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favorite male break up song

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yeah I know that the breakup song is usually the domian of Billie Holliday, Alanis Morrisette, Gloria Gayner, early Gwen Stephanie, etc.

but what's your favorite male break up song?

currently for me it's a tossup between Cat Steven's "Wild World" and the Rolling Stones "Wild Horses"
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The only one I can think of at the moment is 112's "It's over now", which I like mostly for the "Quiet Storm" BGM.
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Type O Negative

Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity

[a. Anorganic Transmutogenesis (synthetic division)]

Trust and you'll be trusted
Says the liar to the fool
Lust and so what if you're busted?
In love and war there ain't no rules

Do you believe in forever?
I don't even believe in tomorrow
The only things that last forever
Are memories and sorrow

Out of sight out of mind
The motto of betrayal
The prophets preach to forgive and forget
I'm sorry, but I am unable

[b. coitus interruptus]

[c. I Know You're Fucking Someone Else]

You went to L'amour Saturday night
Red nails and lipstick dressed two sizes two tight
His tongue down your throat
His hand up your skirt
Yeah I'm a man
But it still hurts

Slut
Whore
Cunt

I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)
I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)

You had cock on your mind
And cum on your breath
Inserted that diaphragm before you left
Practicing freelance gynecology
Where there's a womb there's a way
With you it's for free

Slut
Whore
Cunt

I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)
I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)

Done it before
Time after time
Refused to learn your lesson
Gave 'til it hurt
Thought it was right
Only fools make mistakes twice

So you sit home
Drinking alone
Empty bottle in your hand
Don't even try
To sort out the lies
It's worse to try to understand

You
You make me hate myself

I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)
I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)
I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)
I know you're fucking someone else
(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know
(He knows)
I said I know
(He said he knows)

I know
(He knows)
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"I don't believe in love" by Queensryche. Not that I have any need of such songs :)
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Baby I'm Leavin' You off the Trial by Fire album by Journey


You know that my heart is true
And I never lie to you
We try each and everyday
Still there's something in the way

CHORUS:

I like moonlight, simple things
Now you want a diamond ring
I got news for you
Baby I'm leaving you

We both want a love that lasts
Girl you're moving away too fast
I live for your fantasy
A real love is what I need

REPEAT CHORUS

Let me tell you girl
I hear what you say, I see what you're doing girl
I don't wanna play
We're livin' in two different worlds

Tell me girl it ain't true
The rumors that I hear about you
About all the boys you knew before
Who come and go right out your door

REPEAT CHORUS

Gone
I got news for you
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Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) by Mötley Crüe

We could sail away
Or catch a freight train
Or a rocketship into outer space
Nothin' left to do
Too many things were said
To ever make it feel
Like yesterday did

Seasons must change
Separate paths, separate ways
If we blame it on anything
Let's blame it on the rain

I knew it all along
I'd have to write this song
Too young to fall in love
Guess we knew it all along

That's alright, that's okay
We were walkin' through some youth
Smilin' through some pain
That's alright, that's okay
Let's turn the page My friends called today
Down from L.A.
They were shooting pool all night
Sleeping half the day
They said I could crash
If I could find my own way
I told them you were leaving
On a bus to go away

That's alright, that's okay
We were two kids in love
Trying to find our way
Thats's alright, that's okay
Held our dreams in our hands
Let our minds run away
That's alright, that's okay
We were walkin' through some youth
Smilin' through some pain
That's alright, let's turn the page
And remember what I say girl
And it goes this way


Girl, don't go away mad...
Girl, just go away
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Happy by Mudvayne

In this hole
That is me
The dead are rolling over
In this hole
Thickening
Dirt shoveled over shoulders

I feel it in me
So overwhelmed
Oh this pressured center rising
My life over turned
Unfair the despair
All these scars keep ripping open

Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?

Tear meat from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?

In this hole
That is me
A life that's growing feeble
In this hole
So limiting
The sun has set all darkness

Buried underneath
Hands slip off the wheel
Internal pathway to contention

Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?

Tear meat from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy now?

Are you
HAPPY

Are you
HAPPY

Are you feeling happy?

In this hole
That is me
Left with a heart exhausted
Whats my release?
What sets me free?
Do you pull me up just to push me down again?

Peel me from the skin
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?

Tear meat from the bone
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?

