At Least I Tried to Be Your Friend Again
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Music has a style of saying all the things we observe hard to express. And when it comes to our truthful friends—the ones who have been at that place to uplift united states of america during our darkest days, questionable haircuts, and happiest memories—a song lyric, like a heartfelt quote, can be the perfect mode to capture the way we feel about them. We've curated a list of best friend songs to dedicate to your OG, the Gayle to your Oprah, (or vice versa), the Carrie to your Miranda, the... well, you go information technology. Play these pop hits, land ballads, rap tunes, and 90s throwbacks during your adjacent girlfriend getaway, or blast them on a route trip with the volume cranked up. They won't fifty-fifty mind if you sing them a little off-key. That's the dazzler of having a BFF.
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"I'll exist There For You" past the Rembrandts
No, y'all're not listening to an episode of Friends, but that is what the vocal, "I'll be there for you," is all about, and why it debuts at the top of our listing. The Rembrandts released the single as office of their studio anthology L.P. in 1995.
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Central lyrics:
I'll be there for yous
(Similar I've been there before)
I'll be there for you lot
('Cause you're there for me also)
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"Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold
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"Count on Me" past Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars's "Count on Me" is cheery and simple simply gets to centre of what it means to be a friend— someone who yous can count on in times of problem. The song was released in 2010 on Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Mars's debut album.
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Key Lyrics:
Find out what we're made of
When we are chosen to help our friends in need
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"You've Got a Friend in Me" by Randy Newman
Randy Newman created "You lot've Got A Friend in Me" for the Toy Story movie franchise. It'southward the perfect song to dedicate to your childhood bestie.
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Key lyrics:
If y'all've got troubles, I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and tin can come across it through
'Crusade yous've got a friend in me
Yeah, you've got a friend in me
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"Lean on Me" by Bill Withers
Bill Withers'due south "Lean on Me" was featured on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension every bit number 208. The song is an anthem for unity and esprit. Withers released information technology in June 1972 on his anthology Still Bill. Rolling Stone calls it his biggest hitting.
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Key lyrics:
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help y'all comport on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna demand
Somebody to lean on
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"Best Friend" by Young Thug
Rapper Young Thug released his single "Best Friend" in 2015 and since then it'due south been a get-to hook to celebrate friendship for birthdays, social media shout-outs, and any other time that yous want the earth to know "that'south my bestie, become all-time friend!" The song peaked at number 18 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 2016.
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Key lyrics:
And that's my bestie, my bestie, my best friend, go best friend!
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"No New Friends" by DJ Khaled ft. Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne
DJ Khaled collaborated with Rick Ross, Drake and Lil Wayne to release "No New Friends" in 2013. This runway praises the loyal people who were with you from the very beginning. The vocal nods to Drake's "Started From the Lesser," where he raps nearly his journey to success and bringing his twenty-four hours-one friends to the top with him.
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Key Lyrics:
No new friends, no new friends, no new friends...
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"Started From the Bottom" past Drake
When y'all're succeeding in life, it's important to recognize who'southward encouraging you lot and who has never left your side. That's exactly the kind of friendship that Drake raps near in "Started From The Bottom." This showtime unmarried from Drake'southward album Nothing Was the Same peaked at number 6 on Billboard'south Hot 100 in 2013.
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Key lyrics:
Started from the lesser, now we're hither
Started from the lesser, at present my whole team f****** here
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"Real Friends" by Kanye West
Rapper and producer Kanye Due west released "Real Friends" with Ty Dolla Sign in 2016 on his album The Life of Pablo. In the song, Westward tries to discern who, of his friends and family unit, has his best interests at heart.
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Key lyrics:
Real friends, how many of the states?
How many of us, how many jealous? Real friends
Information technology's not many of us, we smile at each other
But how many honest? Trust issues
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"True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper recorded "True Colors" on her 2d anthology. In October 1968, the song striking number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. The lyrics, by songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, are an encouraging reminder to live authentically. Since its release, the vocal has been sampled and recorded by many artists and remains a staple of pop culture. Information technology's a reminder that your best friend will always see you at your most cute.
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Key lyrics:
But I see your true colors
Shining through
I run into your true colors
And that's why I dearest you lot
So don't be afraid to permit them show
Your true colors
Truthful colors are beautiful
Similar a rainbow
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"Daughter" past Destiny'south Child
Destiny's Child'southward "Girl" was a single on the grouping's anthology Destiny Fulfilled in 2014. Kelly Rowland admitted that the vocal was written for her during a time that she was in an calumniating relationship. The lyrics reflect grouping members Beyoncé and Michelle'southward plead for Rowland to confide in them and be honest with herself.
