Breaking up is hard to do...

Top Five on Friday @ The Music Memoirs

Top 5 break up songs

1. Love Stinks - J. Geils Band.

Because when it goes wrong? Oh boy howdy does it ever stink!

2. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon.

You know the advice given by Mr. Simon in this song, so sing with me...

"Just slip out the back, Jack! Make a new plan, Stan!
Don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free.
Hop on the bus, Gus. Don't need to discuss much,
just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free."

3. Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin.

"Oh yeah, baby, baby I won't be there, really got to ramble."

4. Black - Pearl Jam.

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?"

5. Song For The Dumped - Ben Folds Five

"Well fuck you too. Give me my money back! Give me my money back, you bitch.
I want my money back(and dont forget to give me back my black t-shirt)"

Hmmmm... you think this bitch owes him some money? Great for that bitter breakup.


And I'll add as a bonus the song that I played for days straight after my first real devastating heartbreaking break up. "All Cried Out" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.

"Ah, I gave you my love in vain. My body never knew such pleasure, my heart never knew such pain.
And you, you leave me so confused, now I'm all cried out over you."

In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)

In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.


In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.


In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.


In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.


In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh


In the year 7510
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.

Guess it's time for the judgment day.


In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh


In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing. Whoa-oh



Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.


But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.


In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

In the year 3535 ::fades::

This song played today, and I hadn't heard it in a good long while. I remembered how it always made me feel scared about the future and what it might hold. It's a very bleak and dystopian view.

The song was released in 1969 and became Zager and Evans' only really big hit. Pretty forward thinking for then. Talks about test tube babies, robots and technology.


Questions:

Do you think mankind *will* be alive in 2525?

What do you think the future holds for man if he gets that far?