songs about fucking up a relationship and regretting it

lots of songs come to mind for me written from the perspective of the person hurt by another, directed at the person who hurt them
but
I'm having a much harder time coming up with songs from the one who did the hurting, expressing regret and a desire to fix things.

I get this *feeling* from Harry Nilsson's "Don't Forget Me" and Nina Simone's "Everything Must Change," but neither is explicit about it lyrically. Radiohead's "Motion Picture Soundtrack" seems about this, obliquely, or at least in part.

Somehow that's all I can come up with at the moment, but I'd love ILM to weigh in with what I'm missing...

"You Don't Miss You Water"

Must be hundreds of these.

Peter Hammill, "If I Could":

You must be crazy to stay here,
and I'll be crazy when you go;
though there's so much I want to tell you
all the words come out too slow.
I've been locked in my problems,
you seemed prepared to wait...
now that I know I'm going to lose you
all the words come out too late.
There's no promise I can give you that you wouldn't know was fake;
though I just want to be with you, there's no show that I can make.
And in the morning, when I wake and find you dressing
I can tell that it's on your mind to go for good;
I know that all this time I've kept you guessing,
but I'd tell you if I could.

"Jealous Guy"
"Ms. Jackson" kinda?

Every song by the Wedding Present.

gemma hayes - let a good thing go

Roxy Music - "Just Another High"

"I didn't mean to turn you on" robert palmer

Richard and Mimi's "Reflections in a Crystal Wind."

Todd Rundgren "Can We Still Be Friends"

i don't hear any regret in "can we still be friends." that one's about moving on and not wasting time feeling hurt and actually breaking up as friends, isn't it?

Player - "Baby Come Back"

Steve Earle - "Goodbye"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go8mhShhn_M

Bubba Sparxxx - She Tried

The Beatles' "For No One" is pretty much the template for this theme.

The Jackson 5 - "I Want You Back"

Every song by Tindersticks.

Always On My Mind -- Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson

"Baby Come Back" was in the seventies. If she didn't come back by now, she's probably not going to.

otm steve, was going to post that dylan track

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen. of course.
[as for versions, John Cale's moves me most, but Cohen's brilliant and broken last verse never makes it into the covers...]

Grudge Fuck by the Scud Mountain Boys. The protagonist of that song is such a fuck-up.

Also Cohen, from the same album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBdbOLUKgIQ

as for versions, John Cale's moves me most, but Cohen's brilliant and broken last verse never makes it into the covers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA048pcITlA

Geto Boys "Mind Playing Tricks On Me," third verse.

good call

nina simone (and many others) - isn't it a pity

Primal Scream "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have"

Toto -- I'll Be Over You.

I posted this for no reason but to get the songi n people's heads cuz i'm unusually mean on a Wednesday

Lesson #1 -- Marshall Crenshaw