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Key lyrics:
Girl, you don't take to be hiding
Don't you exist aback to say he hurt you
I'm your girl, y'all're my daughter, we your girls
Don't y'all know that we dear ya?
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"Wannabe" past the Spice Girls
"If you wannabe my lover, you lot gotta get with my friends" is the iconic line from the British pop group. The debut unmarried peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 nautical chart in 1997. The song is fun and upbeat, and places friendships with your gals ahead of romantic relationships. Though, the Spice Girls accept since admitted that they have no idea what zig-a-zig-ah means.
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Key lyrics:
If you wanna be my lover, y'all gotta get with my friends
(Gotta go with my friends)
Make it terminal forever, friendship never ends
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"Clique" by Kanye Due west, Jay-Z and Big Sean
Rappers Kanye W, Big Sean, and Jay-Z teamed upward to create "Clique" in 2012. Label G.O.O.D. Music released the rail on its collaboration album, Cruel Summer. The song is platonic for a grouping of friends raising a glass to each other.
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Key lyrics:
Own't nobody fresher than my chiliad********* clique, clique, clique, clique, clique
Every bit I look around, they don't exercise information technology like my clique, clique, clique, clique, clique
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"Best Friend" past Brandy
R&B star Brandy released "Best Friend" in 1995 as a single for her self-titled album. In a 2014 interview with Billboard on the album's 20th anniversary, Brandy shared that the vocal was dedicated to her brother, Ray J, another star in the entertainment manufacture. You tin can encounter the pair dancing together in the song's music video. This goes to show that sometimes the closest friends you take are your family unit.
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Primal lyrics:
I don't know what I'd ever exercise without you
From the commencement to the terminate
You've always been hither right beside me
And then, I'll telephone call you my best friend
Through the proficient times and the bad ones
Whether I lose or if I win
I know 1 thing that never changes, and
That'due south you equally my all-time friend
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"Friends" by The Carters
The Carters—Beyoncé and Jay-Z—released "Friends" as part of their surprise anthology Everything Is Love in 2018. The couple has dozens of Grammy Awards combined and their work has led them both to be powerhouse names in the entertainment manufacture. This song is like a tribute to the friends that stood past them along the mode in their journeying. In the vocal, Jay-Z personally shouts out some of his longtime pals.
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Fundamental lyrics
My friends, real friends, better than your friendsThat's how we keep poppin' out that Benz, yes
No foes, real friends, we own't even got to pretend, yeah
Get bands, get bands, spend it all on my friends
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"That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick ft. Stevie Wonder, Elton John, and Gladys Knight
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"Good Friend and a Glass of Wine" by LeAnn Rimes
When you accept a "Expert Friend and a Drinking glass of Wine," you take all you demand to feel relaxed, refreshed, and revived. LeAnn Rimes'southward single was released from her album Family in 2008. The vocal is perfect for grabbing your closest gals and decompressing from whatever the globe throws your way.
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Key lyrics:
A good friend and a glass of wine
Someone to say it'due south gonna be alright
A good friend and a glass of wine
A trivial pick me up to get me through the night
We talk trash n' nosotros laugh and cry
That kind of therapy coin can't purchase
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"Y'all're My Best Friend" by Queen
The British stone grouping Queen originally released "You're My Best Friend" in 1975 on their album A Night at the Opera until information technology was later re-released as a single. John Deacon, the band'due south bass thespian, really admitted that he wrote the piece about his married woman. The hit was certified platinum past the RIAA in September 2016, with 1 meg copies sold. Information technology's a peachy one for weddings, if your spouse does happen to be your BFF.
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Central lyrics:
Ooh, yous make me live
I'm happy at home
You're my all-time friend
Oh, you're my best friend
Ooh, y'all make me live
You're my best friend
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"Jumpin' Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child
Ladies, are y'all craving a nighttime out with your girls? We've got a hit for you. "Jumpin' Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child is single from the group's anthology, The Writing's on the Wall. The album was certified platinum 8 times in a span of three years past the RIAA.
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Key lyrics:
All you ladies leave your human at home
The club is full of ballers and their pockets full grown
And all you fellas leave your girl with her friends
'Cause it's eleven thirty and the social club is jumpin', jumpin'
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"Friends" past Whodini
The hip hop trio Whodini created "Friends" in 1984. A regional news site in Alabama interviewed the grouping's lyricist Jalil Hutchins who talked well-nigh the touch on of the song's lifespan. "The younger generation may not study all the words, but they know that song." The track is a hip-hop classic that reminds united states of america that beingness a expert friend is more well-nigh what you do than what y'all say.
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Key lyrics:
Friends – how many of us take them?
Friends – ones we can depend on
Friends – how many of us have them?
