There are quite a ‘good’ number of reasons people break up and there are also different ways in which people have survived the situation. No matter why and how there is always going to be a song that you can relate to.
This list of break-up songs gives an array to choose from depending on what mood you are in. If you want something to soothe your pain, we’ve got it. If you’re looking for something to make you scream, we have Taylor Swift on the list. Are you looking to relate with some 70s, 80s, and 90s tunes instead? You’re sure to see stuff you’ll appreciate on this list.
Meanwhile, breakups aren’t the end of the road, it’s merely a detour so choose another route and continue to enjoy your life.
Here Are 30 Best Break-up Songs to Help You Through Those Times
1. Toni Braxton – Un-break My Heart
Release Date: October 7, 1996
Songwriters: Diane Warren
This song is a Grammy winner by Toni Braxton and it depicts in almost every tone, the intense pain that breakups bring. It is almost impossible to listen to it and not feel like breaking down in tears and calling up the ex that makes you feel so.
Best For:
There are break-ups that would leave your life in shambles and would almost break every fiber in your body. This song is for that moment when you want to cry and just let the world, especially the person that broke your heart, that you are not okay and would prefer an undoing of the breakup.
Lyrics:
Don’t leave me in all this pain
Don’t leave me out in the rain
Come back and bring back my smile
Come and take these tears away
I need your arms to hold me now
The nights are so unkind
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me…
2. Carole King – It’s Too Late
Release Date: April 16, 1971
Songwriters: Carole King, Toni Stern.
This song was inspired by the resolve of an ended relationship. That moment when it’s just so obvious you have come to the end of the road with the love and there is nothing left to do.
With this tune, no one and nothing can really be blamed. This recording won a Grammy award just a year after it was released and made its way to Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Best For:
As the title suggests, the song is a realization that there is nothing left, and when you need a tone to remind you of why you shouldn’t sulk or regret moving on, this might do the magic.
When there is no hope of fixing it or making the relationship work again, just tell yourself that it’s too late and keep trying to move on.
Lyrics:
Stayed in bed all mornin’ just to pass the time
There’s somethin’ wrong here. There can be no denyin’
One of us is changin’, or maybe we’ve just stopped tryin’…
3. Taylor Swift – We Are Never Getting Back Together
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Songwriters: Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback
Taylor Swift sent out a message to an ex (or maybe more) about the status of their failed relationship. This message is quite clear in the title of the song and if you still want to call her bluff, listen to the lyrics.
This single won a Grammy Award and Billboard award for Record of the Year, amongst many other awards.
Best For:
When your ex doesn’t get the memo or has chosen to ignore the handwriting on the wall. This song is a not-so-subtle way of reiterating that nothing can be reversed. The relationship has finally ended and for real this time. There can be no type of reconciliation whatsoever.
Lyrics:
Ooh, we called it off again last night
But ooh, this time I’m telling you, I’m telling you
We are never ever ever getting back together…
4. Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next
Release Date: November 3, 2018
Songwriters: Ariana Grande, Victoria Monet, Tayla Parx, Njomza Vitia, Tommy Brown, Michael Foster, and Charles Anderson.
This song was applauded for being one of the songs that shaped the years after 2010. There were quite a number of variations to the song and this was because there were uncertainties about her relationship at the time and her true feelings.
There were no hold-backs for the pop princess who named all her exes at the time, in the lyrics of the song.
Best For:
Those ‘Oh well, we’re done with this, can we move on already?’ moments. If it takes writing a list of all the people you’ve dated in the past, thanking them one after the other, and moving on, Ariana encourages you do so.
Lyrics:
Thought I’d end up with Sean
But he wasn’t a match
Wrote some songs about Ricky
Now I listen and laugh
Even almost got married
And for Pete, I’m so thankful
Wish I could say ‘Thank you’ to Malcolm
‘Cause he was an angel…
5. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
Release Date: March 11, 1974
Songwriters: Dolly Parton
This song became the best-selling single of all time by a female solo artist. It is originally a Dolly Parton song from her ‘Jolene’ album. This heartbreak song was written for Parton’s one-time partner known as Porter Wagoner who she was separating from. They had worked together for 7 years and were finally parting ways.
