History Main / BreakupSong

* Claude Demetrius - "Mean Woman Blues". The [[CoveredUp most popular]] version was sung by Roy Orbison.

* Music/TheMoodyBlues - "Go Now".

* The entirety of the Music/DelAmitri album "Change Everything".

* Music/{{Edguy}} - "Trinidad", effectively "you don't give me respect because you're taller than me, so I moved to Trinidad without telling you".

*** "Black Tears". Nothing says "relationship gone bad" like [[YourMakeupIsRunning mascara running]].

* Music/MandyMoore and [[Music/{{Switchfoot}} Jonathan Foreman]] - "Someday We'll Know".

* Music/OliviaNewtonJohn - "Please Mister Please".

* Music/NoDoubt - "Don't Speak".

* Music/PetShopBoys - "Love Is A Catastrophe".

* Phildel - "The Wolf".

* Music/ColePorter standard "Just One Of Those Things". Interestingly, this one may be the TropeCodifier, but is suprisingly amicable.

* Jerry Reed - "She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft".
* Music/RelientK - "This is the End (If You Want It)".

* Music/{{Robyn}} - "With Every Heartbeat".

* Sagittarius - "My World Fell Down".
* Music/NeilSedaka - "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do".
* Sally Shapiro - "If You Ever Wanna Change Your Mind", which also marked the duo's ([[TenMinuteRetirement temporary]]) [[RealLifeWritesThePlot real-life breakup]], "Fading Away".
* Music/{{Sia}} - "The Girl You Lost To Cocaine".
* Music/{{Skyclad|Band}} - "You Lost My Memory".
* The Skyliners - "Since I Don't Have You".

* Music/{{Space}} - 'There's No You', "Begin Again".
* Music/DustySpringfield - "What Do You Do When Love Dies" and "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself".
* Music/{{Suede}} - "Barriers", "The 2 of Us".
* Music/SufjanStevens - "I Walked".
* Music/BarbraStreisand - "My Coloring Book".
* Music/Sum41 - "Blood in My Eyes" and "Time for You to Go".

* Music/TheSupremes: "Reflections".
* The Swell Season - "Lies".
* Music/TaylorSwift - "Breathe", "All Too Well," "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," "White Horse", "I Knew You Were Trouble" (Swift is, in fact, a particularly infamous example of an artist specializing in breakup songs.)
* The Temptations - "Sorry Is a Sorry Word".

* Music/ToyDolls: "She'll Be Back With Keith Someday".

* The Trammps - "Hold Back the Night".
* Music/TuneYards - "Sunlight".
* Music/KeithUrban - "You'll Think of Me".

* Music/TheVeronicas - "Leave Me Alone" "In Another Life".

* Pretty much all of Music/KanyeWest's 2008 album "808s & Heartbreak".

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic - "One More Minute". Oddly enough, this is a completely straight example, despite being a Weird Al song; he wrote it to help himself through an ''actual'' breakup.

* Music/PaulaAbdul - "Cold Hearted".
* Anuna - "If All She Has is You".
* Music/TheBeachBoys - "Here Today".

* Music/ToniBraxton - "He Wasn't Man Enough".

* Music/PhilCollins and [[Music/EarthWindAndFire Philip Bailey]] - "Easy Lover".

* Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons - "Walk Like A Man".
* First Choice - "Armed and Extremely Dangerous". In addition to being a {{Jerkass}}, the ex got the narrator pregnant.
* [[Music/GirlsGeneration SNSD]] - "Lost In Love"..

* Music/GunsNRoses - "You're Crazy" and "Better".

* Music/EltonJohn - "Slow Down Georgie (She's Poison)" and "Don't Trust That Woman".
* La India - "Ese hombre" ("That Man"), vía a long list of his defects, capped by "unbearable as a friend/ insufferable as a lover".

* Music/MatchboxTwenty - "She's So Mean". It's basically saying "Beware: my ex is a selfishly {{Jerkass}} HardDrinkingPartyGirl".
* Music/NoDoubt - "Ex-Girlfriend".

* Tony! Toni! Tonè!- "My Ex-Girlfriend Is a Hoe".
* Music/CarrieUnderwood - "Cowboy Casanova", "Good Girl".
* Music/{{Usher}} - "You Make Me Wanna", "U Remind Me".
* Music/VelvetUnderground - "Femme Fatale".

* Music/AlStewart - "Angel of Mercy".
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon - "Go To Hell For Heaven's Sake" , "True Friends", and "Throne".

* Music/GreenDay - "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)".

* The Mills Brothers - "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone".

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': "The Time Has Come (Pikachu's Goodbye)" and "Together We'll Make A Promise".

* Music/TakingBackSunday- "There's No 'I' In Team".

* Vanities - "Friendship Isn't What it Used to Be".

* Theatre/{{Wicked}} - "For Good".

* A7(later Akira) - "Piece of Heaven".

* Music/AirSupply - "All Out of Love". It also has shades of the singer admitting he's wrong.
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject - "If I Could Change Your Mind".

* Alice Deejay - "Back in My Life".
* Angelina - "Without Your Love".

* Annie - "Anthonio".
* Music/ArcadeFire - "Crown of Love".

** "Wish You Were Here".

* Music/BackstreetBoys - "Back to Your Heart", "Shape of My Heart", "Incomplete", "I Still", "Inconsolable".

* Barbara [=McNair=] - "My World Is Empty Without You".
* Barbara Randolph - "You Got Me Hurtin' All Over".
* Barry White - "I Don't Know Where Love Has Gone".

* Music/TheBeachBoys - "The Warmth of the Sun", "Wendy", "Caroline No", "Getcha Back".
* Music/TheBeatles - "Yesterday".
* Music/{{BIGBANG}} - "If You".
* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre - "To Die For".
* Music/BlocParty - "Like Eating Glass".
* Music/BonnieTyler - "Don't Turn Around". Tyler tells her partner that, should they part separate ways, she's willing to accept it. She just asks him to not look back at her, as she doesn't want to be seen crying.
* Boyz II Men - "Please Don't Go," "End of the Road," "On Bended Knee".
* Music/BraveSaintSaturn: "Binary".
* The Break Up - "Come Undone", "Heartstrings".

* Cary August - "Wish You Were Here".

* Cynthia - "Thinking About You".

* Music/DaftPunk - "The Game of Love".
* Music/DanielRomano - "Old Fires Die". A rarer example of a song about a presumably once-happy marriage that burned out.

* Dawes - "All Your Favorite Bands".
* Music/DeadOrAlive - "Turn Around and Count 2 Ten", "Baby Don't Say Goodbye".
* Music/DebbieGibson - "Foolish Beat".
* Deborah Cox - "Things Just Ain't The Same", "I Never Knew", and "House Is Not A Home".
* Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
* Music/DeltaGoodrem -" Lost Without You", "I Can't Break It To My Heart".
* Music/{{Dido}} - "White Flag".

* DYCE - "Tomorrow Can Wait".

* Music/EdSheeran - "Sunburn", primarily about the narrator's regret that an old relationship didn't work out: "We never even tried / We never even talked / We never even thought in the long run". The new-girlfriend-who-reminds-him-of-the-old is a secondary aspect of the song.
* Elliot Yamin - "Wait For You".

* Music/EscapeTheFate - "Harder Than You Know".
* E-Type - "Angels Crying".

* Music/{{Expose}} - "I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me".
* The Fireflies - "You Were Mine".
* Music/FooFighters - "Walking After You".
* Music/FrouFrou- ''Hear Me Out''.
* Galaxy Hunter - "Thousand Miles Away", "When I Close My Eyes", "I Miss You So Much"
* Music/GloriaEstefan - "Can't Forget You".

* Music/{{Halsey}} - "Is There Somewhere". This is an interesting one because it is written from the perspective of the former other woman (whom the boyfriend has chosen his partner over)
* Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - "Don't Leave Me This Way".

* Interface - "Outside Looking In", "Not With Me", "Fire In the Sky".

* Jackson Five - "I Want You Back".

* Jennifer y Los Jetz - "Contigo Otra Vez," "You Say," Vuelve".

* Music/{{Jewel}} - "You Were Meant For Me".
* Jimmy Ruffin - "Don't You Miss Me a Little Bit, Baby?".
* JLS - "Beat Again".
* Music/{{Jodeci}} - "Stay", "I'm Still Waiting".
* Joey Kid - "Counting the Days".

* Music/KellyClarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You".
* Music/KennyRogers - "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)".
* Keyshia Cole - "Love".

* Kristine W. - "One More Try".

* Music/LeonardCohen - "Coming Back to You"; "Ain't No Cure for Love". "Hallelujah" sounds like a break-up song (and is frequently covered as one), but actually [[LoveIsLikeReligion uses romantic symbolism as an allegory for a man's contentious relationship with God]].

* Little Anthony and the Imperials - "Tears on My Pillow".

* Music/MichaelJackson - "She's Out of My Life".
* Michael Oakley - "Crystal Ships" and "Real Life".
* Mike Mareen - "Don't Leave Me Now". Uses LyricalDissonance, setting the breakup lyrics in a dancy Hi-NRG song.
* Mike Posner - "Please Don't Go".
* Music/MileyCyrus, "7 Things".
* The Moody Blues - "Go Now!".
* Music/MyBrightestDiamond - "Gone Away".

