Good songs themed around love, encouragement, and life—tracks with lyrics you can relate to.
Listening to music can lighten your heart, make you feel happy, or even make you feel accepted just as you are… Surely you’ve had moments when you thought, “I’m so glad music exists!”
And when you’re worried about something, when something great happens, or when you want to celebrate someone, you probably look for just the right song.
Besides the favorite songs you always listen to, why not try some other wonderful tracks?
In this article, our editorial team has carefully selected songs we’d love to recommend to you as truly great tunes!
We hope you find the perfect song that suits you!
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Great songs themed around love, encouragement, and life. Tracks with lyrics you can relate to (331–340)
It’s okayMarushii
This is a motivational song featuring a fast-paced band sound and warm melodies.
It carries a message of encouragement for young people who, despite experiencing setbacks and hardships, strive to move forward.
Combined with its positive sound, it becomes a piece that truly resonates.
Released by Marcy in March 2023, the song was written specifically for Pocari Sweat’s web movie “Our Now,” and was later included on the album Candle.
As a song that gently pushes those with anxious feelings forward, it’s one to hear in spring, the season of new beginnings.
wishMarushii
It’s a song with an impressively emotive vocal, blending tenderness and wistfulness.
Performed by Marcy, it was chosen as the ending theme for the TV anime “I Guess I’ll End Up Falling in Love” airing from January 2025.
The feelings of someone in love are portrayed with care, and listening to it puts you in a romantic mood.
You can’t help but relate to the pure emotions toward the other person.
The melodious arrangement with its soothing guitar tone is another highlight.
If you’re thinking about confessing your feelings, this song might just give you a push.
Challenge the theory of relativityNogizaka 46
This song, very characteristic of Nogizaka46, is a fresh work that fuses the urgency of romance with concepts from physics.
Through the theory of relativity, it conveys the intensity of being in love.
The lyric “I want to see you faster than light” is filled with aching yearning.
It’s included on their 37th single, Footbridge, releasing on December 11, with 5th-gen member Hina Okamoto serving as center for the first time.
The music video is out as well, so be sure to check it out! Since this piece portrays romantic feelings from a scientific perspective, it’s recommended both for people who love physics and for those who want to savor pure romantic emotion.
In a new cityImai Miki
A signature song by Miki Imai, woven with warm words and a gentle melody that stays close during life’s turning points.
It’s a gem-like ballad that closes her August 1990 album “retour.” The calmly flowing melody and Imai’s clear, transparent vocals softly depict the resolve and hope needed to live in a new environment.
When facing major milestones such as moving or changing jobs, this piece will sit close to the listener’s heart and gently give them a push forward.
Good songs themed around love, encouragement, and life. Tracks with lyrics you can relate to (341–350)
Biri MillionYuuri
Yuuri’s uplifting song portrays a young person who rejects an old man’s offer to trade lifespan for riches, choosing instead to believe in their own potential.
With the powerful message that “just being alive is wonderful” and the universal theme that the value of life cannot be measured by money, the song is delivered through Yuuri’s characteristically emotive vocals.
Released in January 2023, it also drew attention for its flipbook-style music video created by popular comedian Tekken.
This track gently encourages anyone who, despite their struggles, is trying to walk their own path.
inferiorTomioka Ai
“Inferior,” by singer-songwriter Ai Tomioka, is a piece released in January 2025.
Framing life as a contest, it sings about feeling ‘inferior’ compared to those around you.
Yet it’s by no means a negative song; it carries the message, “Let’s love ourselves just as we are.” With a snappy sound arrangement that highlights Tomioka’s gentle vocals, it’s a heartwarming pop number.
DarlingŌhashi Chippoke
Chippoke Ohashi is a singer-songwriter who began pursuing music in earnest in 2016.
You might know him from his work on the theme song for Suntory’s Horoyoi commercial.
His song “Darling” is a love song that sings of clumsy love over a light, upbeat track.
It begins with him fretting over how, despite loving straight from the heart, he can’t express it well—but by the end, he blurts out, “Anyway, I’m going to love you for the rest of my life!!” That unclouded, pure love and the way he faces his own awkwardness are what really, deeply move you.
