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One thing that got me through infidelity, and I’m sure it’s helped you too — having an awesome soundtrack. I started with Dayna Kurtz a few days ago, and I’ll be occasionally adding to the playlist.

For your Saturday enjoyment, Cephas & Wiggins doing “Richmond Blues” — a classic cheatin’ heart song.

Any recommendations of songs that helped you? Send me comments!

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  • Rihanna “Take a Bow”
    P!nk “There You Go” or “I’m Still a Rockstar”
    Beyonce “Irreplaceable” or “Best Thing I Never Had”
    Justin Timberlake “What Goes Around Comes Around” or “Cry Me a River”
    Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”

    These got me through a LOT of tough times.

    Also as a mother:
    Kanye West “Hey Mama”

  • Don’t forget:
    Adele – “Rolling in the Deep”
    Goyte – “Now you’re just somebody that I used to know”
    Katie Melua – “Piece by Piece”
    Duffy – “Warwick Avenue”
    Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah”

    AND from the perspective of the remorseful wayward:
    Cee-Lo Green – “Please”
    I’m tired, so tired, of chasing the dream
    With tears in my eyes I realize that it’s running away (It’s running away)
    But with all the wrong I’ve done, how could love ever love me?
    … but it took much to say
    Took much to say

    So please, please, please, help me,
    Give me some kind of sign
    Please, please, please, please. please. please
    I want to be somebody, somebody, I want someone to be mine,
    Please, please, please, please, please, please

    The man, the man in the mirror, he won’t even look at me
    Well you may not believe it, but my own reflection
    Told me I ought to be ashamed of myself
    Oh yes he did,
    I’ve wasted my time, my mind
    my energy, even let my body down on the bed
    Oh yeah, but I can’t seem to win for losing, cause don’t nobody love me

    So I’m begging please, please, yeah, please, send me some kind of sign,
    please, please. please, yeah, please
    I want, I want to me somebody, I want someone to be all mine
    I’m begging please, please, please,
    Someone, please, please, someone please
    I said, I want, I want to be somebody,
    I want someone to be mine
    Someone, someone, I want someone to be all mine
    Sometimes I got to move a long
    I say hummm.

  • Well, there is the old Hank Williams’ “Your Cheating Heart”.

    But, there seem to be quite a few songs glorifying cheating, as well.

    “Me and Mrs Jones”, “Run to You” (Bryan Adams) and “Lips of an Angel” by some terrible group who I cannot recall.

    Lots of movies glorifying cheating, too.

  • This song is one I’ve listened to over and over and over…

    Ashes on Your Eyes
    By Deb Talen

    Just about the time your heart breaks like a wheel
    Not in a straight line, but all in pieces
    Some you’ll leave behind on a road you won’t revise
    No, you won’t revisit that dirty compromise.

    Now you only dream in peaceful blue
    The morning doesn’t even scare you anymore
    You are a phoenix with your feathers still a little wet
    Baby, the ashes just look pretty on your eyes.

    So look up, up ahead
    The city lights are dancing for you
    Or is it the aurora burning off the edges of the sky?
    Don’t cry, don’t cry
    That’s all over now.

    Now you only dream in peaceful blue
    The morning doesn’t even scare you anymore
    You are a phoenix with your feathers still a little wet
    Baby, the ashes just look pretty on your eyes.

    Dry your wings in the sun
    You have only begun to understand
    When it’s time to move on there is no one
    To hold your hand.
    So let go, let go, let go.

    Here the night is fine
    The stars are sparks of steel
    Chiseled in the mines of twilight
    You tell me something real, say
    “Don’t try, don’t try
    Just remember how, remember, remember”

    Now you only dream in peaceful blue
    The morning doesn’t even scare you anymore
    You are a phoenix with your feathers still a little wet
    Baby, the ashes just look pretty on your eyes.

  • This was my anthem as I started to discover a whole lotta life on the other side:
    Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings “Better Things”

    A few other goodies:
    The Helio Sequence “Lately”
    The Avett Brothers “The Weight of Lies”

  • I need to work through some things (don’t we all) and so I am going to start posting my personal divorce playlist here, with the aim of posting at least one song a day. Music is how I deal with my *ish, so this is my way of getting to meh. Singing used to be such a soul-cleansing thing for me, but now I look back and realize that I haven’t sung in years. Trying to rationalize an a-hole’s crappy behavior and absenteeism has a way of taking the music right out of you, I think.

    Anyway, I am going to categorize each song this way so you know what to expect before you listen:
    *ILCS – I’m Leaving a Cheater Song
    *CS – Cheaters Suck
    *SS – Sad Song (great for when you just need to have a good cry)
    *CPS – Chump Power Song (you can do it!)
    *FTN – For the Next – as in, for the new person that will come into your life and love you honestly once you have gotten rid of that cheater

    First up, “Bang Bang” by Nancy Sinatra. I’d say this is a CS and SS…this song makes me cry when I think of how young we were when we first met and married. I weep for that girl. Then I remember that he chose to be a liar and cheater and that he shot me down…time to stop feeling sorry for myself and deal with the pain.

    http://youtu.be/T5Xl0Qry-hA

    • Fabulous idea! It’s crazy how lyrics I had heard many times became deeply enlightening after being chumped. They truly helped me sort my emotional state into words. I’m five years out from DDay and divorced for four and I still mentally categorize songs similarly to you. I probably always will. A few I’ve recently discovered: Mumford and Sons “White Blank Page” (SS) and “After the Storm” (FTN).

