[Tears of Joy] Beautiful Friendship Songs with Lyrics You’ll Want to Gift to a Dear Friend
For occasions like celebrating a friend’s wedding, farewell parties for a job transfer or move, or graduation…
Many people may be looking for songs to give in place of parting words, or background music for a message video.
But even when it comes to friendship songs, it can be hard to come up with ideas.
So in this article, we’ll introduce plenty of recommended friendship songs with especially moving lyrics!
There are many songs whose lyrics let you look back on the bonds and memories you’ve built and reaffirm your friendship, so please use this as a reference!
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Tearjerker: Beautiful Friendship Songs With Lyrics You’ll Want to Share With a Dear Friend (11–20)
Friendswacci
This refreshing friendship song is a 2020 number by wacci.
It was chosen as the opening theme for the anime “Uchi Tama?! Have You Seen My Tama?”, which anthropomorphizes dogs and cats.
Sometimes just having a friend there is enough to make you feel at ease, isn’t it? It may be an ordinary kind of friendship you could find anywhere, but you can feel the sense that, for us, it’s a special bond and special memories—a true friendship song.
It makes you want to cherish that kind of friendship.
Try giving it as a gift to the friends you’re tied to by a bond you want to treasure from here on out!
We againSG
This song conveys gratitude to a dear friend through a gentle, warm melody and lyrics that resonate with the heart.
With SG’s signature delicate expressiveness, it beautifully captures both the sorrow of parting and the anticipation of reunion.
The days of carefree laughter and the many memories shared together are portrayed with grace, leaving a deep impression on listeners.
Released in April 2021, it became a massive hit—especially among younger audiences—garnering 150 million views.
Starting in November 2024, it was also featured in CalorieMate’s exam-season support commercial, earning praise for the strength of its message.
When you want to express thanks to cherished companions—at graduations, farewell parties, and more—why not send this one song?
footprint(s)Little Glee Monster
Little Glee Monster is a vocal group whose overwhelming singing ability moves listeners to the core.
Their 16th single, “Ashiato” (Footprints), released in September 2020, is a grand number penned by the members themselves that gives you the courage to keep moving forward even in times of uncertainty.
Its powerful lyrics, which seem to affirm their own journey, are perfect for looking back on the days spent with friends during graduation season, when everyone sets off on separate paths.
Written as the required piece for the Junior High School division of the NHK All-Japan School Choir Competition and also broadcast on NHK’s “Minna no Uta,” the song has become widely loved as a choral piece.
It’s a moving track we hope you’ll listen to when you want to send thanks and cheers for the future to the dear friends with whom you’ve laughed and supported each other along the way!
InfinityYuuri
Yuuri, a singer-songwriter who enjoys immense popularity among his generation for his highly relatable lyrics, sings about friendship in “Infinity.” Following his smash hit “Dry Flower,” it was released in 2021 and written as the ending theme for the anime SK8 the Infinity.
Wrapped in Yuuri’s deep, gentle vocals, this mid-tempo track lets a laid-back moment unfold.
It can be hard to tell a friend directly, “Let’s treasure our ordinary days,” but why not listen to this song together and share those feelings?
THE GIFTHirai Dai
A heartwarming medium-tempo ballad by Dai Hirai.
Like the moon and the Earth, even if they’re not always side by side, friends are beings who illuminate each other—this song reminds us of that.
The gentle melody woven by acoustic guitar and piano feels like a “gift” from treasured friends.
Released as a single in February 2019, it was also chosen as the theme song for the film Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Chronicle of the Moon Exploration, and is included on the acclaimed album THE GIFT.
When you’re parting from dear friends due to graduation or a job transfer, why not send them this piece? It quietly conveys the unspoken wish: “Stay well until the day we meet again.”
Gray and Blue (+ Masaki Suda)Yonezu Kenshi
This song, which feels like looking back on memories with childhood friends, is a collaboration between singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu and actor-musician Masaki Suda.
Yonezu sings the first verse, Suda takes the second, and in the latter half you can enjoy their back-and-forth.
From this interplay and the music video’s depiction of the two sitting on side-by-side swings yet unable to meet, you can sense the message: “We’re apart now, but our hearts are connected.” It has Yonezu’s signature refined atmosphere, yet the piece also conveys a warm, heartfelt quality.
[Tearjerker] Beautiful Friendship Songs with Lyrics You’ll Want to Send to a Dear Friend (21–30)
Because we’re friends.Ochiai Wataru
Wataru Ochiai’s graduation song “Tomodachi Yakarane” (“Because We’re Friends”) lets you look back on the precious time you’ve built up with friends throughout school life.
With vivid, true-to-life scenes—talking about crushes with friends, the kind of funny stories only friends can share, the little pranks you pulled together, and those fun after-school hours—it paints the days spent with dear friends like treasures.
Precisely because you’re such close friends, parting is painful and overwhelmingly lonely.
But in those moments, like the song says, look forward to the day you’ll meet again, promise a friendship that never fades, and set off smiling on your new paths.