For your best friend
Song for best friend: one to send, or one made for them
Pick a song for best friend nights from the classics below, or make the one only yours deserves. Friendship rarely gets songs written about it, so tell us how you met, the jokes nobody else understands and what they got you through, and we build a chorus on their name.
听一首真实样曲
Sweet Xiomara
送给 Xiomara
Friendship songs you can send today
The songs people send a best friend most often. Every one of them is about friendship in general; none of them knows your stories.
| 歌曲 | 歌手 | 适合 |
|---|---|---|
| Lean on Me | Bill Withers | Being there when it counts |
| You've Got a Friend | Carole King | A promise to show up |
| Count on Me | Bruno Mars | Easy, upbeat loyalty |
| With a Little Help from My Friends | The Beatles | Getting by together |
| Thank You for Being a Friend | Andrew Gold | Saying thanks with a smile |
| I'll Be There for You | The Rembrandts | The friends who are family |
| Stand by Me | Ben E. King | Sticking together through anything |
| You've Got a Friend in Me | Randy Newman | Lifelong buddies |
A real song made for a friend
"Sweet Xiomara" was written for a friend who finished nursing school.
Make a song about your best friend
- Type their first name and pick Friend. Add how to say the name if people usually get it wrong.
- Choose how it should feel, heartfelt, funny or hype, then write up to three lines: how you met, the joke, the time they showed up.
- Pick one of seven styles and a voice. In about two minutes you hear the first 60 seconds; keep it for $12.99 or walk away and pay nothing.
What you get for $12.99
- The full song, about two minutes, as an MP3.
- The lyric sheet to save as a PDF, for the speech or the group chat.
- A private link your friend can play without signing up.
- A photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, made in your browser, ready to post.
- One free re-record if their name comes out wrong, and after you pay, a free remake if the name is still sung wrong.
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link to drop in the group chat so they know something is coming.
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese, or rapped in English.
Funny, heartfelt or hype
Most best-friend songs land somewhere between a toast and a group-chat joke. Choose Funny on the story step and the form asks for the fail they will never live down, their food obsession and their catchphrase; the lyrics tease kindly and never insult. Choose Hype for a birthday or a big win and the verses brag on their behalf.
Heartfelt is for the friend who drove three hours when it mattered. You can mix: two light lines and one sincere one is a good balance, and the chorus carries the sincere part.
For a funny song for friend birthdays, pick upbeat pop and give us the story the group still teases them about; it stays kind, never mean.
Song ideas by kind of friendship
| Friendship | Lines that work |
|---|---|
| Since school | The classroom you met in, the teacher you both feared, the thing you traded at lunch. |
| College roommates | The dorm, the 2 am food run, the exam one of you slept through. |
| Work best friend | The meeting you survived together, the coffee order, the day they covered for you. |
| Long distance | The city they moved to, the voice notes across time zones, the visit you are planning. |
| Basically family | The holidays they spend with yours, what your kids call them, the spare key. |
The friendship details we need
- Where you met, and how old you both were.
- The joke that still makes you both cry laughing.
- A night you would rather not explain to anyone else.
- The time they showed up when it really mattered.
- Something they are proud of this year.
For example
A childhood scene, a ritual and a rescue: that is a friendship song.
- We met in fourth grade when she traded me her pudding cup.
- We have watched the same terrible movie every Halloween for twelve years.
- She drove three hours the night my dad was in the hospital.
Style for a friendship song
R&B and upbeat pop are popular picks for friends, because the song can be warm and fun at once. Our friend sample is R&B with a female voice. If your friendship is all campfires and road trips, indie folk fits better.
Occasions that suit it
- A birthday, especially a big one.
- Their wedding, played at the rehearsal dinner.
- A move to a new city.
- Graduation or a new job.
- No reason at all, which is often the best one.
When the friendship has changed
Maybe you live in different cities now, or one of you has kids and far less free time. A song is a good way to say the friendship still matters. Write one line about who you were back then and one about who you are now, and let the chorus connect them.
If your friend is going through something difficult, keep the song about what you admire in them rather than the hard thing itself.