Songs where one person stops loving another person

[lingyi]

I’ve Never Been To Me - Charlene

These two are not 100% clear that it was a loveless relationship / ending

I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
Sylvia’s Mother - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

[PatrickLondon]

Send In The Clowns?
https://youtu.be/nTgJh6Qlm7w

[aceplace57]

Paul Simon 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

The problem is all inside your head she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover

She said it’s really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued
But I’ll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover
Fifty ways to leave your lover

You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan

[Melbourne]

Requiring only a small assumption:

Left standing in the lurch
At a church were people saying,
My God, that’s tough
She stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

[RobDog]

I’m probably in a set consisting of one, but I’ve always found the following couplet from Public Image Ltd’s Flowers of Romance to be the most efficient ever written to signal one person’s lack of love for another:

I bought you flowers
You wanted chocolates instead

the song also ends with a pair of lines which equally efficiently encapsulate ennui, defeat and disillusionment:

I’ll take the furniture
Start all over again

The rest of the lyrics are pretty opaque though.

[actualliberalnotoneofthose]

@Leaffan

Stones: It’s All Over Now

Written by Bobby Womack / Shirley Womack, whoever they were.

Are you saying you don’t know who Bobby Womack was? Or that there are additional unknown writers and/or writers named “whoever they are”? Either way, surprising.

[DCnDC]

You’re All I Need - Mötley Crüe

It’s a joke, but it fits, and it’s even a got a good backstory:

Convinced his girlfriend at the time had been cheating on him with actor Jack Wagner, who was then enjoying a taste of pop stardom with his hit single “All I Need,” Sixx wrote his own song — then played it for his ex. “I took the cassette over to her apartment and I didn’t say anything. I just had a little cassette player and I just played it for her, and she started crying, and I walked out the door,” he later told Rolling Stone. “I was like, ‘Well now, that’s that.’”

Why Motley Crue's ‘You’re All I Need’ Was Banned by MTV

[Chefguy]

Take These Chains From My Heart, Hank Williams

Take these chains from my heart and set me free
You’re grow cold and no longer care for me
All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on
Take these chains from my heart and set me free

[Folacin]

@lingyi

Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes

I don’t think this one counts - he was looking to leave his woman, but then discovered they had shared interests. One assumes that they had never talked to each before.

@lingyi

Wayne Newton - Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast - A father is leaving his daughter behind at the airport

But he doesn’t leave her - he goes back to his wife to give it another try because of his daughter.

[Biggirl]

@aceplace57

Paul Simon 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

This song has been mentioned at least 3 times before this post, but does it really fit the criteria? It’s one person telling another person how to leave a relationship, not one person falling out of love with another.

[Telemark]

Fairytale of New York by the Pogues

Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last

[Biggirl]

@Telemark

Fairytale of New York by the Pogues

I have been told more than once by the English, usually on or about Christmastime, that this is a beautiful love song. Also, they aren’t breaking up or falling out of love.

[Marlonius]

I don’t think I’ve seen “If You Could Read My Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot mentioned yet. Written while he was separating from his wife, it expresses the point of view of a guy who’s out of love, but wishes he wasn’t, but also can’t explain any of that. I’m in a happy marriage and it almost moves me to tears each time, the poor bastard.

[Dallas_Jones]

@MrDibble

Yesterday seems like it’s about lost love, not love that stopped.

The best song from The Beatles for the OP subject is “For No One”

Partial lyrics.

Your day breaks, your mind aches
You find that all the words of kindness linger on
When she no longer needs you

She wakes up, she makes up
She takes her time and doesn’t feel she has to hurry
She no longer needs you

And in her eyes you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years!

[psychobunny]

If you include any breakup songs, you will list about half the songs that exist. If you want one where people just fall out of love, I would suggest
It’s Too Late by Carole King.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Christina Perri, “Jar of Hearts”: Jar of Hearts - YouTube
Missy Higgins, “Where I Stood”: Where I Stood - YouTube
Brad Paisley, “I’m Gonna Miss Her”: I'm Gonna Miss Her - YouTube
Toby Keith and Merle Haggard, “She Ain’t Hooked On Me”: She Ain't Hooked On Me No More - YouTube

[nearwildheaven]

Yet another that comes to mind: “Knowing Me, Knowing You” by ABBA.

[Periwinkle]

Here Comes Goodbye by Rascal Flatts
Broken Dreams by Patti Austin
Her Town Too by James Taylor
I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye
We Are Never Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift
Neon Moon by Brooks & Dunn
Smoking Gun by The Robert Cray Band
Misunderstanding by Genesis
How Long by Ace
Any Day Now by Ronnie Milsap
Trying to Get the Feeling Again by Barry Manilow

[Periwinkle]

This one is a beautiful song that may apply, but some of the lyrics are a bit confusing… “Thoigh you’re someone in this world that I’ll always choose to love, from now on you’re only someone that I used to love”. But the rest of the song makes it clear it’s over.

Someone That I Used to Love by Natalie Cole:

Natalie Cole - Someone That I Used To Love

[Gray_Ghost]

Since Send In The Clowns got mentioned already, and it’s a beautiful example of what the OP was looking for, here instead is a humorous song from Horton Heat about dealing with property division in the aftermath: Galaxy 500. http://www.metrolyrics.com/galaxy-500-lyrics-reverend-horton-heat.html

You have a thang he’s just a friend
I can’t believe that this is the end
But things aint so bad
Cause I got a Galaxy 500