[Tearjerker] Songs that make your heart tremble with tears & moving tracks with lyrics that touch the soul
Do you have a song that, just by listening, fills your chest and before you know it brings tears to your eyes?When lyrics about love, encounters and farewells, or fleeting moments in everyday life overlap with your own memories, music quietly stirs the depths of your heart.Songs that move you to tears aren’t only for sad times—they’re companions that gently stay by your side when you want to look forward.In this article, we’ll introduce a wide range of deeply moving songs that may loosen your tear ducts before you realize it.As you listen closely to each word, try to find the song that resonates with your heart!
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[Tearjerker] Songs That Make You Cry So Much Your Heart Trembles & Emotionally Moving Tracks with Lyrics That Resonate Deeply (121–130)
A Farewell SongHilcrhyme
Hilcrhyme’s “Sousouka” captures the feelings you want to convey to someone you love and cherish.
Released in 2013, it was also the theme song for the drama “Yurichika e: A Message from Mom,” starring Takako Tokiwa.
The song is filled with emotions and love that everyone has likely felt at some point in life—feelings so important that you can’t help but express them.
Whether you think of your parents, siblings, partner, or child, the lyrics will likely resonate.
Many will relate to lines that imagine losing someone even while they’re right in front of you.
LetterSHE’S
“Letter” is a song that faces the honest feelings you experience in everyday life with someone important.
It was released in 2019 by SHE’S, a band that delivers a rock sound infused with the timbre of piano.
The warm, everyday-life-friendly sound unfolds with a steady rhythm.
The lyrics portray relationships that become harder to navigate the closer two people get.
Alongside the band’s relaxed performance, vocalist Ryoma Inoue’s gentle voice accompanies and softens the bittersweet emotions.
The track is often used in TikTok videos set against emotional scenes.
Give the melody and lyrics a listen—they’ll lend courage to a heavy heart.
Forget-me-notBOOOST
BOOOST, a band that has been growing in popularity on LINE LIVE, released “Wasurenagusa” in April 2021.
Created by U-key as a song inspired by We Made a Beautiful Bouquet, it may bring the film’s world to mind for some listeners.
Sung from a boyfriend’s perspective, this heartbreak song pairs a gentle, sorrowful melody with beautiful high notes that slowly seep in and bring tears to your eyes.
The lyrics, which include app names and familiar expressions unique to our times, are also deeply relatable.
No matter how intense the days or how happy the memories, time causes them to fade—this song captures that fleetingness.
It’s a love song that stands beside every kind of romance, resonates with a wide range of people, and gives you the strength to move forward.
See youDREAMS COME TRUE
DREAMS COME TRUE’s “Matane” was released in 2008 as a re-cut single from the album AND I LOVE YOU.
It was used as the theme song for the film One Piece: Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura, and it perfectly overlaps with one of One Piece’s iconic moments—the farewell between Chopper and Dr.
Kureha—bringing you to tears.
It’s a farewell song that conveys the feelings of the one doing the sending-off.
Its gentle, heartwarming mood encourages those who, while chasing their dreams, are forced to part, and those embarking on new journeys, as if giving them a celebratory push.
It’s a feeling of love that only DCT can deliver.
The sight of everyone waving their hands together at concerts is beautiful and tear-jerking, too.
Filled with so many emotions, “Matane” is sure to become a source of comfort for your heart!
[Tearjerker] Songs That Will Move You to Tears and Lyrics That Resonate Deeply (131–140)
366 daysHY
You might be one of the many people who often sing this at karaoke.
It’s one of the signature songs by HY, the Okinawa-born mixture band, included on their fifth album “HeartY,” released in 2008.
It was chosen as the theme song for the drama and the film “Akai Ito,” both based on a novel.
As you can tell from reading the lyrics, it poignantly portrays the feelings of a woman who can’t forget her ex, and it really hits home.
If you listen to it when you’re heartbroken, it might just make you cry your eyes out.
Embraced by loveSuperfly
One of Superfly’s most acclaimed hidden gems is “Aini Dakarete” (“Embraced by Love”), included on her second album Box Emotions, released in 2009.
It’s a beloved track that took third place in the fan vote for the best-of album Superfly 10th Anniversary Greatest Hits “LOVE, PEACE & FIRE,” whose tracklist was chosen by fans.
The song was created to celebrate her close friend from junior high getting married.
With lyrics sending off a friend while promising to always be on their side, it’s a guaranteed tear-jerker when played at a wedding.
pendulumUru
Singer-songwriter Uru soothes listeners’ ears with her translucent voice.
Her 2020 release “Furiko” (“Pendulum”) is a song that makes you want to affirm a life that isn’t always full of good things.
Chosen as the theme song for the film “The Voice of Sin,” its lyrics—closely aligned with the story—became a hot topic.
The wistful piano sound and her conversational vocals warm a chilled heart.
The lyrics, pierced with realistic words, feel like they could bring you to tears as you listen.
When you feel unrewarded, this song will gently support your heart.