There have been 2 million songs written about love. There's no doubt why, love is the most universal of all emotion. We love and we get hurt and experience a heart break. Thank god for heart break songs, they're always there like a good friend who tells us what we don't want to hear -- the throbbing truth that we try to escape from and the ones we can only admit to ourselves. These are the songs we labor to sing in Karaokes when the alcohol spirit kicks in. It's the things we describe as Corny and what the "Emo" kids feed on. Nevertheless, here are my top five heart break songs:
Top 5: Masilungan by Sandwich
This tune's meaning is pretty much universal. This may apply to lost friendship, depleting natural resources, and of course, lost love. When Raymund Marasigan sings or screams "wala na tayo, bakit wala na tayo?" the question, with its infectious melody, pierces through your being, like a blade wounding your heart in a "kill-me-now!" proportion. It sucks, I know, but it happens. We know the answer to the question, yet we still need to ask it and choose to endure a horrific pain. We're all sadistic in nature.
Top 4: Oo by Up Dharma Down
Oo, mulls over an unexpressed, unrequited love for a dear friend. As Wikipedia puts it, "Platonic friendships provide a fertile soil for unrequited love". Apparently, it's also a universal feeling affecting an estimated 98% of people in their lifetime. How accurate is that? The history of unrequited love could probably date back to when man learned to admire. It's universal like the color pink, it never goes out of style. The song Oo is so on point at describing just how an unrequited love feels like. "Di mo lang alam, ako'y iyong nasaktan, O baka sakaling maisip mo naman, ako'y nandito lang"
Top 3: The End Of the World by The Cure
When a great relationship turns sour - it going to be like the end of the world. And Robert Smith has to rub salt on the wound by singing "You couldn't ever love me more / You couldn't love me more/ you couldn't love..." And then tons of questions and proses run through your head. You dissect every situation and event; you presume and assume and question it again. Much like the debate of how the universe was created. Physicist thought they had found the equation and decades later, to their dismay, it results to infinity. In love, we ask why things went the way they did, only to find out that the answer is something you can't fully grasp. "Maybe we didnt understand / Not just a boy and a girl / It's just the end of the/ end of the world..."
Top 2: Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman
There's a person who can have the world in his hand if he choose to and he would have her with him, but her indecisive ways keeps him from doing what he needs to do with his life. So he has to ask, "Give me one reason to stay here - and I'll turn right back around / Because I don't want leave you lonely / But you got to make me change my mind." Of course, that's a purely hypothetical story. This song is for those who leave. The jazzy guitar rift gives the song a country feel, accompanied by simple lyrics that could remind you of some event in your life when you just have to ask for a reason to stay. "Baby just give me one reason - Give me just one reason why I should stay / Because I told you that I loved you / And there ain't no more to say."
Top 1: You Oughtta Know - Alanis Morissette
As much as we like the touchy-feely love songs, there are ones that hit us to the core by being raw and bitter, with truthful and unprecedented lyrics. When You Outta' Know hit the pop radio airwaves, it was like Britons conquering America, it changed the phase of pop music. She almost erased the cry-baby sensitive love songs and replaced it with insensitive scorn, bitterness and the ugly truth about relationships that had gone haywire. "And I'm here to remind you / Of the mess you left when you went away / It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughtta know." Alanis' powerful voice not only plow through your eaardrums with nagging intensity but it throbs in your brain cells like it's about to explode. The locked up emotions all out in the open, finally. The things yuo couldn't say to an ex-lover is summarized in one song. "It was a slap in the face how quickly I was replaced / Are you thinking of me when you fuck her?"
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