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Gives You Hell by The All-American Rejects

Key Lyrics: When you see my face/ Hope it gives you hell/ Hope it gives you hell

Felix Rating: 36 (Anger)

Analysis: There are a few songs that take this approach. It’s the dream right? You’ve had your heart broken by someone who gave up on the relationship, and then you go on to be a big whopping success. Bet they’re kicking themselves for leaving you, right? Bet it gives them hell to see your face on the cover of magazines, or at the Grammies in the All-American Rejects case. Or maybe your man leaves you and you go and drop 30 lbs, get a celebrity makeover and the next time he sees you he’ll think he was crazy to let you go. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Unfortunately, most of us are who we are, and we’re not going to have some earth shaking change to our lives that will drive our exes insane with regret for walking away. I will admit, it is a fun dream. But it means you still care what that other person thinks. “And if you find a man that’s worth a damn and treats you well/ Then he’s a fool, you’re just as well, hope it gives you hell.” Fact is, if you’re still wishing hell on an ex, you’ve still got a ways to go before you’re over him or her.

Release by Sister Hazel

Key Lyrics: How did we get to this?/ The absence of any bliss/ I didn’t know your heart/ Was out on a loan

Felix Rating: 84 (Acceptance)

Analysis: This is a song from the new Sister Hazel album, which, by the way, has several songs that could make the playlist, including “Take a Bow” and “Fade,” and was suggested for inclusion in the playlist by Over reader’s B. Nice and T. Money. This is almost a pre-breakup song. It describes the feelings you have when you’ve faced the facts that it’s just not going to work out. Yeah, there’s still love. Yeah, it’s gonna be hard. But no, it’s not a relationship worth saving. However, there’s always a good chance you’ll backslide into an earlier phase after the “silence between us” that “defends a broken heart” is actually spoken, and the break up is official. Luckily, Sister Hazel covers that phase as well. Check out their stuff. A highly under-rated band.

Over You by Daughtry

Key Lyrics: And when you slammed the front door shut/ A lot of others opened up/ So did my eyes so I could see/ That you never were the best for me

Felix Rating: 96 (Acceptance)

Analysis: Daughtry covers the whole range of emotions that come with getting your ass kicked from being dumped. Disbelief. Bafflement. Hurt. Cold. Used. All that stuff…and then he bitch slaps them all to the curb and says ef it, you know what, “I’m better off without you, more than you, more than you know.” And you know what? Chris has the pipes to make me believe him. The message in this song is a positive one, especially to those who’ve just broken up. Look, it’s gonna get worse before it gets better. But if you’re lucky, you’ll be singing Daughtry’s song as well, and find “the day I thought I’d never get through/I got over you.”

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