India, May 8 -- Enough, songwriters. The oldest known love song is 4,000 years old (inscribed on a Sumerian cuneiform tablet in Nippur, Iraq). And here you all are, still working out new ways to express the feeling.

Enough with cathartic break-up anthems too. We've learnt to Believe in life after love (after love, after love); emerge Happier Than Ever; and say Thank U, Next.

But songs about regret? The bitterness that has nowhere to go, and keeps pricking at the psyche, poking holes in our sense of self? There are always interesting new paths to take there.

Check Spotify. Most prompts lead into heartbreak territory: classic shoulda-woulda-couldas. Johnny Cash (or Nine Inch Nails). Janis Joplin looking to "trade all of my tomorrows for ...