[Tear-Jerking Breakup Songs] A curated selection of love songs that gently comfort a wounded heart!
We’re introducing tear-jerking love songs that are perfect for when you’re heartbroken.
Even if you mustered the courage to confess your feelings but it didn’t go well, you might find yourself thinking, “I wish I hadn’t said anything.”
Some of you may want to be alone, sink into your sadness, and have a good cry.
In this article, we’ve gathered love songs that will stay close to hearts like yours.
First, give yourself credit for being able to express your feelings!
Then, while listening to songs that truly resonate, gently soothe your heart as it struggles with that aching, directionless pain.
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[Tear-Jerking Breakup Songs] A carefully curated selection of love songs that gently comfort a wounded heart! (41–50)
One more time, One more chanceYamazaki Masayoshi
This is Masayoshi Yamazaki’s fourth single, released in 1997.
It was selected as the theme song for the film The Moon and a Cabbage, in which he starred for the first time.
The gentle tones of the acoustic guitar resonate deeply.
His voice, at times softly confiding and at times powerfully ringing out, is enough to move you to tears.
It’s a song best listened to alone, taking your time.
dearestKOH+
KOH+, the duo formed by Masaharu Fukuyama and Kou Shibasaki, released their second single, “Saiai.” This song served as the theme for the film adaptation of the drama “Galileo,” titled “The Devotion of Suspect X,” in which both of them appeared.
With Shibasaki’s soothing vocals and the song’s conversational delivery, it’s a number that will surely bring tears to anyone nursing a broken heart.
The tangled mix of regret and lingering love will resonate painfully with anyone going through a breakup.
emptyyuzu
“Karappo,” a song released by Yuzu in 1998.
When you go through a breakup, your mind can go blank, or if you start thinking, you spiral into the same thoughts over and over, and waves of regret like “If only I’d done this back then” come crashing in.
This song captures that helpless inner turmoil—a heartbreak number many can relate to.
Breakups come with plenty of regrets, but rather than simply forgetting, we want to sort through those feelings and learn to coexist with them, cherishing them as part of us.
beetle (specifically, a rhinoceros beetle)aiko
It’s a song that shines with Aiko’s unique sensibility, likening herself in love to a rhinoceros beetle.
Breakups are hard for everyone, leaving both heart and body weakened.
Even when you act tough, you’re really lonely inside, aren’t you? The song captures the complex feelings of such a woman.
It’s a heartbreak song, but a beloved classic that’s hugely popular at karaoke.
tobacco / cigarette(s)Koresawa
Many people who have experienced heartbreak were likely moved to tears by Koresawa’s “Tabako.” After the breakup, what remained, sitting there alone, was the cigarettes you always hated.
You dislike them, but seeing them brings back memories of the person you loved.
Behind the wish that they would have faced you rather than something like that lies the question: did I truly face them myself? That train of thought circles around and around, giving rise to various regrets—something this song portrays.
After a breakup, some people are consumed by sadness, while others get lost in reflection, turning things over in their minds.
This is a breakup song that especially supports the latter.
I became someone else’s girlfriend.wacci
Wacci’s “Betsu no Hito no Kanojo ni Natta yo” is a song where an ex-girlfriend delivers words you don’t want to hear.
For him—who likely still has feelings for her—this report is unbearably painful.
Yet behind her announcement lies a hidden sentiment.
While she says she can’t see him anymore because she has a new boyfriend, she slips into her words the parts that don’t match with the new guy and the differences from her ex, revealing her own wavering feelings that leave her confused.
Will the ex-boyfriend notice this? And if he does, what will he do? The song ends without answering these questions.
When an ex reaches out out of the blue, it might be worth looking beneath the surface of their words.
Et ceteraONE OK ROCK
The lyrics are heartbreaking, clinging on and unable to accept the other person’s breakup.
The beautiful sound and vocals combine to give me goosebumps.
It’s included on the 2007 album “Zeitakubyo.” Among ONE OK ROCK’s songs, this is an especially poignant heartbreak song.