Top 17 Songs Most Suitable for the Mood of Unrequited Love

Drawn from his own life story, Unrequited Love by Đào Bá Lộc expresses a plethora of emotions. Because it stems from his own experiences, the emotions in the song are very genuine and natural. The gentle words delve deep into the heart of those experiencing unrequited love, resonating with their feelings. In a small interview, Đào Bá Lộc said, 'I often write music for my ex-lovers, about the experiences and hence why we couldn't be together. I don't write music to confront my ex but to remind myself to keep seeking true happiness!' From such candidness, we can feel that Unrequited Love is not about blame but about wishing that person can find joy again, even if it means silently 'letting my tears be mine alone'.

'Then love grows, until one day I realize

When you're sad, I'm also deeply troubled

So now I want

For you to find someone like you've hoped for

Live happily, let my tears be mine alone

Love stories left unspoken always lead to a regretful conclusion of 'if only I had the courage to say I love you'. Especially for guys, when faced with the girl they love, they suddenly feel awkward, unable to confess, and choose to remain silent to maintain a normal relationship. Loving your best friend is both joyful and sorrowful, joyful because at least that person also cherishes you, sorrowful because that person only treasures you as a friend. Being too shy to express affection and ending up receiving bitterness, closing the chapter of unrequited love as their heart belongs to another. Loving Your Best Friend by Bằng Cường knows how to make one's heart ache through every word:

The song Behind a Girl was just composed at the end of 2016 but quickly became a track with many listens and covers. Just from the title, the mood of the song plunges into the hearts of boys in unrequited love. Who doesn't want to be with the one they love, to chat, confide with the person they love as their lover. Behind a Girl is not just a story of unrequited love but also the sacrifice in friendship, accepting to stand behind the girl to silently watch over and worry. The line 'Even though I can't hold your hand, but the path is forever together' depicts the helplessness of not being able to have a perfect love yet still stubbornly believing in the 'forever together' path, which is a common trait among many unrequited lovers.

'No one can stop the heart when it has fallen in love

Don't try to advise me to let go because love is not at fault

Everyone wishes fervently to love

To wait until the time someone calls for an afternoon stroll

Every morning waking up, seeing someone sleeping soundly beside

Hiding Leaves on the Mountain is another song about unrequited love by Hamlet Trương. There's no desire to compete for affection because knowing that person already belongs elsewhere, the unrequited lover, even coming later, still loves passionately but silently, still loves intensely but from a distance. Unrequited love in Hiding Leaves on the Mountain is like two worlds apart, the world of you and him, the world of him and the image of you together. Heartbreaking, desperate, yet the unrequited lover persists in hope without regret because 'Loving is happier than being loved.'

Written simultaneously with the book of the same name, Let's Leave Love as It Is touches the hearts of those who want to pursue love but fear, who must restrain the strong emotions of their hearts. Loving someone, caring for someone, yet knowing that taking one more step will shatter everything, the relationship cannot be preserved, so they accept to 'stay on the sidelines.' Accepting to be by their side, accepting only to care for them even though love is overflowing, accepting because they have many dreams, a future path ahead. Let's Leave Love as It Is is the heart of an accommodating unrequited lover, ready to not express their feelings so that the other person can be confident, not bound and can do what they want. Does the unrequited lover desire anything other than waiting, other than believing that 'time will bring you back'?

Fallen in Love and then what to do when the heart doesn't listen to reason. The heart has given everything to the person, but the person is indifferent 'because I only love during certain seasons.' Fallen in Love - just two words are enough to express all the emotions of the romantic unrequited lover. Already fallen in love with someone but don't know how to make them love you, come to you. Fallen in Love makes the person in the story confused, not knowing how to handle it because the heart keeps yearning for someone every day and wasting away...

'A little confused, your hand touched mine

Because I'm dreaming of gentle dreams

A little shattered, your lips touched mine

Because you only love during certain seasons...