Peel me from the skin
(peel me from the skin)
Tear me from the rind
Does it make you happy now?

Tear meat from the bone
(Tear meat from the bone)
Tear me from myself
Are you feeling happy?

Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you fucking happy?
Now that I'm lost left with nothing

Does it make you happy?
Are you feeling happy?
Are you fucking happy?
Now that I'm lost left with nothing?
I become death, destroyer of worlds.

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This is a bit angsty, but I did listen to it on repeat the day after things didn't work out between my (pseudo) girlfriend and I.

Within Temptation: The Heart of Everything: What Have You Done

What have you done now?

I know I better stop trying
You know that there's no denying
I won't show mercy on you now
I know I should stop believing
I know that there's no retreating
It's over now
What have you done?

What have you done now?

I've been waiting for someone like you
But now you are slipping away
(what have you done now?)
Why? Why does fate make us suffer?
There's a curse between us
Between me and you

What have you done?

Would you mind if I killed you?
Would you mind if I tryed to cause you have
Turned into my worst enemy?
You carry hate that I feel
It's over now
What have you done?

What have you done now?

I've been waiting for someone like you
But now you are slipping away
(what have you done now?)
Why? why does fate make us suffer?
There's a curse between us
Between me and you

What have you done?

I've been a fool
I won't let it go
We will be free when it ends

I've been waiting for someone like you
But now you are slipping away
(what have you done now?)
Why? Why does fate make us suffer?
There's a curse between us
Between me and you
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Oh, I'm going to get panned for this.

I got dumped when I was seventeen and just listened to Blink182's 'Dammit' over and over and over again.
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Love of My Life, by Queen
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Bare Naked Ladies - In the Car

Bare Naked Ladies - Leave

Linkin Park - Pushing Me Away

And that's the entirety of all the male break-up songs that I can think of. This is approximately half of the sum total of break-up songs that I can think of.
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If your sick and twisted you could always go for:

Greenskeepers: Lotion

Such a horrible song based off of Silence of the Lambs. : :twisted:
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What? Are you serious?

I figured that song was just supposed to be meaningless gibberish that just so happens to sound good.

Wait, how can you have a break-up song based on Silence of the Lambs?
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For break-up songs, you have to go Country:
Steve Holy wrote: [verse: 1 (spoken)]
she said, "i need sometime to find myself,
i need a little space to think.
maybe we should start seeing other people.
baby, things are moving way to fast for me."
so, i, i picked up what was left of my pride,
and i put on my walking shoes,
and i got up on that high road,
and i did what any gentleman would do..
i, um...

[chorus]
i got a brand new girlfriend.
we went and jumped off the deep end,
flew out to LA for the weekend,
spent the whole day, lyin' on the beach,
wearin' nothin' but a smile,
playin' kissy-kissy, smoochy-smoochy,
talkin' mooshy-mooshy bout nothin'.
man, i think im on to somethin',
yano i feel just like a kid again.
i got a brand new girlfriend.

[verse: 2]
i love it when she calls me butter cup,
laughs and says i left the toilet seat up,
she pops the top for me a cold beer,
and says my buddies always welcome here.
when i get hungry, she takes me out.
i ride the shotgun like a shitzu hound.
my tails a waggin', my tounges hangin' out,
it makes me wanna shout...

[chorus]

wooo...
cute, cute, cute...

she likes to write our names in the sand.
shes hearing wedding bells and making plans.
shes gonna hang around a while i guess.
she hasnt even told me she loves me yet.

[chorus]

she makes me feel just like a kid again,
i gotta brand new girlfriend.
Or, to go with a classic:
Alabama wrote: It's her first night on the town
since she was just eighteen
a lady down on love
and out of hope and dreams.
The ties that once bound her
now are broke away
and she's like a baby
just learning how to play.

She never thought that love
could ever end so soon.
Her mind drifts back in time
to a mid-summer moon
when he asked her to marry
and she glady said O.K.
and a woman came to be
from the girl of yesterday.

Now she's a lady
down on love.
She needs somebody
to gently pick her up.
She's got her freedom
but she'd rather be bound
to a man who would love her
and never let her down.

Well I know a lady
that's down on her love
'cause I used to hold her
and have that special touch.
But work took me away
from home late at nights
and I wasn't there
when she turned out the lights.
Then both of us got lonely
and I gave into lust
and she just couldn't live
with a man she couldn't trust.

