1. Love Poem by IU. This song was sung for the remembrance of IU’s close friend, Choi Jin-Ri (Sulli) after she committed suicide on the 14 of October in the year of 2019. IU wanted her fans to listen to this song and just keep breathing no matter what. She said, “ No one can carry another person’s life on his/her back forever. But anyone can walk together, if it happens to be in the same direction.” (IU- koreaboo.com) Even the lyrics of the song is touching with lines like...“I’ll be there behind you when you’re walking alone,” and “I’ll sing for you when you’re going through a long, dark night.”
2. How Have You Been? by Eric Chou. This song is a Chinese love song. The singer wants to know how his faraway love is doing. The singer is blaming himself because he wants his love to be with him, but now she’s gone. He’s wondering where she is. Lines that touched my heart are: “Oh, how I long to hear again your firm declaration of love for me, but what a pity I can’t return to that very instant. So, how have you been?” and “The regret’s burning within my heart. It’ll be good for us to embrace once again for I’ve completed what you wanted to get done.”
3. Just Love You Too Much by Hins Cheung. This song is also a Chinese love song. It's about sadness after a breakup. The lover who was heartbroken is sending a message through this song to their faraway lover. Verses like, “Because I don’t know whether the next life can meet you, so my life will be so hard to give you the best. Loving you somehow had hurt you. Our love has suffocated. Not intentionally, but sorry for loving you too much.” shows just how loving someone sometimes is a heartbreak.
4. Arms by Christina Perri. This song is about the care and love your partner gives. How they hold you through thick and thin, support you through bad and good, see you at your best and worst. The verse, “You put your arms around me and I’m home.” shows that the compassion your partner gives would make you feel at home, feeling welcomed and safe.
5. Can’t Help Falling In Love by Elvis Presley. This song is self explanatory. Can’t help falling in love with you. A lover would give anything he/she can to make their love elated.
6. Stay by BlackPink. This is a Korean song by the girl group, BlackPink! This song is about two couples in love with each other; however, they can’t be in a relationship because of their separate lives. (Fun fact, Jennie, a member of BlackPink, wrote this song. It means so much to her and her ex-boyfriend, Teddy.) One lover begs the other telling them to stay with them even though nights are dark and there is no sunshine. The chorus part is an explanation of the theme: “Before the night traps me in, don’t leave my side. Do you still love me? If you feel the same way, don’t leave me today. Don’t ask me why it has to be you, just stay, stay, stay with me.”
7. When I Look At You by Miley Cyrus. The lyrics of the song are pretty self explanatory. When we are struggling and having a hard time, we look out to our boyfriend/girlfriend so they can cheer us up and bring out the best in us. “Everybody needs inspiration. Everybody needs a song. A beautiful melody when the night's so long. 'Cause there is no guarantee that this life is easy. Yeah when my world is falling apart, when there's no light to break up the dark; that's when I, I, I look at you.”
8. Love Someone by Lukas Graham. In this song, the meaning of true love is defined. The chorus part really explains everything: “Cause when you love someone, you open up your heart. When you love someone, you make room. If you love someone and you're not afraid to lose 'em; you’ll probably never love someone like I do.”
9. Shower by Becky G. Who doesn’t sing in the shower?! Everybody must have sung a song in the shower at least once! Well, this song is also pretty self explanatory. “You light me up inside like the 4th of July. Whenever you're around, I always seem to smile. And people ask me how, well you're the reason why I'm dancing in the mirror and singing in the shower!”
10. Wings by Birdy. I love this song so much because it’s dedicated to someone special to my heart! This song has so much meaning to it. It brings out emotions swimming within your body. I don’t know how to explain it. Everyone might understand this song in their own way! “Oh, lights go down, in the moment we're lost and found; and I just want to be by your side if these wings could fly. For the rest of our lives!”
11. Thousands Years by Christina Perri. This song was sung in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1. It’s about loving your partner no matter what happens, no matter the situation or time. The chorus part explains how love would be there even in faraway distances. “I have died everyday, waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years, I'll love you for a thousand more. And all along I believed, I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years; I'll love you for a thousand more!”
12. My Heart Will Go On by Céline Dion. This song explains the love theme from "Titanic." If you love someone, you always think of them. Day and night. Wherever your partner is, love always brings you together. “Near, far, wherever you are; I believe that the heart does go on. Once more you open the door, and you’re here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.”
13. How Can I Love the Heartbreak, You're the One I Love by AKMU. This is a Korean song explaining that when there are problems between two, they should work it out instead of breaking up because at the end they love each other not the heartbreak! “No matter how many problems we face, it’s easier to withstand than breaking up. How can I even love the heartbreak, when you’re the one I love?”
14. Y Si Fuera Ella by Jonghyun. This tune is a sad love song. The author is begging his love to not go away. He says that you say the words I love you as if they mean nothing, but to me they are heartbreaking. It teaches lovers to not leave each other. “Hyeya, you said with the heart of a good friend that you will love me forever. Don’t say those words ever again, they are so light to you but heavy for me…I’ll back off a little, I’ll wait. I’ll stand faraway, so you can be comfortable. I beg like this; Hyeya how can you leave? Cruelly saying goodbye with those smiling eyes. It kills me and my breath stops. The melody that used to make us happy, it’s still so glorious. Please don’t abandon me, don’t abandon me…How can I live without you?”