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going away to college - blink 182

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This Lullaby by QOTSA

yup

All Alone

god I love that song.

"Why are you so far away?" she said.
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you"

Why?

and also Jude Law and a Semester Abroad - Brand New, except that one's more 'fuck you, how could you leave me?!!!'

Low - Over the Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWUQpvfRkVM

Akron Family - I'll be on the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5biaguBAPnM

The Pastels - Mandarin
Roddy Frame - The Sea is Wide

Tired of Being Alone

Bright Eyes - June on the West Coast

pains of being pure at heart

by Ryan Adams.

by braid?

REM

but I think that's about splitting up with someone too. May not be like, see how you interpret it. It's VERY sad though.
There's a Field Mice one too, but I can't remember it's name...they have Coach Station Reunion but that's about seeing someone tomorrow and being excited about it.
I realise this post is of little help but you're having it anyway. I like the songs suggested above :)

Ironically, the best song on the subject by about a million miles

The Pixies

It's possibly the greatest song that deals with this topic.

If You See Her, Say Hello by Bob Dylan

Both perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhuAkHHmklI

Sort of.

You went so far away
And I want to come there too
I want to be with you
I'm just waiting until you say these words :
"Come back, come back, come back, oh, to me..."

or maybe The Greater Times:

You say you don't know what love means anymore
Since I found you, I'm tearing down the walls without you

yep. electrelane is what you want.

The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco

Rah Rah- My Guarantee

Richard & Linda Thompson - 'A Heart Needs a Home.' Nothing says I miss you like a divorced duet.

by the pains of being pure at heart.

and sending a mixtape to my girlfriend in australia. :)

but Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now is a lovely song,ideal for a mixtape like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbbZ_k1Z8gU

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Pachuca Sunrise

Holiday.

...but Frank Turner does these very well: Jet Lag, Front Crawl, Sea Legs, To Take You Home, A Love Worth Keeping, The Fastest Way Back Home. Yes there is more of an emphasis on touring here, of course, but the subject matter should suit nevertheless.

The Bird That You Can't See - Apples in Stereo?

Everything Beautiful is Far Away - Grandaddy
Daily I Will Calculate the Distance - Sounder
Far Away - Cut Copy
Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye

Of course I've never compiled a similar playlist.

Tom waits - never let go of your hand

and turn it to a video of you doing a striptease to the new Four Tet single (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKOy8gn5yU). That'll get her attention!

or Washington D.C. by the Magnetic Fields?

by the arctic monkeys, not a huge fan but quite a good song

Bit corny and obvious, but it's still a nice song.

but how about Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I always think it's about 'don't leave me and go far away, stay here' but I don't know.

Vetiver - Been So Long
Vetiver - Rolling Sea

My girlfriend spent a year in Spain.

When Ye Go Away by The Waterboys is particularly devastating.

Scattered Black and White by Elbow - has that line which kills each time - "My sister buzzes through the room leaving perfume in the air/and that's what triggered this."

Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

Arguably a good song. It gets a bad, bad rap for being so goddamn overplayed and overhyped and "omigod sooooo deep" but, it's too simple to pass up. "I know you're so damn far away, but I still love you and we're going to be together."

Or I could go with "Knives Out" which kinda works with how Thom has described the meaning and all that...