[An Adulterous Love] A love song about a secret affair you can't tell anyone about
Affairs are generally considered taboo by society, but sometimes you might fall for someone without knowing they’re married.
You probably have feelings you’re keeping tucked away in your heart, too.
This article introduces songs about “affairs.”
Some songs depict people already in an affair, while others are about accepting there’s no future and choosing to part ways.
Many of these tracks express painful emotions, so you may find one that resonates with how you feel.
If you’d like, try listening to any songs that catch your interest.
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[An Adulterous Love] Love songs about secret affairs (61–70)
A Place in the SunShogo Hamada
A heart-stirring ballad that portrays an illicit love affair.
Included on the album “Before the Generation of Love,” Shogo Hamada’s work gently embraces the aching feelings that slumber deep within the heart.
Since its release in March 1981, it has continued to profoundly move countless listeners.
While depicting a love in the form of an extramarital relationship, it conveys, throughout, the loneliness of hiding from prying eyes and the inner conflict of not wanting to ruin the other person’s life, giving it a depth that goes beyond a simple love song.
It is a gem of a track that quietly stands by the hearts of adults who carry the weight of family, work, and life itself.
pure whiteMaiko Fujita
This is a work by Maiko Fujita that portrays a forbidden love that reason cannot suppress, using the motif of a white flower blooming in the dark night.
Set in a foggy city bathed in moonlight, it delicately weaves the precarious and heartrending fate of a man and a woman burdened with loneliness.
Released in March 2025, it was included on the album “Unrequited Love” as the 2nd anniversary song for the smartphone romance game Ikemen Villains: A Dark Love That Blooms at Night.
It is a quiet companion for those who are in a love they cannot tell anyone about, or who have once burned with the purity of love.
Sleepless nights are because of you.MISIA
Not being by your side when I want to see you… It’s precisely because this love is forbidden that such circumstances arise.
Sung by MISIA, a singer behind numerous hit songs like “Ai no Katachi,” this track was released in 2002 as her 10th single.
It was featured in a Kirin commercial and used as the theme song for the drama “Love Quotient.” MISIA’s beautiful voice deepens the world of the lyrics, which overflow with feelings for a beloved person.
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A song by milet that was chosen as the theme for the drama “Gisou Furin” (Fake Affair).
It’s a number that sings of complex emotions—anxiety that a single decisive word could shatter the world and relationships built up until now, intertwined with an uncontrollable feeling that it might be okay even if there’s no going back.
Precisely because it’s a love full of obstacles with no clear future, it stirs a longing to see what lies ahead, making it a heartrending track that feels like it could break into a sprint at any moment.
DesireDo As Infinity
For those agonizing over a forbidden love, I want you to listen to Do As Infinity’s “Desire.” Love isn’t something you do alone, right? When you fall in love, there’s always someone else involved, and if you’re in a relationship, it’s two people sharing their feelings.
The same goes for an affair.
Even when you know it’s wrong, you keep going.
That’s not just one person’s problem—it exists because there’s someone on the other side accepting that relationship.
This song captures the unstoppable, forbidden “desire” of two people.
Sentimental Sisteryonige
Set to a heartrending vocal, this song—told from a woman’s perspective—portrays a heart swaying within a forbidden love.
The protagonist, unable to escape tangled relationships and events of the past, conveys her feelings with raw, relatable honesty.
Released in July 2016 as part of yonige’s mini-album “I Want to Be a Snail,” the track captures the mindset of a woman who tries to move forward while still bound by past romances.
For anyone who has grappled with complex emotions like longing, regret, and guilt, it’s a song that’s impossible not to relate to.
selling oneselfloss
A beautiful tragic love song that portrays the heartrending emotions of a woman living in the night city.
Amid a dark, mysterious atmosphere, the protagonist gives herself to a man she does not even love, while continuing to harbor unwavering feelings for the one she truly longs for.
In a darkness without even a single ray of light, the searing emotions of a woman consumed by an impossible love are vividly expressed through Ros’s protean vocals.
Released in March 2022, the song is also included on the album “Yoru no Shizu.” It is a track that deeply resonates with those pained by unrequited love or troubled by a forbidden romance.