"Neither One of Us" is about the specific pain of being the one who is left, not because the love was not real but because the other person simply stopped wanting to try. Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded it in 1973 as a ballad about a relationship that has reached its end through exhaustion rather than betrayal. Neither one of us wants to be the first to say goodbye. The stalemate is the relationship. Two people too tired to fight and too scared to leave. Knight's voice carries the weight of someone who knows the end has arrived and is simply waiting for the other person to admit it.