[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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[Adulterous Love] A love song about a secret affair you can't tell anyone about (1–10)
Unraveling Loveyama
A song that tightens your chest with yama’s faint, heartrending vocals.
It portrays the complexity of love and the pain that can’t be avoided, delicately depicting two people who hurt each other yet still love one another.
Wanting to be together but being unable to say it honestly reflects an awareness that someone is being hurt and that the relationship should not go on.
It makes you think deeply about whether happiness awaits a love forged at the cost of hurting many, and its quiet, lingering ache of unrequited love pierces the heart.
This is a track I especially recommend to those struggling with clumsy, awkward love.
balladKetsumeishi
Ketsumeishi’s “Ballad,” a hugely popular affair song, is a masterpiece that brings you to tears from the very first notes of the intro.
The song portrays the aching feelings of a man who can do nothing but wait to hear from the woman he loves.
An affair is a relationship where even contacting each other feels forbidden… yet he truly wants to see her, to hold her—an unbearably bittersweet love that brings you to tears.
Your happinessUru
Uru’s “Kimi no Shiawase wo” is a heartbreakingly beautiful masterpiece released on November 22, 2023.
Its lyrics are delicate, vividly expressing the complex feelings of someone in a painful love.
The opening, reminiscent of poetry reading, pulls you achingly into the song’s world.
The music video featuring Mizuki Kayashima is also filled with emotionally stirring scenes.
Even if the answer turns out to be a disappointing one, the song teaches the meaning of loving deeply.
For those suffering in an affair, this is a track that will strike you to the core.
[Adulterous Love] A love song about a secret affair you can’t tell anyone (11–20)
Maybe it didn’t have to be you after all.yangusukinii
Young Skinny’s “Maybe It Didn’t Have to Be You” is a forbidden affair song that leaves a deep scar on the heart.
It was also chosen as the opening theme for the drama “When the Intercom Rings.” In the time that passes after a breakup, the lyrics vividly portray the turmoil of blaming oneself, thinking of the other person, and wondering, “What if I had chosen differently?”—drawing listeners into its world.
Both sides hesitate to part, yet there’s no going back.
That bittersweetness flows with their gentle melodies and is sure to make your heart tremble.
Love songnatori
This is an emotional song by Natori that delicately portrays the heartache and pain of drowning in misguided love.
The protagonist’s feelings, tossed about by love, are depicted as blurring the line between dreams and reality.
Included on the album “Gekijō” (Theater), the track’s music video reached 3.16 million views in February 2024.
For those who carry an unending pain of love deep within, it will likely feel like a song that speaks your heart for you.
In the quiet, why not lend your ear to this piece?
But… But… But…sonā poketto
“Demos…
Demos…
Demos…,” released in 2012 by the male vocal unit Sonar Pocket, is a song I’d recommend to both men and women struggling with an affair.
The lyrics, which convey the man’s feelings as he makes promises he can’t keep out of sheer honesty, alongside the words spoken by the woman, are probably the most relatable part.
Even so, the time the two share doesn’t belong to anyone else, and it makes you want to cherish it.
When you’re going through something painful, try surrendering yourself to this song.
Don’t Stop LoveKōda Kumi
A medium-tempo ballad by Kumi Koda portraying the forbidden love of an affair.
It beautifully expresses the conflict and sorrow of a man and woman who, despite their pure affection, live a love that cannot be allowed.
Released in September 2011, the song drew attention as the theme for the film “Second Virgin” and was also performed at that year’s NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
Included on the albums “JAPONESQUE” and “WINTER of LOVE,” it has become one of Koda’s signature songs.
It is sure to resonate deeply with anyone who relates to the loneliness of not being able to be with the one you love and the earnest desire to go on loving despite the gaze of society.