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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[Songs That Make You Cry] Love Songs About Parting with Someone You Love (171–180)
Once moreTani Yuuki
A heart-stirring, gem-like ballad imbued with a powerful desire to reclaim a lost love.
Tani Yuuki’s gentle vocals and the warm, tender melody further highlight the feelings toward someone precious.
Released in September 2022, the song was well received on streaming charts, and its music video—featuring grand CG visuals themed around cells—also drew attention.
Its message resonates: overcoming the loneliness and anxiety everyone can relate to, joining hands, and opening a path to the future together.
It’s a perfect track for those who want to face memories of a loved one and the emotions that follow a farewell.
Until your night breaks (into dawn)Kasamura Tōta
This is one of Tota Kasamura’s signature works, beginning with a question posed to a broken world and a mistaken world.
The sorrow of losing a loved one and the aching wish to meet them again resonate deeply.
The melody, woven to accompany the listener’s emotions, and the lyrics, imbued with profound love, are beautifully harmonized.
Released in January 2019 and included on the February 2021 album “How to Become a Wonderful Adult,” this piece—together with its counterpart, “Lily of the Endless Night”—is highly regarded as one of Kasamura’s representative Vocaloid songs.
It is a gem that offers comfort and healing to those facing the grief of losing someone dear, as well as to anyone who loves someone deeply.
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.
Mirror, mirrorBAK
After parting ways with someone precious, you may find yourself realizing their importance all over again.
That’s when I want you to listen to “Mirror, Mirror.” It’s a song released by singer BKB, who debuted in 2021.
Using the phrase from the title, the song asks the mirror who the beloved person’s most important person is.
In doing so, it portrays the growing realization of who one’s own most important person truly is.
Be sure to check out the music video’s mirror-focused visuals, too.
leap day personRADWIMPS
A poignant song by RADWIMPS written as the theme for the film “The Last 10 Years.” It portrays the fragility of spending limited time with a loved one and highlights the preciousness of life.
The lyrics strikingly express a contradiction of modern society: physical distance can shrink, yet emotional distance remains.
The sense of helplessness and inner conflict—wanting to do something for someone you love but being unable to—hits close to the heart.
It’s a song that stays close to the sorrow of losing someone important while evoking hope for a reunion.
[Tear-jerking Farewell Songs] Love songs about parting with someone you love (181–190)
Until the day I can no longer rememberback number
This is a poignant song about parting with someone dear.
Iyori Shimizu’s delicate vocals gently enfold the feelings for the one who was lost.
It carefully depicts the depth of their bond and the emptiness that follows their absence, making it a piece that resonates deeply with listeners.
The song was also selected as the ending theme for a TV Tokyo music program, winning widespread empathy.
It’s the perfect track for when you want to remember someone important, or reaffirm your feelings for them.
Why not close your eyes and listen slowly?
Parting Flowersurii
Sully, a singer-songwriter also known as a Vocaloid producer, wrote “Wakarebana” after experiencing the loss of someone dear to him.
The song expresses gratitude to someone he can no longer meet and the longing he feels for them.
Despite its sorrowful theme, the melody is upbeat.
Listen with that contrast in mind.
By the way, “wakarebana” refers to the flowers placed in a coffin at a funeral.
Keeping that in mind will help the song’s message resonate even more.