"Love's just an excuse to get hurt... and to hurt"

Se acerca ese día del año en que todos se sienten dispuestos a dar amor, los corazones nos invaden y las canciones románticas se ponen de moda... Puaj. Por esto, he recopilado una lista de canciones, imágenes y otras curiosidades para todos aquellos que están descorazonados o piensan que este día es sólo una excusa más para consumir.

Artículo de El Universal: El amor produce más depresión que felicidad

30 seconds to mars - The Kill
Frase anti-Cupido: "Come break me down / Bury me, bury me / I am finished with you, you, you. / Look in my eyes / You're killing me, killing me / All I wanted was you."

311 - You Wouldn't Believe
"First you love him then your loving him not / all the while he just smiles, giving all that he's got / do you find it in your heart to say he's not what you sought"

A Perfect Circle - Passive
"Go ahead and play dead / I know that you can hear this / Go ahead and play dead / Why can't you turn and face me? / You fucking disappoint me!"

The Academy Is... - Slow Down
"'Cause I regret every thing that I said / To ever make her feel like she was something special, / Or that she ever really mattered. / Or did she ever really matter? [...] I'm not saying that I'm not breaking some hearts tonight, girl."
- Checkmarks
"So suck your so called pity down. / Hey, that's not so bad, is it? / So take your cold, cold heart and drown / and don't forget to take deep breaths."

Alanis Morissette - You oughta know "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 oughta know"

*Alkaline Trio - Radio
"I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling / In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying / I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, / plugged in and ready to fall"

Billy Talent - The Ex
"Well, I heard she's great and her new boyfriend's lame, / She can go to hell I'll never be the same!"

*Bright Eyes - Lover I don't have to love
"But life's no story book / Love's an excuse to get hurt / And to hurt / "Do you like to hurt?" / "I do! I do!" / "Then hurt me.""

Buckcherry - Crazy bitch
"Hey! / You're a crazy bitch but you fuck so good I'm on top of it / When I dream I'm doing you all night / scratches all down my back to keep me right on"

Christina Aguilera - Fighter
"Never saw it coming, all of your backstgabbing / Just so you could cash in on a good thing before I'd realize your game / I heard you're going round play, the victim now / But don't even begin feeling I'm the one to blame / Cause you dug your own grave"
- Can't hold us down
"You're just a little boy, / Think you're so cute, so coy / You must talk so big, to make up for smaller things"

* The Corrs - I never really loved you anyway
"You bored me with your stories / I can't belive that I endured you for as long as I did / I'm happy, it's over, I'm only sorry / That I didn't make the move before you"

Dashboard Confessional -Rapid hope loss
"Cause now that I can see you, / I don't think you're worth a second glance"
- Best deceptions
"Don't you see, don't you see, that the charade is over? / And all the "Best Deceptions" and "Clever Cover Story" awards go to you. / So kiss me hard 'cause this will be the last time that I let you... / You're calling too late too late to be gracious"

Funeral For A Friend - She drove me to daytime TV
"I like the way you cry / Break my heart and break my hands and let me down / I want to snap your neck in two / And leave you for dead, so dead"
- Red is the new black
"There isn't anything wrong with giving up / And for what it's worth / I still hate you"

Garbage - Special
"Do you have an opinion? A mind of your own? / I thought you were special / I thought you should know... / Now you're here and begging for a chance / But there's no way in hell I'd take you back"

George Michael - Faith
"Before this river / Becomes an ocean / Before you throw my heart back on the floor / Oh baby I'll reconsider my foolish notion / Well I need someone to hold me / But I'll wait for something more"

Good Charlotte - Predictable
"So take your empty words / your broken promises / and all the time you stole cause I am done with this"

Green Day - Chump
"I don't know you / But,I think I hate you / You're the reason for my misery"
- F.O.D.
"You're just... a fuck, / I can't explain it 'cause I think you suck / I'm take--in pride / in telling you to fuck off and die"
- Platypus (I hate you)
"Dickhead, Fuckface, cock smoking, mother fucking, asshole,dirty twat, waste of semen, I hope you die... hey!"
- Jackass
"To know you is to hate you / So loving you must be like suicide"

The Hush Sound - City traffic puzzle
"I don't want to love you if love leaves me this cold / I don't want to love you if love is this alone"
The Juliana Theory - Shotgun serenade
"You're not my favorite mistake / You're just a simple regret / I though I knew who you were, / but watch how fast and watch how well I forget"

Justin Timberlake - Cry me a river
"Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn / To cry, cry me a river"
Para los que no son fans de Justin, Lostprophets hizo un muy buen cover de esta canción.