You said love me, you said care for me

So that this heart doesn't waste away

Come to me, so our love can be complete

Because in this heart, there's always, hidden love and longing... for you.'

With a gentle, soulful voice, singer Huynh Tu successfully portrays the song One-Way Street, depicting the silent admiration of a young girl experiencing her first crush, but unfortunately, it's a one-sided love story. The song is gentle yet filled with deep emotions, each lyric carrying a longing to reunite with her first love, to share countless stories together. One-Way Street is perfect for innocent, nostalgic, and sweet unrequited love stories.

'Hey, do you know what's truly painful

In this colorful life, let me tell you

That I've had strange feelings for you for a long time

Every time you're close and I hear you laugh

We've known each other for so long

So I keep these words to myself

Afraid you'll leave

Silently seeing you with someone else

The distance between us grows with each passing day

Where are you, unaware?'

Silent Love is a song about a girl silently in love with a boy for a long time, willing to be a shoulder to cry on every time he feels weak after a broken relationship. She always does the smallest things for him, being by his side whenever he needs, but never demanding anything in return, just waiting for him to understand her feelings. Eventually, she has to leave when she realizes she's only invisible in his heart. That silent love keeps growing as she watches the one she loves being happy with someone else.

'Warm words and lips you gave to me, while someone silently cries

When we meet, could you ever know that my heart silently belongs to you

Because your heart has already been given away, so I choose to keep my love silent

I stand silently beside you, watching you bring someone else home, days passing by like that

Watching you, unable to speak because my thoughts are tangled

Love, love kept for me alone

I'll keep it silently, that love forever distant

I'll keep the love in the cold, hoping you'll always be with someone, that love will never leave

For me, I'll silently keep my love, loving you'

Seeing them happy makes your heart rejoice, seeing them hurt makes your heart ache even more. The feeling of unrequited love is wanting to take all their pain and sorrow onto yourself. So they can smile happily, your heart becomes a little less sad. Watching them sad with the love they've chosen, you can't help but wonder, 'What's wrong with me? Why can't I love you?' and yet, despite countless times wanting to let go of this one-sided love, you can't. It's agonizing, it's painful, but you still want to tell them It's okay, darling.

'Many times I wanted to let go and close my eyes to see what would come.

Startled, I realize you're still seeking me out

You still come back to me, not just because you love me

But also to wipe away tears and lie, 'it's okay, darling'

You still come back to me, not just because you miss me

But also to wipe away tears and lie, 'it's okay, darling'

No matter how compatible we are, you'll always be just a rain sister to me, someone standing behind me, familiar in the rain. There's no love, it's all just a misunderstanding on my part. It's not love, it's unrequited affection, it's just normal caring that I deceive myself into believing.

'We're so compatible, yet it's not love

And I want to ask you, what are we?

Then quietly withdraw endlessly, blaming the cruelty of fate

You unwittingly treated me like a sister.

Don't worry about me while I still love you

The further I stay away, the more empty it feels, my heart hurts and misses you so much

I have to let go of everything, just a faint smile on my lips

Warm and gentle on your shoulder, I've fallen asleep so many times.

Looking up at the sky, the love I once gave to you

Now the dark clouds gather into a storm, the thunderstorm is slowly approaching

The eager buds are waiting for rain, just like me in the past

The rain leaves innocence in the cold dream.'

Remembering but unable to hold onto you beside me, Perhaps performed by the young singer Thái Trinh, with a sincere and rustic voice, each word pouring into the ears making the little heart ache. Missing you so much but can only be 'like a rain hiding sadness', the longing is just my own. You keep staying away, making me unable to stop missing you. Missing too much then wishing perhaps if we didn't meet, perhaps if I were less indifferent...

