22 Ultimate Break-Up Songs

5. The Killers €“ Mr Brightside

http://youtu.be/gGdGFtwCNBE I will downright admit that this is not really a breakup song, but a drunken conversation with a friend reminded me of how I could not listen to this song for some time, and strangely he'd been through the same thing. Now, there are no doubt comments that will come flying about 'couldn't listen to the song, yeah, course, it's The Killers.' However, even though this song is based within a relationship it is inevitable is over based on the paranoia of the song's primary narrator and his unrestrained imagination. The entire section about them going to bed, and his stomach being sick, and it all being in his head, but how she's touching his chest now, and he takes off her dress now. It's not poetic, it's base and pretty relatable. To get all 'feels' for a moment those lyrics bothered me for some time during a relationship, but perhaps even more so afterwards. It captures relationship ruining paranoia and insecurity in its simplicity.

4. Fiona Apple €“ Regret

http://youtu.be/LUOsyBPFfAo 'Member when we argued on the concept of regret?/You were an expert even then, but not me, yet/Now all you gotta do's remind me that you met/And there you got me, that's how you got me, taught me to regret.' I waffled and rambled on about each of these songs so far, some more so than others, but the lyrics to this song along speak bounds more about the bitterness, and the pain of break up. As with all lyrics from Miss Apple, there's an air of the cryptic about them but so poignantly blessed with confessional, honest to God, sentiment. Whether negative in her light, or the love who scorned her. This song conveys those relationships that break one side of them, that change them, perhaps beyond prepare; as Miss Apple states straight away, this relationship learned her to regret, and taught her how to be mean. 'Leave me alone.'
 
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