Breakup Song Lyrics That Kick Heartache Out The Door

Youve just broken up with someone. Or someones broken up with you. Youve got a jumble of pent-up emotions that need to be released in a way that wont get you a life sentence or the death penalty. There are scores of breakup songs whose music and lyrics will help you deal with those feelings in a healthy way. Belting out the lyrics to a breakup song, or just listening to those lyricseven if you need to play them over and over and over againcan help you break up with emotions associated with your ex.

The title of Neil Sedakas Breaking Up is Hard to Do, cuts right to the chase. The song has the odd combination of a peppy tunepresumably, to lift your spiritsand the agonized lyrics, Don't take your love away from me/Don't you leave my heart in misery/If you go then I'll be blue/'Cause breaking up is hard to do. Chers If I Could Turn Back Time, with its lyrics, If I could turn back time/If I could find a way/Id take back those words that have hurt you/And youd stay is also great for the newly wounded heart. There are also perfect pining-away lyrics in Chicagos If You Leave Me Now: If you leave me now/Youll take away the biggest part of me, and LeAnne Rimes How Do I Live Without You: If I had to live without you/What kind of life would that be?

Feeling bitter? Determined never to fall in love again? Then try the lyrics to Nazareths power-ballad classic, Love Hurts, which are sung with wrenching agony: Some fools think of happiness, blissfulness, togetherness/Some fools fool themselves, I guess/Theyre not foolin me. Or how about the outrage in the lyrics of Alanis Morissettes You Oughta Know: It was a slap in the face/How quickly I was replaced. Theres bitterness in the seething lyrics of Mary J. Bliges Not Gon Cry: Eleven years out of my life/Wasted my yearsa fool of a wife. The J. Geils Band gets right to the point in the title and lyrics of Love Stinks: This thing they call love/Its gonna make you cry/...Love stinks!

If youre sick of crying and are ready to be empowered, youre ready for Gloria Gaynors ultimate ode to strength, I Will Survive, and its immortal lyrics, Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye/Did you think I'd crumble?/Did you think I'd lay down and die?/Oh no, not I/I will survive! Or how about the tough-as-leather lyrics to Pat Benatars Heartbreaker: Youre a heartbreaker, dreammaker, love-taker/Dont you mess around with me! Or listen to the Eagles singing the lyrics to Already Gone with unbridled glee: Im already gone/And Im feelin strong/I will sing this victry song/Woo hoo hoo!

Whatever emotion youre experiencing after your breakupsorrow, regret, anger, disbelieftheres a song out there whose lyrics will seem as though they were written specifically for you. So find that song with the perfect lyrics, turn it up to 11, and belt your heart outbroken or not!