[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] Carefully Selected Love Songs That Gently Soothe a Wounded Heart! (51–60)
Song of the WheelsBUMP OF CHICKEN
This is a single released by BUMP OF CHICKEN in 2004.
It sets a heartrending breakup between a man and a woman to a light rhythm, making it sound as if it’s not a sad parting.
Yet the sorrow you sense beneath the surface tightens your chest.
I’m sure there are people who’ve listened to this song while riding a bicycle along the tracks.
me me sheRADWIMPS
It’s a poignant breakup song by RADWIMPS released in 2006.
Even though a lot of time has passed since it came out, I still want to listen to it after a painful love.
Yojiro Noda’s calm, matter-of-fact singing style supports those aching feelings.
It’s a song that makes you cry but also makes you stronger.
Each word in the lyrics gives you a gentle push on the back, making it feel like you can move on to your next love—such a wonderful track, isn’t it?
half of meHirai Ken
Sung by Ken Hirai, whose voice seeps into your heart, this breakup song paints vivid, raw scenes.
It makes you think, “Ah, I know this feeling—how sad,” and you can’t help but empathize.
The emotions expressed in this song are painful, but even heartbreak like this will heal someday, so when you’re sad, let yourself be sad—and then move forward.
Released in 2018, this track was also used as the theme song for the drama “Twilight Meteor Shower: Midlife, and in Love.”
an unkind girlKoresawa
It’s a ballad that portrays painfully real emotions, where unrequited love and self-loathing intertwine.
Singer-songwriter Koresawa, who keeps her real face hidden from the media, delivers this track as the closing song of her EP “Atashi no Koibito E.P,” released in November 2025.
It’s a poignant breakup song performed with just a single guitar and voice.
Through everyday scenes, it chronicles a clumsy state of mind—so consumed with thoughts of the other person that tenderness becomes elusive.
Among the tracks that include commercial tie-ins, this one deliberately weaves an unadorned sound whose solitary resonance strikes right at the heart.
On nights when the wound hasn’t healed and you want to cry quietly alone, it will be there to keep you company.
[Tearjerker Breakup Songs] A carefully curated selection of love songs that gently comfort a wounded heart! (61–70)
Even if you went and became somebody’s damn girlfriendtensai bando
Perhaps everyone has someone they can’t forget—someone who suddenly comes to mind at certain moments.
The Genius Band’s song “Even If She Ends Up Becoming Someone’s Girlfriend” draws you in with its title, and even from that title alone you can feel the poignancy and emotion.
The track is included on Genius Band’s first album, “Ein und Stein.” Thinking of that someone you’ve always held in your heart, the person who pops into your mind out of the blue—loving them yet wishing from the bottom of your heart that they’re living happily now—brings tears you can’t hold back.
Cold fireworksKami ga nokoshita yume o kuu.
This song is a heartbreaking breakup ballad that overlays the dazzling burst of fireworks with a love coming to an end.
Though they stand side by side, their hearts no longer connect.
That frustrating relationship is portrayed against the backdrop of a late summer night.
The emotional vocals convey the painfully raw feeling of wanting to cling to memories while knowing there’s no going back.
It resonates deeply with anyone carrying an unforgettable love.
DollsJanne Da Arc
Janne Da Arc disbanded in 2019, but weren’t they a presence that gave so many band-loving boys and girls their dreams as a visual-kei rock band? The song “DOLLS” literally means “dolls.” The choice of words feels very visual-kei, and I think it’s spot on.
It portrays a heartbroken man and woman as dolls.
When you go through a breakup and are deeply hurt, you can feel as if your heart has been hollowed out—empty inside, right? This song really pulls you in.