[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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[Moved to Tears] Friendship songs with beautiful lyrics you’ll want to gift to a dear friend (41–50)
SignalWANIMA
It’s an encouraging song that gives you the courage to move forward together with your friends.
The powerful sound and warm lyrics—so characteristic of WANIMA—are truly appealing.
Created for 18-year-olds, this track is included on the album “Everybody!!” released in January 2018.
The message “It’s okay to be unfinished” reflects the belief that mistakes and doubts are necessary for growth in life.
It’s a song that gently supports students facing milestones like entrance exams, graduation, or starting school, guiding them with the message: “A bright future surely awaits, so let’s do our best together with our friends.”
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C.h.a.o.s.m.y.t.h.ONE OK ROCK
This song, which portrays friendship, is a popular graduation anthem—especially among new graduates stepping into the working world.
While looking back on past memories, it also carries a message of encouragement for the new lives each person is about to begin.
The transition from student to working adult often brings dramatic changes and many challenges.
However, listening to this song will make you feel reassured, thinking, “I have so many friends who will always be there to support me!”
ReunionRADWIMPS
When it comes to RADWIMPS’ signature friendship songs—also known for their work in the film Your Name—this one surely comes to mind.
Included on their 2013 album “X to ○ to Tsumi to,” the song is titled “Reunion,” a word that in Japanese conveys meanings like meeting again or a class reunion.
The rhymed lyrics reveal deeper layers the more you listen, prompting you to reflect on what true friendship really is.
It’s the kind of song that makes you want to reconnect with friends you haven’t seen in a long time.
Under the same skyayaka
Ayaka’s 10th single, “Minna Sora no Shita,” released on July 8, 2009, centers on the theme of friendship.
Since she wrote the song for her friends, there’s a story that when she listened to it again around the time of its release, she got goosebumps herself.
This song, which she has performed on the NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen, is truly one of the great masterpieces themed around friendship.
FriendFukuyama Masaharu
A great gift for a friend who’s striving toward something is Masaharu Fukuyama’s “Tomoyo” (“Dear Friend”).
On the path of chasing dreams or goals, there are many hardships—darkness and temptations, or a negative chain where everything you try seems to miss the mark.
This song is filled with the feeling of cheering on a friend who keeps asking, “Even so, will it really be okay?” while continuing down the path they chose.
How about actually singing this song yourself, like Fukuyama does, to express your concern and support?
FRIENDSHIPH Jungle with T
It was released in 1996 as H Jungle with t’s third single.
The song was used as the theme for the Nippon TV Wednesday drama “Leave it to Ryoma!” and its lyrics center on universal friendship.
Produced by Tetsuya Komuro, it conveys a sense of passionate, masculine camaraderie.
My Best FriendLittle Glee Monster
Little Glee Monster’s “My Best Friend,” released on May 11, 2016.
This song, with its poppy, vibrant choral work, centers on the theme of friendship between girls.
There are struggles that are hard to talk about with boys—things only girls can truly understand.
This track is surely perfect as a song to gift to a friend who’s a girl and feeling troubled.