1. With or Without You - U2
The simple problem of ending up hating someone from being in a relationship with them, yet not being able to visualise a life without them. Just deal with it, will you Bono? It'll be fine once you forget the routines.
2. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I can imagine just singing (screaming) this to a boy as he's walking out the door. Proper psycho/heartbreakingly sad style. Apparently poor Karen O would cry as she sang it on stage, years after writing it. "Wait; they don't love you like I love you"
3. Dancing On My Own - Robyn
Ah yes. Split up with him but now not wanting to face the fact he is over you. This also featured in one of the most emotional 'Lip Syncs' from RuPaul's Drag Race (Raven vs Jujubee), another reason to find it so sad. I like to cry to the Radio One's Live Lounge version.
4. Fuck the Pain Away - Peaches
A little bit more fun, definitely easier to dance to. The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else, and that's that.
5. The Scientist - Coldplay
A song about things coming to an end, and desperately trying to change them back to the way things were. I am certainly one who looks back endearingly, but once that water has gone under that bridge, it is flowing only one way.
6. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
I've tried to holdback on listing Fleetwood Mac a lot. I could do a top ten of heartbreaking songs from them alone (definitely a post for another time) but I've decided to put Silver Springs into this one. "You'll never get away from the sound of a woman that loves you". Haunting, yet also true.
7. Do What You Do - Noah and the Whale
Leaving someone, sometimes, is really not what you want to do, but is what is needed. A really sad break up. Just because it didn't work out with someone you really thought it would, doesn't mean it won't happen again. It will be all worth it, one day.
"When loves comes a-calling, don't forget the tune, and when love comes a-calling, don't forget the tune
And just do what you do"
8. Teardrops - Womack and Womack
Had to feature a little disco. Perhaps looking back on a fun relationship? Cheating on them? Wishing that you hadn't? The love and fun was right there. I don't relate to this one at all, just love it a lot. "And the music don't feel like it did when I felt it with you. Nothing that I do or feel ever feels like I felt it with you"
9. Magic - Coldplay
Coldplay strikes again. Oh God. Definitely the saddest. Listening to the album in it's entirity really made my drive nothing less than depressing. All of Magic though, is a perfect construction of lyrics about a life with someone ending, and one of the pair really not wanting it to, but still holding that unrequited hope that, one day, it might just come together again.
"And if you were to ask me, after all that we've been through, do I still believe in magic? Yes I do. Yes I do. Yes I do.
Of course I do"
10. Tender - Blur
And finally, the inspiration for this entire post. 'Tender' initially starting as a metaphor for the perfect aspects of the relationship, then verse after verse its meaning deteoriates, like the relationship, and ends up representing the pain. Heartbreaking injections of the chorus, pleading with both himself and his now estranged counterpart, makes it a song relatable to all; just wanting the pain to end.
This is the song that finally got me over the hurdle of my last heartbreak, I thought, if Albarn can get through it, so can Jess Sturt.
"I'm waiting for that feeling, I'm waiting for that feeling. Waiting for that feeling to come"
So er...enjoy your day.