Melancholy
Songs that share a melancholy mood/theme — 34 meaning analysis(es) in your language. AI-assisted, meaning only, no full lyrics.
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Cassette LightVela Maren · 2025
A quiet meditation on staying loyal to a memory longer than the memory deserves. Vela Maren uses the worn-o…
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Halo DriverKestral · 2025
A neon-soaked driving song where the headlights and the rain are arguing the whole way home. Kestral uses t…
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All Too Well (10 Minute Version)Taylor Swift · 2021
A long-form memory piece that treats a single relationship like a forensic investigation. The 10-minute ver…
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Alors on danseStromae · 2009
A song that sounds like a club hit but works like a state-of-the-union. Stromae lists, in inventory mode, t…
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夜に駆けるYOASOBI · 2019
YOASOBI's debut, based on the short story "Tanatosu no Yūwaku" (An Invitation from Thanatos) by Mayo Hoshin…
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DittoNewJeans · 2022
A song that packs every hesitation and reply into one word: "Ditto" — meaning "same here." NewJeans fuses 9…
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SoldiMahmood · 2019
A song that looks like a chart record and reveals itself as a portrait of the absent father. Mahmood uses t…
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drivers licenseOlivia Rodrigo · 2021
A milestone turned into a wound. Getting her license — something the couple had planned to celebrate togeth…
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EvidênciasChitãozinho & Xororó · 1990
Brazil's greatest karaoke anthem is a confession in reverse. Every attempt the narrator makes to prove he i…
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LemonKenshi Yonezu · 2018
A song about living alongside loss. Written as the theme for the drama "Unnatural" and overlapping with the…
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ZITTI E BUONIMåneskin · 2021
An anthem to being different disguised as a rock tantrum. "Zitti e buoni" (quiet and well-behaved) is what …
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Dernière danseIndila · 2014
Dancing so as not to sink. Under a light melody hides a heavy pain: a woman wounded by loneliness and the w…
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Spring DayBTS · 2017
A song that carries longing from winter into spring. It paints missing someone who drifted away or is gone …
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La solitudineLaura Pausini · 1993
The loneliness of a first love split apart by distance. As a teenager, the voice describes the emptiness le…
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Someone Like YouAdele · 2011
Closure that refuses to feel like closure. Hearing that an ex has settled down with someone else, the narra…
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PretenderOfficial HIGE DANdism · 2019
A song about quietly letting go of a love that cannot be. Still longing for the other person, the narrator …
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How Can I Love the HeartbreakAKMU · 2019
A song about love's cruellest paradox. As its Korean title says — "How could I love even the parting? Becau…
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Bohemian RhapsodyQueen · 1975
A mock-opera in miniature whose meaning Freddie Mercury never explained. A young man confesses he has kille…
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OceanoDjavan · 1989
Love described as something as vast and deep as the sea. In "Oceano", Djavan turns the loved one and the fe…
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Ne me quitte pasJacques Brel · 1959
The most naked plea in French song. Faced with the other leaving, the narrator drops all pride: he promises…
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紅蓮華LiSA · 2019
A song of resolve that blooms inside pain. As the theme of "Demon Slayer", it sings the will to grow strong…
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Haru HaruBIGBANG · 2008
A song that crumbles while pretending to accept a breakup. He tells the one leaving "go well, I'm fine," bu…
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WonderwallOasis · 1995
A hopeful, deliberately vague anthem about someone who might be the one to save you. The narrator half-beli…
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First LoveHikaru Utada · 1999
A song about the indelible mark a first love leaves. At the moment of parting, the narrator pictures a last…
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Fix YouColdplay · 2005
A hymn of comfort for someone broken by loss or failure. The narrator can't undo the grief, so he offers pr…
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¡Corre!Jesse & Joy · 2011
Letting go of someone who has already decided to leave. In "Corre" (run), the narrator does not beg them to…
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As Rosas Não FalamCartola · 1976
The stubborn hope of a heart that refuses to accept the end. The narrator returns to his garden and asks th…
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La BohèmeCharles Aznavour · 1965
Nostalgia for an artist's youth in Montmartre. The narrator, an ageing painter, remembers a time of hunger …
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CarusoLucio Dalla · 1986
A song of love that defies death, inspired by the tenor Enrico Caruso's last days in Sorrento. Before the s…
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JanuariGlenn Fredly · 2007
Longing as wet as the January rain. Glenn Fredly turns the year's dampest month into the backdrop of heartb…
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De Música LigeraSoda Stereo · 1990
The serene end of a love that was never deep. "De música ligera" (of light music) describes a bond that was…
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DetalhesRoberto Carlos · 1971
The impossibility of being forgotten. The narrator tells a love who left that, even beside someone new, sma…
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DésenchantéeMylène Farmer · 1991
The anthem of a disillusioned generation. The narrator moves through a world turned to chaos, without beari…
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Event HorizonYounha · 2022
A grown-up breakup painted in the language of the cosmos. Its Korean title, "event horizon", is the boundar…
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