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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)
shameless; indecentchanmina
This work was released in September 2021 as the title track of Chanmina’s third full album, “Harenchi.” To me, it portrays a contradictory heart that becomes bold precisely because it knows love.
At first glance the attitude seems free and uninhibited, but behind it may lie a desperate wish to be loved.
That precarious emotional balance is likely what powerfully grips listeners.
In 2022, it was chosen as the theme song for the dating reality show “Tonari no Koi wa Aoku Mieru 3,” and it resonated so widely that it surpassed 100 million streams.
It’s a song to listen to when your feelings of love overflow, or when you want to affirm the part of yourself that puts on a brave face.
greatest common divisorRADWIMPS
This is a song that empathizes with the pain of differing values in a romantic relationship and the deep longing to be loved.
It’s included on rock band RADWIMPS’ album “RADWIMPS 3: Mujintou ni Motte Ikiwasureta Ichimai,” released in February 2006, and was also used as an insert song for the NHK drama “Kansai Tokushu Manyo Love Story: Winter.” Using the language of mathematics, it gently portrays two people with different strides and paces as they keep searching for the perfect point where their hearts intersect.
The conversational vocals carried by the calm soundscape resonate deeply.
Rather than simply seeking love, the lyrics encourage accepting each other’s differences and walking forward together—sure to give you courage.
Why not listen to a love song that warmly wraps your anxieties?.
I just wanted to be loved.shizuku
A piano ballad by shizuku that I want those who feel misunderstood in their loneliness or simply long to be loved to hear.
This song seems to portray a pure cry from the heart—a wish to be acknowledged with a “You did your best,” when you can’t find value in yourself.
The delicate piano melodies and the calm yet resilient voice of the musical voicebank KAFU gently speak the feelings that are hard to put into words.
Released in June 2024 and included on the mini-album “Honne,” the track reached 500,000 views on YouTube by September 2025.
Listen to it on nights when you’re tempted to blame yourself or when you need warm words, and the tension in your heart will gently loosen.
It’s a song that wraps your pain in a gentle embrace.
I want to be loved.Mioyamazaki
On nights when you’re overwhelmed by an inescapable loneliness and simply wish to be loved, the ballad by the rock band MIOYAMAZAKI is there to keep you company.
This song lays bare a desperate cry to have someone acknowledge the weaknesses hidden deep within your heart and your true, unadorned self, delivered through vocals that sound as if they’re carved from the soul.
Included as the final track on the masterful album “choice,” released in October 2017, it also drew attention for its music video featuring then-popular adult actress Kirara Asuka.
The visuals, portraying her inner conflict, deepen the song’s poignant worldview.
If anyone reading this feels their chest about to burst from unspoken anxieties, this track will surely wrap your heart in gentle warmth.
I want to be lovedYumcha
A song for anyone struggling with unrequited love who wants to make their crush turn around.
It’s a track by singer-songwriter Yumcha, known for works like “More Than Friends, Less Than Lovers.” The lyrics portray a brave, upbeat protagonist who tries self-improvement to get noticed and even uses Instagram’s Notes feature to express their feelings.
Love that doesn’t easily come to fruition can be disheartening at times.
This song wraps your heart in comfort and fills you with a strong resolve to become even cuter and try again.
Released in November 2024, it quickly became a hot topic on social media and resonated with many, even reaching No.
30 on Spotify’s charts.
I LOVE YOUkurisu haato
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.
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.