[Relatable] Songs to listen to when you want to feel loved.
When you strongly long to be loved, you find yourself wanting to discover songs that resonate with your heart, don’t you? Our hearts can feel calmer and braver when they’re wrapped in vocals and melody.
In this article, we’ll introduce songs that gently accompany that wish to be loved.
Give a listen to these tracks that are bound to resonate with your feelings and your desire to be loved.
We hope to bring you encounters with special songs that light a warm glow in your heart—so take your time and savor them.
- Songs you want to listen to when you’re in the mood for love. Romantic tracks that make you want to fall in love.
- A tear-jerking love song. A love song that stays close to a hurting heart.
- [Empathetic & Tear-Jerking] A love song about an unrequited romance
- [A Song That Makes Love Come True] Carefully selected love songs perfect for those who want to make their unrequited love come true!
- "A Love Song I Can't Tell Anyone" — a love song you can relate to when times are tough
- A song that supports love. A romance song that gives you a gentle push.
- A confession song that gives your feelings a push—love songs for telling someone you like them.
- “I Want to See You”: A love song that makes you cry when you listen to it while you can’t meet
- Mutual love, unrequited love, familial love... classic songs that sing about affection
- [Confession Songs] Carefully selected songs that give you the courage to express your feelings & popular love songs
- A tear-jerking love song that gently stays by your heart
- A love song for grown-ups. A romantic tune to listen to at night.
- [A Gem of a Love Song] Classic and Popular Tracks to Listen to When You're in Love
[Guaranteed to resonate] Songs to listen to when you want to feel loved. (1–10)
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With their realistic psychological portrayals, back number captures the hearts of many fans.
Their eighth single, released in June 2013, truly feels like “a song packed full of one-sided-love imaginings.” You can’t help but nod along at the poignant sense of distance—being nothing more than “a friend of a friend” to the person you like—and at the way you get depressed by imagining the kind of partner they’d want and deciding you don’t measure up.
In contrast to those lyrics, the brisk, refreshing sound gently propels that frustrating, unrequited longing forward.
The track is also included on the album “Love Story,” and it was used in a commercial in 2019.
Wishing to be loved yet unable to take that final step—this is a one-sided love song that will surely resonate and stay close to your heart.
Imo-rai Imotuki.
You know how the smallest exchanges with someone you love can shake your heart.
This song is a ballad that delicately portrays the complex emotions of love and lies in romance.
It’s sung by tuki., a singer-songwriter whose collaborative video with Yuuri, released in December 2023, drew a lot of attention.
In this track from November 2024, the anxieties that arise precisely because you care so deeply—and the earnest wish to keep believing in the other person—come through clearly in her expressively rich voice.
You may find yourself resonating with its profound message of accepting the other person, love, lies, and all.
For hearts that long to be loved yet grow timid, this song will gently stay by your side.
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This is an achingly bittersweet love song from California-born artist Chris Hart.
It portrays the piercing longing of someone wishing to be loved again like before as the relationship cools, and it tightens your chest as you listen.
Released in February 2014 as his first original single, the song also became widely known as the commercial theme for Ace JTB featuring Emi Takei.
His vocals draw out the full power of the words and melody, elevating the piece into a consummate ballad that borders on art.
On lonely nights when you just want to be loved, being wrapped in this warm yet powerful voice is sure to lighten your heart, even if only a little.
[Guaranteed to resonate] Songs to listen to when you want to feel loved. (11–20)
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“Because you’re here, I can shine.” It’s a warm ballad that sings gratitude to a beloved person.
The song is by Shota Shimizu, a singer-songwriter from Osaka Prefecture, and is included on his fourth album, “Naturally,” released in March 2012.
The gentle piano melody and soulful vocals convey a straightforward feeling that one’s world begins to shine thanks to someone special.
This track seems to carry a message that being loved can change who you are, nurturing a sense of self-worth.
On nights when you long to be loved, try listening while picturing the face of the person who supports you.
I want to be with you.Ayumu Imazu
This song brims with straightforward affection for a loved one and a desire to stay together from here on out.
It’s a track by Ayumu Imazu, released digitally in November 2025, which gained attention after he posted a demo on social media in January of the same year.
Although it wasn’t tied in with any films or TV shows, it’s a carefully crafted piece for which he also created the artwork himself.
Even if you cherish your partner, some of you might struggle to put your true feelings into words, right? If you share this song at such times, the genuine love you hold inside will gently seep into their heart.
Try conveying your wish to always be by their side together with this piece.
I want to be loved.Oku Hanako
A song that tenderly embraces the earnest wish to be loved.
Created by singer-songwriter Okuhanako, it appears on the album “vol.best,” released in April 2005 during her indie days.
The piece gives voice, over a quiet piano melody, to a piercing question: can we keep living by clinging to the memories of being loved, even when we feel hollowed out by loneliness? Her voice—praised as one that can move you to tears on sound alone—seems to gently scoop up feelings that words can’t express.
The song distills the power of her music, which speaks straight to the heart—this is the artist who once sold 488 CDs in a single day at a street performance.
On nights when you long to be loved deeply by someone, listening alone in silence may kindle a warm light in your heart.
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It’s an impressive rock tune with lyrics that candidly lay bare possessiveness and self-loathing in love.
The band sound shifts from a quiet, narrative tone to an explosive chorus, delivering directly to your ears and heart the feelings of spinning your wheels in the desperate wish to be loved.
The track was included on the single “Hitomebore e.p.,” released in July 2015, and later featured on the major-label album “woman’s.” It can be considered one of the band’s signature songs, having been performed on Music Station in April 2022.
When you’re struggling with the distance between you and someone you like, and feeling down about your own awkwardness, listening to it may powerfully affirm that pain.