[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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- A tear-jerking love song that gently stays by your heart
Breakup Songs Even Though We Still Love Each Other: Love Tracks to Help You Overcome Heartbreak (41–50)
I didn’t want to know, if it meant losing it.atarayo
Atarayo’s “I Wish I’d Never Known, If I Was Going to Lose You” portrays the unstoppable feelings of love that persist even after being betrayed by a lover.
Released in 2022, the song is a collaboration with “Junwaidan,” a project that collects people’s real-life stories about love and sexuality, and it was created based on one of the submitted accounts.
The lyrics describe being lied to again and again and betrayed—situations that should make you hate the person—yet the feelings of love won’t fade, which is simply heartbreaking.
As much as the protagonist doesn’t want to break up because they love their partner, they ultimately choose to end the relationship to protect themselves.
If you’re struggling right now and don’t know what to do in a similar situation, you might find some answers in this song.
[Songs About Loving But Parting] Love songs to help you overcome heartbreak (51–60)
sayonaraHirai Dai
I think there are many reasons why people end up breaking up even when they don’t dislike each other.
Hirai Dai’s “sayonara,” packed with feelings even more painful than unrequited love, is a song that portrays two people who are just about to part ways.
Sung from a male perspective, it conveys the sense of not being able to accept the reality of breaking up with someone you still love so much.
The contrast between the joyful memories up to now and the brief time right before the farewell feels very real and heartbreaking.
My love was overflowing.mosao.
Singer-songwriter Mosawo, who went viral on social media and quickly rose to fame, is known for bittersweet, relatable love songs—many women in relationships may find themselves reflected in her music.
The song “Suki ga Afureteita no” (“My Love Was Overflowing”) is a heart-wrenching breakup ballad told from a woman’s perspective.
It feels like she’s quietly speaking to the person she loves, and the regret after the breakup—along with how deeply she still loves them—comes through powerfully in this track.
So she’s not your girlfriend, huh?Ueno Yūka
It’s a modern world where even breakups happen over LINE, but this song is a love story about a woman who has already decided to say goodbye, yet wants to meet in person and talk face to face for the last time.
A relationship whose ending is already in sight.
Still, she truly loves him and hopes that if there’s any chance, they can start over.
Remembering his good qualities and the day they first kissed, spending those final moments with him is unbearably painful.
The lyrics and music were written by Yohei Hashiguchi of wacci.
sayonaraMirei Touyama
Set to a slow tempo that highlights Mirei Touyama’s beautiful vocals, this song portrays the bittersweet end of a romance that fades because neither person can be honest.
Even though she senses her partner’s feelings drifting away, she can’t say anything because she doesn’t want the relationship to end.
The lyrics, told from a woman’s perspective as she carries lingering regrets after they part without ever expressing her true feelings, are sure to resonate with you too.
selfishNissy(Nishijima Takahiro)
If I selfishly say, “I don’t want to break up,” they’ll accept it.
But that doesn’t mean we can stay together out of love.
Realizing this, the protagonist steps back.
‘Wagamama’ is a song that portrays the protagonist’s complex, heartrending emotions.
It was released in 2014 by Nissy from AAA, the hugely popular dance/vocal group.
Nissy’s voice—so beautiful and glossy that it’s hard to believe it’s a man’s—makes the song even more poignant.
It’s a track that will move you to tears.
Blueberry Nightsmakaroni enpitsu
Blueberry Nights by Macaroni Empitsu is packed tight with wavering, jumbled feelings that even the singer can’t pin down.
It’s sung by a man, but you can tell from parts of the lyrics that it might be from a woman’s perspective.
The song, a fan favorite, is included on Macaroni Empitsu’s second album, hope, released in 2020.
The lyrics are striking for the way they look at the singer’s own emotions objectively, with a slightly cool detachment.
They understand what’s going on, yet there’s lingering attachment and an helplessness they can’t shake.
That kind of pain comes through powerfully.