* Music/NeilSedaka - "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do".

* NINA - "It Kills Me".

* Passenger - "Let Her Go".

* Peabo Bryson - "Can You Stop the Rain".

* Music/KatyPerry - "TheOneThatGotAway" and "Thinking Of You".

** "The Way It Used To Be".

* Player - "Baby Come Back".

* R. Dean Taylor - "There's a Ghost in My House".
* Music/RascalFlatts / Music/{{Cascada}} - "What Hurts The Most".

* Regina Belle - "Make it Like it Was".
* Ricky Nelson - "Don't Leave Me This Way".

* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} - "Miss You".
* Music/RoyOrbison - "Crying".
* Sally Shapiro - "Sundown".
* Music/SarahBrightman - "The Second Element" and "Colder Than Winter".
* Music/TheScript - "Breakeven", "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" & "Six Degrees Of Seperation".
* Music/{{Seether}} and [[Music/{{Evanescence}} Amy Lee]] - "Broken".
* Music/SelenaGomez - "The Way I Loved You", "Ghost of You".

* Music/SonataArctica - "Tallulah."
* Stevie B. - "Spring Love."

* Sugar Ray - "When It's Over."

* Music/TaylorSwift: "Back to December," "Haunted", "Music/AllTooWell".

* Music/{{Usher}} - "You Got It Bad".

* The Walker Brothers - "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore".

* Music/{{Yazoo}} - "Only You," "Don't Go".

* Music/TheByrds - "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better".
* Music/CarrieUnderwood - "Before He Cheats".

* Music/TheClash - "Train in Vain".
* Connie Francis - "Lipstick on Your Collar".

* Deborah Cox - "It's Over Now".

* Music/GirlsGeneration - "Run Devil Run".
* Music/HankWilliams, Sr. - "Your Cheatin' Heart".
* Hey Monday - "How You Love Me Now".
* Music/{{Hurt}} - "Unkind".

* Music/JoanJett- "I Hate Myself For Loving You".
* Joe - "Stutter".
* Music/{{JoJo}} - "Leave (Get Out)".
* Kelis - "Caught Out There".
* Music/{{Kesha}} - "Kiss 'n' Tell".

* Music/KylieMinogue - "It's No Secret" and "Word Is Out".
* Kumbia Kings - "U Don't Love Me".

* Music/{{Ministry}} - "I Wanted to Tell Her".
* MarkMorrison - "Return Of The Mack".
* Music/TheOffspring - "Spare Me The Details".

* Paul Revere and the Raiders - "Steppin' Out".

* Sanford and Townsend - "Smoke From A Distant Fire".
* Santana - "Evil Ways".
* Music/SelenaGomez, "I Won't Apologize".

* Music/{{Showbread}}'s "Check Yes If You Like Me (If You Don't I'll Die)".

* Music/SimplePlan - "Your Love is Just A Lie," "You Suck at Love".
* Skye Sweetnam - "Fallen Through".

* Music/VanessaAmorosi - "Blow Me Away", "Sleep With That"

* Music/{{Cher}} - "Believe", "Strong Enough"

* Music/MirandaCosgrove: "Brand New You", "There Will Be Tears" and "Oh Oh"

* Music/JackJohnson - "If I Had Eyes".

* Sunny Sweeney - "Staying's Worse Than Leaving".
* Alison Krauss - "Forget About It".
* Music/ImagineDragons - "Pantomime". The singer spends a lot of time telling the ex not to touch him, and also boasts that he's become rather popular among her friends. However, he also says that he loves her "part time", instead of not at all, and also notices her crying over the lack of emotional commitment in her current relationship. The bridge seems to tell her that it's her choice whether or not to leave her current lover.
* Egyptian - "Fade". The first verse has the male sing to the female about how while she has a pure heart, society seems to forbid their love. The second verse has the female sing to the male about how he seems shady to others, including her, by leaving her alone at night. The chorus has him ask her to maintain positive memories of their romance, even after it ends.

* Music/{{AFI}}'s album Burials is an entire album of these, in particular stand out the angry "I Hope You Suffer" and the melancholy "Heart Stops".

* Music/{{XTC}} - "That's Really Super, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}" and "1000 Umbrellas".

* Music/MadelineHarperGuest has a lot of these (unsurprising, since she credits Music/TaylorSwift as one of her inspirations), especially "The Ending Stays The Same", "When We Break Up", "Mr. Bright Eyes", and "Under The Willow Tree".