Kelly Clarkson - Since u been gone
"Since u been gone / I can breathe for the first time / I'm so moving on"

Linkin Park - Place for my head
"Sick of the tension / sick of the hunger / sick of you acting like I owe you this / Find another place / to feed your greed / While I find a place to rest"

Matt Skiba - Good fucking bye
"So you broke down / Trying to leave town / I broke down crying on your return / You left me feeling hopeful / I'll never see your face again"

Millencolin - Montego
"Another spit in your face / Every time you need me / I am busy with my own / Whent it all comes down to it, we all stand alone"

Muse - Muscle museum
"Can you see that I am needing / Begging for so much more / Than you could ever give / And I don’t want you to adore me / Don’t want you to ignore me / When it pleases you / And I'll do it on my own"
- Falling down
"Too late / I already found what I was looking for / You know it wasn’t you / No, it wasn’t you"
- Uno
"This means nothing to me / Cause you are nothing to me / And it means nothing to me / That you blew this away"
- Hate this & I'll love you
"'Cause I was born to destroy you / And I am growing by the hour / And I'm getting strong in every way"
- Hyper music
"You know that I don't love you and I never did / I don't want you and I never will"
- Blackout
"Don't kid yourself / and don't fool yourself / this love's too good to last / and I'm too old to dream"

My Chemical Romance - Honey, this mirror isn't big enough for the two of us
"And you can cry all you want to / I don't care how much / You'll invest yourself in me / we're not working out... / And you can't keep my brother / and you won't fuck my friends / and we're not working out"
- Cubicles
"Sometimes I think I'll die alone, live and breathe and die alone / Sometimes I think I'll die alone, sometimes I think I'll die alone / Sometimes I think I'll die alone, I'd think I'd love to die alone"

New Found Glory - My friends over you
"And I didn’t mean to lead you on... / Though you swear that you are true / I still pick my friends over you"

Papa Roach - Scars
"I can't help you fix yourself / But at least I can say I tried / I'm sorry but I gotta move on with my own life"

Pencey Prep - PS. Don't write
"While you were fucking off / I learned to love myself again / Even better now / I learned to hate you / C'est la vie, baby / We're through"

Plain White T's - Hate (I really don't like you)
"Hate is a strong word / But i really, really, really don't like you / Now that it's over / I don't even know what I liked about you"

Savage Garden - Gunning down romance
"I'm gunning down romance / It never did a thing for me / But heartache and misery / Ain't nothing but a tragedy"

Senses Fail - One eight seven
"You ripped my heart out / you tore my eyes out / now you're gonna pay / I'll stab you one time / I'll eat your heart out / so you feel my pain"
- Tie her down
"You're worth more dead / Tell me your fantasies / I'll make you believe / That I really care"
- Lady in a blue dress
"Your points are trite and I'm too sober / To deal with you running over / Your same pathetic cliche lines / You say that you want respect / Well then you better get some for yourself"
- You're cute when you scream
"I'll take you to the top / Of this building and just push you off / Run down the stairs so I can see your face / As you hit the street"
- Choke on this
"Half smoked cigarettes and you're the trash that infests my sheets / can't make a wife out of a whore, don't want your skin on me... / I gave you these roses now but I left in the thorns / I'd rather hurt someone than hurt myself"
- Bonecrusher
"And I've got romantic ideas / But they're not meant for you / And my bed's filled with / Black roses to show that our love is through"
- Calling all cars
"I kept my word when I swore that I would let you down / And now that I'm gone / Try to forget me and just move on... / I don't have love left inside, inside"

Soft Cell - Tainted love
"Once I ran to you (I ran) / Now I'll run from you... / Don't touch me please / I cannot stand the way you tease"
Buenos covers de esta canción: The Living End, Marilyn Manson, etc etc

Taking Back Sunday - There's no "I" in team
"You never knew / well I never told you / Everything I know about breaking hearts I learned from you / it's true / I've never done it with the style and grace you have / but I've made long term plans / based on these mistakes"

Three Days Grace - Just like you
"I could be fake / I could be stupid / You know I could be just like you / You thought you were standing beside me / You were only in my way / You’re wrong if you think that I’ll be just like you"

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST."

- Frank Zappa