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Breakup Song Lyrics That Kick Heartache Out the Door

You’ve just broken up with someone.  Or someone’s broken up with you.  You’ve got a jumble of pent-up emotions that need to be released in a way that won’t get you a life sentence or the death penalty.  There are scores of breakup songs whose music and lyrics will help you deal with those feelings in a healthy way.  Belting out the lyrics to a breakup song, or just listening to those lyrics—even if you need to play them over and over and over again—can help you break up with emotions associated with your ex.

The title of Neil Sedaka’s “Breaking Up is Hard to Do,” cuts right to the chase.  The song has the odd combination of a peppy tune—presumably, to lift your spirits—and the agonized lyrics, “Don’t take your love away from me/Don’t you leave my heart in misery/If you go then I’ll be blue/’Cause breaking up is hard to do.”  Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time,” with its lyrics, “If I could turn back time/If I could find a way/I’d take back those words that have hurt you/And you’d stay” is also great for the newly wounded heart.  There are also perfect pining-away lyrics in Chicago’s “If You Leave Me Now”:  “If you leave me now/You’ll take away the biggest part of me,” and LeAnne Rimes’ “How Do I Live Without You”:  “If I had to live without you/What kind of life would that be?”

Feeling bitter?  Determined never to fall in love again?  Then try the lyrics to Nazareth’s power-ballad classic, “Love Hurts,” which are sung with wrenching agony:  “Some fools think of happiness, blissfulness, togetherness/Some fools fool themselves, I guess/They’re not foolin’ me.”  Or how about the outrage in the lyrics of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know”:  “It was a slap in the face/How quickly I was replaced.”  There’s bitterness in the seething lyrics of Mary J. Blige’s “Not Gon’ Cry”:  “Eleven years out of my life/Wasted my years—a fool of a wife.”  The J. Geils Band gets right to the point in the title and lyrics of “Love Stinks”:  “This thing they call love/It’s gonna make you cry/…Love stinks!”

If you’re sick of crying and are ready to be empowered, you’re ready for Gloria Gaynor’s ultimate ode to strength, “I Will Survive,” and its immortal lyrics, “Weren’t you the one who tried to break me with goodbye/Did you think I’d crumble?/Did you think I’d lay down and die?/Oh no, not I/I will survive!”  Or how about the tough-as-leather lyrics to Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker”:  You’re a heartbreaker, dreammaker, love-taker/Don’t you mess around with me!”  Or listen to the Eagles singing the lyrics to “Already Gone” with unbridled glee:  “I’m already gone/And I’m feelin’ strong/I will sing this vict’ry song/Woo hoo hoo!”

Whatever emotion you’re experiencing after your breakup—sorrow, regret, anger, disbelief—there’s a song out there whose lyrics will seem as though they were written specifically for you.  So find that song with the perfect lyrics, turn it up to 11, and belt your heart out—broken or not!

LeAnn performs one of the greatest classics from the 90s – “How Do I Live” in 2004
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Diane Warren ? the Superstar of Lyrics and Music

There’s an old saying that behind every great man is a woman.  That may or may not be true, but it’s a fact that behind the lyrics and songs of many great bands and singers, there definitely is a woman—and her name is Diane Warren.

Warren has been an amazingly prolific and versatile writer and co-writer of chart-topping song lyrics and music for more than two decades.  Specializing in writing lyrics and music for ballads, Warren has a unique gift for communicating compelling and universal messages that translate to any musical genre or style.  Composing songs an incredible 365 days a year, Warren seems to write effortlessly, as though lyrics and music are channeled through her by divine guidance.

This expertise with music and lyrics made Warren the first songwriter to ever have seven hits, by seven different artists, on Billboard’s singles chart simultaneously.  Her music and lyrics are so appealing that numerous musicians have recorded their own versions of the same song—a record-breaking eight artists covered her song, “Don’t Turn Around.”  She’s written music and song lyrics for countless superstars, for TV shows, and for nearly 100 movies.  And those tunes and lyrics have won more awards than any trophy case can comfortably hold.

Warren’s passion for words to songs and writing music emerged when she was a teenage Californian listening to Top 40 radio.  But she discovered she was more interested in the songwriters—including Carole King, Lieber and Stoller, and Burt Bacharach—than the songs, themselves.  She realized without a doubt that she wanted to write lyrics!  She wanted to write music!

But her mother had other ideas, and noting the competitiveness of the music industry, tried to steer Warren toward what she perceived as the stability of secretarial work.  Her father, disagreed, and supported his daughter’s dream of writing song lyrics and music.  Luckily, Dad won that particular battle, paving the way for a songwriter whose tunes and lyrics would make history.

Warren scored her first hit in 1983, writing the lyrics and music for “Solitaire,” which was performed by Laura Branigan and rocketed to the charts’ Top 10.  Three years later, her talent for writing lyrics and music hit the chart bullseye at #1 when Warren penned “Rhythm of the Night” for DeBarge.  Songs by Warren have charted more than 100 times.  The vast list of top entertainers who have benefited from Warren’s prowess for writing and co-writing songs and their lyrics includes:

         •     Mariah Carey

         •     Alice Cooper

         •     Trisha Yearwood

         •     Aerosmith

         •     Barbra Streisand

         •     LeAnne Rimes

         •     Kid Rock

         •     Heart

         •     KISS

         •     Tom Jones

         •     Cheap Trick

         •     Cher

Warren’s winning parings of music and lyrics have also graced scores of soundtracks for movies such as:

         •     “Armageddon”

         •     “Coyote Ugly”

         •     “Gone in Sixty Seconds”

         •     “Moulin Rouge”

         •     “Pearl Harbor”

         •     “Up Close and Personal”

         •     “Legally Blonde II:  Red, White and Blonde”

         •     “American Gangster”

So, the next time you go to a movie….or see your favorite band….or watch a TV show….or listen to the radio….there’s a good chance that the woman behind the music and lyrics is none other than Diane Warren!