Best For:
This song is perfect for relationships that did not necessarily end badly. There are some relationships that ended with the partners having and maintaining mutual respect for each other. In other words, the relationship may have grown sour but it doesn’t mean that the bond and love disappeared.
Lyrics:
If I should stay
I would only be in your way
So I’ll go but I know
I’ll think of you every step of the way
And I will always love you…
6. Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back
Release Date: October 2, 1989
Songwriters: Jim Steinman
This song was an attempt by Steinman to write a song that can be described as the ‘most passionate, romantic song’. It was initially recorded by the girl group known as Pandora’s Box before Dion did a cover for it which made it even more famous.
Best For:
Maybe you just had flashbacks of when you had the most fantastic times with your lover. Then again, you remember times when things were somewhat weird but being in the moment, it didn’t seem so. This song is just perfect to let you know that we’ve all been there. Even though Celine Dion may not have written the song, there is a high chance that she also has a relationship or 2 that puts her in this mood.
Lyrics:
There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed
I just listened to it right outside the window
There were days when the sun was so cruel
That all the tears turned to dust
And I just knew my eyes were drying up forever
I finished crying in the instant that you left
And I can’t remember where or when or how
And I banished every memory you and I had ever made…
7. Beyonce – Irreplaceable
Release Date: October 23, 2006
Songwriters: Shaffer ‘Ne-Yo’ Smith, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Espen Lind, Amund Bjorklund, and Beyonce Knowles.
This song wasn’t created for just a particular gender because 2 of the writers wanted both males and females to be able to relate to the tune. Nonetheless, the lyrics of the song preach the infidelity of a man and eventual woman empowerment.
Best For:
When you have an unrepentant cheating partner who doesn’t care about his/her actions and you get fed up eventually. Listen to this song and you will forget, for a moment, the hurt of the heartbreak. Asides from forgetting, you would also be encouraged to throw out the cheat and even collect back all you’ve bought him/her with no remorse. After all, they don’t deserve your goodness anymore.
Lyrics:
Because you was untrue
Rolling her around in the car that I bought you
Baby drop them keys
Hurry up before your taxi leaves…
8. Adele – Someone Like You
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Songwriters: Adele Adkins and Dan Wilson
In the release year, this song became the best-selling single in the UK after charting at the number 1 spot for about 5 weeks. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance in 2012.
Best For:
While nursing a heartbreak and you realize that the person that broke up with you has moved on and is even happily married. This is the story behind this song and it inspired the creativity of a newly heartbroken woman. Therefore, instead of sulking from the heartbreak remember to channel your creative side.
Lyrics:
I heard that you’re settled down
That you found a girl and you’re married now
I heard that your dreams came true
Guess she gave you things I didn’t give to you
Old friend, why you so shy?
Ain’t like you to hold back or hide from the light…
9. Gracie Adams – I Miss You, I’m Sorry
Release Date: April 2020
Songwriters: Gracie Adams, Blake Slatkin, and Sarah Aarons
Pigeons & Planes and Idolator named Gracie an artist to watch out for. Vogue also listed her as 1 of 7 breakout female musicians.
Best For:
“I miss you, I’m sorry” just about explains what most of us have felt when we believe a love story ended unexpectedly. Sometimes, stating how you truly feel about the breakup and how you’d want back would just help you feel better. This would work even better if the ex felt the same way and would respond in a positive.
Lyrics:
You said ‘Forever’ and I almost bought it
I miss fightin’ in your old apartment
Breakin’ dishes when you’re disappointed
I still love you, I promise
Nothin’ happened in the way I wanted
Every corner of this house is haunted
And I know you said that we’re not talkin’
But I miss you, I’m sorry…
10. Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield
Release Date: September 12, 1983
Songwriters: Mike Chapman and Holly Knight.
