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 (441–450).
CAN YOU CELEBRATE?Amuro Namie
It’s a ballad that portrays gentle love and an everlasting bond.
The lyrics capture the joy and anxiety felt before marriage, as well as growth learned from past memories and mistakes.
As you listen, you can feel the longing for joy and passionate experiences with someone special.
Released in February 1997, it was used as the theme song for the drama “Virgin Road.” It’s also beloved as a wedding staple and has become a classic that stays in many people’s hearts.
Namie Amuro’s soulful vocals and Tetsuya Komuro’s delicate composition blend beautifully in this track.
It’s recommended for those who are dating with marriage in mind or who want to deepen their bond with someone important.
By the time of the Christmas carolsInagaki Junichi
This is a mature love song that poignantly portrays winter romance.
The gentle piano melody and warm vocals weave a beautiful ballad that resonates in the heart.
The protagonist’s struggle as they decide to part ways with their lover during the Christmas season is delicately captured in the lyrics.
Released in October 1992, this track became Junichi Inagaki’s first major hit in ten years.
It was also featured in commercials and as a TV drama theme song, capturing the hearts of many.
It’s a recommended song for those enduring the pain of heartbreak or for anyone wishing to reevaluate their relationship with someone important.
Good songs themed around love, encouragement, and life. Songs with relatable lyrics (451–460)
Goodbye, my beloved.Hana＊Hana
With its mellow tone and the two members of Hana*Hana’s beautiful vocals, their signature song “Sayonara Daisuki na Hito” leaves a strong impression.
It’s often taken as a love song, but in fact, Izumi Kojima wrote it for her late grandfather.
Songs like this, which can be interpreted in many ways depending on the listener, become everyone’s songs and are cherished as timeless classics, don’t you think? Coupled with the song’s atmosphere, listening to the lyrics makes you feel the love, and it’s truly moving.
StoryAI
Singer-songwriter AI, beloved by a wide range of listeners for her soulful vocals and cute persona.
Her 12th single “Story” garnered numerous tie-ins, including an English version, and became the song that made her name widely known.
Its message, which wipes away the loneliness you feel when you’re down, is soothing just to listen to.
With powerful vocals that wrap around your heart, it’s a track that helps you regain a positive outlook.
AiHata Motohiro
A heartfelt ballad by Motohiro Hata that might make you shed a tear if you listen without thinking.
With this song, Hata debuted at No.
5 on the Oricon charts, marking his second Top 5 entry.
I’ve heard it’s also used as the ending theme for a news program in Miyazaki, making it the perfect song to gently close out your day.
The lyric “I couldn’t believe in love, but after meeting you I came to know love” feels like a long story, and it suits Hata’s vocal tone perfectly.
The words of kindness in the lyrics never lose their sense of reality, which is why it really makes you cry.
On days when things haven’t gone your way, give it a listen before you go to sleep.
「Missing」Androp
This is androp’s fourth single, released in 2013.
It was chosen as the theme song for the Toei-distributed film “Roommate,” which premiered in November 2013, marking the band’s first movie theme song.
It wasn’t a newly written track; rather, it was a song completed in the early days of the band’s activities that had not been released until then.
ColonyBUMP OF CHICKEN
“Colony” by BUMP OF CHICKEN is a song released in 2015 as their 24th single.
It was produced as a double A-side together with “Hello, world!”.
The track was written specifically as the opening theme for the TV anime Blood Blockade Battlefront.