10 Songs About Rekindled Love
Rekindled love refers to the revival or reignition of romantic feelings and affection between two people who have had a previous romantic relationship or connection. It involves a renewed sense of love, attraction, and emotional connection between individuals who may have drifted apart, broken up, or experienced a period of distance.
Rekindled love often involves one or both individuals rekindling the passion, intimacy, and emotional bond that they once shared. This rekindling can occur after a period of separation or when circumstances change, allowing the individuals to revisit their relationship.
Reasons for rekindled love can vary, and they may include personal growth, changed circumstances, or a newfound appreciation for each other. Some people may rekindle love with an ex-partner, while others may experience it with someone they’ve known for a long time but never pursued a romantic relationship with.
1. Ellie Goulding – Goodness Gracious
The song is about someone who keeps going back to their ex because they are in love, however, the relationship is toxic and doomed to fail. It is part of the album Halcyon Days. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Ellie had this to say about the meaning of the song, “I’ve been in situations where I knew someone wasn’t right for me, yet I kept bringing them back. […] [the song] is about dissing yourself for not thinking straight and not being fair.”
2. Katy Perry – Never Really Over
The song is off her 2020 album Smile. The lyrics deal with the end of a relationship and the possibility of the couple getting back together to have it fall apart again. It is thought to have been inspired by her on an off relationship with Orlando Bloom. She stated that the song is about how all of our relationships, from first love, failed love, to great love, become a part of you hence none are ever really over.
3. Blake Shelton – Bringing Back The Sunshine
Blake sings about getting back together with a former lover after their relationship underwent some turmoil which he equates to storms and pouring rain. He then equates the process of her coming back to his life to the sunshine coming back after a storm.
4. Lanco – Greatest Love Story
The song is a story about a love story between the singer and a girl. They started dating each other while in high school and believed their love story would be the best in the town. She then went off to college while he got a job thus this led to them breaking up since they couldn’t see each other.
After four years, the girl came back and the singer learned that she was single after breaking up with her college boyfriend. They went out for a couple of drinks to catch up and they found out they still had deep feelings for each other. He decided to propose to her.
5. Zayn – Better
This is the lead single from Zayn’s third studio album, Nobody Is Listening and debuted at #89 on the Billboard Hot 100. It hints at his former partner Gigi Hadid and talks about giving second chances and finding a way back to love. The two welcomed their first child days before its release.
6. Ed Sheeran – One
The track was about a girl named Alice who was his then-girlfriend. She was just about to leave for university while he was pursuing his music career thus led them to be apart. In the first verse, he pleads with her not to be with someone else but instead wait for him.
7. Taylor Swift – How You Get The Girl
The song is part of her 1989 album. In an interview, she said this about the song:
“How You Get The Girl” is a song that I wrote about how when we’re young, which most of my friends and most of my peers are, a lot of the time, we take for granted a really good relationship and let go of it and go out into the world and then realize that you want it back. This song is kind of an instruction manual for a guy who has broken up with his girlfriend and lets six months go by and the lengths he will need to go to to get her back. It’s not gonna be as simple as just sending a text message, it’s like “‘Sup? Miss you,” it’s not gonna work. He will need to do all the things in this song.
8. Selena Gomez – Back To You
Selena expresses her love for her significant other even though he may hurt her again. She is willing to run back to him whenever the opportunity arises and even when she is with someone else she is still thinking about him.
The track is in reference to Selana Gomez’s relationship with Justin Bieber and her relationship with The Weeknd. Despite dating The Weeknd, Selena tried to get back with her ex Justin and jumped at that opportunity when it came about.
9. John Newman – Love Me Again
John asks his lover to take him back after a massive mistake on his part. He broke the woman’s heart and is currently regretting his actions. He admits to having done terrible things to her emotionally and feels as though he had corrupted the innocent person she was once with his actions. He misses her and is pushing himself to be a better person worthy of her love once again.
The track was part of the album Tribute (2013) and was a #1 hit in the UK.
10. Celine Dion – It’s All Coming Back To Me
The track was originally written by Jim Steinman and popularized by Celine Dion in 1996. In an interview, he stated that his aim was to write the most romantic song. He said:
It was about the dark side of love and about the extraordinary ability to be resurrected by it once dead. It’s about obsession, and that can be scary because you’re not in control and you don’t know where it’s going to stop. It says that, at any point in somebody’s life, when they loved somebody strongly enough and that person returns, a certain touch, a certain physical gesture can turn them from being defiant and disgusted with this person to being subservient again.