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ellenkushnerHere's a nice homemade video that uses the original track from her album Mortal City. YouTube also has many live performance versions.
This song drops me every time (as in: have to go find Delia & weep copiously into her shirt...). I put it into my Sound & Spirit show on Breakups (which was originally written - for February 2000 broadcast - by none other than Justine Larbalestier!) - you can listen to that whole program here.*
I just heard it on my favorite old Boston station, WUMB - which I can now hear on my internet radio, yay! - followed by another favorite, that is not about breakups at all:
Anyway,
from Maggie & Suzzy Roche's great, great album ZERO CHURCH (which I also used trax from in Sound & Spirit, but, um, I forget which show). Here's more on the album & this song in particular. My link is to a YouTube video which "illustrates" the lyrics with very concrete images that to me limit your interpretation . . . so maybe just listen the first time without watching. Look out the window, or something, and see what the song can mean to you.
So what's your favorite breakup song?
*This is the program in which I told the - TRUE - story:
When I was young and foolish, a friend of mine dumped her boyfriend. The next day, she looked awful: "I lay on the sofa and cried for hours last night." Dumb me, I said, "Well, but...can I ask you something? If you didn't want him anymore, then why did you cry?"
Kindly, she answered: "I was crying because I had to say goodbye to the hopes I had . . . ."
And that's when you need a really good Breakup song to let the tears flow, for the release, the sympathy, even the sense that you're not the only one who's ever felt this pain . . . Though the same show contains this (also True):
A guy I once knew said: "Why is it whenever something awful happens to women, you always go talk-talk-talking about it? Why can't you be like a man--and just go off somewhere and quietly throw up?!"