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Favorite anti-love songs

for the sads:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGAoy5WZWY[/YOUTUBE]

for the rage:
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ4gpR579Ys[/YOUTUBE]

and like, literally every song ever recorded by Stabbing Westward.
 
WAB said:
jab said:
TSwizzle said:
You're So Vain by Carley Simon.

Oh, you had me several years ago
When I was still naive
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
You probably think this song is about you
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great pick
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Seconded. The song is dead-nuts, and on target. Whoever the song is about, will think the song is about him. Apparently some college professor.
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I always heard it was Warren Beatty the song was made for.
 
ZiprHead said:
WAB said:
Seconded. The song is dead-nuts, and on target. Whoever the song is about, will think the song is about him. Apparently some college professor.
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I always heard it was Warren Beatty the song was made for.
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You seem to be correct. I could have sworn I read that it was about a professor at college. She does say that the second verse was about Warren Beatty, but is slightly iffy about the rest.

"You're So Vain" is a song written in 1971 by Carly Simon and released in November 1972. The song is a critical profile of a self-absorbed lover about whom Simon asserts "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you." The title subject's identity has long been a matter of speculation, with Simon stating that the song refers to three men, only one of whom she has named publicly, actor Warren Beatty.
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- Wikipedia
 
Was just listening to this and finally paid attention to the lyrics.

Strawbs - Tell Me What You See in Me

[YOUTUBE]P4R-QDBRmAc[/YOUTUBE]
 
blastula said:
Surprise not mentioned yet, maybe too obvious.

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcyTyilmYY[/YOUTUBE]
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Gotta give another nod to this nomination. It is an embarrassment that none of the rest of us had thought of it earlier. Thanks for the tip, blastula.
 
Brian63 said:
blastula said:
Surprise not mentioned yet, maybe too obvious.

Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcyTyilmYY[/YOUTUBE]
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Gotta give another nod to this nomination. It is an embarrassment that none of the rest of us had thought of it earlier. Thanks for the tip, blastula.
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"... but you're still alive." Such a great line.
 
Yeah, Zip, I was just about to reply and mention that line too. It's killer.
 
Guns n Roses: I used to Love Her
I used to love her, but I had to kill her...
Not exactly PC, but I always thought it was kinda funny.​
John Denver: You Done Stomped on My Heart
You done stomped on my heart,
And you squashed that sucker falt,
You just sorta,
Stomped on my aorta
You started going out with guys,
I felt us drift apart,
And every step you took
Was a stomp upon my heart.​
Traditional, “Tiny Sparrow” (great version by Trio: Parton/Harris/Ronstadt, also Peter, Paul and Mary)
Come all ye fair and tender ladies,
Take warning how you court your men.
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
First they'll appear and then they're gone.

If I had known before I courted
what all his lyin' would have done
I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden
and never would have courted none.

I wish I were a tiny sparrow
and I had wings and I could fly.
I'd fly away to my own true lover
and all he'd ask I would deny.

Alas I'm not a tiny sparrow
I have not wings nor can I fly
And on this earth in grief and sorrow
I am bound until I die.

Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you court your men.
They're like the stars on a summer's mornin'
First they'll appear and then they're gone.​
 
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39XX1104E8[/YOUTUBE]

this very perfectly captures where i've been since my mid-30s, after having been in love several times and going through several long term relationships as a serial monogamist, and then one day realizing that i was just completely tapped out and done with being trapped in a cycle of chasing after an idea i had been taught to romanticize but that i had no practical way of realistically working toward.
 
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

The song's lyrics seem to describe a troubled romantic relationship, with the narrator recounting an affair with a "hard-loving woman [who's] got me feeling mean".
There are rumours that "Sundown" was inspired by Lightfoot's then girlfriend, Cathy Smith, later more infamously known for her involvement in the 1982 drug-related death of actor John Belushi. Lightfoot has commented in interviews that Smith was "the one woman in my life who most hurt me".
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[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r26krlXFmOI[/YOUTUBE]
 
The Guess Who - Laughing

...Time goes slowly, but carries on
And now the best years have come and gone
You took me by surprise
I didn't realize that you were laughing
'cause you're doin' it to me
(Laughing) it ain't the way it should be
You took away everything I had, you put the hurt on me...
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Big Mama Thornton has several great anti-love songs, mostly centered on her dumping some worthless fellow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMyld2wdMU

Here's one of my favorites.

Look at you standing there begging
You call yourself a man
Well your tears won't help you, Daddy
You just don't fit my plan.
You don't move me no more

She's got lots, including the original "Hound Dog."
 
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