A Tearful Farewell Song: A Love Song About Parting with Someone You Love
Even when you understand it in your head, an unexpected breakup with a partner is hard because your feelings can’t keep up.
Everyone has different reasons for breaking up, but I imagine most people feel the same way—“it hurts,” “I just want to cry.”
In this article, we’re picking out tear-jerking breakup songs from popular love songs.
Focusing on tracks that sing about lingering feelings of love, we’ll introduce breakup songs that stay close to your heart.
When you feel like crying, give them a listen.
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[Tear-Jerking Farewell Songs] Love songs about breaking up with someone you love (151–160)
lipsaiko
Have you ever experienced a romance so deep you could declare, “This person is my everything”? Aiko’s song Kuchibiru—practically a must when it comes to love songs—sings about that kind of grand love, about someone you adore so much, and it’s sure to bring tears to anyone whose heartbreak hasn’t yet healed.
The track is included on Aiko’s tenth album, Time’s Silhouette, released in 2012.
It’s a number that conjures a world where only you and the one you love exist—just the two of you, seeing no one else.
misfortuneren
“Fushi-awase” — that’s exactly how you feel after parting with someone you love, isn’t it? This song, released in 2023 by singer-songwriter Ren, was crafted to spotlight the emotions of a man in the immediate aftermath of a breakup.
If you don’t somehow convert that sadness into another feeling and force yourself to switch gears, your heart just keeps getting swallowed by the darkness…
While he tries to stay positive, the inability to truly let go spills out across the entire track.
It’s a recommended song for anyone caught between “I’ll try my best” and “I just can’t.”
Lingering Snowiruka
Released in November 1975 and selling a total of 800,000 copies, “Nagori Yuki” is Iruka’s signature song.
Written and composed by Masakazu Ise of the group Kaguyahime, the song became famous when Iruka’s cover version turned into a mega-hit.
Its lyrics about an unwilling parting and the song’s emotional world beautifully depict the shift from winter to spring and the changes in environment and relationships.
It’s an immortal classic that we find ourselves listening to every year, as if reliving the memories.
single bedSha ran Q
This was Sharam Q’s first million-selling single, released in 1994.
Although it peaked at No.
9 on the Oricon charts, it caught fire through cable radio and continued to sell for several years after its release, becoming the band’s signature monster hit.
The realistic lyrics and the tear-jerking melody—beloved by Japanese listeners—that fuses kayōkyoku and rock showcase Tsunku’s talent.
GoodbyeŌhara Sakurako
From the very first notes, this song will have you in tears—there’s no doubt you’ll be sobbing.
“Sayonara,” the eighth single released by Sakurako Ohara in 2017, is a track that will surely leave anyone nursing a broken heart unable to stop crying.
The song was written and composed by Yoshiki Mizuno of Ikimonogakari.
Parting with someone who felt like your “everything” is so painful and heartbreaking that it can feel impossible to recover.
If you’re feeling that way now, I hope you listen to this song and let yourself cry as much as you need.
Parting at 22kaguya hime
Although it’s quite an old folk song, I feel that the age of 22 is, in any era, a time when many people reach the end of their student days and experience things like heartbreak—an age when universal farewells are often encountered.
It’s a song that will be loved across generations.
[Tear-Jerking Farewell Songs] Love songs about parting with someone you love (161–170)
whiteerica
Singer-songwriter Erica, who hails from Yamanashi Prefecture.
Gaining attention through social media like YouTube, she released the song “White” in 2023.
It portrays everyday life after a breakup, singing about moments when tears overflow just from thinking of a loved one.
Her beautiful yet fragile vocals, delivered over a soundscape resonant with sweeping strings, convey a wide range of emotions.
It’s a ballad that honestly expresses the yearning wish to meet that person again and again.
