[For when you want to cry or feel sad] Tear-jerking masterpieces that make you cry when you listen
Even when you feel like crying, it’s not as easy to shed tears as it was when you were a child once you’ve grown up.
In this article, we’ll introduce a variety of songs perfect for when you want to cry—from tear-jerking melodies to moving masterpieces.
These are all tracks you can listen to alone at home and really let the tears flow.
We’ve gathered everything from classics to the latest hits: songs that help you free the part of yourself that can’t cry, and songs that stay close to your pain and lift you up.
Find that one song that speaks to your heart—and let yourself have a good, cathartic cry.
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[For when you want to cry or feel sad] Tear-jerking classic songs that make you cry (41–50)
May it be filled with kindnessJUJU
It’s a very heartwarming message song that says, “No matter how far apart we are, I’ll be thinking of you.” It’s a track by JUJU, a singer-songwriter from Hiroshima Prefecture, released in 2009 as her ninth single.
Featured in a Nissan commercial and elsewhere, it drew a lot of attention.
This moving ballad perfectly matches JUJU’s powerful vocals with its rich, expansive sound, giving you the strength to face tomorrow.
If you’re struggling or feeling stuck against a wall, please give it a listen.
AitaiKato Miria
Miliyah Kato, the queen of love songs.
She’s a popular singer known for her soaring voice and songs that depict a realistic worldview.
In the chorus, where the title phrase is repeated, she expresses straightforward feelings of love, making it a song that stands by anyone currently in love.
It vividly portrays the difficulty of love—how the stronger your feelings grow, the farther away it can seem—so it’s a track you’ll want to listen to when you’re going through a painful romance.
It’s nothing.RADWIMPS
It’s a pure love song that conveys an overflowing feeling of “I love you.” The track is by the Kanagawa-born rock band RADWIMPS and was released in 2016.
It was chosen as the ending theme for director Makoto Shinkai’s animated film Your Name.
The transparent, crystalline arrangement is the kind that makes you cry more the more you listen closely.
Why do RADWIMPS’s ballads sink in so deeply? If you haven’t yet, be sure to watch the movie too!
A Naked Heartaimyon
Even though I thought I’d been better off without falling in love, I’m repeating the same thing all over again… This is a down-to-earth love ballad that sings just that.
It’s a song by Aimyon, a singer-songwriter from Hyogo Prefecture, released in 2020 as her 10th single.
The gentle melody pairs perfectly with Aimyon’s straightforward vocals.
When you’ve stumbled in love, listening to it will quietly stay by your side.
It might be a good one to sing at karaoke, too.
lovesicknessAimer
When you feel like crying, all kinds of emotions get mixed together, don’t they? Aimer’s “Koiwazurai” is a song that resonates especially when your feelings are complicated.
There are surely times when your emotions are vague and you can’t express them—those moments can be filled with heartache, but this song will understand how you feel!
Where the Wind GoesAdo
This song was produced as the ending theme for the film ONE PIECE FILM RED.
Ado, who was in charge of all seven of Uta’s songs used in the movie, performed them.
Each of the seven tracks involved popular artists and music producers, and “Kaze no Yukue” was handled by Motohiro Hata, a widely acclaimed composer known for scoring numerous films and TV dramas.
It’s a track that brilliantly captures the world of ONE PIECE, where, despite being buffeted by rough seas, comrades band together and charge forward toward a single goal.
Memories from todayAimer
Among the songs by the highly acclaimed singer-songwriter Aimer, this one, in particular, depicts a sorrowful, tear-jerking story.
The lyrics portray a farewell to someone precious, which seems less like a breakup and more like a parting by death.
From the title, you can sense the poignant message that no new stories will be created with the person who has passed away, and from today onward, everything will turn into memories.
Reading the lyrics, you can feel a pure love and bond toward the one who is gone—it’s a song that’s impossible to listen to without tears.