This song was the 11th biggest-selling single of 1984 after being No. 1 on the Australian singles chart for 5 weeks. It is unlike most break-up songs because while you’ll be expecting low, sad tunes, this song had a danceable tune.
Even for Benatar, it was a different sound from her usual.
Best For:
Just to remind yourself that all is fair in the game of love and war. You win some, and you lose some (more). No matter how much you feel you are putting into making things right in your relationship, it could all go another way anytime and there would be a winner and loser at the end of the day.
Lyrics:
We are young
Heartache to heartache
We stand
No promises
No demands
Love is a battlefield…
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11. Rihanna – Needed Me
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Songwriters: Dijon McFarlane, Robyn Fenty, Nick Audino, Lewis Hughes, Khaled Rohaim, Te Whiti Warbrick, Adam Feeney, Brittany Hazzard, Charles Hinshaw, and Derrus Rachel.
In 2017, the song was nominated during the 59th Grammy Awards for Best R&B Performance.
Best For:
This song is a reflection of rejection from someone who did not feel the same. So, if at any time in your relationship(s), you felt like you needed someone more or vice versa, and it wasn’t reciprocated, you would love to listen to this song.
Lyrics:
But baby, don’t get it twisted
You was just another n**gar on the hit list
Tryna fix your inner issues with a bad b*tch
Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage?
F**k your white horse and a carriage
But you never could imagine
Never told you you could have it…
12. Justin Timberlake – Cry Me A River
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Songwriters: Justin Timberlake, Timothy Mosley, and Scott Storch.
This 4:50 minute-long song has been covered quite a number of times by other artists who did not quite do it as well as Timberlake. As such, the covers did not gain enough attention and critical acclaim. It has been widely believed that the song was inspired by the singer’s relationship with Britney Spears.
Best For:
Ohhhhh YOU ARE DONE! No amount of ‘I’m sorry’ or remorse and tears can change your mind towards an ex. ‘Cry Me a River’ tells a story about a hardened heart after a breakup. If you need that song that will encourage you to not feel a single pity for an ex seeking to make amends, Timberlake has just the right words for you in this song.
Lyrics:
You don’t have to say, what you did
I already know, I found out from him
Now there’s just no chance
For you and me
There’ll never be
And don’t it make you sad about it?…
13. Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
Release Date: October 23, 1978
Songwriters: Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris.
This song is called a symbol of female empowerment because of the lyrics. This song is such a great disco/pop song that it received a Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980. This is also the first and only year the Grammy awarded that particular category.
Best For:
When you want to feel empowered, tell yourself that despite the bad end of a relationship, you would come out stronger and better. This song has the right lyrics and sound that can even make you forget your heartbreak and break into a dance step.
Lyrics:
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never leave without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along…
14. Jojo – Leave (Get Out)
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Songwriters: Soulshock, Kenneth Karlin, Alex Cantrell, Phillip ‘Whitey’ White.
This song, just like many others on this list, aims at encouraging people who are heartbroken to be strong. It peaked highly on several charts and for a long time, across the United States and even outside America.
The child celebrity definitely scored a high one with this song and further propelled her talent to be seen.
Best For:
Standing your ground and throwing out your partner who isn’t acting right. It doesn’t matter what age you are, once you realize that the person in your life is misbehaving, send him out and keep your chin up.
Lyrics:
Get out (leave) right now
It’s the end of you and me
It’s too late (now) and I can’t wait for you to be gone
‘Cause I know about her (who?)
And I wonder (why?) how I bought all the lies
You said that you would treat me right
But you was just a waste of time (waste of time)…
15. Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
Release Date: July 30, 2021
Songwriters: Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell
Although this song is relatively new, it has impacted lives and has made waves. Billie Eilish co-wrote this song which was released the same day with its music video. ‘Happier Than Ever’ even received a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2022 and also had another Grammy nomination for Record of the Year in the same year.
