Breakup Songs
Tuesday July 1, 2008
I've found myself a tad brokenhearted of late. Whenever that happens, I usually crave hard-hitting, raw songs that really resonate with how I'm feeling. If I can stomp around to it while walking about getting some fresh air, its usually a winner in my books.
A couple of CDs in particular have helped me through heartache in the past, namely Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill and Low Millions' Ex-Girlfriends (although lead singer Adam Cohen's debut CD Cry Ophelia also has some appropriate tracks). There is something about their lyricism and gut-wrenching honesty that I find not only refreshing but comforting.
What breakup songs have helped you? Do you have favorites that you lean on when the going gets rough? Why those songs?
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I’m OLD SCHOOL….REALLY OLD school and I remember listening the slow sad tones of B. J. Thomas singing I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” over and over again and singing along and crying my eyes out.Then getting a bit older in H.S. I started finding myself and Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman” gave me courage to go on. Whenever I felt isolated the Beach Boys were there too with “In My Room”. Now after a 20 year marriage, finding myself doing fine on the other side of divorce, blessed with a great son, family and friends, the hurt of a relationship going bad doesn’t stand up to the other things I have endured. If I am moved to the twinge of heart strings being tested, I will put on my favorite “sad” CD-Air Supply definitive collection-I close myself in my room, crank the stereo then cry and sing until I am horse and no more tears will come. I always feel better after. Then the next day I come out refreshed and ready for another day.