Now she's a lady
down on love.
She needs somebody
to gently pick her up.
She's got her freedom
but she'd rather be bound
to man who will love her
and never let her down.

Now she's a lady
down on love.
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Tossing your X into a pit.... that was what I was getting at. Mind you I was not being serious in the least.
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"I love you more" or "Superman" both by Eminem. I don't know if any quite fit the "break-up" song requirements but they touch upon it.
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Let's see...

For when you're pissed off

Pantera's "This Love"

If ever words were spoken
painful and untrue
I said I loved but I lied
In my life,
all I wanted
was the keeping
of someone like you
As it turns out,
deeper within me
Love was twisted
and pointed at you
-Never ending pain, quickly ending life-

You keep this love, thing, (love) child, (love) toy
You keep this love, fist, (love) scar, (love) break
You keep this love, love, love
You keep this love, love, love
You keep this love

I'd been the tempting one,
stole her from herself
This gift in pain,
her pain was life
And sometimes, I feel so sorry,
I regret this
The hurting of you
But you make me so unhappy,
I'd take my life,
and leave love with you
-I'd kill myself for you, I'd kill you for myself-

You keep this love, thing, (love) child, (love) toy
You keep this love, fist, (love) scar, (love) break
You keep this love, love, love
You keep this love, love, love
You keep this love

No more head trips
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Faith No More's "The Crab Song"
"And after all the feelings go,
I see I still love you so,
I just thought I'd let you know
now that everything's okay,
And you are on your way
back, back to where you came,"
She said
with pain in her heart,
it was there from the start.
Now I know why
everything turns grey,
but it's our own worldwe paint
And I want the brightest,
I want flourescence
every day andnight
For the rest of my life,
open your eyes, won't you?
Can't you see you're so beautiful to me?

Don't look back
as a matter of fact there's
A ten foot Jack
wants to break your back
You stole his girl,
you wrecked his world
Now it's your your head that he's gonna twirl
He won't think once,
he won't think twice
Cause he knows just what he's gonna do tonight
He will commit a crime,
a crime of love
And he won't be happy till he sees your blood

Looking back on when you left me
Standing in the rain

Don't look back
as a matter of fact there's
A son of a bitch
and he's digging a ditch
For you my friend, my lucky one
So grab your things
it's time to run
to the other side
Where love takes pride,
and your souls The only thing that stays alive
Ma maooba goo goo ga ga
Hey! Quit talkin that terminal jive!

Looking back on when I left you...
Crying in pain

Don't look back
as a matter of fact there's
A ten foot Jack
wants to break your back
You stole his girl,
you wrecked his world
Now it's your your head that he's gonna twirl
He won't think once,
he won't think twice
Cause he knows just what he's gonna do tonight
He will commit a crime,
a crime of love
And he won't be happy till he sees your blood

Looking back on when you left me
Standing in the rain, in-credible pain
I understand.
You have to be your own person.
And that's ok with me.

Hurts, Hurts, Hurts, Like a like a motherfucher
Love. it hurts. it kills. Like a sonofabitch.
That feeling. It gets me. Down inside. Deep down there
No further. Keep going. Oh man that's right out my system
And if you're depressed

Faith No More's "Take This bottle"


I can wait to love in heaven
I can wait for you
Far away, I'll treat you better
Better than down here

Cuz I've done wrong
And I'm a little afraid
And I ain't to strong
And this ain't easy to say:

Take this bottle
Take this bottle
And just walk away - the both of you
And let me feel the pain - I've done to you

I can hope we'll be together
With a better roof over our heads
I can hope the stormy weather
It passes on - it passes on

But I've hoped too long
Hoped for me to change
And that hope is gone
So listen to what I say:

Take this bottle
Take this bottle
And just walk away - the both of you
And let me feel the pain - I've done to you
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None of that compares even lightly to the songs off of Clann Zu's last album, "Black Crows and Bandages". The song "One Bedroom Apartment" literally made me gasp, but merely posting the lyrics would vastly undermine the power of the song's actual delivery.
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Oh, and of course "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes", by Frank Zappa. :lol:
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Puddle Of Mud - She Hates Me

Erasure - Who Needs Love Like That

Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad

Duke Special - Portrait

marilyn Manson - Speed Of Pain

Keane - Is It Any Wonder

Coheed & Cambria - The Suffering
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Neil Diamond's I'm on to you

