[2025] Best Unrequited Love Songs in Western Music for Women

False AlarmMatoma & Becky Hil

Matoma & Becky Hill – False Alarm [Official Music Video]

This song features cleverly crafted lyrical metaphors—falling in love, sirens blaring in the head, dancing in the flames.

With a very powerful voice, it sings about the beginning of love and the thrill that comes with it.

She says, “This is definitely the real thing,” but will it really last?

GoneNSYNC

*NSYNC – Gone (Official HD Video)

A track released in 2001 by the American boy band NSYNC.

It was produced by Justin Timberlake and Wade J.

Robson.

The track became a hit worldwide, reached No.

7 on the U.

S.

charts, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Starting Over AgainNatalie Cole

Starting Over Again by Natalie Cole

This is also a song about getting back together with someone you broke up with.

It suggests making up with the person, saying, “This time I’ll love you more, so let’s start over again.” People often say “we were both immature,” but maybe it was lucky to have met someone at a young age with whom, after years have passed, you could be brought together again.

Just Like A PillP!nk

P!nk – Just Like A Pill (Official Video)

This song says of a terrible partner, “You’re like a drug— you lift my mood and make me happy for a little while, but soon it becomes painful.” It uses metaphors to poetically portray a painful romantic relationship, and sings about the need to run away from a dangerous guy.

Make It To MeSam Smith

Sam Smith – Make It To Me – Stripped ft. Howard Lawrence (Live) (VEVO LIFT UK)

A track by British singer-songwriter Sam Smith.

It was released as a single in 2014 from the debut album In the Lonely Hour, which topped charts around the world.

It reached No.

193 on the UK chart.

Maybe this timeSarah Geronimo

Maybe This Time Music Video Trailer | Sarah Geronimo | ‘Maybe This Time’

This song is about so-called rekindled love—meeting an ex and feeling those emotions flare up again.

It speaks as if to confirm each other’s feelings, wondering, “Maybe we can have an even better relationship than before this time?” But does getting back together with someone you broke up with really work out?

Un-Break My HeartToni Braxton

Toni Braxton – Un-Break My Heart (Official HD Video)

It’s a ballad in which the singer pleads with the person who left them to come back just once more and mend their wounded heart.

Judging by how things are going, getting back together probably isn’t likely, but right after a breakup, isn’t this how anyone would feel?