#Break up songs full

But not everyone is in a position to make such sensible commitments. Nature can still save us, if we accept the shadows that build with age: “To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears”. Wordsworth sought to compensate for the lost “gleam” through his lifelong enthusiasm for the natural world. Jacques Brel’s Ne Me Quitte Pas (Don’t Leave Me) has been reworked by, among many others, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Sting and Barbra Streisand. Sinead O’Connor, with unscripted tears rolling down her cheeks, turned a song from a Prince side project ( Prince and the Revolutions) Nothing Compares 2 U into a breakup classic. We can all get on board, which is why there are so many successful breakup songs with equally or more successful cover versions. You’ve gone, thank God, and we are never ever ever… It’s the breakup song to break your speakers.īreakup songs express big, universal feelings. Songs like To Be Loved make you feel every hangover, every ugly cry, every vocal cord nodule to come. It is raw, straight-through-your-bullet-proof-vest stuff.

#Break up songs full

Like Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 Rumours, this is a full breakup album, charting the singer’s lockdown divorce, her guilt at the effect of this on her son, and the prospect of picking up the wine-stained pieces. The Last Chance Saloon has revolving doors and the next track is Stay, Stay, Stay.Īlso no stranger to breakup songs, Adele’s latest album, 30, takes relationship disintegration to the next level.

But this is pop, not tragedy, and Swift’s “never ever” starts to take on a “never-say-never” tinge. Treacherous and I Knew You Were Trouble build into the earworm magnum opus We are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

Taylor Swift’s recently re-recorded and released 2012 album Red is a discombobulating affair for those interested in the singer’s relationship status.