Sad songs. Emotional catharsis to detox your heart.

SEASONSHamasaki Ayumi

Ayumi Hamasaki / SEASONS (Short Ver.)

Ayumi Hamasaki’s 16th single.

Together with the preceding songs “vogue” and “Far away,” it is known as part of the “Trilogy of Despair.” Its calm, quiet tone and lyrics that feel like a gentle monologue—or words spoken to oneself—make it a song that recalls the bitterness of youth.

Song of the Pitch-Black ForestTaniyama Hiroko

[Minna no Uta] The Song of the Pitch-Black Forest [Hiroko Taniyama]

This is a song that was broadcast with animation on NHK’s “Minna no Uta.” Its melody evokes sadness, and the lyrics are mysterious, elusive, and difficult to interpret.

It’s said that many children who were very young at the time of the broadcast found the song frightening.

Goodbye, my beloved.Hana＊Hana

Hana*Hana “Goodbye, My Beloved”

It is said that Izumi Kojima wrote this song for her late grandfather.

It was the theme song for the 2000 drama “Oyaji.” The melody is gentle and refreshing, but the lyrics evoke a poignant sense of enduring the inevitable parting from someone dearly loved.

a burned-out plainCocco

Cocco – Scorched Wasteland [Video Clip Short]

Cocco’s 11th single.

It was her last single before she went on hiatus.

The melody isn’t sad, but the lyrics convey a deep sadness and poignancy.

It’s a song I want to listen to when I’m stuck on something, feeling lonely, or tripping up in love.

STAYKobukuro

STAY　

Kobukuro’s 18th single.

The theme song for “The Summer of Bureaucrats.” It is a song that earnestly sings of a breakup with a lover, memories of happier times in the past, and regret.

The heart that has dried up after the breakup is expressed as a “desert,” and love is expressed as a “flower.” It is a song about being unable to accept the separation and still longing intensely for the lover.

Silent PianoKurahashi Yoeko

Yoko Kurahashi - The Silent Piano

It’s a song that begins with a prelude of piano brimming with sorrow.

While it’s about breaking up with a lover, the lyrics convey not only the sadness of parting but also a hint of resentment toward the other person and anger at their lies.

It’s a heartbreak song that likens the heart, which breaks and crumbles after the separation, to a desert, and ends by tying it all together with a final “goodbye.”

secret base ~What You Gave Me~ZONE

secret base ~What You Gave Me~ – ZONE

ZONE’s third single.

A song that has been covered by many artists.

Rather than focusing on romance, it strongly conveys themes of friendship and parting with friends.

It sings about the sorrow of a sudden separation due to the protagonist or a friend transferring schools, yet the promise to meet again in August ten years later leaves a ray of hope.