Lie no more, I'm on to you
Know the score and I'm on to you
Take anything you want
Baby, I'm movin' on
You can complain, rant and cry
Can't deny
Baby, I'm on to you

Talk your talk, I'm on to you
Like a hawk, hey, I'm on to you
Trouble is what you are
Trouble that's gone too far
Baby, the truth makes you free
Disagree... I'll still be on to you

Tell me now how I was wrong
And I'll tell you how right you are
Wrong to be stayin' so long
Was I out of my head?
Should have known it was dead
But it's good
By now, I'm on to you
Stood my ground, hey, I'm on to you

Baby, I wish you well
But loving you, it was hell
Now is the time to let go
Finally know, that I'm so on to you

Tell me now how I was wrong
And I'll tell you how right you are
Wrong to be staying so long
Was I out of my head?
Should have known it was dead
But it's good by now, I'm on to you
Stood my ground, hey, I'm on to you

Baby I wish you well
But lovin' you hurt like hell
And it's the time to let go
Finally know that I'm so on to you

Baby I'm on to you
Saying I'm on to you
To you
To you
To you
To you

Sayin' I wish you well
But lovin' you, it was hell
And it's the time to let go
Finally know that I'm so on to you
Baby I'm on to you
Saying I'm on to you
Knowin' I'm on to you
Baby, I'm on to you
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Motorhead - The One To Sing The Blues
Don't know what I did to make you feel that way
I can't always say just what I want to say
I'm out of place again, you're on my case again
Bringing up the past & sling it in my face again
Put me in the frame
So even if I win I lose
Going down slow ain't the only way to go
Listen to me honey, gonna tell ya something funny
Miss me when I'm gone you'll be the one to sing the blues

Seems to me the good times ended way too soon
Seems like faded echoes in an empty room
Strangers in the night, strangers in the light
Seems like every word we say just makes us scratch and bite
Thought we had the answers
Sure we couldn't lose
What you want from me
Is all the things that I can't be

Listen to me baby, I'm beginning to go crazy
Miss me when I'm gone you'll be the one to sing the blues

More I think about it, it's a goddamn shame
Opposites attract 'til they become the same
Daggers in our eyes, time to say goodbye
Time to stop pretending, time to stop the endless lies
I wish you luck, babe, I hope you find a dream and it comes true
What my eyes can't see don't make no difference to me

Listen to me faking, even though my heart is breaking
Miss you now you're gone, now I'm the one to sing the blues
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As he seems to have on most other subjects Bob Dylan has penned some fantastic breakup songs and what's more you can here them on his fine website if you follow the links bellow. 'I Threw it all away' is about as good as mournful breakup songs get:
Bob Dylan wrote:
I once held her in my arms,
She said she would always stay.
But I was cruel,
I treated her like a fool,
I threw it all away.

Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand,
And rivers that ran through ev'ry day.
I must have been mad,
I never knew what I had,
Until I threw it all away.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round,
Love and only love, it can't be denied.
No matter what you think about it
You just won't be able to do without it.
Take a tip from one who's tried.

So if you find someone that gives you all of her love,
Take it to your heart, don't let it stray,
For one thing that's certain,
You will surely be a-hurtin',
If you throw it all away.
'Idiot Wind' has to be one of the best bitter breakup songs ever:
Bob Dylan wrote:Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.

People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that
Sweet lady.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losin' every battle.

I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
Blood on your saddle.

Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top
You're on the bottom.

I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes
don't look into mine.
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building
burned.
I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime
turned Slowly into autumn.

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
And all your ragin' glory.

I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
And it makes me feel so sorry.

Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
We're idiots, babe.
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
'Yesterday' by the Beatles is also rather good.
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Post by Zed Snardbody »

Ben Folds - Song For the Dumped
1! 2! 3! 4!
so, you wanted
to take a break
slow it down some
and have some space
well, fuck you too!

give me my money back
give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
and don't forget
and don't forget
to give me back my black t-shirt

I wish I hadn't
bought you dinner
right before you
dumped me on your front porch

give me my money back
give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
and don't forget
and don't forget
to give me back my black t-shirt
hey, hey!

so, you wanted
to take a break
slow it down some
and have some space

give me my money back
give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
I want my money back
and don't forget
The Zen of Not Fucking Up.
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