Sad Breakup Songs

I was just watching Glee and there was a great song sung by Rachel which was obviously a sad love song. She was staring at Quinn and Finn dancing at the Junior Prom with her pain-filled doe eyes.

This has been a morbid fascination of mine, to listen to sad breakup songs. It obviously doesn’t do any wonders for my disposition after listening to them but I can appreciate the heartfelt lyrics and how the singers perform it. In fact I have some uncanny affinity with all these sad songs that I mistaken them for LOVE songs even (Note: Duncan Sheik’s ‘Half-Life’ and Natalie Merchant’s ‘Seven Years’). I doubt I make a very good wedding song planner.

The following is my list of Top 5 favourite sad break-up songs and some snippets of the lyrics that reverberates through me.

 

No. 1    Almost Lover (A Fine Frenzy)

Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images

Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
I should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do

So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy
To walk right in and out of my life?

 

 

No. 2    Ashes and Wine (A Fine Frenzy)

Don't know what to do anymore
I've lost the only love worth fighting for
I'll drown in my tear storming sea
That would show you, that would make you hurt like me

Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may change your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?

Shut it out
I've got no claim on you now
Not allowed to wear your freedom down

 

 

No. 3     Jar of Hearts (Christina Perry)

I know I can’t take one more step towards you
Cause all that’s waiting is regret
Don’t you know I’m not your ghost anymore
You lost the love I loved the most

And who do you think you are?
Running ‘round leaving scars
Collecting a jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You’re gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don’t come back for me
Who do you think you are?

 

 

No. 4    In Terms of Love (She Daisy)

Now and then I confess you cross my mind
Now and then I guess I have a little too much time
I've changed my way of thinking
I've tried hard to separate what came too soon
From what came too late

I don't think about me in terms of you
I don't think about you in terms of us
I don't think about us in terms of love
I don't think about then in terms of now
I found a way to start again somehow
I don't think about what we thought it was
Oh, in terms of love

I don't think about black in terms of grey
Or revelations in the light of day
I don't think about cold in terms of ice
Or second chances happenin' twice

 

 

No. 5    Someone Like You (Adele)

 

I heard that you're settled down
That you found a girl
And you're married now

I heard that your dreams came true
I guess she gave you things
I didn’t give to you

Nevermind
I’ll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best
For you too
Don’t forget me
I beg
I’ll remember you say
’Sometimes it lasts in love’
’But sometimes it hurts instead’