[An Adulterous Love] A love song about a secret affair you can't tell anyone about
Affairs are generally considered taboo by society, but sometimes you might fall for someone without knowing they’re married.
You probably have feelings you’re keeping tucked away in your heart, too.
This article introduces songs about “affairs.”
Some songs depict people already in an affair, while others are about accepting there’s no future and choosing to part ways.
Many of these tracks express painful emotions, so you may find one that resonates with how you feel.
If you’d like, try listening to any songs that catch your interest.
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[Adulterous Love] A love song about a secret affair (51–60)
a convenient relationshipDomura Riu
This is a song by Riu Domura that portrays the heartache and inner conflict of a forbidden love.
The story of two people bound by a relationship of convenience strikes deeply at listeners’ hearts.
The moment at dusk marks a turning point, and the image of the two of them diving into a blue room is especially memorable.
Released in February 2021, the track has garnered strong support from many fans and has been streamed thousands of times.
Afraid of being alone, yet longing for true love—this song gently embraces those complex feelings and quietly soothes your anxieties.
Place Of LoveLOVE PSYCHEDELICO
The drama “Hirugao: Lovers at 3 p.m.
on Weekdays.” Since this drama is themed around adulterous love, people in similar situations probably watched it while overlaying their own feelings onto it.
The song “Place Of Love” was written specifically as the theme for its film version.
Precisely because it was written for that purpose, it’s a track that conveys the bittersweet emotions felt during an affair, love with nowhere to go, and a painful reality.
The tone of the music also has a certain air of illicitness and tension, and just listening to it makes your heart race.
codependencyDomura Riu
A work by Riu Domura that candidly portrays the fragility and pain of a mutually dependent relationship.
This song depicts the heartrending figure of someone who, even while understanding it isn’t true love, cannot bear the loneliness and continues a false relationship.
Even knowing they’re just convenient, they can’t break away from the joy of being needed.
You can’t help but empathize with the protagonist’s conflicted feelings.
Released in May 2019 on the EP “Escape,” this piece suggests that, even knowing you’ll end up alone, being unable to stop may be the inescapable reality of a forbidden love.
A Place in the SunHamada Shogo
A heart-stirring ballad that portrays an illicit love affair.
Included on the album “Before the Generation of Love,” Shogo Hamada’s work gently embraces the aching feelings that slumber deep within the heart.
Since its release in March 1981, it has continued to profoundly move countless listeners.
While depicting a love in the form of an extramarital relationship, it conveys, throughout, the loneliness of hiding from prying eyes and the inner conflict of not wanting to ruin the other person’s life, giving it a depth that goes beyond a simple love song.
It is a gem of a track that quietly stands by the hearts of adults who carry the weight of family, work, and life itself.
[An Adulterous Love] Love songs about secret affairs (61–70)
DesireDo As Infinity
For those agonizing over a forbidden love, I want you to listen to Do As Infinity’s “Desire.” Love isn’t something you do alone, right? When you fall in love, there’s always someone else involved, and if you’re in a relationship, it’s two people sharing their feelings.
The same goes for an affair.
Even when you know it’s wrong, you keep going.
That’s not just one person’s problem—it exists because there’s someone on the other side accepting that relationship.
This song captures the unstoppable, forbidden “desire” of two people.
A person I mustn’t fall in love withCHIHIRO
The song’s straightforward title, “A Person You Mustn’t Fall For,” really packs a punch, doesn’t it? It sings about a woman’s heart that becomes all the more aware precisely because she thinks she shouldn’t fall in love.
And yet, even as she says that, she also shrugs and thinks, “What’s so wrong with falling in love?”—women’s hearts can be fickle.
The things we can’t have tend to look all the more dazzling, don’t they?
So it wasn’t me, huh.riria.
This song, Riria.’s “It Wasn’t Me, Was It.”, pierces the heart with the feelings of the so-called ‘second woman’ seen from a woman’s perspective.
When you’re having an affair or a love you can’t tell anyone about, you probably end up bottling up a lot of emotions inside, don’t you? In this song too, there are lyrics about keeping quiet and enduring—wanting to continue the relationship—even though she sensed his actions and attitude and kind of knew what was going on.
I’m sure many people will relate.
You can also feel that, even knowing the truth, she just couldn’t help loving him so much.
