[Songs About Loving Yet Parting] Love songs for those who want to overcome heartbreak
“We loved each other, but we broke up…
We had no choice but to part.”
This is a collection of love songs for those who’ve gone through that kind of painful breakup.
If you split because you both fell out of love, you can simply move on to the next relationship.
But it’s different when only one person’s feelings faded, isn’t it?
You probably can’t bring yourself to hate them, and you’re still tormented by the feelings you have.
In this article, we introduce heartbreaking love songs that portray a variety of perspectives and complex emotions: the feelings of the one who initiated the breakup, the one who was broken up with, and even the bittersweet sentiment of mutually choosing to part while still having lingering attachment.
Please give them a listen when things feel tough.
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[Songs About Loving But Breaking Up] Love Songs for You Who Want to Overcome Heartbreak (71–80)
just a littleIgarashi Haru
A song whose heartrending, soul-stirring vocals move every listener.
With delicate wording, it weaves a poignant love swayed by the whims of fate—encounters that come at the wrong time.
Haru Igarashi is a singer-songwriter with the unusual background of being a former police officer.
Released in March 2024, this work has drawn major attention, topping the Billboard JAPAN Heatseekers Songs chart for two consecutive weeks.
The line about pretending to like what the other person likes just to stay by their side is so earnest it tightens the chest.
wedgeOku Hanako
Some of you may still find it hard to forget your ex even though some time has passed since your heartbreak.
If that’s you, I recommend listening to “Kusabi.” This song was released by Hanako Oku to mark her 10th anniversary.
Told from the perspective of a woman looking back on happy days with a partner she loved, it portrays a couple who parted ways despite still loving each other.
It’s a great listen when you feel like reminiscing a little.
Both the streaming version and the stripped-down solo performance are highly recommended!
Wasn’t it me?misaki
A bittersweet heartbreak song woven by Misaki, a singer-songwriter from the music creator agency muchoo.
Based on her own experiences, it portrays the feeling of “being in a relationship yet still pining like it’s unrequited love.” The depictions of repeated missed connections and the resignation of thinking “maybe I wasn’t the one” will likely resonate with anyone who’s known a sad love.
Misaki’s voice—delicate and pure, with a touch of youthful innocence—leaves a strong impression, wrapping a wounded heart in gentle comfort.
[Songs About Loving But Parting] Love songs for you who want to overcome heartbreak (81–90)
Stardust VenusAimer
This is a song by Aimer that overlays unforgettable memories of love onto the stars in the night sky and sings of heartache.
The lingering attachment to a precious person who has been lost and the increasingly idealized memories are delicately depicted through a fragile yet resolute voice.
Released as a single in August 2012, it is also included on the acclaimed album “Sleepless Nights.” As the theme song for the drama “Will Such a Luxury as Love Fall Upon Me?”, it enriched the story’s worldview.
The piano-and-strings sound this work possesses is sure to resonate deeply with listeners’ sentimental hearts.
If you listen on a quiet night when you want to be alone with your memories, it will surely wrap your heart in gentle warmth.
The strong and fleeting onesCocco
This song portrays a poignant love that sets out on a difficult journey to build something precious for a beloved, only to be confronted with the reality of betrayal.
It depicts, with striking clarity, both the strength to fight for love and the fragility and weakness inherent in being human, while Cocco’s translucent voice resonates deeply.
Released in November 1997, it was featured as the theme song for JAL’s Hawaii campaign commercial.
It’s a piece that offers solace to those who resonate with the turmoil between wanting to protect someone dear and facing an unyielding reality, as well as to those struggling with unrequited love.
Sentimental KissShio Reira
“Sentimental Kiss” by Reira Ushio is a song that portrays the inability to suppress the desire to stay by someone’s side, even when parting ways.
Released in 2022, its acoustic version was used as background music on ABEMA’s dating show “He’s a Wolf, She Wouldn’t Lie.” The lyrics depict their breakup as something beautiful and fleeting, like a scene from a drama or a film.
When a farewell arrives, it can feel strangely unreal, almost like it’s happening to someone else.
That sensation is precisely the kind of dreamy, cinematic unreality the song’s lyrics evoke.
When you’re faced with an unbelievable reality, I recommend taking a moment to cool down with this track.
TwilightKobukuro
Twilight is a song that straightforwardly expresses feelings for someone who has grown distant.
It’s a track released by Kobukuro in 2015 and was used as the theme song for the film Twilight Sasara Saya, starring Yui Aragaki.
Parts of a person that can only be seen from the closeness of being a couple, and memories that can no longer be made, weigh down as sorrow after a breakup.
Until you can overcome it, it may be nothing but a burden, but with time, you will surely come to realize how irreplaceable those things are.
