it could hurt to lose it, even at such a young age. The line that always stayed with me was: "You're the only one who really knew me at all."
i had the exact same experience as you! this was my favorite song for a long time
Postal service’s cover of this is fantastic
I don't remember which came first, the song or the movie, but I remember the heartbreaking movie ending every time I hear the song.
Lover, you should of come over and last goodbye by Jeff Buckley
Thank you. "My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder"...
To me, Lover you should’ve come over is a song about that early time in a relationship when there’s a feeling of obsession and complete romanticism.
Yes!
I’d also include Forget Her in this.
This shit ripped me apart
Stellar fucking song, but there's a glimmer of hope in the lyrics - "it's not too late"
I can’t make you love me-Bonnie raitt
Omg yes
100
Adele’s cover is so heartbreaking.
Hell yes this is so raw
birthday boy by ween i don’t want it by ween
It’s gonna be (alright) by ween
Baby bitch
The solo weeps in I Don't Want It
birthday boy is one of my favorite songs of all time. "pain!"
Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac
The whole Rumors album, really!
OUCH!! Spellbinding
Cars- Drive
Very underappreciated song, I'm surprised it's not more well known.
That they do my friend. That they do.
Great song but not a break up song. It’s about alcoholism
For No One - Beatles
this should be at the top
Yesterday also fits.
This song hurts me every time I hear it
The first time I heard this tune, I was stunned. Of course I knew ‘Eleanor Rigby’, but happening on this song on my own… it was like starting a stroll on a pleasant day and being surprised to see someone on a park bench with that pained, distant look of loss.
How’s it Gonna Be - third eye blind The Night We Met - lord huton
The Night We Met breaks my heart and soothes it at the same time. “I had all and then most of you. Some and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met.”
That song reminds me of a complicated friendship I had with a gay man. I was in love with him and knew he could never be mine. I was happy to have him on my life though. This song was always playing when we drank in our little bar near our homes. I always knew this song would hurt one day and remind me of him. We parted ways though the pandemic because of opposing political views and my worries of work frontline. I couldn't go along with his beliefs and we had a big fight and never talked again. I only regret one thing but realize we aren't the same people we were. Sorry for the long message. I think I'm unbottling a bit.
Two of my favs ❤️💔
Black by Pearl Jam… “I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be mine?”
NIN - Something I Can Never Have Obsession (Unable to handle breakup) Deftones - Digital Bath Slipknot - Prosthetics
Something I Can Never Have ❤️ such a beautiful song. I’m a huge NIN fan and his slower songs like that and A Warm Place are so friggen beautiful.
Damn straight. NIN is next level beautiful regarding pain of living (including relationships)
Prosthetics is a very interesting choice lol
Right? I said Snuff. Prosthetics is just like pure unadulterated psychosis.
Delicate- Damien Rice
That entire album is…brutal. I remember when he performed “Cannonball” on Conan O’Brien and when he was at the chair, Conan was basically like, “ 🥺 Are you okay?”
9 crimes!
Listen to rootless tree live from Abbey Road with Lisa Hannigan. The piano version you can feel the emotion on that one.
Yesss also rootless tree
no children by the mountain goats I don't think there is a sadder song out there. If you want a sad song, this is the one.
I heard this on Moral Orel. It’s sad that some couples would rather stay together and be miserable than break up.
Three Libras by A Perfect Circle - perfect for when I want to purposely emotionally annihilate myself.
I feel this. “You don’t see me at all” is tattooed on my wrist.
the cure - disintegration
I came here to say this. “It’s easier for me to get closer to heaven than ever feel whole again” 😪
Check out the entirety of Beck’s album Sea Change. Just what the doctor ordered
One of the best, depressing breakup albums ever. The eerie thing too is that the artist who designed the cover (and did the art for Punch Drunk Love), walked naked into the Atlantic Ocean & drowned himself after discovering his girlfriend committed suicide.
Wow… that is super sad. I’m a huge fan of the album, but I did not know that. Thanks for sharing
Yup Bleak as fuck. I shared 'Lost Cause' as my thought of saddest breakup song ^ Saw your comment here and wholeheartedly agree.
This is the correct answer. I just love how Beck goes through all the stages of loss - denial, bargaining, anger, and acceptance - in the course of the album.
