12. Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You - Pink via Led Zeppelin

I’ve earned a helluva lot more respect for the artist known as P!nk when crossing paths with this cover of hers, because damn, she can sing some Zeppelin!  Even though Anne Bredon, an American folk singer, is the original author of this classic break-up ballad, Pink's interactions with her talented accompanist also convey the mood of that horrid "We need to talk" message.

“Babe, baby, baby,
I’m gonna leave you.
I said baby, you know I’m gonna leave you.
I’ll leave you when the summertime,
Leave you when the summer comes a’rollin’.”

“Baby, baby, I don’t wanna leave you,
I ain’t jokin’ woman, I got to ramble.”

According to Colin Singleton, the dork-chic anagrammatist in John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, “the world contains precisely two kinds of people: Dumpers and Dumpees.  Everyone is predisposed to being either one or the other, but of course, not all people are COMPLETE Dumpers or Dumpees” (Green 59).  However, experience has proven me to be...alas, a “dumpee,” as I’ve not had much luck in the love department...and rather than leaving, I’m traditionally the one who gets left.