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‘Kills me every single time’: readers on their favourite breakup songs

For Valentine’s Day, Guardian writers picked their favourite breakup songs and here are some of your picks, all the way from sadness to fury

Mike Scott chucks everything in here musically and lyrically, including religious imagery, but wow, it still packs a punch 40 years after a 17-year-old heartbroken me used to wallow in all its self-loathing glory! An amazingly powerful piece of music of Son at or near his peak that shows what Delta blues might really have sounded like played in the back streets of Mississippi. It came out not long before I split from my ex-partner in 2007, and although I’ve happily been with the love of my life since 2008, hearing that song transports me straight back to the tears and heartache I felt at the time.

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