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What is Your Favorite Divorce Song?

Music can be a great form of therapy when trying to cope with life's challenges. I know I spent a lot of time alone with my thoughts and my mp3 player when contemplating my divorce.

I was reminded of that today on my way to work. One of my all-time favorite divorce songs came on the radio. I remember Jerry Reed's "She Got the Gold Mine; I Got the Shaft" from my childhood. It made me giggle out loud when it would come on the radio, and if this morning is any indication, it still does. It offers such a 1980s view of divorce, and does such a great job of it. It's a great song.

I do wonder, however, how is it that country music artists really do make the best break-up songs?

Here are my other favorites that address the end of relationships:

1. "Hit 'Em Up Style" -- Blu Cantrell
2. "I'm Leaving" -- Beyonce
3. "You'll Think of Me" -- Keith Urban
4. "Going through the Big D" -- Mark Chesnutt
5. "Little Goodbyes" -- SheDaisy
6. "Kerosene" --- Miranda Lambert

So, what are your favorite break-up songs?

by freeangel 286 Posts
Posted on 5/7/2008 7:01 PM

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Answers for "What is Your Favorite Divorce Song?" (34) (You must be logged in to answer)

Here's a list for ya...

"Sail On" by the Commodores
"Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp
"Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac
"My Life" by Billy Joel
"Evil Woman" by Electric Light Orchestra
"Who Will You Run To?" by Heart
"Time For Me To Fly" by REO Speedwagon
"Be Good To Yourself" by Journey
"Ramble On" by Led Zeppelin
"I Used To Love Her" by Guns N' Roses

by MisterL 1 Post
Posted on 5/3/2009 3:08 AM

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Never Again by Kelly Clarkson................

by MissK 2 Posts
Posted on 4/5/2009 8:35 PM

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Here are some good ones:
    1. Better in Time- Leona Lewis
    2. So What- Pink
    3.Settlin'- Sugarland
    4. Numb- Pink
    5. Heartbreaker-Pink
    6.The Kill- 30 Seconds to Mars
    7. Famous Last Words- My Chemical Romance

Yeah! I'm a big fan of Pink.

by 4girls 144 Posts
Posted on 10/8/2008 2:06 PM

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Miranda Lambert's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" album seems to be chock-full of great ones. I haven't been listening to the radio much lately so I'm a little out of the loop on the new stuff. Anything out there worth mentioning?

by freeangel 286 Posts
Posted on 10/8/2008 1:30 PM

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Hi there! NEw here, but I just had to reply. Music really is something that has helped. Soooo here are some of mine I have been listening to :)

Dixie Chicks- Goodbye Earle
Sin Wagon
Let 'er Rip
(Dixie Chicks in general seems to be GREAT music for this right now :):):) )

David Grey- This Year's Love

There are a few more I listen to, but I can't htink of them right now. But I'm loving some of these suggestions! I'm adding a lot of them to my playlist!! :) :)

by mytime4life 2 Posts
Posted on 8/26/2008 11:19 AM

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Good Question. I think music is good form of therapy too. I have my top songs as well:

10. Not Gonna Cry- Mary J. Blige
9. Cheatin' - Sara Evans
8. There's More To Me Than YOU- Jessica Andrews
7. Picture To Burn- Taylor Swift
6. I'm a Survivor- Reba
5. Cry Cry Cry- Johnny Cash
4. KARMA- Jessica Andrews
3. More Than A Memory- Garth Brooks
2. Against All Odds- Phil Collins
1. (My Wedding Song Played Backwards) LOL

I have so many, but those are some of my favorites.

by ec 176 Posts
Posted on 6/25/2008 10:49 AM

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Ha! its a little hokey (and previously mentioned) but i vote for "Kerosene" --- Miranda Lambert

by jackson 723 Posts
Posted on 5/19/2008 5:18 PM

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Highway to Hell!!!!!!!! Hmmmm...maybe I should say Highway oughta hell but that isn't a song just yet!

by Linny 152 Posts
Posted on 5/19/2008 3:16 PM

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Ooohhh...."Dirty Deeds" is a GREAT one!

by freeangel 286 Posts
Posted on 5/19/2008 12:03 AM

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For the angry bitter man Godsmack has a couple of good ones then there is always AC/DC Dirty Deeds. ( sinister grin)

by goingnuts 33 Posts
Posted on 5/18/2008 4:57 AM

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"Say Anything" by Edwin McCain
"I hope you dance" by Lee Ann Womak

by islandgal 55 Posts
Posted on 5/17/2008 8:50 AM

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Another great choice, sbswp!

by freeangel 286 Posts
Posted on 5/17/2008 8:41 AM

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The absolute best in my humble opinion is " I'm Moving On" by Rascal Flatts. Let me know if anyone agrees after hearing the lyrics,

by sbswp 8 Posts
Posted on 5/17/2008 3:45 AM

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The one I have set as my personal ring tone is Daughtry's "OVER YOU". This says it all!!!!!!

