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The 8 Ball 2.15.14: The Top 8 Breakup Songs
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 02.15.2014

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#4

Few groups could do songs about heartbreak quite as well as Fleetwood Mac, perhaps because they inflicted it so much on each other. The band's personal trials and tribulations are the thing of legend and yet, as we all know, it brought about some of the best music of the 1970s. Rumours is one of the best pop/rock albums in history and "Go Your Own Way" is one of the absolute highlights. It's funny that this is actually a fairly upbeat-sounding song, but the lyrics make it clear what's going on here: Lindsay Buckingham is telling Stevie Nicks that he loves her but things are too damaged for them to continue and he's ostensibly giving her permission to "Go Your Own Way." But there is in fact some hope in there too, which honestly makes it all the more painful. This is a song about trying to make to convince someone to stay with you when it's all gone. As much as he keeps saying that she can go her own way, he also switches gears at the end of the second verse and says "open up/everything's waiting for you." This song captures the complicated emotions of bitterness, fear, hope and sorrow that often war and crash against each other in deeply-conflicted ways inside someone's heart when everything has gone wrong in love. And it does so with agonizing brilliance.

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