'Remembering you but always keeping it to myself

Remembering you like rain hiding sadness

Oh dear, now I need you so much but why am I silent

Remembering you, my eyes have welled up so many times

Remembering you but I don't hold onto you again

Away from you and now blaming the moments with you for being indifferent'

Those thoughts keep swirling in the minds of those who love unrequitedly, pondering whether to speak up or not, to confess or not. That the thing they fear most is for the other person to know about their feelings, but also afraid that they will never realize. That's when it truly hurts.

'Knowing loving someone alone is truly sad

Knowing loving unrequitedly will always

Stay in the heart

Those wounds

Scared you'll know yet scared you won't

Want you to know yet want you not to know

The saddest thing is

You knowing yet acting like you don't

Scared I'll cry yet pretending not to

When I want to cry yet keeping it inside

The saddest thing is

You knowing yet acting like you don't

I love you'

The song was composed and performed by singer-songwriter Sơn Tùng MTP. Silently by Your Side tells the story of a boy secretly loving a girl, quietly following her, gently, peacefully, and silently hoping she understands. Just as long as the one you love is happy, silently being by her side is also a way of love.

'When I'm away, who do you think of

When I'm away, you miss someone

Surely not someone like me

The one who made you cry

The one who made you sad

Letting go of your hand, quietly walking away.

Raindrops surround the desolate heart

A thousand loves suddenly vanish

The one who said he'd be by your side whenever you're sad

Why do those words now fly away like the wind.

Don't abandon that lonely hand

I'm alone, silent here

Loving you silently by your side.'

She couldn't understand me like you, couldn't care, pamper, and love me like you do, yet in the end, she's the one you chose, choosing to leave me behind. That unrequited love, all because of one reason 'I'm not as good as the other guy'. The song with its gentle, profound lyrics speaks the heart of every guy in unrequited love, what is it that I lack compared to him, even when he doesn't love you, you still choose to leave me behind.

'Yesterday, I saw, oh the one with someone else?

Surprisingly realizing it's not you, don't know where you are now?

How long has it been since we last met, how long since I asked you a few questions ..

Unexpectedly today I see this, don't know what to do?

Never once did I stop wondering, why you left me ..

To continue the path of love beside her ..

Never once did I stop thinking, what did I do wrong?

Or is there still something I lack compared to him?'

You've always been lonely in your own love story, love as fragile as a sand castle because you're the only one trying in your love story. That sad love story will deeply engrave into the heart, becoming the most unforgettable pain for the girl.

'I realize we've changed so much, so much time has passed for both of us

Feelings fading away with happiness, drifting far away from those once vibrant

There were days we thought we'd always be together

Why do the words of love fade so quickly now

Our love, we built it together

Why now has it suddenly changed, letting go of each other's arms

Love shattered, does anyone know, now my heart clenches in bitterness

Love shattered, no one speaks of it, now it's scattered by each passing wave

Our love shattered, shattered like a sand castle

Shattered, shattered oh....

Shattered, shattered like a sand castle

Scattered by each passing wave'

It's time to let go, to release that love. The song performed by the excellent voice of Đức Phúc. With a special, emotional voice, the young singer has brought intense emotions and melodies to the audience about a love full of sadness, doubts, and difficulty putting into words. In the end, everything ends with letting go.

'You want to forget the past

I no longer care about you

None of us has the right to hold onto each other

You want to forget the days

I also hope we can keep them together

The dreams of the past close with the gentle breeze

It's time to let go

It's time to let go

It's time to let go...!!!'

Love stories have no right or wrong, no explanations, just regret that I came later, at the end of that love story. I didn't want to be the third person, but my heart didn't listen, kept loving you endlessly. All this time, I've been pretending but still loving you. If only I had come before, maybe this feeling wouldn't be so weary.

'Today, I'll say the things

Why have I been so hard to understand all this time

Why am I not happy when I see you

Leaning close to someone else

I'm not happy but I pretend

That I don't love you

But who would have thought one day, sitting here

Looking at you, let me say it all

If only you didn't belong to anyone

Then our feelings wouldn't be wrong

If we had met before

Then I would have stepped forward.'