Nitpick:
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The five years we have had have been such good times
I still love you
ONLY BECAUSE HE DIED, GODDAMIT!
[wipes away tear]
Dido has a couple - See you when you’re 40 and Hunter
Eh? She’s bringing out a new album this year, her career is far from over.
I too considered Paula Cole an undeservedly one-hit wonder, but it looks like she deliberately took herself out of the limelight; she had a daughter from a brief marriage, and teaches at her alma mater, the Berklee College of Music.
“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”
2 hits -* I Don’t Want To Wait* was arguably bigger than Cowboys even if it didn’t chart as high, what with being the theme to Dawson’s Creek and all.
“Out of the limelight” =/= “no career”, though. But this is a hijack, so should probably be for a different thread about what constitutes a valid music career.
Your Feet’s Too Big
One Day I’ll Fly Away is almost there.
Well, Paul McCartney’s song “Yesterday” which is apparently the most covered song in recorded history is about exactly this.
“Used To Love Her” by Guns n’ Roses
“Julianne” by Ben Folds Five (which actually mentions Axl Rose in the first line)
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” sung by Bonnie Raitt
Yesterday seems like it’s about lost love, not love that stopped.
I’m not sure where he recorded it, if at all, but I saw him perform in on TV in the mid-70s and it was heartbreaking. I knew about it first from the BS&T version.
Tom Paxton’s “The Last Thing on My Mind.” When it was released, people asked him if things were okay between him and his long-time wife Midge. He replied “They were and are.” The couple is still together
Don Henley’s The Heart of the Matter
“Home” by Sheryl Crow
“Storms” by Fleetwood Mac
Eric Clapton - Promises.
Raul Malo, The Mavericks,I Don’t Care If You Love Me Anymore
Dolly Parton - D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Most folks here have mentioned the most famous examples, so I’ll offer “Bye Bye Beautiful” by Nightwish, in which the band exorcised the demons of their bitter breakup with former singer Tarja.
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright, Bob Dylan
Sirens by Cher Lloyd
Say Something by A Great Big World