The Beatles Bible - Topic: Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Into the Sky with Diamonds on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p64759 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p64759 "You Keep Me Hangin' On"

]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:02:45 +0000 Into the Sky with Diamonds on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63421 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63421 OK - by popular demand here it is:

 

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:45:16 +0000 Into the Sky with Diamonds on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63399 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63399 Funny Paper, yeah Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now" is a good one.

Gerell, you're right, "You Won't See Me" counts, and come to think of it, so would "No Reply."

So what Beatle wrote these break up lyrics:

I tried to get over you
I tried to find something new
But all I could ever do
Was fill my time
With thoughts of you

I tried to go somewhere old
To search for my pot of gold
But all I could ever hold
Inside my mind
Were thoughts of you

I hear your music
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:47:09 +0000 Gerell on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63389 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63389 Don't forget You Won't See Me, it's another break-up song which receives little attention.

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:43:42 +0000 Funny Paper on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63382 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63382 I'm dating myself here ("I did a lot of that during college", David Letterman once quipped), but I fondly remember an experience I had years ago that now, with the distance of time, only amuses me.  I was breaking up with a girlfriend at the end of summer (it only lasted one summer) -- actually, she knew it was already broken up, and she was trying to convey it without hurting my feelings. 

She was driving me home (she had a car, I didn't -- I used to think our relationship embodied the lyrics of that Stephen Bishop song: "Well, she's ...]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:09:46 +0000 BluemeanAl on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63368 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63368 Richard and Linda Thompson broke up around the time that Shoot Out the Lights was being recorded.  Richard wrote this song, Linda sounds heartbroken singing it...a real "unknown" classic:

Walking on a Wire

I hand you my ball and chain
You just hand me that same old refrain
I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire
And I'm falling

I wish I could please you tonight
But my medicine just won't come right
I'm walking on a wire, I'm walking on a wire
And I'm falling

Too many steps to take
Too many spells to break
Too many nights awake
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:56:16 +0000 Into the Sky with Diamonds on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63367 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63367 I forgot the classic "I Will Survive" and perhaps the sexiest break up song "Wicked Games"

 

]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:59:31 +0000 Linde on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63360 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63360 Not sure if they're all really break up songs, but these are some songs I just CAN'T listen to during the break up:

3 Doors Down-Here Without You

Rise Against-Savior

Christina Perri-Jar of hearts

Demon Hunter-Driving Nails

Breaking Benjamin-Give me a sign

There's probably more but that's all I can come up with right now. I'm supposed to be studying, but I'm procrastinating a bit ghehe

]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:05:32 +0000 Funny Paper on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63348 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63348 Since you mentioned Gordon Lightfoot, while "If You Could Read My Mind" is a classic and a good example of a "breakup" song, I think his song "I'll Do Anything" is subtler and more poignant.  In fact, I never realized it's a breakup song until late in my life.  The giveaway is the searing penultimate line:  "Though it might grieve me, I'll do anything that you say."

Down in the warm dark part of my heart you stay
I've been on my own for so long as I ...]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:03:35 +0000 Into the Sky with Diamonds on Break up songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63345 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/break-up-songs/#p63345 I've recently been reminded of some great break up song (best not listened to while breaking up)

For No One (Beatles) [Your day breaks, your mind aches, You find that all the words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you]

If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) [But for now love, let's be real I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it  I don't know where we went wrong   But the feelin's gone  And I just can't get it back]

Babe I'm ...]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:55:20 +0000