* Barnes & Barnes' "I Hope She Dies", from ''Voobaha''. Parodied in that it becomes clear that the narrator is a misogynist who's only upset about his girlfriend leaving him because he can't have sex with her anymore.

* Los del Río' "Macarena", at least in the [[EclipsedByTheRemix more popular remix by the Bayside Boys]]. While the Spanish lyrics are clearly about the titular character cheating on her boyfriend Victorino while he's serving in the military, the English-language parts are the titular character bragging about how she no longer needs Victorino.

* ? and the Mysterians - "96 Tears".
* Music/{{ABBA}} - "The Winner Takes It All", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "One of Us", "When All Is Said And Done".

* Music/TheAcademyIs - "Everything We Had".

* Music/{{Aerosmith}} - "What It Takes" and "Hole in My Soul".
* Music/TheAllAmericanRejects - "It Ends Tonight".
* Music/AngelsAndAirwaves - "It Hurts".
* Music/TheBeatles - "For No One".

* Benjamin Biolay - "15 Août".

* The Bouncing Souls - "Wish Me Well (You Can Go to Hell)".

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Tara's side of "Under Your Spell/Standing Reprise" in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling]]".
* Music/EricCarmen - "Boats Against the Current".
* Catatonia - "Blues Song".

* Victoria Celestine - "Wasted Tears", "Here I Am".
* Chris Clark - "Love's Gone Bad".
* Keyshia Cole - "I Changed My Mind", "(I Just Want It) To Be Over".
* Music/PhilCollins - "Against All Odds" and "In The Air Tonight".

* Music/{{Commodores}} - "Easy". It overlaps a bit with the AntiLoveSong, in that the singer is overall quite relaxed and happy about breaking up with his girlfriend since the relationship has apparently been unhappy for a while.
* Music/TheCorrs - "Goodbye".
* Music/TheCrystallineEffect- "Poetry".
* Music/{{The Cure|Band}} - "The End of the World".
* Music/CutCopy - "Standing in the Middle of the Field", which crosses with AntiLoveSong in the borderline cynical verses before emotionally collapsing in the chorus along with a mantra of "you've gotta give up the things you love to make it better".
* Music/MileyCyrus - "Wrecking Ball".

* Skeeter Davis - "The End of the World".

* Music/DireStraits - "When It Comes To You".
* Music/DragonForce - "Seasons".

* Music/TheDresdenDolls - "The Jeep Song".
* Music/DuranDuran - "Ordinary World".

* Epica - "Never Enough".

* Music/TheEverlyBrothers – "Born Yesterday". The lyrics strongly imply a breakup, but the song's video tells a slightly different story, showing a married couple on the brink. Subverted at the end of the video, with the couple getting back together.

* Faderhead - "Atoms and Emptiness".
* The Flirts - "Jukebox".

* Music/{{Garbage}} - "It's All over But the Crying".
* Music/GloriaGaynor - "I Will Survive".

* Music/SelenaGomez - "Middle of Nowhere".

* Music/DeltaGoodrem - "Not Me Not I".
* Greg Kihn Band – "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" is both an example and an aversion, as hinted at in the extended title. While the song starts "We had broken up for good / Just an hour before", and mentions the breakup throughout the verses, the song is equally (if not more) a lament of the perceived passing of this genre, with the chorus saying "they don't write 'em like that anymore".

* Music/{{Halsey}} - "Haunting".
* Music/HoneyWorks - "Nakimushi Kareshi" is about Miku and Len breaking up. It has a sequel "Hajimeshi no Sayonara", which is about Miku wanting to get back together with Len, but realizing that he's already with someone else.
* Hoobastank - "I Don't Think I Love You".

* Music/ImagineDragons - "Leave Me".
* Music/InformationSociety - "Running".
* Interface - "The Softest Blade".
* Jermaine Jackson - "Don't Take It Personal".

** "Little Liar".
* Music/{{Jojo}} - "Leave".
* Music/{{Journey|Band}} - "Separate Ways".

* Music/{{LANY}}'s "never mind, let's break up". The guy doesn't feel like his girlfriend is treating him right, since she [[ExiledToTheCouch exiles him to the couch]] and constantly fights with him, despite his best attempts to give her what she wants. The conclusion? "I thought about giving you one more chance. Never mind, let's break up!"
* Music/AnnieLennox - "Walking On Broken Glass".
* Music/LeonaLewis - "Better In Time".

* Johnny Logan - "Hold Me Now".
* Music/{{Marillion}} - "The Web".
* Music/MelanieMartinez - "Alphabet Boy" and "Dead To Me".

* Music/KatMcSnatch - "Fuck You".

* Melotron - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAihD-3Owys "Du Bist Es Nicht Wert]] (You Aren't Worth It)".
* Dannii Minogue - "It Won't Work Out".
* Music/KylieMinogue - "Where Has The Love Gone?" and "So Now Goodbye".
* Music/TheMonkees - "She".
* [[Music/ThinLizzy Gary Moore]] - "Empty Rooms".

* Music/TakingBackSunday - "Cute Without The E (Cut From The Team)".
* Music/TaylorSwift - "White Horse", "Should've Said No".
* Theory of a Deadman - "Little Smirk".
* Music/VanessaAmorosi - "Sleep With That".
* Music/TheVeronicas - "Revenge Is Sweeter", "Everything I'm Not".

* Music/TheWho - "I Can See For Miles".

* Bowling For Soup - "Two Seater".

* Music/MirandaLambert - "Kerosene".
* Jazmine Sullivan- "Bust Your Windows".
* Music/NataliaKills - "Acid Annie".
* Music/{{Pink}} - "Funhouse".
* In the video for Music/{{Shakira}}'s "Don't Bother", she sends her boyfriend's Ford Mustang to the crusher.
* She Daisy - "Little Goodbyes".

* Music/VanessaAmorosi- "I Thought We'd Stay Together.", "Sleep With That".
* Music/TheVeronicas - "Revenge Is Sweeter".
* Music/VictoriaJustice - "Begging on Your Knees". Also has elements of the warning others type.

* Music/AceOfBase - "Don't Turn Around".
* Music/AlyAndAJ - "Potential Breakup Song". It's a pretty GenreSavvy version, especially with lyrics like "This is the potential breakup song: our album needs just one".
* Music/AmyGrant - "That's What Love Is For". A couple is plagued by petty fights and doubts but love continually gives them "strength to try once more."
* Andy Williams - "Say It Isn't So".
* Music/AvrilLavigne - "My Happy Ending".
* Music/{{Beyonce}} - "Ring the Alarm".

* Music/BlocParty: ''Intimacy'' is a goldmine of these. It was written after a bad breakup of the lead singer, Kele Okereke. We've got: "Trojan Horse", "One Month Off", "Your Visits Getting Shorter", "Zephyrus" and "One More Chance".

* Music/TheCardigans, "My Favourite Game".
* Music/{{Cascada}} - "Can't Stop The Rain".

* Chairmen of the Board - "Give Me Just a Little More Time".

* Chris Clark - "The Beginning of the End".
* Music/TheClash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go".

* Prefab Sprout - "When Love Breaks Down".
* Music/PussycatDolls - "I Hate This Part".

* Music/RobThomas - "This Is How A Heart Breaks".
* Ross Hannaman - "Probably On Thursday".

* Selena - "No Debes Jugar".
* Music/{{Sentenced}} - "Killing Me, Killing You".
* Music/{{Space}} - "Disco Dolly".
* [[Music/FleetwoodMac Stevie Nicks]] and Music/TomPettyAndTheHeartbreakers - "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around".

* Music/SufjanStevens - "All of Me Wants All of You".
* The Kinleys - "Please". A couple is "drifting further from each other", and the singer resolves to "do anything if it'll bring our hearts together."
* Music/TheSupremes - "Going Down for the Third Time".
* Music/TaylorSwift: "Forever And Always".
* Music/TheTemptations - "Don't Send Me Away" and "(I Know) I'm Losing You".
* Terence Trent D'Arby - "If You Let Me Stay".
* Music/ThompsonTwins - "Hold Me Now", which details how the protagonist and his girlfriend's love life has become "tattered and torn" in spite of his affections, and in the chorus, he begs her to "stay with me" and "let loving start". During one verse, he mentions he considered leaving her to "go far away", but then changed his mind becaue "there's nowhere that I'd rather be than with you here today".
* Music/TheVeronicas - "All I Have", "Don't Say Goodbye", and "In Another Life".
* Music/ViennaTeng - "Between".

* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps".
* Zee Avi - "Concrete Walls".

* Music/The1975 - "The Sound", in which the narrator freely lists off both his own and his ex's toxic tendencies (including slipping in that he's still her booty call after they agreed to end their involvement for his sanity's sake) and assures her that "I don't regret it, but I'm glad that we're through".

* Music/AceOfBase - "The Sign".

* Music/{{The Beatles}} - "Not A Second Time".
* Music/BenFolds - "Smoke", a particularly melancholy example even for the genre comparing unloading your emotional baggage to burning a book, before taking a particular bitter turn towards the end.
* Music/{{Beyonce}} - "Irreplaceable".
* Music/BigSean - "I Don't Fuck With You".
* Music/{{Blink182}} - "Dammit".

