Unrequited love songs that strike a man's heart. Love songs from a male perspective that really hit home.
When you have a crush, so many emotions come flooding in, don’t they? You start overthinking or feeling happy even about things you wouldn’t normally notice—like a casual word or gesture from them.
When you can’t see them, the longing just grows stronger.
At times when your heart feels like it’s going to overflow during a one-sided love, music stays by our side.
There are tons of songs about unrequited love, and many of them are bittersweet love songs—but there are also upbeat tracks and ones with unique perspectives that are fun and can lift your spirits, too! You’ll definitely relate—and probably won’t be able to stop listening!
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Unrequited love songs that resonate with a man's heart. Love songs from a male perspective that hit home (91–100)
Spell On MeSHE’S
SHE’S is a piano rock band known for their beautiful melodies and vivid imagery.
“Spell On Me” is a ballad written as the ending theme for a romance drama—what you could call a “one-sided-love road movie.” The lyrics capture feelings of being drawn to a fleeting expression or falling in love at first sight.
With each conversation, the love grows stronger; as the crush deepens, the emotions swell and become harder to control—this song gently embraces that vulnerable, earnest side of a man in love.
It’s a track you’ll especially want to hear when you can imagine a future precisely because it’s with this person.
Paired with the music video, which is themed around “film,” the emotional impact deepens even further and truly resonates.
Old Rookiemoon drop
Moon Drop is a four-piece rock band from Ise City in Mie Prefecture.
Their song “Old Rookie” is captivating for its beautiful lyrics, especially the line “I want to be in love and feel butterflies for the rest of my life,” which pierces the heart.
In particular, the harmonized vocals of lead singer-guitarist Toya Hamaguchi and bassist-chorus Tomoya Saka instantly lift the mood toward romance.
The lyrics conveying “Even if it’s not flashy like a drama, just being able to be with the natural you is enough” also do a great job of expressing a man’s feelings.
Unrequited love songs that resonate with a man's heart. Love songs from a male perspective that hit home (101–110)
Close your eyesHirai Ken
Even if your feelings aren’t reciprocated, a song that lets you cherish the time spent with the one you love is “Hitomi wo Tojite.” It was released in 2004 by singer-songwriter Ken Hirai, known for delivering songs with a unique worldview, and was chosen as the theme song for the film “Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World.” Its beautiful tones, built from piano and strings, resonate deeply.
His warm yet heartrending vocals loosen the tear ducts before you know it.
Please give this fragile yet beautiful, emotion-filled ballad a listen.
Pretending to be a friendOkamura Yasuyuki
This “Pretending to Be a Friend” is Yasuyuki Okamura’s 10th single.
The girl he likes has someone else she likes, and things aren’t going well with that person.
The song conveys the frustration of how, even though she knows how he feels, she acts somewhat interested yet still won’t give him an answer.
NIGHT TOWNfurenzu
Friends, a “Shinsen-kei band” hailing from Shibuya/ Shinsen in Tokyo, deliver a poppy, happy sound.
This track features a lovely, comfortable groove and Emison’s flowing vocals.
Although it’s a 2017 song included on their mini-album Petit Town, it became a long-running hit on streaming services after being featured in the film We Made a Beautiful Bouquet.
With a mellow mood that makes you want to stroll through the city at night, it blends an exciting sense of anticipation with the flutter of romance.
The lyrics, which make you want to know more about the person you like, stir the emotions—and they’ll tug at a guy’s heartstrings, too!
Virtual Luv feat. tofubeatsVaVa
A song that gazes at one-sided love from a man’s perspective, seen through a virtual world.
By “virtual,” does it mean the two-dimensional realms of manga and anime? This man can stand confidently before the person he loves when he’s singing as a musician.
But as his unadorned self, he lacks confidence, and the person he loves won’t look his way.
Since they can’t be together in reality, he imagines them as a couple in the two-dimensional world.
Effeminate; overly sentimental; being clingy/whiny (context-dependent)Gōruden Bonbā
This is the seventh single by Golden Bomber, a visual-kei “air band” that shocked the J-pop scene with their unique style of being a band that doesn’t actually play instruments.
It’s their signature and most representative song, known for its high-energy sound and performances paired with a nostalgic melody reminiscent of classic kayōkyoku.
The lyrics portray a man who can’t let go even after being dumped, and as the title suggests, it’s “pathetically clingy,” yet deeply relatable.
It’s an uplifting tune that resonates with men’s emotions and is also recommended as a karaoke song for guys with unrequited love.