      Cheers to you for channeling your anger and pain back into something you love!

  • Another CS and ILCS song, especially appropo for today – my STBX told me that his side-piece is pregnant and it might be his baby. So “These Boots Are Made For Walking” by Nancy Sinatra is just what I needed today. My favorite line: “You’ve been lying, when you should be truthin'”…amen to that!
    http://youtu.be/SbyAZQ45uww

  • Pink is what’s getting me through right now. I must listen to Blow Me (One Last Kiss) at least 3 times a day.

    “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”

    White knuckles and sweaty palms from hanging on too tight
    Clenched shut jaw, I’ve got another headache again tonight
    Eyes on fire, eyes on fire, and they burn from all the tears
    I’ve been crying, I’ve been crying, I’ve been dying over you
    Tie a knot in the rope, tryin’ to hold, tryin’ to hold,
    But there’s nothing to grasp so I let go

    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)

    Just when it can’t get worse, I’ve had a shit day (NO!)
    Have you had a shit day? (NO!), we’ve had a shit day (NO!)
    I think that life’s too short for this, I want back my ignorance and bliss
    I think I’ve had enough of this, blow me one last kiss.

    I won’t miss all of the fighting that we always did,
    Take it in, I mean what I say when I say there is nothing left
    No more sick whiskey dick, no more battles for me
    You’ll be calling a trick, ’cause you’ll no longer sleep
    I’ll dress nice, I’ll look good, I’ll go dancing alone
    I will laugh, I’ll get drunk, I’ll take somebody home

    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)

    Just when it can’t get worse, I’ve had a shit day (No!)
    Have you had a shit day? (No!), we’ve had a shit day (No!)
    I think that life’s too short for this, I want back my ignorance and bliss
    I think I’ve had enough of this, blow me one last kiss.

    Na na na na – da da da da
    Blow me one last kiss

    [Not in the music video version:]
    Na na na na – da da da da
    Blow me one last kiss

    I will do what I please, anything that I want
    I will breathe, I will breathe, I won’t worry at all
    You will pay for your sins, you’ll be sorry my dear
    All the lies, all the why’s, will all be crystal clear

    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)

    Just when it can’t get worse, I’ve had a shit day (No!)
    Have you had a shit day? (No!), we’ve had a shit day (No!)
    I think that life’s too short for this, I want back my ignorance and bliss
    I think I’ve had enough of this, blow me one last kiss.

  • Ancient thread, but here is a good one if an older one. Especially meaningful to me now that I finally woke the hell up– but yep, that was me begging and pleading. Lots of lines here right from the land of cheaters, the pick me dance, the needing time to decide, all of it. Time to take my pride for a ride!

    “Bye Bye” by Jo Dee Messina

    Boy you sure look good there
    Standin’ in the doorway in the sunset light
    Baby I read you wrong
    Thinkin’ you could be my Mr. Right
    While I was puttin’ my heart and soul on the line
    You’d say you needed some time
    Just a little more time to make up your mind
    But it’s been long enough, time is up so
    Bye-bye love I’ll catch you later
    Got a lead foot down on my accelerator
    And the rear view mirror torn off so I ain’t ever lookin’ back
    I’ve tried all I can imagine
    I’ve begged and pleaded in true lovers fashion
    But I’ve got pride and I’m takin’ it for a ride
    So bye-bye, bye-bye, bye baby
    Bye-bye
    Don’t think all those tears are gonna hold me here
    Like they’ve done before
    You’ll see what’s left of us
    In a cloud of dust on highway four
    Darlin’ what did you expect me to do
    Just sit around and wait on you
    I’m through watchin’ you just skate around the truth
    I know it sounds trite, I’ve seen the light
    Bye-bye love I’ll catch you later
    Got a lead foot down on my accelerator
    And the rear view mirror torn off so I ain’t ever lookin’ back
    I’ve tried all I can imagine
    I’ve begged and pleaded in true lovers fashion
    But I’ve got pride and I’m takin’ it for a ride
    So bye-bye, bye-bye, bye baby
    Bye-bye
    I lost the game I guess, but I did my best to win the part
    But i’m leaving here with what’s left of my heart
    Bye-bye love I’ll catch you later
    Got a lead foot down on my accelerator
    And the rear view mirror torn off so I ain’t ever lookin’ back
    I’ve tried all I can imagine
    I’ve begged and pleaded in true lovers fashion
    But I’ve got pride and I’m takin’ it for a ride
    So bye-bye, bye-bye, bye baby
    Bye-bye

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