Best For:
A weird (for some people) form of therapy after a breakup for screamers and even criers. If you want to just scream out your lungs and voice, listen to this song while in your emotions and you might just feel the ease you need.
Lyrics:
Don’t say it isn’t fair
You clearly weren’t aware that you made me miserable
So if you really wanna know
When I’m away from you (when I’m away from you)
I’m happier than ever (happier than ever)
Wish I could explain it better (wish I could explain it better)
I wish it wasn’t true…
16. Katy Perry – The One That Got Away
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Songwriters: Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, and Max Martin.
Katy Perry’s ‘The One That Got Away’ would make you feel different things while listening to the 3:47 minutes long song. It has been covered a couple of times by other artists including Kelly Clarkson, Selena Gomez & the Scene, and Olivia Rodrigo to name a few.
The song peaked highly across several charts and also won the singer quite a number of awards.
Best For:
When you’ve reached and resolved that the relationship has actually ended, you still hope for something. In the lyrics, Katy hopes that in another life, she would be able to have the honor of being the lover of whoever it was that inspired the song.
The hopefulness is that with the next try, it would be better and work out.
Lyrics:
Summer after high school when we first met
We make out in your Mustang to Radiohead
And on my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoos
Used to steal your parents’ liquor and climb to the roof
Talk about our future like we had a clue
Never planned that one day, I’d be losing you…
17. Usher – Burn
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Songwriters: Jermaine Dupri, Bryan Michael Cox, and Usher
This song topped various charts around the world for 8 consecutive weeks and it seemed like people never really got enough of it. It was so good that it won the 2005 Kid’s Choice Award for Favorite Song of the Year.
After a lot of speculation about the motivation behind the song, it was revealed that it was inspired by Dupri’s experiences. The song had quite a number of Grammy nominations and won a lot of awards.
Best For:
When you do not really know how to break up a relationship you don’t believe should continue. This song is mostly an encouragement to end a relationship no matter how difficult it might be for you and the other party involved.
Lyrics:
Girl, I understand why
See, it’s burnin’ me to hold on to this
I know this is something I gotta do
But that don’t mean I want to
What I’m tryna say is that, I … love you, I just
I feel like this… is comin’ to an end
And it’s better for me to… let it go now
Than hold on and hurt you
But I gotta let it burn…
18. Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Songwriters: Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, and Andrew Wyatt.
This tune by Bruno made so many waves around the world and even topped over 5 countries’ charts after its release. The same year it was released, the song was the World’s 8th Best-Selling digital single and had sold over 8 million copies.
The next year, it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance.
Best For:
When you realized that you messed up a relationship and all you can do is reminisce on when you used to be with the person. This song takes you down memory lane and sends flashes of times spent and what you should have done better. You might even start wondering how your ex is faring in their new relationship.
Lyrics:
Although it hurts
I’ll be the first to say that I was wrong
Oh, I know I’m probably much too late
To try and apologize for my mistakes
But I just want you to know
I hope he buys you flowers
I hope he holds your hands
Gives you all his hours
When he has the chance…
19. Marshmello Feat. Bastille – Happier
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Songwriters: Christopher Comstock, Dan Smith, and Steve Mac.
This song is Marshmello’s top-charting single in the United States and the United Kingdom. It also has a record made for being number 1 on the US Dance/Electronic Songs chart for several weeks. ‘Happier’ won the 2019 International Dance Music Awards for Best Pop/Electronic Song.
Best For:
When you have been in a toxic relationship and desperately need to get over it. Happier may just be the tune you are looking for to get you over that relationship and heal from the hurt.
Lyrics:
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been thinking
I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier
When the morning comes
When we see what we’ve become
In the cold light of day we’re a flame in the wind
Not the fire that we’ve begun
Every argument, every word we can’t take back
‘Cause with the all that has happened
I think that we both know the way that this story ends…
20. Roxette – It Must Have Been Love
Release Date: December 2, 1987
Songwriters: Per Gessle
This song has had 4 different variations released over the years but the original is the 1987 released version. It song however wasn’t included on Rosette’s album until a decade after its release.