Friends – before we become whatsoever further, permit'due south be
Friends
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"Graduation (Friends Forever)" past Vitamin C
"Graduation (Friends Forever)" is popular singer Vitamin C'due south unmarried on her debut cocky-titled album. The lyrics depict growing up, but not growing apart.
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Primal lyrics:
Equally we get on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And every bit our lives change
Come whatever
We volition still exist
Friends forever
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"We Tin can't Terminate" by Miley Cyrus
"Nosotros Tin't Stop" was Miley Cyrus's pb single from her 2013 anthology Bangerz. This song and its music video represented a breakout image for Cyrus as an adult, divide from her adolescent persona from her career at Disney. The vocal was a huge success, peaking at #2 on Billboard'south Hot 100 chart (and she went on to peak at #1 with the album's second unmarried "Wrecking Brawl" just two months afterwards). Though in that location are no explicit mentions of a best friend in this hitting, the carefree lyrics entice you to be emboldened, allow become, and party, and who amend to do that with than our friends?
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Key lyrics:
And we can't cease (whoa)
And we won't stop (whoa)
Can't you see it'southward we who own the night
Tin can't you run into information technology we who tour' that life
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"Aid!" by The Beatles
The Beatles released "Help!" in July 1965. The striking landed in Rolling Stone's top l spot for Greatest Songs of All Time. John Lennon, who wrote the track, told the mag, "Subconsciously, I was crying out for help. I didn't realize it at the time…"
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Key lyrics:
Assist me if you can, I'm feeling downwards
And I do appreciate you beingness 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't yous please, please help me?
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"I'm Only Me When I'm With You lot" past Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift released "I'1000 Just Me When I'1000 With Y'all" in 2004 as a bonus rails of the deluxe edition of her debut album. The music video for the rails is personal and heartwarming, full of moments with her close friends and family snipped together in a montage.
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Key lyrics
I'm only up when y'all're not down
Don't wanna fly if you lot're still on the ground
It's similar no matter what I do
Well, yous drive me crazy half the fourth dimension
The other half I'g only trying
To let yous know that what I feel is truthful
And I'm just me when I'g with y'all
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"Count on Me" past Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans
Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans came together for "Count on Me" in the soundtrack for Waiting to Exhale. The soulful song is perfect for friends who help elevator each other up in times of need.
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Key lyrics:
Count on me through thick and thin
A friendship that volition never end
When you are weak I will be strong
Helping you to carry on
Phone call on me, I will be there
Don't exist afraid
Delight believe me when I say
Count on me
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"What Nigh Your Friends" past TLC
The hip hop and R&B daughter grouping TLC released "What Nigh Your Friends" every bit a single on their 1992 debut anthology. The lyrics are about determining who your true friends are. In a 2017 interview with Billboard, group member Chilli said: "We've all been back-stabbed by people nosotros thought were our true friends and that'southward a life lesson that you learn as you get older."
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Primal lyrics:
What near your friends?
Will they stand up their ground,
Will they let yous downwards again?
What about your friends?
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"I Turn to Y'all" by Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera covered All-4-I's "I Turn to You" and released it as a single on her debut album in 2000. Months subsequently, the track peaked at the number three spot on Billboard'southward Hot 100 chart. The ballad is smooth and irksome and encourages you to feel safe with the friends you love.
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Primal lyrics:
For a shield from the storm
For a friend, for a beloved
To keep me condom and warm
I plow to y'all
For the forcefulness to be strong
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"Nosotros Go Together"
Whether this song makes you want to break out your leather or break out in trip the light fantastic toe, the message of the Grease showtune still holds potent. The closing rails of the movie ends with the cast making a vow that they'll ever be together.
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Key lyrics:
We go together
Like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Remembered forever
Equally shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity nail de blast
Chang chang changitty chang sha-bop
That's the way it should be
Wah-oooh, yes!
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"My Erstwhile Friend" by Tim McGraw
Country music star Tim McGraw released "My Old Friend" as a unmarried in 2005 on his album Live Like Yous Were Dying. The song is like an amends alphabetic character from one friend to another for growing apart, equally some friendships do. The goal is to be appreciative of your friends while they're still there.
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Key lyrics:
My onetime friend, I apologize
For the years that have passed
Since the last time you and I
Dusted off those memories
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"Friends" by Nas and Damian Marley
Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley collaborated on Afar Relatives in 2010, which gave birth to the runway "Friends." The album was intended to empower Black communities; the song infuses elements of rap, reggae and samples from the African diaspora. Every bit Marley says in the song, "Your existent friends will serve you long."
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Key lyrics:
Your real friends volition serve y'all long
Acquaintances will fade
Your real friends won't practice you wrong
Existent friend don't alter
Source: https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/g32712055/best-friend-songs/
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