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Thread #21303   Message #226188
Posted By: JenEllen
10-May-00 - 10:46 PM
Thread Name: Songs about breakups, breaking up
Subject: What do you say/play when it's over?
Yup, that horrible topic....Break-Ups. What songs set you free after the relationship goes south????

My best friend and I were laughing ourselves sick because my never-fail break-up ritual has been completed once again. Goes a little something like this:

The break-up conversation with the dialog from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. "There's things about me you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand, things you SHOULDN'T understand....I'm a loner (insert name), a rebel...." (I swear, if there was ever a guy who said "Wait a minute...isn't that PeeWee?" I'd keep him...)

Then, it goes straight to music:
That Hank Williams-y 'I had someone else before I had you, and I'll have someone after you're gone'
Nanci Griffith 'When ya can't find a friend you've still got the radio'
Girls Night Out
Don't Fence Me In
Ode to Joy
Kate Wolf's 'Safe at Anchor'
MLK Jr's 'Thank Gawd Almighty Free at Last' speech
.....etc

~Elle