[Heart-wrenching] A Special Feature on Songs Themed Around Lies That Hit You Deep—Classics and Fan Favorites

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back number – From the Hands We Held

I can hear it as: while the feelings they had just after they started dating were by no means a lie, as time passed those emotions faded, and only when he made a big mistake did he finally realize how important she was.

Women are, after all, easily moved by promises and words, so I’m curious about what will happen to the two of them after this.

Piyo’s GratitudeIwao Junko

Junko Iwao / Piyo’s Return of a Favor

This is a song that was broadcast on NHK’s “Minna no Uta” in 2015.

From the title, I initially thought it was a parody of “The Grateful Crane,” but it actually has quite a deep meaning.

Interpretations probably vary by generation, but amid lyrics that pass back and forth between fairytale and reality, why does it speak of fifty years devoted to family? Piyo says that everything is a lie, but that feels like words that just slipped out.

I get the sense that from now on, they want to spend their time looking at the beautiful moon with their beloved grandpa.

A lie to youVALSHE

VALSHE 9th Single “A Lie to You” MUSIC VIDEO FULL ver.

VALSHE is a female singer whose charm lies in her boyish-sounding voice.

This song was used as the ending theme for the popular anime Detective Conan.

It sings of very heartbreaking, sorrowful lies—ones that make you worry and wonder, “Why tell such a lie?” You’ll want to say, “Don’t be deceived by that lie,” yet the theme is a ballad about so-called gentle lies—lies told out of care for someone else.

It’s a sad number where you can almost feel the heart growing empty in your hands.

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LOOKING FOR A RAINBOWLINDBERG

LOOKING FOR A RAINBOW / LINDBERG

It sings that the rainbow we saw long ago with my childhood friend is a hope for life.

At first I thought this childhood friend was a boy, but in the end it makes you feel she is a girl.

The messages from the teacher and friends telling me to stay away convey the childhood friend’s loneliness keenly.

Above all, the phrase that they were hurt more than others because they hated “lies” is a sad one.

You told a lie.ofukōsu

You told a lie.

“You Lied,” a song by Off Course, the band Oda Kazumasa—renowned for his clear, resonant voice—once belonged to, is their 25th single, released in 1984.

The lyrics convey the feelings of a man who realizes his lover’s heart has changed.

You can feel the restless unease in the moment he senses the lie.

He doesn’t confront or expose the falsehood; instead, he keeps brooding over it in his heart.

It’s a heartbreak song that powerfully communicates that helpless, bittersweet emotion.

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Sayonara, baby.Kato Miria

Miliyah Kato 'Sayonara Baby'

The song “SAYONARA Baby,” which sings about the lies and back-and-forth in a man–woman romance, is Miliyah Kato’s 13th single, released in 2008.

It’s a track packed with that frustrating mix of a man’s betrayal and lies, and the wavering feelings of a woman who knows it’s a lie but still wants to believe.

If you’ve been through something like this, you’ll probably feel a strong sense of “I know exactly how that feels.” More than the desire to believe because you’re in love, you’re already aware of your own emotions that recognize it’s a lie.

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SWEET MEMORIESMatsuda Seiko

Seiko Matsuda / SWEET MEMORIES

It’s a song that shot to fame through a canned beer commercial, where the fact that Seiko Matsuda was the singer was kept under wraps, so it became popular on the strength of the song itself and its use in the ad.

It tells of two former lovers who meet again and relive their happy days, but when the inevitable question comes—“Are you happy now?”—the fact that she can’t instantly produce a convenient lie reflects the complexity of a woman’s psychology.