Unrequited Love Songs Recommended for High School Students | Love Songs to Listen to While Thinking of Your Crush
Introducing the best unrequited love songs for high schoolers!
Many of you who spend most of your day at school probably have someone you like at the same school.
While it’s exciting to see them every day, some of you may also be feeling that bittersweet ache: “We’re too close for me to confess,” or “I ended up liking the same person as my friend.”
The unrequited love songs selected in this article feature real, straightforward lyrics, so those of you in the thick of your youth are sure to love them.
Try finding the song that perfectly matches how you feel right now!
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Best Unrequited Love Songs for High Schoolers | Love Songs to Listen to While Thinking of Your Crush (41–50)
Melancholy, resplendentCreepHyp
“Yuu, Sansan” is CreepHyp’s third single, released in 2013.
It was written specifically for Shiseido’s ANESSA commercial and reached No.
10 on the Oricon Singles Chart.
The title fuses two contrasting words—“melancholy” and “brilliantly radiant, like the sun”—to express the ups and downs of romance.
It’s a work that showcases the unique creativity of Seikaikan Ozaki, who wrote the lyrics and composed the music, so definitely give it a listen!
Unrequited Love Songs Recommended for High School Students | Love Songs to Listen to While Thinking of Your Crush (51–60)
I wish you were hereLEGO BIG MORL
A song about feelings for a lover you’ll never meet again is “Anata ga Ireba Ii no ni” by the Osaka-born rock band LEGO BIG MORL.
It was included on their 2017 album “Shinzō no Ibasho.” The song was created around 2011, the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, and it’s said that Hiroki Tanaka, who wrote the lyrics, also lost someone dear to him.
Those emotions are reflected in the song’s words.
If you’re currently in unrequited love, it might be best to express your feelings while you still can.
MetronomeYonezu Kenshi
Kenshi Yonezu, a singer-songwriter also known as the Vocaloid producer Hachi.
His song “Metronome” uses two metronomes that gradually fall out of sync as a metaphor for the drifting apart of “me” and “you.” Even though there’s nothing they can do to fix their irreparable relationship, the feeling of love just keeps overflowing.
It’s a masterpiece that can make you cry even if you’re not in love, isn’t it? Though it’s a sad song, it might be one that gives you the courage to confess “before it comes to this.”
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This is a song about lingering feelings for a love you let go of yourself.
The lyrics and music were written by the popular singer-songwriter Aimyon.
The protagonist’s regret—realizing how much their lover meant as the world seems to fade right after the breakup—is something high schoolers who’ve split up over small arguments or misunderstandings can’t help but relate to.
That aching wish to see the person you love in any way possible is an emotion many people with unrequited feelings share.
It’s a track that became quite the topic of conversation, so please give it a listen.
astronomical observationBUMP OF CHICKEN
If there’s one song that made BUMP OF CHICKEN famous for their many emo tracks, it would have to be “Tentai Kansoku” (Stargazing).
The lyrics, about stargazing while thinking of a lover who’s drifted away, are heartbreakingly beautiful.
Released in 2001 as their third single, it reached No.
3 on the Oricon Singles Chart, and it continued to rank high in karaoke charts for many years after its release.
While the lyrics are about a breakup, the bittersweet emotion also resonates with unrequited love—so it’s a song I especially recommend to anyone currently nursing a crush.
GO FOR IT!!Nishino Kana
When it comes to love songs, Kana Nishino is a must.
She has many tracks that seem to speak for young women in love, and her realistic lyrics are especially popular among women experiencing romance.
This song, “GO FOR IT!!,” whose title carries the meaning of “Do your best!” is like a cheer-up anthem for girls in love, a number that seems to nurture positive feelings.
It’s a song that makes you empathize with a girl who’s bewildered by love and full of swirling thoughts, and that inspires you to try your best too.
calculatingly cuteHinatazaka46
This is a song released in 2020 by the idol group Hinatazaka46, sung from a male perspective about unrequited love.
Once you fall in love, even if she isn’t conventionally beautiful, she looks like the cutest girl in the world, and everything she does somehow connects back to “I like you”—a love as sweet as sugar is woven through the lyrics.
Taken objectively, it’s full of lines that might seem embarrassing, but when a man actually falls in love, many might be surprised to find they feel the same way.
It’s a happy, feel-good track that will make you grin just thinking about the girl you like!