Farewell Song: A goodbye song. A tearful parting song.
In life, we encounter many farewells at various milestones—graduation, transfers, retirement, pursuing our dreams, and even heartbreak.
Even when we know that parting is a step toward a new path, leaving our current environment can still bring feelings of loneliness and pain.
Conversely, sending someone off on their new journey can be just as difficult.
In this article, we introduce songs that center on different farewell scenarios in life—friendships, romance, graduation, and more.
We’ve carefully selected masterpieces that give you the courage to overcome the anxiety of a new path and the pain of parting, transforming them into new strength.
We’ll present wonderful tracks that will make you feel that farewells, too, have meaning.
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Farewell Songs: Goodbye Tunes. Tearful Parting Songs (111–120)
DepartureGReeeeN
This song contains a message of support to a lover who left to pursue their dreams.
It’s a track by the music group GReeeeN, released in 2008 as their sixth single.
The lyrics are written in down-to-earth language that makes each word relatable.
If you’ve ever broken up with a partner upon graduating school, this bittersweet yet forward-looking number will almost certainly resonate.
Give it a listen when you want to move past sadness and lingering attachment.
Etude of Farewell: Songs of Goodbye. Tearful farewell songs (121–130)
passing by each otherSoala
“Surechigai” is a song that gives voice to the pent-up emotions of being told goodbye by someone you love.
Singer-songwriter Soala, who rose to popularity through TikTok and other social media, released it in 2023.
Set to a rhythmic, R&B-style track, her emotional vocals unfold as she portrays the aching feelings of a love that, despite knowing it’s coming to an end, keeps asking the other person the same questions over and over.
From the verse and pre-chorus that feel like intimate conversations to the chorus that blossoms into passionate singing, this heartbreak song conveys overflowing affection.
After the nightadieu
The stage name that Moka Kamishiraishi—who is active as an actress, model, and TV personality—uses for her singing career is adieu.
The song included on her 2019 album “adieu 1” is “Yoru no Ato” (After the Night).
It carries a tender yet heartrending message for the moment before parting with a loved one.
Many listeners may relate to the lyrics that express wishing happiness for the other person, even while knowing you’ll be separated.
It’s a ballad in which her clear, translucent voice resonates, offering comfort to the loneliness of the night.
Why not give this track—often used in breakup-themed videos and lyric videos—a listen?
I’ve listened to so many heartbreak songs, and I’m done with always crying.riria.
Singer-songwriter Riria, who resonates with listeners through songs depicting various forms of romance.
Her 2022 release “I’ve listened to tons of breakup songs and cried so much, but I’m done” was also chosen as the ending theme for the second cour of the anime Summertime Render.
The song portrays someone who knows their love can no longer come true, yet can’t forget the precious memories spent with the person they love.
Set to a warm, slow-tempo band arrangement, her transparent vocals convey the purity of first love.
Lend an ear to the lines that carry messages of comfort for the pain and loneliness of parting.
Goodbye to youKaneyori Masaru
Kaneyori Masaru is a three-piece rock band whose name was chosen because using a person’s name felt familiar and easy to think of.
Their song “Kimi ni Sayonara,” released on October 18, 2023, makes a strong impression with an opening that features a wistful vocal and guitar sound.
The lyrics, which depict the complex emotions after a breakup, evoke a sense of realism that can’t be summed up by sadness or loneliness alone.
It’s a sentimental, melancholy number with a melody that stirs the heart.
left-right confusionYorushika
The theme song for the film “Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight,” which tells a heartbreaking yet precious love story about a girl who loses her memory day by day and a boy who lives bound by his memories.
It’s a song by the two-piece rock band Yorushika that likens a universal farewell between lovers—parting from someone you love and gradually forgetting them until even their face fades—to left-right confusion.
The memories that the two believed they could never forget when they were together slowly disappear, and the painful way they slip away tightens the heart.
I’ll miss you.Ōhashi Chippoke
It’s a farewell song that gently lets slip the feelings hidden in one’s heart.
Written by singer-songwriter Chippoke Ohashi, who has produced hits like “Evergreen” and “Mirror Image,” it was released in October 2023 and is included on his second album, “character.” Set to a relaxed tempo, the song voices heartfelt emotions for a former lover, with unpretentious, unfussy words that pierce you one by one.
And yet, the lingering impression after listening is, curiously, a warm one.
When you want someone by your side, this might be the song to turn to.