When You're Gone-- Avril Lavigne
Everything You Want-- Vertical Horizon
My Immortal-- Evanescence
Never Told You-- Colbie Caillat
White Horse-- Taylor Swift
Tell Me Why-- Taylor Swift
Forever & Always-- Taylor Swift
Tattoo-- Jordin Sparks
"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice."-- E.M. Forster
Don't Forget - Demi Lovato
Standing in the Middle - Evan and Jaron
The Way I Loved You - Taylor Swift
Don't Speak - No Doubt
Too Much To Ask - Avril Lavigne
Delete You - Ashley Tisdale
I Can Do Better - Avril Lavigne
Everything Back But You - Avril Lavigne
Forgotten - Avril Lavigne
Artificial Sweetener - No Doubt
That's all I can think of at the moment...
Now I'll play your ghost as my ace, whenever I'm led astray.
But I am actually good, can't help it if we're tilted.
I'm in my right place, don't be a downer.
So Sick - Ne-Yo (and I don't really like this type of music in general, but this one is a great break up song)
Elephant - Damien Rice
Cheers Darlin' - Damien Rice
Rootless Tree - Damien Rice
A Perfect Sonnet - Bright Eyes
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh - Bright Eyes
You had time - Ani DiFranco
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
My lover's gone - Dido
Always - Bon Jovi
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Madonna
Nothing compares to you - Sinead O'Connor
And All That Could Have Been - Nine Inch Nails
Saturnine - The Gathering
Honeymoon Suite - Lacuna Coil
Reverie - Lacuna Coil
Don't Forget Me - Mark Lanegan
Forever Yours - Nightwish
5 Years - Bjork
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level & beat you with experience
Don't Speak (No Doubt) is my favourite
Someone Wake Me Up - The Veronicas (if you're sad about it)
If you're angry:
God's Gift to Women - Kate Miller-Hiedke.
Blind - Kesha
This is How it Feels - The Veronicas
Revenge is Sweeter than you Ever Were - The Veronicas
You Don't Mean Anything - Simple Plan
Done With You - Papa Roach
And how could nobody have said this classic!
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette!
Try not to get too caught up in the sad ones, I find some of the angry ones are good for helping you to move on a bit through the pain that is a breakup.
Sod Off - Bjork
Another Love Song - Queens of the Stone Age
Make It Right - Anathema (dunno if you've heard Anathema before, but the singer conveys sadness in his voice really well....so maybe don't listen to this if you're past super-mopey)
A Natural Disaster - Anathema
Capt. Midnight - Tomahawk
Cry, Cry, Cry - Johnny Cash
Also, how have we all missed out I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor?! ;)
Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level & beat you with experience
The After Dinner Payback - From Autumn To Ashes
Lilacs & Lolitas - From Autumn To Ashes
I Know Where You Sleep - Emilie Autumn
Other ones from the top of my head:
I Liked You Better Before You Were Naked On the Internet - From First To Last
**** Was I - Jenny Owen Youngs
Miserable At Best - Mayday Parade
The Jeep Song - The Dresden Dolls
Happier - A Fine Frenzy
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Poison Ivy by Matthew Thiessen And The Earthquakes
(sometimes it's labeled as Break-up Song by Relient K)
this is all i listened to for 3 months after my 3rd to last boyfriend broke up with me