A Tearful Farewell Song: A Love Song About Parting with Someone You Love
Even when you understand it in your head, an unexpected breakup with a partner is hard because your feelings can’t keep up.
Everyone has different reasons for breaking up, but I imagine most people feel the same way—“it hurts,” “I just want to cry.”
In this article, we’re picking out tear-jerking breakup songs from popular love songs.
Focusing on tracks that sing about lingering feelings of love, we’ll introduce breakup songs that stay close to your heart.
When you feel like crying, give them a listen.
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Tear-Jerking Farewell Songs: Love Songs About Parting with Someone You Love (21–30)
Never Grow UpCHANMINA
Chanmina’s farewell song “Never Grow Up” is cool yet brimming with deep affection.
Even when two people love each other, there’s a “countdown to parting” that begins when they grow out of sync or something just doesn’t click.
The calm acceptance of that fate makes it all the more heartbreaking.
You can almost hear the voice saying, “I still want to love you…”
Unfit to be a loverKoresawa
This song, ‘Koibito Shikkaku’ (Disqualified as a Lover), was created as an answer song to Koresawa’s smash hit ‘Tabako’ (Cigarette).
Its lyrics are written from the perspective of the man who leaves the room in ‘Tabako.’ Realizing they can no longer remain a couple, he walks away—not to blame her, but regretting that he made it hard for her to be honest and act naturally in front of him.
[Tear-Jerking Farewell Songs] Love songs about breaking up with someone you love (31–40)
Kasane AiSoala
If they had met under different circumstances, they might have ended up together…
This song delicately weaves that bittersweet sentiment.
While suffering through a love with an expiration date, the protagonist continues to play a false self, and their inner conflict is rendered beautifully through a translucent vocal and a piano-driven melody.
Included on the EP “Bluem” released in January 2025, this track showcases Soala’s genuine sensibility and expressive power, earning overwhelming support from the younger generation.
It’s a song that offers solace to those who carry memories of a love they don’t want to remember yet can’t forget, and to those trying to move on from a farewell with someone precious.
forget-me-notAwesome City Club
Awesome City Club is a popular three-piece band known for their stylish, urban-sounding music and fashionable visuals.
Their 2021 release Wasurena (Forget-me-not) was created as an inspired song for the buzzworthy film We Made a Beautiful Bouquet.
We all have moments when we recall those happy days that will never return and feel like crying.
But this song is truly wonderful—it helps you shift to a positive mindset, resolving to bloom beautifully like a bouquet when you’re reborn and ready to move forward.
MapleSpitz
This is a song by Spitz, a rock band that has been active at the forefront of the Japanese music scene for many years.
It was released in 1998 as the double A-side single “Kaede / Spica.” Although many years have passed since its release, it continues to be featured in commercials and TV dramas, making it well known across generations.
Masamune Kusano’s gently resonant vocals are soothing.
If you’re hurting from a breakup, please give this song a listen.
Incidentally, perhaps due to the imagery of its title, many fans say it’s a song they want to listen to in autumn.
sign; mark; symbol; omenMr.Children
“Shirushi” is Mr.Children’s 29th single, released in 2006, and it was the theme song for the NTV drama “14-year-old Mother.” The lyrics, which express the pain of knowing so much about the other person and suggest that fate was already decided, are heartbreakingly poignant, yet they also carry a sense of emotional release.
It’s never easy to put an end to a relationship and move forward, but at times like that, try listening to Mr.Children’s “Shirushi” and do your best to face forward and keep going!
PierceONE OK ROCK
“Pierce” is a breakup song by ONE OK ROCK included on their 2011 studio album Zankyo Reference.
From the very beginning, a melancholic piano melody flows, evoking the sense of loss after a separation.
The lyrics blend English and Japanese, structured in a way that further highlights the meaning of the English lines.
Many will likely relate to the self-questioning and the inability to find answers about the meaning of the breakup.
It’s a song that seems to stay close to those in similar circumstances.