[Songs About Loving Yet Parting] Love songs for those who want to overcome heartbreak
“We loved each other, but we broke up…
We had no choice but to part.”
This is a collection of love songs for those who’ve gone through that kind of painful breakup.
If you split because you both fell out of love, you can simply move on to the next relationship.
But it’s different when only one person’s feelings faded, isn’t it?
You probably can’t bring yourself to hate them, and you’re still tormented by the feelings you have.
In this article, we introduce heartbreaking love songs that portray a variety of perspectives and complex emotions: the feelings of the one who initiated the breakup, the one who was broken up with, and even the bittersweet sentiment of mutually choosing to part while still having lingering attachment.
Please give them a listen when things feel tough.
- A Tearful Farewell Song: A Love Song About Parting with Someone You Love
- [Unattainable Love] A love song about two people who feel the same way but can’t be together
- Farewell Songs: Tracks that sing various kinds of “goodbyes”
- [Unrequited Love] Heart-wrenching Love Songs | A Roundup of Tear-Inducing Crush and Breakup Tracks
- “I Want to See You”: A love song that makes you cry when you listen to it while you can’t meet
- [Love Songs] Say Goodbye to Uncertain Feelings! Love Songs to Listen to When You’re Not Sure If You Like Someone
- Farewell Song: A goodbye song. A tearful parting song.
- My heart aches with bittersweet pain! Breakup songs I’d recommend to Gen Z
- [Adultery Song] A forbidden song about an affair that sings of an impossible love
- A song that feels refreshing after a breakup. A love song to listen to when you want to move on.
- [Jealousy & Possessiveness Songs] A curated selection of popular tracks to listen to when possessiveness feels overwhelming!
- [Once More…] A lingering-attachment song: a song about a love you can’t forget
- A tear-jerking love song that gently stays by your heart
[Songs About Loving But Parting] Love Songs for You Who Want to Overcome Heartbreak (21–30)
painted skyMarcy
If I had to put it in one word, it’s a very “beautiful” heartbreak song.
Heartbreak songs usually come with images of being sad, aching, or painful, but this one is tightly packed only with happy memories, as if gently peeking at just the positive side.
The vocals and melody have a clear, translucent feel, evoking the piercing cold of winter.
It’s a heartbreak song whose beautiful, soul-soaking lyrics bring you to tears—and make it addictive.
I love you, but goodbye.CHIHIRO
It was chosen as the theme song for Kaguya-hime to 7-nin no Oujitachi, which aired on AbemaTV in June 2019.
It begins with a simple piano accompaniment, and the way it faces an unrequited love is deeply moving.
It’s a song I want you to pay attention to for its down-to-earth lyrics about struggling and making a decision in order to find happiness.
Unfit to be a loverKoresawa
Koresawa is a singer-songwriter popular among young people, especially women of her generation.
This song, “Koibito Shikkaku” (Disqualified as a Lover), is an answer song to her smash hit “Tabako” (Cigarette).
“Tabako” is a breakup song from a woman’s perspective, while this track expresses the feelings of the man—her counterpart.
Like “Tabako,” it’s a love song that powerfully conveys the emotions of love and heartache.
Listening to the two songs alternately, you can’t help but feel a curious sense of agreement between them.
The ending hits like a spark of sorrow—and it’ll have you in tears.
KanadeSukima Switch
It’s one of Sukima Switch’s signature works, a classic ballad that took time to become a hit.
The lyrics vividly conjure up scenes just by listening, and the gentle melody really sinks into your heart.
The earnestness of conveying feelings that never reached their destination is heartbreakingly moving.
It’s long been loved at karaoke, too, and it feels like those emotions would well up as you sing it.
Goodbye to You... feat. SpontaniaNEW!Tiara
This is Tiara’s major-label debut single, released in September 2009.
Featuring the hip-hop unit Spontania, the song portrays the ache of a breakup from both male and female perspectives.
It reflects the pain of a heartbreak Tiara actually experienced during production, vividly expressing the torment of having to part precisely because you love someone, and the lingering attachment that just won’t fade.
No matter how far apart you are, tender memories remain in your heart, and even after saying goodbye, the feelings can’t be severed.
On nights when you fervently wish you could start over, listen with your tears—her trembling voice will gently nudge you toward taking that first step toward reconciliation.
Two ShadowsNovelbright
In love, trying to forget your current romance and face forward might, in a sense, be a form of self-deception.
Novelbright’s “Two Shadows” sings about a love that still lingers.
A love that creates inner conflict—like, “Forgetting feels like running away, but I hate that I can’t move forward either”—is truly cruel, isn’t it?
misfortuneRen
“Fushiawase.” The way you feel after breaking up with someone you love is exactly what this word captures, isn’t it? Singer-songwriter Ren’s 2023 release zeroes in on the emotions of a man right after a breakup.
If you don’t force yourself to convert that sadness into another feeling and switch your mindset somehow, you’ll just keep getting swallowed by the darkness… Throughout the track, it overflows with the tension between trying to stay positive and the inability to truly let go.
It’s a perfect recommendation for anyone caught between “I’ll do my best” and “I can’t do this.”