Summer songs with great lyrics. Tracks that make your summer memories even more wonderful.
Great lyrics enhance the tone and add even more color to a song, don’t they? Works that take a literary approach as well as a musical one often become classics.
This time, I focused my research on summer songs with outstanding lyrics! Of course, “good lyrics” can mean many things: lines that move you to tears, words that tug at your heart with bittersweet emotion, or lyrics that sparkle with a touch of humor.
From masterpieces that artfully paint summer scenes with words to one-summer love songs, we’ve got them all.
Be sure to find your favorite lyrics!
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Voice of the SeaKiritani Kenta
This song skyrocketed in popularity after being featured in the au commercial.
The sight of Kenta Kiritani, playing Urashima Taro, strumming the sanshin from behind, along with the sound of the waves on the beach, stirs a sense of melancholy.
While the commercial itself leaves a comedic impression, the song is genuinely moving and tear-jerking.
The lyrics, written as if hurling one’s feelings at the sea, sky, wind, and the grandeur of nature, make it a masterpiece that perfectly matches the refreshing summer scenery.
Ah, summer vacation.TUBE
A classic summer song and a karaoke favorite is “Ah, Natsuyasumi.” It’s a track TUBE wrote with summer as its theme.
That strikingly memorable chorus is something people of all generations have likely heard.
The lyrics depict a love story about a man who falls in love at first sight on the Shonan beach.
You could say it’s as summery as a song can get.
Because the song conveys poignancy through its soaring high notes, try to keep that in mind when you sing it.
FinistèreSuzuki Konomi
This is a song by Konomi Suzuki that was chosen as the opening theme for the second cour of the TV anime Summer Pockets.
Her powerful vocals, imbued with the resolve to face the future and tinged with the bittersweet scenes of summer’s end, resonate deeply with listeners.
While embracing fading memories, it portrays the protagonist’s firm determination to turn the summer before them into a new beginning.
It’s a summer song that can support you when you want to take a new step forward.
Harmony at the End of SummerInoue Yosui, Anzenchitai
A timeless song you’ll want to listen to when the seasons change.
The miraculous harmony born from the collaboration between Yosui Inoue and Anzen Chitai resonates in the heart.
It was released on September 25, 1986, but it was first performed about a month earlier at a concert held at Jingu Stadium in August.
The tender vocals and melody gently embrace the bittersweetness of summer’s end and the uncertain path of love.
It’s perfect for a drive, and many people probably think, “I want to sing this at karaoke!” It’s a track that brings back memories of those summer nights, where the feelings of two people facing a farewell sparkle like stardust.
equalsumika
The crisp guitar tone feels great! This is a song by sumika, a four-piece rock band from Kanagawa Prefecture.
It was released in 2019 as a double A-side single, “Equal / Traveling.” The lyrics carry a straightforward message: be honest with your own feelings.
It’s the opening theme for MIX, a baseball anime set 30 years after Touch.
Okinawa Sunshine DayBEGIN
It’s an irresistibly cheerful summer tune that conjures up piercing blue skies and a pleasant sea breeze.
The buoyant rhythm that fuses ska and reggae naturally gets your body moving just by listening.
The track was inspired by guitarist Masaru Shimabukuro—who wrote both lyrics and music—after seeing his friends having a great time back in his hometown.
The lyrics convey the liberating feeling of driving under a cloudless sky and the positive vibe of surrendering to island rhythms and forgetting your worries.
Featured on Taiyo, the band’s first album in seven years set for release in July 2025, the song captures the warm, live energy of being recorded in one take on Ishigaki Island.
Perfect for summer drives, it also makes the ideal BGM whenever you want a quick mood refresh.
EscapeYorushika
This song distills Yorushika’s world into a single track, where literary lyrics intertwine with vocalist suis’s clear, translucent voice.
Centered on the theme of “escape,” it portrays the inner conflicts buried deep in the heart and the earnest desire to break free from reality.
The driving, exhilarating sound evokes that restless urgency and faint glimmer of hope—like leaving the bustle of a summer festival behind and sprinting into the night, just the two of you.
Released in July 2020 on the album “Plagiarism,” it was also used in the promotional video for the manga “Call of the Night.” For those who want to flee from something yet still move forward, it may resonate with the complex feelings of a summer night.