# Songs about relationships that are almost over **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392 "2007-12-27T18:13:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/61 "2007-12-28T03:04:00Z")
I Don’t Love You by My Chemical Romance “When you go Would you even turn to say “I don’t love you Like I did Yesterday”” ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/62 "2007-12-28T03:25:14Z")
I’m Going Down - The Boss ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/63 "2007-12-28T05:07:31Z")
_If You Could Read My Mind_ by Gordon Lightfoot ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/64 "2007-12-28T08:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] I mixed up two songs in my head here. Never Can Say Goodbye is Gloria Gaynor, Isaac Hayes, Michael Jackson and of course, the guy who wrote it, Clifton Davis (and maybe other people). [/QUOTE] The [Communards cover version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdi3tEYsgJI) is the one I know best (in addition to the Gaynor one). Someone’s already mentioned Joy Division’s _Love Will Tear Us Apart_ - I’d like to second that, and add their _Atmosphere_ to the list.. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/65 "2007-12-28T09:53:01Z")
John Prine’s [Far From Me](http://www.asklyrics.com/display/John_Prine/Far_from_Me_Lyrics/155040.htm): As the cafe was closing On a warm summer night And cathy was cleaning the spoons The radio played the hit parade And I hummed a long with the tune She asked me to change the station Said the song just drove her insane But it weren’t just the music playing It was me that she was trying to blame. [snip] Well, I leaned on my left leg In the parking lot dirt And cathy was closing the lights A june bug flew from the warmth he once knew And I wished for once I weren’t right Why we used to laugh together And we’d dance to any old song. Well, ya know, she still laughs with me But she waits just a second to long. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/66 "2007-12-28T11:10:17Z")
[R.E.M.'s “Dont Go Back To Rockville”](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Don't-Go-Back-To-Rockville-lyrics-R-E-M/9B99E4835E0A5DFD48256894001D6C5E) \*At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend I don’t care that you’re not here with me 'Cause it’s so much easier to handle All my problems if I’m too far out to sea But something better happen soon Or it’s gonna be too late to bring you back (repeat chorus) It’s not as though I really need you If you were here I’d only bleed you…\* That last line hits home everytime I hear it. Man, I’m screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/67 "2007-12-28T11:34:20Z")
_I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out_ ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/68 "2007-12-28T14:15:38Z")
Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town) StG ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/69 "2007-12-28T15:18:24Z")
“Breaking Us In Two” by Joe Jackson Man, I thought of three or four others reading this thread and now they’re all gone. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/70 "2007-12-28T16:32:19Z")
[ul][li]“Set Me Free”, various artists, but I like Kim Wilde’s.[/li][li]“Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough”, Patty Smyth and Don Henley[/li][li]“Walking on Broken Glass”, Annie Lennox[/li][li]“Thin Line Between Love and Hate”, various artists, but I like Annie Lennox’s[/li][li]“Humpty Dumpty”, “Lost in Space”, “You Do”, “Driving Sideways”, “Frankenstein”, “Choice in the Matter”, all from Aimee Mann. It’s kind of a thing with her.[/li][li]“Don’t Let It Fade Away”, Fleming and John[/li]“Water Runs Dry”, Boyz II Men[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/71 "2007-12-28T17:59:50Z")
Although the ending is written to seem happy, I think the couple in “The Pina Colada Song” is doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392/72 "2007-12-28T18:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer] “Thin Line Between Love and Hate”, various artists, but I like Annie Lennox’s [/QUOTE] Oh, I dunno. I think that relationship was over before the singer woke up in the hospital. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-relationships-that-are-almost-over/431392.md?page=3)