Falling out of love songs

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Falling out of love songs

Postby cmsellers » Sun Oct 30, 2016 11:39 pm

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?
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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby reallifegirl » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:17 pm

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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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby Typical Michael » Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:04 am

This is the first one I thought about. The whole album is pretty much about that.

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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby cmsellers » Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:12 am

@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.

Paul Simon -- "Train in the Distance"

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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby jbobsully11 » Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:18 am

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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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby Matthew Notch » Tue Nov 29, 2016 4:35 pm



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.
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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:25 am

I'm Moving Out- The Reuss Brothers

This is kind of both a "fuck you" song and a "falling out of love" song.
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Re: Falling out of love songs

Postby Krashlia » Sat Dec 10, 2016 11:59 am

Duvet by Boa

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