* Music/BraveSaintSaturn: "Enamel".
* Music/BritneySpears - "What U See (Is What U Get)" "Lonely" "Rock Star".

* Christina Perri - "Jar of Hearts".

* Dannii Minogue - "Get Into You", "Someone New", and "Goodbye Song".
* Eamon - "F*** It (I Don't Want You Back)".
** And the follow-up song, from the woman's perspective, Frankee's "Fuck You Right Back".
* Eden Kaine - "Well I Ask You".
* Electronic - "Reality".
* Music/{{Epica}} - "Never Enough".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} - "Call Me When You're Sober", "Sweet Sacrifice" "Going Under" "Lacrymosa", "The Change", "Oceans" and "Made Of Stone".

* Music/GammaRay - "Leaving Hell".
* Music/GeorgeMichael - "Faith".
* Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive".

* Interface - "City Limits", "Mind Killer".

* Music/JoDeeMessina - "Bye Bye".

* Music/KatyPerry - "Part of Me".

* Krypteria - "You & I", "Too Late, Game Over And Goodbye".
* Music/KylieMinogue - "I'm Over Dreaming Over You", "What Kind Of Fool (Heard All That Before)", "Through The Years", "Dancefloor", "Baby", "Promises", "Obsession", and "Someday".
* Music/LinkinPark - "Don't Stay".

* Music/MariahCarey - "Someday", also, her, "You cheated on me so get out" songs count. H.A.T.E.U. is an odd mix between this and, "I really do still want you back". She goes back and forth between longing to be with them, and stating she can't wait to hate them. Up Out My Face is another example.
* Music/MaroonFive - "Makes Me Wonder".
* Music/MaryJBlige - "Not Gon' Cry".
* Me & My - "Dub-i-dub".
* Melys - "I Don't Believe In You".

* Los Mismos - "No Quiero Volverte a Ver".

* Music/MyChemicalRomance - "I Don't Love You".

* NINA - "Gave Up on Us".

* OMD - "So in Love".

* Music/PattyLoveless - "Blame It On Your Heart".

* Music/RayCharles and The Raelettes: "Hit the Road, Jack".

* Rockell - "I Fell in Love" and "What You Did to Me".

* Selena - "Si Una Vez," "Ya No".
* Music/SelenaGomez - "Bang Bang Bang", "Sick of You".
* Scandal - "Goodbye To You".
* Music/{{Shakira}} - "Don't Bother".
* Music/{{Space}} - "Influenza".
* Music/TaylorSwift: "Picture to Burn", "Should've Said No", and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".
* Texas - "Strings of Life (Stronger On My Own)".

* T'Pau - "Thank You For Goodbye".

* Music/TravisTritt - "Here's a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares".
* The Walker Brothers - "No Regrets".

* Music/AirSupply - "Here I Am".
* Music/{{Ambrosia}} - "How Much I Feel".

* Aswad - "Don't Turn Around".

* Music/BarryManilow - "Even Now".
* Music/TheCab - "These Are The Lies".
* Music/LukeCombs - "She Got the Best of Me". He's trying to focus on his music but keeps subtly thinking of her.
* Music/TheCorrs - "I Never Loved You Anyway".
* DHT - "I Miss You".

* Music/TheKillers - "Smile Like You Mean It" is an unusually positive example of this, about the process of moving on after a breakup - namely in that said process, as the song's title might indicate, can be a matter of "fake it 'til you make it".

* Macy Gray - "I Try".
* Marti Webb - "Your Ears Should Be Burning Now".
* Music/MatchboxTwenty - "Disease". It's about hating your ex so much yet you admit that you can't live without them.
* Music/MitchBenn's "Not Bitter" is a ''glorious'' example of denial, with every line of the chorus starting off as a derogatory term for a woman, before a LastSecondWordSwap turns it into a line about how okay he is about everything. "You bitch, you bitch, you betcha life I'll be okay" ... before finishing off with "Oh, 'cos I'm not bitter. You stupid, evil, selfish slag".

* Music/GeorgeStrait - "Oceanfront Property".

* Music/{{Sunscreem}} - "Looking At You".
* [[Music/MarcBolan T-Rex]] - "Life's a Gas".
* Veronica - "Let Me Go...Release Me".
* Music/VerticalHorizon - "Best I Ever Had".
* Music/TheWalkmen - "The Rat".
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic - "One More Minute".

* 98 Degrees - "The Hardest Thing".

