10 Notoriously Sad Songs To Indulge In When You’re Bitterly Heartbroken

After your BFFs have volted-in and given you the much needed lift (as if!) over several bottles of beer (or wine or Starbucks coffee jelly for the ladies), time to say good-bye. You head back to your crib, lie down on your bed and look blankly up the ceiling. During this moment of inevitable solitude, crazy things rumble inside your head. You drift away into your own reverie. And then you make that stupid mistake of turning the radio on. The bitterly familiar hum starts to reel in, “You are the minstrel and I you can touch…”

Did I set the mood right? You bet, I did! Now time to reveal the cruelest among the cruel songs (ever) that remind us of the bad side of love.

1.  Love is a Losing Game by Amy Winehouse

Best lines:


Though I’m rather blind

Love is a fate resigned

Memories mar my mind

Love is a fate resigned

Over futile odds

And laughed at by the gods

And now the final frame

Love is a losing game

2.  Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy

Best lines:

So you're gone and I'm haunted

And I bet you are just fine

Did I make it that easy to walk

Right in and out of my life?

Goodbye, my almost lover

Goodbye, my hopeless dream

I'm trying not to think about you

Why can't you just let me be?

3.  Angel by Sarah Maclachlan

Best lines:

Spend all your time waiting
  

For that second chance
 

For a break that would make it okay
 

There’s always one reason
 

To feel not good enough
 

And it’s hard at the end of the day
 

I need some distraction
 

Oh beautiful release
 

Memory seeps from my veins
 

Let me be empty
 

And weightless and maybe
 I’ll find some peace tonight

4.  Broken Strings by James Morrison

Best lines:

Let me hold you for the last time

It's the last chance to feel again

But you broke me, now I can't feel anything

When I love you and so untrue

I can't even convince myself

When I'm speaking it's the voice of someone else

Oh, it tears me up
 I tried to hold on but it hurts too much
 

 I tried to forgive but it's not enough
 

 To make it all okay

5.  Chasing Pavements by Adele

Best lines:

I've made up my mind, don't need to think it over

If I'm wrong I am right, don't need to look no further

This ain't lust, I know this is love

But if I tell the world, I'll never say enough

'Cause it was not said to you

And that's exactly what I need to do if I'd end up with you

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements

Even if it leads nowhere?

Or would it be a waste even if I knew my place

Should I leave it there?

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements

Even if it leads nowhere?

6.  Broken by Lifehouse

Best lines:

The broken clock is a comfort, it helps me sleep tonight

Maybe it can stop tomorrow from stealing all my time
 

I am here still waiting though i still have my doubts
 

I am damaged at best, like you've already figured out

 

I'm falling apart, I'm barely breathing
 

With a broken heart that's still beating
 

In the pain, there is healing
 

In your name I find meaning
 

So I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on, 

I'm holdin' on
 I'm barely holdin' on to you

7.  Soulmate by Natasha Bedingfield

Best lines:

Here we are again, circles never end

How do I find the perfect fit?

There's enough for everyone

But I'm still waiting in line

Who doesn't long for someone to hold

Who knows how to love you without being told

Somebody tell me why I'm on my own

If there's a soulmate for everyone

8.  Run by Snow Patrol

Best lines:

I'll sing it one last time for you

Then we really have to go

You've been the only thing that's right

In all I've done

And I can barely look at you

But every single time I do

I know we'll make it anywhere

Away from here

9.  Smile by Tamia

Best lines:

Sometimes I sit at home by the phone, 

hopin’ he might call me but he don’t call me

But then I realized dreams come true aren’t for girls like me, not like me

And so I go around with my head up like it ain’t no thing

And when the boys around with all my friends I’m into other things ‘coz

You never let them see you sweat, don’t want them to think the pain runs deep, Lord knows its killing

So I put on my make up, put a smile on my face

And if anyone ask me everything is ok

I'm laughing 'coz no one knows the joke is on me

'Coz I'm dyin inside with my pride and a smile on my face...on my face

10.  Lie to Me by Shane Mack

Best lines:

Lie, while you're even early

Deny, that you're in any hurry

Cry, and tell me not to worry

'Cause what I don't know, is never gonna hurt me

Breathe, now baby don't feel guilty

Deceive me, then just walk away

Leave me, the truth will only kill me

It's gotta be, it's gotta be this way

One more bad excuse

Before you turn me lose

Give me something to remember you by

Couldn't you offer me

A little dishonesty

Promise me you'll try

You'll lie to me

** Bonus Song: Jars of Heart by Christina Perri

Best Lines:

And I learned to live, half-alive

And now you want me one more time

Who do you think you are?

Runnin' round leaving scars

Collecting your jar of hearts

And tearing love apart

You're gonna catch a cold

From the ice inside your soul

So don't come back for me

Who do you think you are?

These songs really got it. They captured the deepest sensibilities of every human’s yearning for love… in whatever forms. It mirrored every one of us who dared to plunge into the sea of love, unmindful of its consequences and the possibility of emerging empty-handed. They say the best way to heal a broken heart is to deal with it head on. Did I mention that these songs also have über melancholic melodies that can really drag you down into your rock bottom? So indulge!

Do you agree with me, or think that I’m just being melodramatic? Either way, I’d love to hear your thoughts or your own song selections. You can leave a

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