It was a top-5 hit in Sweden.
Best For:
You acknowledge you had something good going on but also acknowledge that it has run its course. It was love, definitely, but seeing how it has gone downhill, you may want to remind yourself that there is nothing you can do because ‘It is over now’. The lyrics and tune to this song is everything a sad song can be.
Lyrics:
It must have been love, but it’s over now
It must’ve been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it’s over now
From the moment we touched, ‘til the time had run out…
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21. Adele – Rolling In The Deep
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Songwriters: Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
This song was praised for everything it is known for – its lyrics, the production, Adele’s voice, and ‘whatnot’. It peaked at the highest spot on so many billboard charts across the world and many people believe the song came from a deep and sincere place.
In 2012, ‘Rolling in the Deep’ won Grammy awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, as well as Best Short Form Music Video.
Best For:
This is basically a warning to your partner to not take you for granted. It is never wise to underestimate one in a relationship because like the saying goes ‘Hell hart no fury like a woman scorned’.
Adele explicitly explains things she is capable of doing while reminding the partner that their relationship would have been beautiful, safe for his ‘brilliant’ idea of playing her.
Lyrics:
There’s a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, it’s bringing me out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go ahead and sell me out and I’ll lay your ship bare
See how I’ll leave with every piece of you
Don’t underestimate the things that I will do
There’s a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing me out the dark…
22. Alicia Keys – Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Songwriters: Jeff Bhasker, Alicia Keys, and Patrick ‘Plain Pat’ Reynolds.
This song is the 99th most successful song of 2010 and is considered one of the singer’s top 3 hits from her 4th studio album ‘The Element of Freedom’. There is also a remix of the song which features American rap artist, Maino.
Best For:
Well, have you ever slept with a broken heart? How did it feel? This song is best for when you are trying to move on from a failed relationship. You may try all you can but the pain may just never want to go away. Now, imagine trying to live and sleep with that feeling. Tragic!
Lyrics:
Even if you were a million miles away
I can still feel you in my bed
Near me, touch me, feel me
And even at the bottom of the sea
I could still hear inside my head
Telling me, touch me, feel me
And all the time, you were telling me lies, ay
So tonight, I’m gonna find a way to make it without you
Tonight, I’m gonna find a way to make it without you…
23. Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
Release Date: November 8, 1972
Songwriters: Carly Simon
In 1974, this song was nominated in 3 categories for the Grammy Awards. It had nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Vocal Performance, Female. It however did not win any of those. 3 decades later (2004), ‘You’re So Vain’ was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
Best For:
This song is about a lover who is so into himself that it will be most appropriate when you have met and been with a narcissist. There are times when it is so obvious that your lover puts himself, and his needs, and even looks way above you and your relationship. For those times, Carly Simon would wish you to play and sing along to this song.
Lyrics:
You’re so vain (You’re so vain)
I bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you, don’t you?
You had me several years ago when I was still quite naïve
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair and that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee and
You’re so vain…
24. Rihanna – Stay
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Songwriters: Mikky Ekko, Justin Parker, and Elof Loelv
This song surpassed Whitney Houston’s streak on the US Billboard Hot 100 as it became Rihanna’s 24th top ten on that chart. It was nominated for the Grammy Awards in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category in 2014.
Best For:
“I want you to stay…” just about sums up what Rihanna and Ekko wanted to pass across with the song. This song is perfect for when you’re overtly saddened by the loss of love and would prefer that he/she remains with you instead of a break up.
When you want to cry and sulk, and maybe even beg for your lover to not leave you, ‘Stay’ is the go-to song.
Lyrics:
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can’t live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay…
25. A Great Big World – Say Something (I’m Giving Up on You)
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Songwriters: Ian Axel, Chad King, and Mike Campbell
This song from A Great Big World was released in September but did not really get widespread attention until the feature with Christina Aguilera on November 4, 2013. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in 2015.
