Heartbreak songs to listen to at the end of summer. Classic and popular summer tracks.
In this article, we’ll introduce breakup songs perfect for the end of summer.
As the season winds down, some of you might be feeling a vague uneasiness—“Will this love end when summer does…?” A summer romance you didn’t want to end.
You know you can never go back, yet you can’t help but remember.
We’ve gathered tear-jerking breakup songs just for that feeling.
When you’re hurting, breakup songs can stay close to your heart.
If you want to sort out your feelings or lose yourself in memories, give these a listen.
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Heartbreak songs to listen to at summer’s end. Summer classics and popular tracks (21–30)
Unfit to be a loverKoresawa
An answer song to Koresawa’s track “Tabako,” which became explosively popular especially among young people.
While “Tabako” is written from a woman’s perspective, this song tells the breakup depicted in “Tabako” from a man’s point of view.
It portrays a complicated parting precisely because they care deeply for each other, and listening to it feels like something grips you tightly deep in your chest.
You might find it even more moving if you listen while comparing it with the lyrics of “Tabako.”
Summer with YouKetsumeishi
It’s a breakup song from a man’s perspective, brimming with lingering feelings.
The lyrics, which recall a brief summer romance from a few years ago, are deeply sentimental.
Not just the seaside—surely everyone has a place filled with memories of a former lover, right? The moment you visit that place after the breakup, all the feelings from back then and thoughts of that former partner come rushing back…
I think many of us have had that experience.
You are the seaMy Hair is Bad
My Hair is Bad has many songs that capture heartbreaking love from a male perspective and the turmoil of conflicted feelings.
This track is also a coming-of-age song filled with tenderness and that tight, aching feeling in your chest, released in 2019, as if looking back on the end of summer.
For some reason, summer vacation during our school days was fun, but when we look back now, it leaves us with an indescribable sense of melancholy.
This song is packed with those emotions and evokes the kind of summertime memories that everyone has experienced.
Summer loverSHISHAMO
Even the hugely popular girls’ band SHISHAMO has a very bittersweet summer breakup song.
In this track, it portrays the feelings of a woman who’s trying to leave a man she can’t really be proud to be with.
It’s moving to think about the protagonist deciding to say a proper goodbye precisely because she loves him so much.
SHISHAMO usually has a lively image, but in this song, their unusually wistful vocals are incredibly captivating.
OrangeSMAP
It’s a breakup song by SMAP, but the lyrics feel like a very positive and amicable parting.
Isn’t it quite difficult to say goodbye in a way that wishes each other happiness and lets you move forward, keeping it as a cherished memory? I can’t help but be moved by how deeply they care for one another.
The imagery that evokes a summer twilight further heightens both the poignancy and the warmth.
MetronomeYonezu Kenshi
It’s a bittersweet love song that likens a couple to the rhythm marked by a metronome.
The playful touches—like the metronome’s bell signaling the first beat and the tick-tock woven into the track—are lovely, too.
It’s distinctly Kenshi Yonezu: a strikingly beautiful song, and the couple’s story layered over it is truly moving.
Even when you know the romance is already over, the feelings only grow stronger… Haven’t you felt that way, too?
Goodbye to this loveSafarii
Safari’s ‘Goodbye to This Love’ is, as the title suggests, a heartbreak song—one that’s deeply poignant.
The lyrics are likely to resonate more with adults than with the younger generation.
Listening to it at the end of summer makes the sadness hit even harder.
If you’re nursing a broken heart, it will sink in painfully.
Definitely give it a listen.
