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Coffee Break: Songs about leaving or being left alone

Belle and Sebastian, L to R: Bobby Kildea, Stevie Jackson, Stuart Murdoch, Richard Colburn, Chris Geddes and Sarah Martin.
Belle and Sebastian, L to R: Bobby Kildea, Stevie Jackson, Stuart Murdoch, Richard Colburn, Chris Geddes and Sarah Martin.Soren Solkaer

by Anna Reed

August 16, 2017

Belle & Sebastian popped by The Current yesterday for an interview and acoustic in-studio session, and Stuart Murdoch told Mary Lucia about accidentally leaving their drummer Richard Colburn in a Walmart in North Dakota two nights ago.

"I was coming out of the Walmart, and he was coming into the Walmart, and he was waving very happily, in a good mood. And that was the last time that we saw him...He had a credit card, but he still sat in Walmart for four hours, but the thing is, he was probably thinking that...somebody was going to notice, but the trouble is everybody went to bed." -Stuart Murdoch

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that center around someone leaving or being left alone?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Lissie - Ojai
Junior Kimbrough - I'm Leaving You Baby
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away
The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket
Peter Paul and Mary - Leaving On A Jet Plane
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You