Best For:
You know you don’t always want a relationship to end. You know you don’t want a breakup but things have gotten so bad, your relationship seems to be tilting toward an end. Maybe your partner has been mute, ghost, silent, or just non-responsive to you and your messages.
This song will speak to your inner desire of wanting to hear something, anything, from that person.
Who knows, it might push you to try harder or do something extraordinary to get the desired attention.
Lyrics:
Say something, I’m giving up on you
I’ll be the one, if you want me to
Anywhere, I would’ve followed you
Say something, I’m giving up on you…
26. Passenger – Let Her Go
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Songwriters: Michael Rosenberg
This song became a ‘sleeper hit’ and went on to achieve many accolades across the world. It was the most performed song for years after its release. ‘Let Her Go’ earned Passenger the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award in 2014.
Best For:
Another ‘I have f**ked up’ moment in life is when you realize that your world is miserable after a breakup. You begin to count your losses as it dawns on you that you’ve lost someone special.
Lyrics:
Well you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go…
27. Bonnie Raitt – I Can’t Make You Love Me
Release Date: October 22, 1991
Songwriters: Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin.
This song easily became one of the top hits released by Bonnie. It was even placed in the 8th spot on Mojo Magazine’s 100 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2016, the song made it to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Best For:
When you just want to cry while shutting out the whole world. You may have put your best into a relationship and it goes doesn’t work out and eventually runs its course. At this point, it is okay for you to just cry as long and hard as you wish. You just might feel better after all.
Lyrics:
‘Cause I can’t make you love me if you don’t
You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I’ll feel the power
But you won’t, no you won’t
‘Cause I can’t make you love me, if you don’t…
28. Ne-Yo – So Sick
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Songwriters: Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, and Shaffer Ne-Yo’ Smith.
There were 5 remixes and 2 videos for this song. Ne-Yo admitted that this almost-perfect break-up song was inspired by an ex-girlfriend.
Best For:
What happens after a breakup? We gotta try to move on, yes? Moving on doesn’t always come easy and sometimes we get sick, lose weight, appetite, and the will to do anything serious. What’s worse is when we have to undo a lot of things in a bid to forget the ex and love you shared.
This song is most likely the push you need to let you know that you can do it and eventually be fine.
Lyrics:
Gotta change my answering machine
Now that I’m alone
‘Cause right now t says that we
Can’t come to the phone
And I know it makes no sense
‘Cause you walked out the door
But it’s the only way I hear your voice anymore…
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29. Lady Gaga – A Million Reasons
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Songwriters: Stefani Germanotta, Hillary Lindsey, and Mark Ronson.
This song is a hopeful heartbreak song if there is anything like that. What stood out for most critics when the song was released was its simplicity.
A Million Reasons by Lady Gaga gained widespread recognition and acceptance and was even nominated at the Grammy’s for Best Solo Performance in 2018.
Best For:
When you just need 1 reason to not completely walk away from that relationship despite seeing a lot of red flags. This song was recorded for all those who are hopeful that things will change and there will be no need for a breakup and heartbreak.
Lyrics:
If I had a highway, I would run for the hills
If you could find a dry way, I’d forever be still
But you’re giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Giving me a million reasons
About a million reasons…
30. Sia – Big Girls Cry
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Songwriters: Sia Furler and Christopher Braide
This single was only released in Australia and parts of Europe and also has remixes of it. ‘Big Girls Cry’ has certifications in Australia, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Best For:
When you need to tell yourself that it is okay to cry. It doesn’t matter what your status is, when one faces heartbreak after so much investments in the relationship, what’s left to do is cry. Everybody losses something especially with love, and if that something is the love or lover itself, go on and cry girl.
Lyrics:
I may cry ruinin’ my makeup ma
Wash away all the things you’ve taken
And I don’t care if I don’t look pretty
Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking…