by Jennababy 1 Post
Posted on 5/15/2008 3:16 PM

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The Dance by Garth Brooks....just as the song says I would never take it back even if I knew the outcome. I would do it all again because if I only got two great things out of my marriage then so be it.....they were my sons and I would not trade them for the world. They worth and still are worth all of the pain that I deal with now in my divorce where my husband cheated on me with our youngest son's daycare teacher.

by JLK 317 Posts
Posted on 5/14/2008 12:40 PM

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Another one came to mind it is I hate everything about you by ugly kid joe

by 111 15 Posts
Posted on 5/13/2008 1:55 AM

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I thought of another one, "I hate myself for loving you!" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts--that's an oldey but a good one. Here's some more: "All Out of Love" by Air Supply, "Cryin'" by Aerosmith, "Does He Love You" by Reba McEntire, "The Dance" by Garth Brooks, "Don't Know What You Got Until It's Gone" by Cinderella, "Don't Speak" by No Doubt, "I don't care anymore" by Phil Collins, & "You Were Mine" by the Dixie Chicks.

by freedom 1011 Posts
Posted on 5/11/2008 9:35 PM

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"I don't wanna be in love", by Good Charlotte. This song sums it up for me. Listen to the lyrics and you'll hear how things have baked down for me. It's an upbeat song that will give that little lift you need every now and then.

by blee 96 Posts
Posted on 5/10/2008 12:21 AM

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You Wouldn't Know by Hell Yeah and Fully Alive by Flyleaf, have been the mantra(s) as of late.

by sckain 21 Posts
Posted on 5/9/2008 3:39 PM

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I have a few tear-jerker songs that I think will qualify as divorce songs. One is "There's no easy way to break somebody's heart" by James Ingram, 2) All by Myself by Eric Carmen,3) I can't make you love me by Bonnie Raitt, 4) Goodbye my Lover by James Blunt 5)He ain't worth missing by Toby keith. Have a good one!

by lostintranslation 73 Posts
Posted on 5/9/2008 12:09 AM

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Good stuff, Freedom. Come back when you have more to add and post them!

Cheating songs. Now, 111, that's a whole different subject. I'll post a separate question for that one...because I have an ENTIRE LIBRARY of cheating songs I love to listen to...don't forget to post there as well.

by freeangel 286 Posts
Posted on 5/8/2008 11:46 PM

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my favorite divorce song for a cheating wife is by eric church called his kind of money my kind of love

by 111 15 Posts
Posted on 5/8/2008 10:34 PM

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I love the movie The Wedding Singer!! It has alot of good songs in it and I love Adam Sandler to! I think that song love stinks sums it all up, but I thought of another one - "Irreplaceable" by Beyonce or "You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi. Or "Not Gonna Cry" by Mary J Blige, I need to think a little more for some other good ones! This is fun!

by freedom 1011 Posts
Posted on 5/8/2008 9:44 PM

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Drama Geek just weighed in with his vote: "Song for the Dumped" by Ben Folds. After he played it for me last night, I assured him that if things went downhill between us, I would gladly return his black T-shirt. Since the only shirt of his is gray, that's a safe promise to make.

But that got me to thinking of other fun songs. I swear, I might be having more fun with this question than the rest of you. Remember Eamon's "I Don't Want You Back"? It sounds like a sweet love song, but it's definitely not. Or "Love Stinks" by J. Geils Band. "The Wedding Singer" brought that song alive for a whole new generation when it came out. But my favorite from that movie is Sandler's original composition, "Somebody Kill Me."

All right...enough from me and my twisted sense of humor. Any other great break-up songs out there?

by freeangel 286 Posts
Posted on 5/8/2008 11:09 AM

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I hurd a song the other day,caption and tinio?sp
LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER,HA HA
MY FATHER INLAW IS A REAL COUNTRY MUSIC PERSON,EVERY CAR HE DRIVES IN HAS COUNTRY.

I WAS WORKING ON MY CAR LAST WEEKEND IN HIS GARAGE AND THE COUNTRY I`M GETTING USE TO,BETTER THAN THAT HEAD BANGING STUFF,LOTS OF I LOVE YOU AND BREAK UPS.YA THIS IS FUN,ABOUT TIME FOR ME BECAUSE I DIDNT EVENT LISTON TO MUSIC FOR A LONG LONG TIME,REMEMBER ACDC?HA HA,YA BARKLEY THERE IS SOMETHING NEW HERE.KICK IT,O JUST REMEMBERED THE JAMES GANG,ANOTHER PULLING MUSSLES FROM THE SHELLS,OMAN,GO TO TGO LATER GUYS.

by steveo 218 Posts
Posted on 5/7/2008 11:40 PM

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