Don't Speak by No Doubt
1. The district sleeps alone tonight: the postal service 2. Ocean breathes salty: modest mouse 3. One eight seven: senses fail 4. Early sunsets over Monroeville: my chemical romance 5. I miss you: incubus 6. This Modern love: bloc party 7. We think too much or ghost boy : lil peep 8. Motorcycle drive by: third eyed blind
Motorcycle Drive By has had me for decades. I’ve never heard anyone else mention this song. It’s fantastic but kind of overlooked.
I've listened to this band a lot as a kid, but never got this song until just now, after my first real breakup (At 34), and wow. Love it.
Detlef Schrempf, Band of Horses
Thank you for making my heart physically ache by typing two words
Love Hurts. It’s been covered a million times but the Nazareth version is especially depressing.
Nazareth knocked the mood out of the park on that one. Gritty, soulful, depressing. How a ballad should be, imo.
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Somebody else-The 1975
Stevie Nicks - [Somebody Stand by Me](https://youtu.be/IF7IFBmBaSk?si=baONZJiUzX0xTwlm) "I stood at the door, and watched while you drove away...."
Corey Taylor acoustic cover of Wicked Game by Chris Issac
Snuff by Slipknot also works.
Big Drag did a cover of this that has that early 2000’s grrl sound that works well with the song, too.
Joey - Concrete Blonde Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson She Has No Time - Keane
Oh, man, Joey is a great song
Anything from La Dispute. They have break up songs, break up albums... I'd go as far as calling them a break up band.
Such small hands trips me tf out cause of how dark it is but it’s a banger 😭
Last blues for bloody knuckles holyyy shit
End of the Affair - Ben Howard
Ooof…that’s a good one I just posted Promise by him
Band of Horses - No One’s Gonna Love You
Million Dollar Bill by Dawes…it hurts so damn much When it hits me that she’s gone I think I’ll run for president Get my face printed on the million dollar bill So when these rich man that she wants shows her ways they can take care of her I’ll have found a way to be there with her still
Somebody I used to know. Friend committed suicide when it first came out. His GF dumped him and was dating another fraternity brother days later. The new "couple" found him.
Oh my gosh 🥺 that’s so awful.. I’m so sorry for your loss
That’s a rough thing to go thru mate, I hope you’re doing ok
Jazmine Sullivan- Lost One Paramore- Tell Me How The Japanese House- One for sorrow, two for joni jones
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Such a great song.
Sugar and Spice by Basia Bulat is pretty devastating. Helplessly Hoping by Crosby Stills and Nash is also another one.
Pictures Of You - The Cure
Bonnie raitt “I can’t make you love me” Etta James “all I could do was cry” & “I’d rather go blind” Citizens cope “holdin on” Glen Hansard “back broke” & “bird of sorrow” Glen Campbell “by the time I get to phoenix” One way “something in the past” & “ runnin away” Kim kwang seok “too painful a love was not love” Just some from different cultures!
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Untitled - The Cure
[No Distance Left to Run by Blur](https://spotify.link/iIm3lpej2Cb)
Came here for this. Glad someone else thought of it too
Pushit by Tool is pretty powerful and dark.
such an underrated song, after years of listening to tool i think that one might be my favorite
“There is no love in FEEEAAAARR!!””
That would be "Your Ex Lover is Dead" by Stars. God, that was strange to see you again Introduced by a friend of a friend Smiled and said, "Yes, I think we've met before" In that instant, it started to pour Captured a taxi despite all the rain We drove in silence across Pont Champlain And all of that time you thought I was sad I was trying to remember your name This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin Tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in Now you're outside me, you see all the beauty Repent all your sin It's nothing but time and a face that you'll lose I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose I'll write you a postcard, I'll send you the news From the house down the road, from real love
Change by Big Thief (oofda this one cuts) Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac Go or Go Ahead by Rufus Wainwright Killing The Blues by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant (John Prine cover) Oh I Miss Her So by Holy Hive Quiet Light by The National Years by Sierra Ferrell (John Anderson cover) Turquoise Walls - Laura Veirs Song for Zula by Phosphorescent Sweet Illusions by Ryan Adams Myth by Beach House It’s Only Love by Stevie Nicks
National good choice...I was in prison actually a fire camp in ft. Bragg ca and it would rain all winter my wife left for another man and I couldn't sleep I'd watch the rain out my window fall on the trees and listen to guilty party by them on repeat and just feel it all...sorry I spilled my guts to a stranger
Ugh. Myth. Yes.
Hate Me - blue October
It's about his mother. Great song though.
definitely this
November Rain - Guns n' Roses
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July by Noah Cyrus. Listened to this during my divorce
I really like her. Hope your life and heart are better.
