Songs about sharing aren’t entirely cheesy and childish like its dominating Children’s genre might have you believe.
Sharing involves a change of some sort and, while it’s usually for the better, it sometimes leaves you stained with regret as if you’ve opened your heart to someone only for them to give it back in ruins.
Our list of songs about sharing delves into it all, from the misery of sharing memories with someone who’s no longer there, to sharing a hotel with smelly neighbours.
Songs About Sharing
1. Share Your Love With Me – Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin fills her soulful song, Share Your Love With Me with the passion of undiscovered romance.
Aretha masterfully conveys the exhaustive heartache of loving someone who refuses to share their love back, powering her track with the strength it takes to move forwards, “I can’t help it, if he’s gone, I must try to forget, because I’ve got to live on.”
She refuses to simmer in her loneliness and instead transfers her feelings onto the problematic man, “How lonesome you must be, it’s a shame you don’t share your love with me.”
Aretha’s musical and vocal style was so incredibly inspired, that her effect can be heard reverberating throughout new releases to this day.
Share Your Love With Me is crafted to be a pick-me-up song for anyone trying to find some middle ground with their neglectful partner, or who’s stuck craving somebody they’re not allowed to have.
2. The Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love?
The Black Eyed Peas’ hit Where Is The Love holds a recurring sentiment of sharing world peace within its change-seeking lyrics.
The Black Eyed Peas shamelessly call out the hate that burdens society, drawing attention to human catastrophe, war crimes, racial division, media manipulation and more.
Between all this trauma and tragedy, their track implies the questions: why share hate? Why not share love instead?
This song was written to rally the multitudes of people feeling disenchanted by politics and the state of the future, encouraging the world to be better than this by spreading positivity to drown out the animosity.
3. McFly – Room On The Third Floor
McFly’s twist on ‘songs about sharing’ comes riddled with the torture of sharing a grim hotel room.
When imagining musicians on the road, it’s easy to get washed away in the American dream of superstars sharing spaces that look more like apartments than tour buses.
Room On The Third Floor gives a realistic insight into the touring life of upcoming bands who haven’t struck fortune just yet.
It’s not just sharing virtually every minute of your life with your bandmates when you’re on the road; it’s sharing a disappointing space with noisy hotel guests as well – “One bed is broken, next room is smoking, air conditioning stuck on heat … Hear the guests upstairs complaining about the room that’s got their TV too loud … Wake up early ‘round 7:30, housekeeping knocking on my door.”
Room On The Third Floor provides a unique look at how sharing can quickly lead to an uncontrolled invasion of privacy.
4. The Indigo Girls – Share The Moon
Share The Moon is The Indigo Girls’ enchanting metaphor for wanting to share love in the form of resparking an old relationship, but with someone who doesn’t want you back.
Their evocative line, “I wish I could be there to share the moon,” is sewn to the end of each verse to amplify the lyrical sorrow which sounds against a contrastingly positive landscape.
“I can go one day without calling, two days without balling, three days without missing you, but a lifetime of no kissing you, is something I just can’t do,” is just a snippet of the searingly relatable context that echoes throughout Share The Moon’s verses.
The Indigo Girls’ acoustic and harmony-rich style carries some clear Fleetwood Mac inspirations within it, crafting a song that sets a calm, optimistic scene for your heartbreak story.
5. Bing Crosby – Brother Can You Spare A Dime?
This vintage track is being shamefully lost to time. Bing Crosby lists the sacrifices of a man to his country and every ounce of work he’s done for the benefit of his fellow people, only to be abandoned during economic depression; a once-great man left to beg for money.
His lyrics say it perfectly: “Once I built a railroad, and I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad, now it’s done, brother can you spare a dime?”
Bing Crosby crafts a song for anyone who’s worked hard for their boss only to realise their impassioned effort is replaceable, thankless and unrewarded, whilst also nodding to war veterans who have been similarly discarded by their country.
As one of the most prominent songs of the American Great Depression, Brother, Can You Spare A Dime holds an eye-opening message which is just as impactful and painstakingly true today as it was nearly 100 years ago.
6. Justin Vasquez & Monty Datta – The Memories We Share
Sharing is synonymous with bettering the world, which circles back to bettering your life in return.
But Justin & Monty’s track, The Memories We Share, gives us a polar opposite interpretation, illustrating the bitterness of sharing memories with someone removed from your life.
Their wavy, lo-fi atmosphere reflects every ripple of nostalgia that haunts you in the aftermath of a break up, whilst the resounding melody of their chorus line mimes a broken record, like the echoing thought from a bygone era.
Sharing is a benefit to everyone, but the sour end of a relationship can leave you thinking, ‘maybe I shouldn’t have shared so much with them,’ – a sentiment The Memories We Share embeds masterfully.
7. Hermitage Green – Lions Share
Hermitage Green’s unique approach to the concept is ignited by a style not too dissimilar from Rag N’ Bone Man. Lions Share is about keeping things to yourself which you’re desperate to share, before pouncing upon the chance to be free at last.
Their lyrics focus on a failing relationship and the will to keep love alive despite the struggle their partner presents, “You only got one chance to live, one chance to give, you only got one chance with it, but you focus on yourself.”
Hermitage Green’s ‘lion’s share’ metaphor comes into play in their chorus, “So I ignore the other signs and look the other way, and all that’s left will be the lion’s share,” where they reap the bountiful blessings that follow patience, strength and instinctive determination.