Post Breakup songs (aka. Life is great and I don't need you)

So you've cried your heart out for the person that just couldn't love you back and you've felt utterly pathetic for so long. And then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt ... or if not, there are songs to help you with that.

You start like this .... 

1. Apologize - One Republic & Timbaland

You tell me that you need me, then you go and cut me down, but wait you tell me that you're sorry, didn't think I'd turn around and say that, it's too late to apologise.

For when you know that you deserve better and you're ready to say that you don't even want to hear their apology.

2. It's Not Right But It's Okay -  Whitney Houston
It's not right but it's okay, Im gonna make it anyway. Pack your bags up and leave don't you dare come running back to me.
He did you wrong and you know it, and instead of being miserable and moping you know you're gonna be okay on your own. Tell that tool to hit the road.

3. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
I used to think we were forever ever and I used to say never say never... so he calls me up and he's like 'I still love you' and I'm like this is exhausting you know, we are never getting back together, like ever.
For when you can finally tell them that no matter what you'll never get back together, you know you deserve more and you'll be damned if you don't get it.

4. Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye feat Kimbra
But you didn't have to cut me off, make out like it never happened and that we were nothing ... now you're just somebody that I used to know.
When you're finally past all the shit you went through with someone that just treated you badly, they're part of your past and that's where they're gonna stay.

5. Believe - Cher
Cause I've had time to think it through, and baby I'm too good for you.
The song for when you know that you're far too good for them and you're not even sad about it.

6. Forget You - Cee Lo Green

I see you driving round town with the girl I love and I'm like forget you, guess the change in pocket wasn't enough Im like forget you and forget her too, if I was richer I'd still be with ya, aint that some shit? And although there's pains in my chest I still wish you the best, forget you.

For when you just decide to forget about them and their new skanky girlfriend that isn't a patch on you; you don't need him. 

7. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

Go on now go, walk out the door, just turn around now, cus you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbyes, did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh no not I, I will survive.

The ultimate eff you to an ex, you know that you're gonna be fine without them because lets face it, you're badass and they tried to break you but you didn't let them. You're super strong girl.

8. Out Of Reach - Gabrielle

Out of reach, so far, I never had your heart. Out of reach, couldn't see, we were never meant to be.

For when you knew you gave your heart to someone who didn't give there's back and it's okay because it just wasn't meant to be. Everything happens for a reason. 

9. Rolling In The Deep - Adele

The scars of your love remind me of us, they keep me thinking that we almost had it all. The scars of your love they leave me breathless, I can't help feeling. 

For when you're past the being mad stage but you just think that you almost had it all but they left before you got there. Its their loss darling!

10. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood

I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped for wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. Took a louisville slugger to both head lights, slashed a whole in all four tears, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

Hell hath no fury like Carrie Underwood scorned, the ultimate revenge song. This is for when you're not even mad you just want to get back at someone.

11. Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake

You were my sun, you were my earth, but you didn't know all the ways I loved you, no. You took a chance, I made other plans, bet you didn't think they'd come crashing down no.

For when he comes back to you wanting a second chance, and you just tell him no. You don't make the same mistake twice.

12. Merry Happy - Kate Nash

Dancing at discos, eating cheese on toast, yeah you made me merry, made me very, very happy but you obviously didn't want to stick around. So I learned from you.

For when you look back and accept that you were happy at the time, and that you can't be mad at them because they just changed their mind. It just taught you that things don't always work out as we plan them to.

13. Right As Rain - Adele

Go ahead and steal my heart to make me cry again, because it will never hurt as much as it did then, we were both right and no one had blame, but now I give up on this endless game

For when you know that you will probably always have feelings for them but you also know that you can't keep going back to them, it's just a game you don't want to play.

14. Listen - Beyonce

I'm more than what, you made of me, I followed the voice you think you gave to me, now it's time I find my own.

Queen Bey. You're standing tall, whatever that guy thinks he's got on you he hasn't. You're strong and you don't need him. 

15. You're So Vain - Carly Simon

You're so vain, I bet you think this song is about you

He's the guy that thinks he can walk into your life and out of it whenever he pleases, and he thinks everything revolves around him. 

16. Foundations - Kate Nash

You said I must eat so many lemons, cus I am so bitter, I said I'd rather be with your friends mate. Cus they are much fitter. 

For when you're not even sad about a relationship ending, you knew it had run its course and you're a lot happier without them.

17. Bulletproof - La Roux

This time baby, Ill be, bulletproof.

You won't let anyone in again that easily, especially not your good for nothing ex, people will have to prove their worth before you let them in. 

18. Too Little Too Late - JoJo

It's just too little, too late, a little too wrong and I can't wait but you know all the right things to say. You say you dream about my face, but you don't like me, you just like the chase. So be real, it doesn't matter anyway. You know its just too little too late.

For when you've been waiting to hear those words for so long & when you've heard them you realise it doesn't make a difference anyway. 

19. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

Here's the thing we started out friends, it was cool but it was all pretend. Yeah, yeah, since you been gone. You're dedicated, you took the time, it wasn't long till I called you mine. Yeah, yeah, since you been gone. All you'd ever hear me say was how I pictured me with you, that's all you'd ever hear me say. But since you been gone, I can breathe for the first time, I'm so moving on, thanks to you, now I get, what I want, since you been gone.

For when you look back at the relationship and realise how you've been played since you met them, and now you're shot of them, your life is so much better. 

20. Blow Me (One Last Kiss) - Pink

I think I've finally had enough, I think I maybe think too much, I think this might be it for us, blow me one last kiss, you think I'm just too serious, I think you're full of shit, my head is spinning so blow me one last kiss. 

For when you're happy your relationship is ending because you've realised that you just couldn't do it anymore. You need some fun in your life and you just can't be bothered with it all anymore.

21. Stronger - Britney Spears

Stronger than yesterday, now it's nothing but my way, my loneliness ain't killing me no more. 

For when you know that you've moved on, you're happy alone and you're taking control of your life, and that d-bag doesn't have any place in it anymore.

22. Irreplacable - Beyonce

So go ahead and get gone, call up that chick and see if she's home, oops I bet you thought that I didn't know what did you think I was putting you out for? Because you was untrue, hauling her round in the car that I bought you, baby drop them keys, hurry up before your taxi leaves. Standing in the front yard, telling me how I'm such a fool, talking about how I'll never ever find another man like you. You got me twisted. You must not know about me, you must not know about me, I can have another you in a minute, matter of fact, he'll be here in a minute baby. You must not know about me, you must not know about me, I can have another you by tomorrow so don't you ever for a second get to thinking, you're irreplaceable.

For those times when you're ending it with someone and they tell you that you'll never find anyone better than them. Bitch please, no-one in this world is irreplaceable.

23. So What - Pink

So what? I'm still a rock star, I've got my rock moves and I don't need you, and guess what I'm having more fun, and now that we're done I'm gonna show you tonight, I'm alright, I'm just fine, and you're a tool so. So what I'm still a rock star, I've got my rock moves and I don't want you tonight.

For when you just don't care & that you know you're gonna be better on your own; this for the post crying into a tub of Ben & Jerry's phase.

24. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson

You know the bed feels warmer, sleeping here alone. You know I dream in colour and do the things I want. Think you got the best of me, think you've had the last laugh, bet you think that everything good is gone. Think you left me broken down, think that I'll come running back. Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong.

For when you feel that you're stronger without him.

25. Really Don't Care - Demi Lovato & Cher Lloyd

You had your shot, had your shot, but you let go. Now if we meet out on the street I won't be running scared, I'll walk right up to you and put one finger in the air. And make you understand, make you understand, you had your chance, had your chance. But even if the stars and moon collide, I never want you back into my life, you can take your words and all your lies, oh oh oh, I really don't care.

This is my ultimate in your face tune, for when you just don't need him anymore and you're finally past that 'I can't live without you' phase. It's for when you tell them that there's no second chances. 

26. Firework - Katy Perry

You don't have to feel like a waste of space, you're original, cannot be replaced. If you only knew what the future holds, after a hurricane comes a rainbow. Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed, so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road. Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow...

For when you need a little pick me up to remind you that you're a firework, that something better is going to come along and you don't need anyone because your future is gonna be great.

27. Survivor - Destinys Child

Now that you're out of my life I'm so much better, thought that I'd be weak without you but I'm stronger...

When you refuse to be sad, and decide to be strong straight away rather than moping.

28. Gives You Hell - The All American Rejects

When you see my face hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell, when you walk my way hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell. 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. 

For when you know you're gonna run into your ex at some point so you make yourself look so damn good that he's gonna regret ever leaving you. You know what he didn't deserve you. 

29. Bye Bye Bye - N*Sync

Don't wanna be a fool for you, just another player in your game for two, you may hate me but it aint no lie baby bye, bye, bye.

For when you've realised that you've been played the entire time you've been together, and you tell them you've had enough. 

30. Fighter - Christina Aguilera

I heard you're going round, playing the victim now, well don't even begin feeling I'm the one to blame because you dug your own grave.

For when you're grateful for everything that you've learned from your past relationship and that it's made you a stronger person.

31. 22 - Taylor Swift

It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes. It feels like a perfect night for breakfast at midnight, to fall in love with strangers. We're happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. It's miserable and magical oh yeah. Tonight's the night when we forget about the deadlines, it's time.

For when you're hanging with your girls and you look back at all your exes and you know that they were all losers. 

32. Best Thing I Never Had - Beyonce

I know you want me back, it's time to face the facts, that I'm the one who got away and lord knows it would take, another place, another time, another world, another life, thank god I found the good in goodbye. I use to want you so bad, I'm so through with that, cause honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had, oh you turned out to be the best thing I never had, and I will always be the best thing you never had ... I bet it sucks to be you right now.

For when you can finally see that all the pain you went through was a blessing in disguise & that you would never go back to him.

33. Picture To Burn - Taylor Swift

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time, in case you haven't heard, as far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Ahh, sixteen year old Taylor Swift full of angst that only a teenage girl could possess. I love this song, it's for those moments when you just want rid of everything they ever bought you/gave you. And you realise you could have been sad but you just now it's a huge waste of time.

