Yami songs recommended for college students: melancholic tracks to listen to when you're feeling down
There are days when you feel like your heart might break or you feel lonely, aren’t there? In those moments, music becomes a precious source of support.
Songs that stay close to your sadness and pain can feel like a best friend who truly understands you.
In this article, we introduce healing “yami songs” that gently accompany you through tough times.
We’ll feature many tracks, focusing on works released in recent years.
You’re sure to find a song that resonates with your heart.
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Recommended “Yami” Songs for College Students: Tracks to Listen to When You’re Struggling (41–50)
Eine KleineYonezu Kenshi
This song portrays, in a very real way, the feelings of a girl who has lost confidence in herself.
It sings about emotions everyone has felt during adolescence, so there are probably many parts you can relate to.
A highlight is the moment at the end of the music video when she shows a slightly brighter expression.
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Christmas EveYamashita Tatsuro
It’s a standard Japanese Christmas song, but judging from how it’s put together, I think it’s basically a full-on “yami” (dark/depressive) song.
In the intro alone, he stacks the same guitar phrase five times, and in the interlude he overdubs a canon using only his own voice… Most people wouldn’t even think of going that far.
As expected of a true “craftsman of sound,” Tatsuro Yamashita.
It’s not that I want to die.Asanomachi
A song whose fleeting, translucent vocals almost bring you to tears.
Its lyrics—like the soft words that slip out in the stillness before sleep—gently embrace a lonely heart.
Asanomachii’s delicate production and KAFU’s crystal-clear voice blend beautifully, creating a work that deeply moves its listeners.
Released in August 2024 and included on the album “Yoi no Machi,” this track quietly stays close to those who feel life is hard or who struggle to find where they belong, and to those whose hearts are worn out by modern society.
It’s a song to lean on when you don’t want to force yourself to look ahead, but instead wish to face your feelings just as they are.
Cinderella BoySaucy Dog
Cinderella Boy, with its rock performance by a three-piece band and lyrics that poignantly capture the ups and downs of a man–woman relationship, is a song I want people to hear when they’re heartbroken or too weighed down to go to school.
Released in 2021 by Saucy Dog—also known for Itsuka—the song’s lyrics, which depict raw emotional shifts, strike a deep chord.
It’s hard to put into words or give shape to how you feel when you part ways with someone important, isn’t it? The lyrics, which stay close to the loneliness and solitude you can’t tell anyone about, gently resonate even on nights that feel impossible to get through.
To My AdolescenceAka-hoho Shishunki (BOL4)
A healing song by BOL4 (Bolbbalgan4) that wraps the delicate emotions of adolescence in acoustic tones.
It gently traces the emotional journey from days tormented by loneliness and self-denial to gradually finding hope with the passage of time.
Included on the September 2017 album “Red Diary Page.1,” this work made the Melon Music Awards’ Top 10 for three consecutive years, Korea’s largest music awards.
Alongside the crystalline vocals, it brings into sharp relief the complex feelings of sensing parental love yet being unable to accept it straightforwardly, and the image of youths who shrink under the gaze of those around them.
When you feel on the verge of losing yourself, listening to this song will surely let a ray of hope shine into a heart filled with loneliness and anxiety.
It’s okayberii guddoman
A song I especially want you to listen to when times are tough is “Daijoubu” by BENI GOODMAN.
It aired on NHK’s “Minna no Uta” in 2019 and became a hot topic.
It’s not a song about illness, but it gently wraps around those who are suffering alone.
Regardless of the type or severity of an illness, I think many people carry their burdens in silence, unable to tell anyone.
There are nights when the anxiety becomes overwhelming and you can’t sleep.
In those moments, please give this song a listen.
I tried singing a J-POP hit song in the style of Tatsuro Yamashita.Poseidon Ishikawa
A song from a project imagining what would happen if Tatsuro Yamashita sang J-POP hits everyone knows.
It was featured on Mezamashi TV, so some of you may already be familiar with it.
Both the impersonation and the arrangement are of a quality you could only achieve with deep love for Tatsuro; in a sense, it feels like the work of a beautifully obsessed soul.