Best Cheating Songs: No. 9

'Kerosene' --Miranda Lambert (2005)

Wandering Words: "Cheatin' really ain't a crime."

A fuming Lambert hands down a death sentence to her wayward lover on her breakthrough hit. Sara Evans may have taken her cheater for everything he owned; Lambert leaves a smoldering corpse behind: "Now I don't hate the one who left," she sings, matter-of-factly. "You can't hate someone who's dead."