Friendship Songs: Rediscover Your Bonds! A Carefully Curated Selection of Moving Masterpieces That Will Bring You to Tears
There are times when we end up parting ways with close friends because of graduation, transferring schools, or starting a job.
Some of you may also have gone through the pain of a big fight that made it hard to make up.
In times like these, what you want to listen to are friendship songs that remind you of just how precious friendship is.
In this article, we’ll introduce moving songs about friendship.
If you’re looking for songs to listen to with friends at graduation, tracks that can help you reconcile after a fight, or tunes to become even closer with your friends, be sure to give these a listen.
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[Friendship Songs] Reaffirm Your Bonds! A Carefully Curated Selection of Moving Masterpieces That Will Bring You to Tears (21–30)
allyGReeeeN
“Ally” by GReeeeN is a song about friends who are always on your side no matter what.
Released in 2022, it was selected as the theme song for the film “Haw.” It sings about how even the most ordinary conversations are fun, how you can argue and quickly go back to normal, and how you understand each other better than anyone else.
The lyrics, filled with the desire to help one another whenever something happens and to stay friends no matter how old you get, truly strike a chord.
Why not express your everyday gratitude to a dear friend by sharing this song with them?
You are my friend.Hanaregumi
Hanaregumi’s songs are the ones that heal a tired heart, aren’t they? When I listen to this track—with pure feelings, straightforward feelings, and a childlike care for a friend—I can think of my friends as if remembering something I’d forgotten.
Everyone has someone precious for whom their feelings overflow.
Tears gently trace my cheeks, and my heart feels cleansed.
Promise of SunflowersHata Motohiro
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it a signature song about friendship.
His gentle voice and the opening lyrics bring me to tears.
When you’re worn out by everything and can’t see what’s around you, if you remember the dear friend who was always by your side and listen to this song, you’ll surely feel like you can start walking again tomorrow.
Knowing you’re not alone will surely bring peace to your heart.
Stay by my side.Yuika
Even if we sometimes fight, our love for our friend will never change—that’s the feeling sung in Yuika’s “Soba ni Ite” (“Stay by My Side”).
With lyrics that are partly written as dialogue and depict real-life scenes shared with a friend, it captures those relatable, everyday dynamics that make you say, “I know exactly what that’s like.” It conveys the hope that, because the bond is stronger than anyone else’s, this relationship will remain the same forever.
It’s a song that reassures you, “We’ll be okay,” even when you and your friend have to part in various situations and you feel lonely and moved to tears.
Friend ~Time to Depart~yuzu
A song widely known among students, having been selected as the set piece for the 80th NHK All-Japan School Music Competition, and also popular as a graduation song.
Originally, Yuzu wrote it for their staff after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
With a message that our bonds won’t disappear no matter how far apart we are, listening to this song while remembering it was created after the disaster can bring you to tears.
The dear friends who are right beside us now may one day be far away.
Thinking that way makes the time we spend together feel all the more precious.
Beloved daysyangusukinii
Young Skinny’s “Beloved Days” evokes the feeling of slowly nurturing a bond of friendship as you come to understand each other.
It’s included on the 2023 EP “If We Could Feel Happiness in Anything.” The song portrays how friendship deepens from the moment you notice the hidden feelings of someone you didn’t initially like very much, and how you gradually grow more and more fond of them.
It’s a track that cherishes the intuition of wanting to be with someone and hang out with them.
Be sure to listen to it with a dear friend.
ReunionRADWIMPS
Their songs deliver messages from every kind of worldview—from passionate love to heavy social issues.
And this friendship song by RADWIMPS also conveys many messages.
Yojiro Noda, the vocalist, communicates what truly matters as if it were the most natural thing.
This is a heartfelt song that lets you reaffirm the bond with a dear friend within yourself.