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””
I’m Going Down - The Boss
If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot
The Communards cover version 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…
John Prine’s Far From Me:
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.
R.E.M.'s “Dont Go Back To Rockville”
*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.
I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out
Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town)
StG
“Breaking Us In Two” by Joe Jackson
Man, I thought of three or four others reading this thread and now they’re all gone.
[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]
Although the ending is written to seem happy, I think the couple in “The Pina Colada Song” is doomed.
Oh, I dunno. I think that relationship was over before the singer woke up in the hospital.