* Music/AvengedSevenfold - "Unholy Confessions".
* Music/TheBeatles - "I'll Follow the Sun".
* Music/TheBlasters - "So Long Baby Goodbye".
* Music/SarahBrightman - "Free".
* Music/KellyClarkson - "Already Gone".
* Music/BiffyClyro - "Opposite". [[WordSaladLyrics Well, it's most likely this, anyway]].
* Music/TheCorrs - "Don't Say You Loved Me". It's basically, "If you don't really mean what you say, then go away/let's not do this".

* Music/CelineDion - "I Love You, Goodbye".
* Color Theory - "In Motion".

* Music/DuranDuran - "Someone Else, Not Me".
* DYCE - "Oceans Apart".
* E-Type - "Here I Go Again".
* Engelbert Humperdinck - "Please Release Me".
* Expose - "I'll Say Goodbye for the Two of Us".
* Fergie - "Big Girls Don't Cry".
* Fort Atlantic - "Let Your Heart Hold Fast".
* Gloria Gaynor - "Last Night".
* Albert Hammond (covered by Rockell) - "When I'm Gone".
* Missy Higgins - "Where I Stood".

* Music/ImagineDragons - "Demons".
* Interface - "Pavilion".
* Ashley Jade - "Last Goodbye".
* Gerard Joling - "Ticket to The Tropics", "Spanish Heart".
* Donell Jones - "Where I Wanna Be".
* Music/{{Kamelot}} - "Lost and Damned".
* Music/{{Kesha}} - "Last Goodbye".
* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd - "Free Bird".
* Music/{{Marillion}} - "Sugar Mice".

* The Osmonds - "Love Me For A Reason".
* Music/PapaRoach - "Scars".

* Peach (Union) - "On My Own".
* {{Music/Radiohead}} - "Motion Picture Soundtrack".

* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel - "Wednesday Morning 3 A.M".
* Music/ThreeDoorsDown - "Let Me Go".

* Music/VerticalHorizon - "You're A God".
* Victoria Celestine - "Can You Hear The Echo?".

* Music/{{Yazoo}} - "Bad Connection".

* Music/{{Adele}} - "Someone Like You".

* Music/VanessaAmorosi - "Blow Me Away", "Sleep With That".
* Anthonio - "Annie".
* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} - "I Don't Care".
* Arab Strap - "Piglet".
* Music/{{Beyonce}} - "Irreplaceable".
* Boys Like Girls - "Love Drunk".
* Music/MichelleBranch - "Goodbye to You".
* The Break Up - "Who's Crying Now".

* Music/{{Cascada}} - "Another You".
* Victoria Celestine - "It's OK".

* Music/{{Cher}} - "Believe", "Strong Enough".

* Music/LukeCombs - "When It Rains It Pours". She's gone, but he doesn't care because he just won a bunch of stuff and doesn't have to deal with his "ex-future-mother-in-law" anymore.

* Chris Daughtry - "Over You".

* Interface - "Frantic", "Wasted Time".

* Music/RelientK - "Over It". Rare case where the girl dumped the narrator.

* Music/TheVeronicas - "This is How It Feels".

* Music/ThreeDoorsDown - "Here Without You".
* Music/{{Adele}} - "Hello".

* ATB feat. The Wild Strawberries - "Let You Go".
* Avett Brothers - "I and Love and You".

** "[=Sk8r Boi=]". However, this was sang from the point of view of the new girlfriend, who is saying, "[[UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo Sorry bitch, you couldn't appreciate him when he was the one chasing after you. Now he's mine, so deal with it and scram!]]"

* The Box Tops - "Cry Like a Baby".
* Music/BrunoMars - "When I Was Your Man". A lovely ballad about how he should have paid more attention to her, but [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy at least she's with someone]] who is doing for her now what the singer should have been doing for her all along.
* Music/{{Chicago|Band}} - "Hard to Say I'm Sorry". He still loves her. He did her wrong. She left, and there's nothing he can do to get her back and he knows it.
* Music/{{Coldplay}} - "The Scientist".
* Crystal Gayle - "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".
* Music/{{The Cure|Band}} - "Last Dance", "Boys Don't Cry".
* Cynthia - "If I Had The Chance".
* Edwin Starr - "I Want My Baby Back".
* Music/{{Eminem}} - "Bad Husband", an extremely belated apology to his prime MuseAbuse target and off-again-on-again-off-again DestructiveRomance partner "Kim".

* Music/{{Gotye}} and Music/{{Kimbra}} - "Somebody That I Used To Know".
* Music/GracePotterAndTheNocturnals - "Apologies".

