During the end of my marriage and the aftermath, I went through ups and downs. Sometimes I was a rock, sometimes I was a puddle of tears hugging a box of wine! There was a soundtrack to my heartache. It made me feel better to cry it out and to know that I'm not the only one that has ever felt this way. They got over it, so will I. I did get over it and he and I are great friends now. But I did my share of crying along with these songs. It was cathartic.
Billy Holiday - Good Morning Heartache,
Mary J Blige - Not gonna cry, One with Bono, I'm going down - The Whole My Life Album
There was a cd - great ladies sing the blues that i wore out, also the waiting to exhale soundtrack.
What breakup, heartache songs make you cry?
Help Me Make It Through The Night & is That All There Is --- by Peggy Lee
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+peggy+lee&am...
Almost anything by Pastsy Cline but She Got You and "I Fall To Pieces" and "Crazy" gotta rank up there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWCUh6tf7PA
He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear it. Whiskey Lullaby by Allison Krouse and Brad Paisley. Joanie Joanie (it's an old song but I don't know who sings it). What Might Have Been by Little Texas.
Yesterday, The Beatles
Cab, Train
Everything I Own, Bread
I Was Meant For You, Jewel
White Flag, Dido
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor
I Wish It Would Rain, Temptations
:)
Staind - Pardon Me
After my breakup w/ my very first love at age 17, I must have played Phil Collins' song "One More Night" thousands of times in my bedroom. It's still a running joke w/ my parents, brother and I! :)
Added Ohhhhh, The Pretenders "Chill Factor" off their Isle of Views Album is AWESOME! For ladies who are divorced w/ kids, the lyrics are especially powerful.
Vienna-The Fray
Now you have me thinking of my favorites way back when..
Here they are..
God, anything by Foreigner or Journey..
Just Wait and Look Around by the Blues Travelers
Angel by Jimi Hendrix
Maybe by Janis Joplin
I can't make you love me by Bonnie Raitt
Running to Stand Still, and Who's gonna ride your wild horses- U2
Interstate Love Song-Stone Temple Pilots
Glycerine-Bush
It Ain't Me Babe- Johnny Cash
I Will Always Love You ~ Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston.
The Dance ~ Garth Brooks
I'm surprised no one mentioned the Cowboy Junkies...they're my go to band for wallowing in self-pity.
Songs from Chess, the musical. "I Know Him So Well" and "Someone Else's Story." Pretty much the whole soundtrack to Les Miserables.... especially "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own" and "LIttle Fall of Rain." I remember seeing that show for the first time after a summer-long mind-F&^% named Craig.
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when Autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this Hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed
"All By Myself" the original and the version by Celine Dion. I remember playing it over and over and over...all evening while I was all dressed up and eating the meal that I had prepared for someone else. (I got annoyed with him at the last minute and told him not to come over. I had borrowed table cloth and napkins from work and wine glasses and flutes from my mother...made him lasagna and cupcakes and had dinner and dessert wines and a sexy dress in many shades of his favorite color. It was his birthday.) I listened to the original version. Oh, the drama of the early 20s.
ETA: Oh, yeah--"I Was Meant for You" by Jewel is another one that accompanied me in that relationship.
O. M. G. How could I forget "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia? Oh, I cried. Same relationship.
Mr Brightside - The Killers
Turn Me On - Nina Simone
Billi Holiday - Good Morning Heartache
Hurt - NIN
Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Fast Car - T. Chapman
Love Like Crazy - Lee Brice
Ahem, on that note... pick a love song... any love song
P!nk - F***n Perfect (yes, this is on both lists)
Adele - Someone like you (ditto, both lists)
ANY song of my STBX husband's <gag> <retch> <effer>
"Unanswered Prayers" by Garth Brooks
"She's Gonna Make It" by Garth Brooks
Elvis...."Maybe I didn't love you....quite as often as I should have"."You Were Always On My Mind".
Oh goodness! I just shuddered as I remembered mom listening to REM's "Everybody Hurts" after her divorce. Thousands of times. I stole it and sawed it into pieces with a hacksaw, it just drove me nuts. (By the way---harder to saw CDs than you may think!) And I liked REM....until that.
She also liked Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle", but I liked Croce too much to hurt that CD. ;)
Adele's "Someone Like You", I love. But I'm not breaking up with anyone.
I am with you the whole My Life album!
What song would "lift me up" was an old 80's song:
"Nobody's Gonna Break My Stride", I think.
Played it over & over as a pick-me-up.
Ratt - Round and Round
Air Supply - All Out Of Love
Journey - Anything by them!!!!
I don't know why but my cry my eyes out song during my divorce was
I put your picture away.....by Kid Rock........