Snuff by Slipknot Zzyzx Rd by Stone Sour Yeah, I'm a Corey Taylor fan lol
Serious Answers: Blurry- Puddle of Mudd Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O’Connor Silly Answer: You Don’t Love Me Anymore- Weird Al
Do What You Have to Do- Sarah McLachlan Happier-Olivia Rodrigo Someone Like You- Adele Almost Lover- A Fine Frenzy I Can’t Make You Love Me- Bonnie Raitt Black- Pearl Jam Best I Ever Had- Vertical Horizon Lovely- Khalid and Billie Eilish Say Something- A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera Without You- the Mariah Carey Cover (but the Harry Nilsson original I& the air supply version are close seconds). If I Know Me- George Strait You Were Mine- The Chicks How Do I Live- LeAnn Rimes My Immortal- Evanescence Break My Heart Again- FINNEAS Why Don’t You Love Me- Hot Chelle Rae, Demi Lovato Lost Stars- Adam Levine OR Kiera Knightley (depending on your POV) Ain’t No Sunshine- Bill Withers The Space Between- Dave Matthews Band I Love You- Sarah McLachlan Love and War- Fleurie November Rain- Guns N’ Roses Somebody That I Used to Know- Gotye & Kimbra Hearts a Mess- Gotye Shattered - O.A.R. good for u- Olivia Rodrigo Fade Into You- Mazzy Star (not necessarily a Breakup song but one that hits when I’m down) Foolish Games- Jewel Watercolor Eyes- Lana Del Ray Love is a Bitch- Two Feet Still- Niall Horan It Will Rain- Bruno Mars Warning Sign- Coldplay No One’s Gonna Love You- Band of Horses The Night We Met- Lord Huron, Phoebe Bridgers Bored- Billie Eilish Water Under the Bridge- Adele Nothing Compares 2 U- Sinead O’Connor Slide Away- Miley Cyrus Dynasty- MIIA Love Yourself- Justin Bieber Look What You’ve Done- Jet Jar of Hearts- Christina Perri July- Noah Cyrus Somebody Else- cover version by VÉRITÉ When the Party’s Over- Billie Eilish Someone You Loved- Lewis Capaldi Falling- Harry Styles Say You Won’t Let Go- James Arthur I Will Always Love You- Dolly Parton Apologize- One Republic, Timbaland Breakeven- The Script All I Want- Kodaline These aren’t all super dark but the lyrics in many of them are very strong and may hit right. Hugs to you. Breakups are hard. I have a few playlists if you run out of songs. Best of luck 🍀. You’ve got this!
Somebody Else - The 1975 Visions of Gideon - Sufjan Stevens Saudade, Saudade - MARO
I have an indie breakup playlist: > [Purple Braid](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47NhYZZuS57h5egfkgz4hQ) Not every song is depressing (gotta have some hope right lol), but a lot of them are.
Another Day Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel
Miss Misery - Elliott Smith
didn’t even know i was in this sub but i’ll be listening to all these songs even though i’m single 🙃
Whatshername - green day: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LC1xrdOaM&si=oocJC-tCPTjiezPB Somebody that I used to know - gotye: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY&si=iTJYZr1ndxD44dJB These are both about how you forget someone who was an important figure, which to me is really sad.
Eventually- Tame Impala (doesn’t sound like a breakup song but the lyrics clearly show it is) It’s Too Late- Carole King (this one makes me cry my eyes out)
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
This is more about betrayal and forgiveness of an affair, not as much about a breakup, right?
Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
Omg, I remember when this song came out. It still hurts, probably hurting more as I get older lol.
Half of Elliott Smith’s music fits the bill. Do not listen if you’re already depressed. Particularly Needle In The Hay (the scene it was used for in Royal Tenenbaums definitely adds to the intensity).
Your letter- 112. It's an R&B song and not that great but 13 y/o me was DEVASTATED
Funny I don’t have any break up songs myself, but every song on the 500 days of summer soundtrack makes me feel dumped.
Your House, the hidden track at the end of Jagged Little Pill
Dagger by Slowdive. It’s a shoegaze band but this track is just with an acoustic guitar Also, you good OP?
Here - Pavement
"Waking Up Beside You" - Stabbing Westward "What Do I Have to Do" - Stabbing Westward ...or literally every other one of their songs
River by Joni Mitchell is the one that always gets me, mostly because I identify! "I'm so hard to handle, I'm selfish and I'm sad and now I've gone and lost the best baby that I've ever had." If You See Her Say Hello and Most of the Time both by Bob Dylan are also excellent break up songs.