* Music/ImagineDragons - "Amsterdam". He apologizes for his problems and/or behavior leading to the end of the romance, but reminds her that now she has a chance of finding someone better.
* Music/InformationSociety - "Think".
* Interface - "Northpark(Only A Memory)".
* The Isley Brothers - "Got to Have You Back".

* Music/JohnnyMathis and Deneice Williams - "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late".
* Justin Hayward - "I'm Sorry".
* Music/KatyPerry - "TheOneThatGotAway" and "Thinking Of You".
* Music/{{Marillion}} - "Script For A Jester's Tear".

* Missy Higgins - "Where I Stood".
* Mortimer & The DNA Team - "Remorse".
* The Motors - "Forget About You".
* Music/NewOrder - "Age of Consent".
* [[Music/{{NSYNC}} *NSYNC]] - "I Drive Myself Crazy", "Gone".

* Sally Shapiro & Tommy '86 - "Why Did I Say Goodbye".
* Music/SnowPatrol - "You Could Be Happy".

* Music/ThomasRhett - "Crash and Burn".
* Music/TomPettyAndTheHeartbreakers - "Runaway Trains".
* Music/VerticalHorizon - "Best I Ever Had".

* Ariana Grande - "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored".

* Music/TheBeatles - "This Boy".
* The Dambuilders - "Break Up With Your Boyfriend".
* Daniel J - "A Girl Like You", which is about a man who is in love with someone who has a boyfriend. He doesn't care and wants her to be his girlfriend instead.

* Music/HumanNature - "He Don't Love You", which makes a good case for their partner being controlling and borderline abusive.

* Interface - "Syndrome".

* Music/StudioKillers' "Jenny", where the (female) singer tries to convince the girl of her affections to leave ther current boyfriend.

* The Avett Brothers - "If It's the Beaches" (The song's basic message is "I would do anything to keep you". Sample lyrics: "Don't say it's over / 'Cause that's the worst news I could hear / I swear that I will / Do my best to be here just the way you like it / Even though it's hard to hide / Push my feelings all aside / I will rearrange my plans and change for you".)

* Music/{{Sisquo}} - "Incomplete".
* Music/SleaterKinney - "One More Hour".
* Music/{{Space}} - "Love You More Than Football".
* Music/{{Steps}} - "One for Sorrow" and "Deeper Shade of Blue".

* Music/SonataArctica - "Tallulah".
* Stevie B. - "Spring Love".

* Music/SufjanStevens - "Enchanting Ghost".
* Sugar Ray - "When It's Over".
* Music/TheSupremes - "Where Did Our Love Go?".
* Music/TakeThatBand - "Back For Good".

* The Temptations - "Ain't Too Proud To Beg".

* Tiffany - "Could've Been," "Should've Been Me".
* Music/TomPettyAndTheHeartbreakers - "The Best of Everything," "Trailer".

* Toni Braxton - "Unbreak My Heart", "I Don't Want To".
* Travis Tritt - "Tell Me I Was Dreaming".
* Music/{{Usher}} - "You Got It Bad".
* Music/TheVeronicas - ''Someone Wake Me Up", "Worlds Apart", "Don't Say Goodbye", "In Another Life", "We Are One''.
* Victoria Celestine - "Let Go", "Favorite Daydream".

** "Amethyst". The breakup is due to the death of one of the partners, and the song is pure I Want You Back GriefSong from the widowed partner's perspective.

* Music/WarrenZevon - "Empty-Handed Heart".
* Music/TheWeeknd - "Wasted Times", in which despite his attachment-avoidance, the singer realizes he's not happy seeing anyone other than his ex, is jealous thinking about her dating other men, and tries to tell her she could come back anytime.

* The Wrens - "Come Back My Love".
* Music/{{Yazoo}} - "Only You", "Don't Go".
* Music/FrankZappa - "Stuff Up the Cracks", the final track of ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'', has the singer plead his girl not to leave him [[SuicideAsComedy or else he'll kill himself with oven gas]].

* Ace - "How Long".
* Angus and Julia Stone - "I'm Not Yours".
* Creator/AnnaAkana - "Screw You".
* Music/BackstreetBoys - "Quit Playing Games With My Heart".
* The Band Perry - "You Lie".
* Music/{{Beyonce}} - "Me, Myself and I". Also features elements of "warning about others" and "over you", mentioning that the guy's family and friends tried to warn her about him and that it's just "me myself and I" now.

* Music/{{Beck}} - pretty much the whole of the ''Sea Change'' album.

* Music/{{SCANDAL|Band}} - "Goodbye To You".

* Music/{{Scandal}} - "Goodbye To You".