I’m amazed I’m the first to get this one.
(You’ve Lost) That Loving Feeling by the Righteous Brothers
You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No) (Rihanna)
No no no
You don’t love me and I know now
No no no
You don’t love me so let me go now
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance (Sinéad O’Connor)
This is the last day of our acquaintance
I will meet you later in somebody’s office
I’ll talk but you won’t listen to me
I know what your answer will be
“Denial, Revisted,” by The Offspring.
“And when we wrote this story
How did it end?
It was you and me for all our lives
Come on, don’t say it
We’ll try again
And if I’d just hold you
We could last. . .”
“It Ends Tonight,” by The All-American Rejects
This Masquerade - George Benson (covering Leon Russell)
Baby Plays Around - Elvis Costello:
It’s not open to discussion anymore
She walks those shiny streets
I walk the worn out floor
She’s all I have worth living for
Baby plays, baby plays around
4th of July - X
She gives me her cheek
when I want her lips
Oh but I don’t have the strength to go
On the wrong side of town
in a dark apartment
We gave up trying so long ago
Where Did Our Love Go? - The Supremes (and later covered by Soft Cell)
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Walk Away Renee - Left Banke
“She’s Already Made Up Her Mind,” Lyle Lovett.
She said something about going home
And she said something about needing to spend some time alone
And she wondered out loud what it was she had to find
But she’d already made up her mind
Simon and Garfunkel, “The Dangling Conversation.”
Amnesiac/Morning Bell by Radiohead
pretty much everything on the Tunnel of Love album by Springsteen
“It’s Too Late” by Carly Simon
I wonder if this song came before or after “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”…When I listen to that song, I think there’s a marriage that’s almost over before it starts.
The Cure - Letter to Elise, Fascination Street
I Do It for Your Love - Paul Simon
Maybe Carly Simon covered this at one point, but it’s a Carole King song (off “Tapestry”).
Beth by KISS.
Why yes, I am ashamed that this was the first song to pop into my head, why do you ask?
Knowing Me, Knowing You–ABBA
I’ve been listening to that song since 1977 or so, and I’ve never really thought of it that way.
“It’s Too Late”, Carole King
I Will Always Love You written by Dolly Parton and famously covered by Whitney Houston
I’ll second The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Maybe “It Ain’t Me Babe” might fall into this category. I always wondered whether it was supposed to be a relationship already over with one person still hanging on, or a relationship just on the brink of being over.
“Wednesday Morning, 3am” also comes to mind.
Ohh, thought of some more.
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late by Denise Williams and Johnny Mathis
Never Can Say Goodbye by a few artists (Michael Jackson comes to mind)
Meat Loaf’s Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad (lyrics and video).
Paradise By the Dashboard Light might also fit loosely in this category, though the guy can only “pray” for the relationship to end.
Weird Al Yankovic’s You Don’t Love Me Anymore, and his Good Enough For Now.