20 Songs About Falling Out Love & Fading Love
Love sometimes doesn’t last forever and you may find yourself in a relationship whereby you or your partner is slowly falling out of love. Here is a list of songs for you if you resonate with the feeling of fading love.
1. Lewis Capaldi – Hold Me While You Wait
This is a piano ballad that talks about a breakup. In the song, he wants to cuddle with his girlfriend of six months after she unexpectedly tells him that she hates him. In a statement, Lewis said this about the song:
“Hold Me While You Wait” is a song I wrote about the uncertainty of being in a relationship when your partner isn’t sure what they want. There’s an impending hopelessness to the whole thing, on both sides, when they’re not sure whether they want to be in that relationship or not. For me it’s one of the most desperate places you can find yourself in.”
2. The Chainsmokers – Call You Mine
The song is about a young fading relationship that was built with uncertainty between both partners as to whether there was any hope in their relationship. They both consider what their lives would be without each other.
The track is part of the album World War Joy released in 2019.
3. Halsey – Colors
This track is about falling out of love with someone because they changed too much as a person. It is speculated that it touches on Halsey’s relationship with 1975’s frontman Matty Healy. The description of his character suggests that his draining lifestyle has created a void in his life thus giving him a dark mysterious vibe. He is described as blue to symbolize that he is sad, unbalanced and lost in trying to understand where the emptiness is coming from.
Speaking to VEVO, Halsey had this to say about the bridge of the track, “It’s about a person who gets affected by their partner in a relationship, and then their partner leaves them because of the person that they’ve become when, you know, the other person made them that way.”
4. James Bay – Let It Go
The song is basically about young love that went wrong and the relationship ended up feeling like it’s forced. James goes ahead to relate holding hands to their relationship. Since they don’t fit, it symbolizes that they are no longer on the same page hence their relationship won’t work. They have been ignoring the problem and this has been likened to pushing something uphill and it has now gotten too heavy to hold so they want to let slide down. James suggests they go their separate ways and be independent of each other.
5. Alessia Cara – Out Of Love
Alessia was inspired by a friend’s breakup and ended up being the first song she wrote from someone else’s perspective. In her breakdown of the album, she explained that asking the question ‘when did you fall out of love with me?’ is going to be more painful than anything. It may not solve anything but at least it will give you some peace of mind.
6. Keri Hilson – Energy
This was Keri Hilson’s debut single back in 2008 and is part of her debut studio album In A Perfect World. Speaking to MTV, she explained this about the words of the song:
This song goes from good love to bad love. You know, you kind of get drained of your energy after a while. You’ve become spent when it doesn’t work out with the person you’re in love with or you’re in a relationship with someone who doesn’t do the things you do for them.
7. The Pussycat Dolls – I Hate This Part
The song is part of their second album Doll Domination. Generally, it talks about the conversation before a breakup. Nicole feels like she can’t take being in the relationship any longer since the love between them is slipping through their fingers. She doesn’t want to try anymore and is now finding a way to tell him goodbye.
8. Post Malone – Goodbye feat Young Thug
Post sings about his troubles with a girl and expresses his desire to remove her from his life. Nothing is about to change in their relationship since they are both too stubborn to try and change. Some of the lines are directed toward Post Malone’s previous girlfriend Ashlen Diaz. Their relationship had been rocky since he was having a hard time balancing between dedicating his life to music and dedicating time to Ashlen.
9. The Weeknd – Secrets
The Weeknd sings about how his girlfriend has been lying to him claiming to love him yet she is in love with someone else. She is also unfaithful to him. Abel uses the term sleep talking as a symbol for all the things she does when she doesn’t think he is listening.
The song is part of the album Starboy (2016).
10. Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa – Scared To Be Lonely
The song centers on a failing relationship between two people, however, they are only together since they fear being alone. Dua Lipa sings about how the relationship used to be great but is now filled with fights and slamming doors which implies that they don’t even listen to each other anymore.
Even though certain things in the relationship aren’t working and they both know they would be better off with someone else, the worry of being lonely clouds their judgment. They are afraid of stepping into the unknown even when something great lies on the other side.
11. Toni Braxton & Trey Songz – Yesterday
Toni Braxton sings about being done with her boyfriend after seeing his true colors. She tried not to judge him but he kept doing the wrong things and that is when she saw the real him. No matter what excuse he came up with she knew he had been unfaithful, evidenced by the other woman’s perfume. She doesn’t want to listen to anything he wants to tell her in an effort to salvage the relationship and would rather move on.
12. James Morrison – Broken Strings
James Morrison likens the relationship to a broken string that one can’t play on anymore. He feels broken by her and can’t feel anything. He keeps trying to convince himself that there is still a spark but he knows deep down it has already burnt out.
He uses the comparison of running back into a burning house when there is nothing left to save or when you try to catch the last train when it is already on its way.
13. Post Malone – Circles
This is the fourth single from his third studio album Hollywood’s Bleeding. It has the theme of him struggling to maintain a strong relationship with his girl. Instead of walking away, he would rather keep the failing relationship going even if that isn’t mentally healthy for both of them.
“Running in circles” has been used to mean that they repeat the same actions without getting any change.
14. Clara Mae – Rooftop
Mae revealed that the track was originally written for Sweater Beats but she took it on because it meant a lot to her. Lyrically, she sings about a partner who unveils that he no longer cares about the relationship and is tired of trying. She is hurting and is wondering where they should go from there.
15. A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera – Say Something
The song is about the struggle of someone giving up on a relationship. He offers a plea to their significant other to say something that would maybe save the relationship. He loves his partner so much but feels he is getting nothing in return. He wishes he was enough to make his partner love him and would have done anything.
16. Usher – Climax
The song is part of the album Looking 4 Myself (2012). Usher sings about a relationship that has reached its peak and is now at a turning point. He describes it as “going nowhere fast” to mean that nothing good is coming of the relationship. Neither of them is willing to give up their own independence so instead of moving forward, they decide to just give up. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Usher had this to say about the track:
It’s about a relationship that was cut short because I was unwilling to move to the next level. A lot of times, it’s about sex first if there’s not a deeper connection. So you reach that climax and then it’s like, ‘Man, let’s just separate.’
17. Halsey – Colors
Generally, the song is about falling out of love with someone because they changed too much as a person. Halsey uses blue to represent herself and once they started dating they became purple. However, her partner changed her and ended up not wanting her anymore thus destroying their relationship. Many speculated that the man in the song is 1975’s frontman Matty Healy.
18. Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
The track is from Billie’s sophomore album. According to a clip from the documentary The World’s a Little Blurry, Billie said this about the song, “The whole song is just more like nothing even specific that they did, you’re just not happy being with them. Can’t even explain it.”
The song is about her relationship with her former boyfriend Brandon Adams. She wasn’t happy and didn’t want the same things he wanted. This led to a lack of effort.
19. Kanye West – Fade
In this track, Kanye calls out to a distant lover and claims she isn’t 100% invested in their relationship so he feels her slipping away. Fading describes the gradual disappearance of a lover.
20. Pink – Just Give Me A Reason
The ballad talks about two different perspectives of a relationship. One party thinks the relationship is falling apart so start to lose feelings while the other party thinks it’s just a bad period and that they can fall in love again. It has merely hit a rough patch that isn’t necessarily a dead end.