This is sort of the antithesis of my thread on "fuck you" songs. I was listening to Kathy Mattea's "Life as We Knew It," and it occurred to me that there's just something about a nostalgic song about a mutual falling out of love. It's not an experience I've had, yet it's one that I can imagine: the bittersweet memories and the surprisingly painless coming apart.
Kathy Mattea -- "Life as We Knew It"
There's two other songs on this theme I really like listening to on this subject:
Mary Chapin Carpenter -- "Quittin' Time"
Warren Zevon's "Nobody's in Love This Year"
Anybody have others on this theme they really like?
I really enjoy Amanda Palmer's "The Bed Song", which is about a couple drifting apart and slowly refusing to speak or interact with each other. No fights or hatred, just two people losing the ability to communicate over a long period of time.
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"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not."
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@Mick: I like that song, but it sounds more like an "I want to break up but we're stuck together" song that what I described in the OP. For some reason it reminds me of this song, which I'd completely forgotten about.
Mutual breakup songs? Well, damn. I know of a bunch of songs that are about someone on the receiving end of a breakup that don't fit in this thread.
"Hurting Each Other" - The Carpenters
"How's it Gonna Be?" - Third Eye Blind
I could list the last 3/4 of the album that this one is on, since (as far as I can tell) every song after the third one is about a failing relationship, but I'll just pick the one of those that was released as a single: "Linger" - The Cranberries
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Jens Lekman has a way with very heart-on-your-sleeve lyrics, and this is a classic example. "I'm so sorry I couldn't love you enough" is kind of the perfect douchebag niceguy line that somehow doesn't sound douchey OR nice.