34. Take A Bow - Rihanna

Don't tell me you're sorry cus you're not, baby when I know you're only sorry you got caught. But you put on quite a show, really had me going, but now it's time to go, curtain's finally closing. That was quite a show, very entertaining, but it's over now. Go on and take a bow.

For when they've said sorry to you time after time and you just can't hear it anymore because you know that they're just saying words to try and make you feel better. 

35. Solo - Demi Lovato

I'd rather go out to a party alone, than to walk around with you on my arm. Now that I'm proud to admit that we're done. Good luck trying to find me.

When you look at them and just know that you're so far above them that any life is better than sharing one with him.

36. Smile - Lily Allen

When you first left me, I was wanting more, but you were fucking that girl next door, what did you do that for? When you first left me, I didn't know what to say, I'd never been on my own that way. I just sat by myself all day. I was so lost back then, but with a little help from my friends, I found a light in the tunnel at the end. Now you're calling me up on the phone, so you can have a little whine and a moan and it's only because you're feeling alone.

When you're looking back at a relationship and how much it messed you up and how now you can look and smile because you not with them anymore.

37. I Found A Boy - Adele

So you thought that I, would crumble to my knees, at the first sign of you crawling back to me. To whisper, 'will you leave your man' cause you swear that this time you can, stand by me, I won't stand by you. Cause I found a boy who I love more, than I ever did you before, so stand beside the river I cried and lay yourself down. Look how you want me now that I don't need you.

For when you've moved on and even though you swore you'd never love again you did anyway and this one is so much better for you.

38. All You Had To Do Was Stay - Taylor Swift

Here you are, calling me up, but I don't know what to say, I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made. People like you always want back the love they pushed aside, and people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

For when there wasn't much else to say but you know that he ruined everything by walking away and there's no way he can just walk back into your life. 

39. Ego - The Saturdays 

And now you wanna pretend that you a superstar, and now you want us to end what's taken you this far. Don't tell me that you're done as far as we go, you need to have a sit down with your ego. When everyone's gone and you are by yourself, you know that your gonna come to me for help, don't tell me that it's time for going solo, you need to knock some sense into your ego.

For when he thinks that he's something special but you know he's not. 

40. Tears Dry on Their Own - Amy Winehouse

But every moment we could snatch, I don't know why I got so attached, it's my responsibility and you don't owe nothing to me, but to walk away I have no capacity. He walks away, the sun goes down, he takes the day but I'm grown, and in your way, in this blue shade, my tears dry on their own.

For when you've finished crying and you let him walk away because there's no hard feelings.

41. No Good For You - Meghan Trainor

Won't you take it from a friend, that boy is not a gentleman and you'll find out soon enough what you're feeling it ain't love. Cause he called me yesterday and he asked me on a date, tried to play you like a fool and that's why I'm calling you.

For when your girls are telling you that your too good for the guy who sweet talks you and who breaks your heart so easily. This is the song to sing along to with your friends and know that someone who isn't 100% honest with you just doesn't love you sweetheart. If a guy goes behind your back and calls your best friend the boy is a tool & is not worth your time.

42. Amnesia - Cheryl Cole

I set myself up for this it was, too good to be true. I believed what you said when you said it, that's what pillow talk can do. Today is another day I get it, your hungry desire I fed it, only gonna let me down if I let it, I just wish that you never said it...

For when you realise that it was all pillow talk. Maybe you were the girl he screwed to get over being screwed (harsh but you know what I mean) and I know it hurts but you also know that you deserve one million times better.

43. I Don't Care - Cheryl

I heard you brought that girl around in half a gown and asked if I'd been there, oh yeah. Ask me how I'm doing now, I scream out loud, I tell 'em I don't care. And I don't care. I don't care. And it feels so fucking good to say I swear, that I don't care, and everywhere there are ordinary hearts that don't play fair. So I don't care.

For when you see them around and you realise that you just don't care about them or their new relationship and you can finally tell them 'I don't care'.

44. A Friendly Goodbye - Bowling For Soup

Cause I loved you, even more than you could ever imagine, here's a friendly goodbye. 5,6,7 aint that a 'b' with an itch, aint that a mother trucker, you can go to h-e double hockey sticks and f yourself. Cause I'm flippin gosh darn sick of all the 's' words you put me through so F U, F U.

For when you want to just tell someone to go to hell because they've put you through so much shit that there's nothing else to say bar F U.

45. Credit - Meghan Trainor

She should be thanking me and sending me some flowers. I taught him everything now he can last for hours, and she'll never know that I made him better for her. So give some credit where it's due, give props to you know, I gave him swagger made him cool, he used to be a fool. So give some credit where its due...

For when you see your ex with his new girl and you know that you made him everything that he know is. You're a star baby, and he's missing you. 

There are so many amazing post breakup songs that I could have put here, but these are the ones which make me get out of bed and realise that he's just a boy & the person who breaks your heart just didn't deserve it in the first place. I hope these help you get through too and make you realise that life does go on.

Then you're like this...