Mixing It Up: Break My Heart

Life doesn’t always let you wallow and mourn and be despondent. Sometimes you have to get up and get out in the world but you still want some company with your misery. These are songs about heartbreak that pick up the pace from the last set. Many of these are on my driving playlists.

You Love Me – Kelly Clarkson

Let Me Down – Kelly Clarkson

Letting Go – Jessica Harp

Sleepwalker – Adam Lambert

The Harold Song – Ke$ha

Love Is Dead – Kerli

Wanted You More – Lady Antebellum

Long Way to Happy – P!nk

All I Wanted – Paramore

(One of Those) Crazy Girls – Paramore

Wide Awake – Katy Perry

See Your Around – Runner Runner

You’re Not Sorry – Taylor Swift

Now I’m All Messed Up – Tegan & Sara

Alternates

Rolling in the Deep – ADELE

Set Fire to the Rain – ADELE

All I Ever Wanted – Kelly Clarkson

Screaming Infidelities – Joanna

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted – Jimmy Ruffin

Impossible – Shontelle

The Way I Loved You – Taylor Swift

Haunted – Taylor Swift

How Come You Don’t Want Me – Tegan & Sara

I’m a huge fan of lyrics. No matter how good the music is, if the lyrics are crap, I’ll hate the song. All of the top 15 have excellent lyrics about love leaving. It also gave me perspective during Boy Toy’s long absence. I knew none of these applied to me so it made it a little easier.

I couldn’t leave ADELE or Taylor Swift off this but their songs were so ubiquitous I couldn’t put them with the main set. I couldn’t forget about Screaming Infidelities. Joanna does such a fantastic cover. Tegan & Sara’s latest CD is fantastic but narrowing it down wasn’t easy.