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Meanest Love Songs: No. 2

'By the Time I Get to Phoenix'
--Glen Campbell (1967)

The Kiss-Off: "She'll cry just to think I'd really leave her"

He knows she'll laugh when she first reads the goodbye note, since he's tried to leave her so many times before. He'll be in Albuquerque when she dials his number around lunchtime; all the way to Oklahoma by nightfall, when she'll realize this time it's for good. One of the most-covered songs of its time, it just goes to show the universal agony of the protracted breakup. Download Glen Campbell on Napster

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palmdalejames

Mr Campbell cleaned house with this one.

September 15 2011 at 12:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
palmdalejames

Sorry gang.....this is number ONE.

September 15 2011 at 12:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Susan

WOW! When I saw the category I immediately thought of this very song, although I'm not remotely a country music fan and haven't heard it in 40 years. As a young child in the 60s whose parents were on the verge of breaking up, hearing this popular song was so painful to me; it didn't help that my mother played the album almost daily as she wallowed in her sadness. Gosh, talk about opening up 40 year old wounds. Damn. (Postscript: the parents actually didn't break up, although they probably should have in retrospect.LOL.)

July 21 2008 at 10:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
chiffonade

Fast Forward about 40 years and you have the internet version of "running away" - being asked for a divorce via e-mail as my husband did to me! He was equally cowardly - and there wasn't a pretty song to go along with it.

July 14 2008 at 4:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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DENISE

hey blackmqqn: you got that right!!!

July 16 2010 at 12:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DENISE

he was a coward, like so many others, he just ran away.

February 13 2008 at 8:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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BLACKMQQN

damn that song really must have hit home?

July 15 2010 at 11:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Miachambo

Glen has a good vocal here. Timeless - Classic.

January 30 2008 at 1:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
junkanoo holiday

Hello..... Jimmy Webb wrote this song, foolish writer of this list!

January 30 2008 at 12:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply