[Unrequited Love] Heart-wrenching Love Songs | A Roundup of Tear-Inducing Crush and Breakup Tracks
“Even though I know it won’t be rewarded…” Once you fall in love, it’s not so easy to stop your feelings, is it?
You tell yourself you can’t go on like this, that you have to end it, but when you see them, you just can’t hold back your love.
In this article, we introduce love songs that portray the pain of unrequited love and lay bare those unspoken feelings.
Listen to them when you’re tired of loving.
They’ll gently wrap around you, saying, “It’s tough, I know.”
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Unrequited Love: A Collection of Heartbreaking Love Songs | A Comprehensive Introduction to Tear-Jerking Crush and Breakup Songs (231–240)
Unrequited lovemiwa
miwa’s eighth ballad single, released in 2012.
It’s a love song about a girl’s poignant unrequited love.
You can feel how she just can’t help how deeply she loves the other person.
It reminded me of the person I admired in my school days, to whom I couldn’t even say a word.
Back then, even though I wanted to hold hands and laugh together, I never ended up taking action.
This song encourages women struggling with unrequited love, both now and in the past.
Because I fell in loveaimyon
This song is included on the second album, “Momentary Sixth Sense.” It warmly sings of a pure love that changes the way the world looks when you fall for someone.
When you’re in unrequited love, the everyday scenery looks completely different, doesn’t it? Everything seems beautiful, and the person you’ve fallen for shines so brightly you can hardly look at them.
At the same time, you feel lonely… This song captures everything about unrequited love.
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Relationship of Others feat. SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONSHitoto Yo
It was chosen as the theme song for the much-talked-about drama “Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon,” and became a huge hit along with the show’s success.
Originally a cover of Katsuko Kanai’s 1973 single, the song’s lyrics depict a forbidden adult romance.
They’re filled with lines that make your heart race.
Friend’s PoemNakamura Ataru
The song “Tomodachi no Uta,” which Ataru Nakamura wrote for the first time at age 15, is based on her own unfulfilled love.
It was also used as the theme song for the drama “Watashi ga Watashi de Aru Tame ni,” so many of you may already know it.
The unspoken feelings—love that ended without even becoming friends—resonate poignantly in the heart.
short-sleevedImai Miki
Released in 1990, it’s a song by Miki Imai about an unattainable love.
It conveys the anguish and resolve of a woman who has fallen for a man with a wife and child.
She must have witnessed him cherishing his family.
Even knowing he will not love her, you can feel her wavering feelings as she tries to keep loving the man she loves.
The Land of LoveKato Miria
Even though you both probably have feelings for each other, it’s a love that will never be fulfilled—if you’ve found yourself in that kind of situation, I want you to listen to Miliyah Kato’s “Ai no Kuni.” Its straightforward lyrics about loving someone who already has someone else and a yearning that can’t be resolved resonate with those suffering through the same kind of love.
Especially because it’s hard to open up to others about this kind of heartache, songs can become a source of support.
Ai no Kuni shares the lonely, bittersweet pain you have to carry on your own.
I want you to tell me you love me.Oku Hanako
Released in 2008, this is Hanako Oku’s eighth single.
It sings of an unfulfilled love from the perspective of a woman who has fallen for a man who already has a girlfriend.
He may have thought of her as a female friend he could talk to about anything.
The song portrays the pain of a woman who can neither return to being just friends nor become his lover, trapped in an ambiguous relationship—expressed through Hanako Oku’s heartrending vocals and the sound of the piano.