[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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- Farewell Song: A goodbye song. A tearful parting song.
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- [Adultery Song] A forbidden song about an affair that sings of an impossible love
- A song that feels refreshing after a breakup. A love song to listen to when you want to move on.
- [Jealousy & Possessiveness Songs] A curated selection of popular tracks to listen to when possessiveness feels overwhelming!
- [Once More…] A lingering-attachment song: a song about a love you can’t forget
- 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)
Goodbye to You… feat. SpontaniaTiara
This is Tiara’s major-label debut single, released in September 2009.
Featuring the hip-hop unit Spontania, the song portrays the ache of a breakup from both male and female perspectives.
It reflects the pain of a heartbreak Tiara actually experienced during production, vividly expressing the torment of having to part precisely because you love someone, and the lingering attachment that just won’t fade.
No matter how far apart you are, tender memories remain in your heart, and even after saying goodbye, the feelings can’t be severed.
On nights when you fervently wish you could start over, listen with your tears—her trembling voice will gently nudge you toward taking that first step toward reconciliation.
[Songs About Loving But Parting] Love songs to help you overcome heartbreak (51–60)
Goodbye, AliceFlower
Flower’s ninth single, released in February 2015.
Although it’s by a female group, it’s a breakup ballad told from a male perspective.
In the song, the male protagonist decides to end the relationship by calling his lover by her name without honorifics, but his inner conflict reveals that he’s putting on a brave face.
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.
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.
passing by each otherSoala
“Sorechigai” is a song that gives voice to the pent-up emotions of being told goodbye by someone you love.
Released in 2023 by singer-songwriter Soala, who rose to popularity through social media platforms like TikTok, the track blends a rhythmic R&B groove with her emotional vocals.
It portrays a bittersweet love that keeps asking the other person the same questions, even while knowing they are drifting apart.
The song’s structure—spoken, intimate verses that build into a passionate, soaring chorus—conveys an overflowing love, making it a poignant breakup anthem.
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.
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.