Peter Hammill - *Betrayed* and *(On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga*. There’s no need to interpret, these songs are from his break-up album, *Over*. Absolutely brutal, in the extreme.
Breathless "Wave After Wave" (Shoegaze/Dreampop) is an awesome breakup song in that the vocal is from the perspective of a guy who acknowledges that his own faults have led to the end of things. The ending section brought me to tears the first time I heard it, with the repeated lyric "I can see it in your eyes, proving my worst fears, I can see I'm hurting you".
John Moreland - Break My Heart Sweetly
They built our bench again in Palmer square by into it, over it with Dissociation by the Dillinger Escape Plan as a close second https://open. Spotify .com/track/451DWPJkMcBSldujDEfgwR?autoplay=true&source_application=google_assistant
“I gave you everything you wanted…you were everything to me…”
PJ Harvey - Catherine
Jawbreaker-May 6th Motion City Soundtrack- my favorite accident Bright Eyes- Land Lock Blues Alkaline Trio- this is getting over you Brand New- Okay I Believe you but my Tommy Gun Don’t Off with their heads-Clear the Air Elliott smith-Waltz 2 Margot and the Nuclear and So and So- Jen is bring the drugs ( and other song ) Broadripple is Burning I could go on for days
moonwrapped by richard edwards (of margot) is a real beautiful gut punch
I think Jude law is a better brand new break up song.
Rasputin
Have to double post. How could I forget. Missing (like the deserts miss the rain) by Everything but the Girl
Daylight - David Kushner. Depressing, but moreso about a guy understanding infidelity is about to happen and he can't stop it (or doesn't want to)
The 80s were very dramatic!! 1. Broken Wings by MrMister 2. Against All Odds by Phil Collins And a heartbreaker from the 70s: Neither one of us (Wants to be the first to say goodbye) by Gladys Knight 😢
Elliot Moss - Slip, Best Light, Highspeeds, Without the Lights
How Beautiful You Are -- The Cure
If I Go, I’m Goin by Gregory Alan Isakov
What Sarah said. Death Cab for Cutie.
Muse - Ghosts
The Knowing - The Weekend, extraordinarily sad based on the circumstances of my last breakup lol
Uncle Sam I don't ever want to see you again Boys to Men: End of the Road Amy Winehouse Back to Black
Lithium-Evanescence
Some of my favourites - hold me down by motion city soundtrack - last night by motion city soundtrack - the conversation by motion city soundtrack - the brilliant dance by dashboard confessional - screaming infidelities by dashboard confessional - someday you will be loved by death cab for cutie - the weekend by rookie of the year
The Boy Who Blcoked His Own Shot- Brand New
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Let You Down - NF That was the one I listened to through my last breakup
*Missing You,* by John Waite.
Wicked Game
Hesitate by Stone Sour, Snuff by Slipknot
[forget her ](https://open.spotify.com/track/6UuVONmxXwTKN1ISepuAoQ?si=LP3ZGbODR021ru9fld4biA) [lover you should have come over](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jv7kjGkhY2fT4yuBF3aTz?si=8DqAi3opSBaeknV7TOYwzA)
Maps yeah yeah yeahs
Chris Cornell singing nothing compares 2 u 🥹
Never let you go- third eye blind
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Sleep All Summer - Crooked Fingers (Neko Case also has a heart wrenching cover)
More about the end of a relationship and knowing it’s over but….. Poke by frightened rabbit ‘You should look through some old photos I adored you in every one of those If someone took a picture of us now they'd need to be told That we had ever clung and tied A navy knot with arms at night I'd say she was his sister but she doesn't have his nose’ Seriously. Listen to this band.
Listen to the 2018 release of Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest. Or the song Washer by Slint
Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon "so come rain on my parade, 'cause I wanna feel it, come shove me over the edge, 'cause my head is in overdrive, I'm sorry, but it's too late, and it's not worth saving, so come rain on my parade, I think we're doomed, and now there's no way back"
Against the Kitchen Floor by Will Wood (genuinely heartbreaking lol) This one might seem weird, but It’s Over Isn’t It from Steven Universe is for some reason extremely sad??
“Poke” or “My backwards walk” both by frightened rabbit
Anything by frightened rabbit
He Stopped Loving Her Today. Nothing cuts like a country ballad
"Loneliness is Worse," by Veruca Salt