Companionship is what keeps life sweet, although staying together is not always as simple as it seems.
We’ve collected some of the best pop and rock songs about togetherness to invite some feel-good community spirit into your day, whether you’re chasing helplessly after the girl you love, seeking peace with an angel, or strengthening your commitment to a turbulent marriage.
Songs About Togetherness
1. The Turtles – Happy Together
The Turtles’ 1967 #1 hit single, Happy Together, retains its enchanting energy to this day, a proven classic using its divine optimism to mirror the enlightenment of true love.
With an alluringly sly feeling to their verses, The Turtles weave the crisp and warm tones of the 60s with subtle psychedelic experimentations, crowning their track with an inimitable retro ambience.
This song is a daydream of the happiness you’ll one day share with your crush whilst professing love to the person you can’t stop thinking about.
The Turtles’ message is seamlessly resonant with honeymoon-phase romances and long-married couples alike, crafting an anthem for all eras of love; “I can’t see me loving nobody but you for all my life, when you’re with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life.”
2. Avicii ft. Rita Ora – Lonely Together
Avicii and Rita Ora’s dance track illustrates the core importance of community and companionship.
This is a track about falling unstoppably in love, running to a person to ease your loneliness whilst knowing your reckless decisions are coming from your heart, not your head; “I might hate myself tomorrow, but I’m on my way tonight, at the bottom of a bottle, you’re the poison in the wine.”
Embellished with subtle country flairs within its club-anthem harmony, Lonely Together is anchored in the comfort of togetherness which surmounts all that stands in its path, “Let’s be lonely together, a little less lonely together.”
3. Janet Jackson – Together Again
Janet Jackson’s high-spirited pop track, Together Again, is ignited by a retro R&B beat and a heart-warming ambience which threads its lustre through every moment.
Janet’s radiant energy utterly distracts from the morose theme of her lyrics, as she uplifts even the darkest of life’s moments into a feature of love.
This track takes a mesmerizingly optimistic approach to the subject of grief, harbouring many evocative, pain-easing lines such as;
“Always been a true angel to me – now above, I can’t wait for you to wrap your wings around me, baby … Dream about us together again, what I want: us together again, I know we’ll be together again … Dancing in moonlight, I know you are free, ’cause I can see your star shining down on me.”
4. Rudeboy ft, Patoranking – Together
Rudeboy & Patoranking’s 2018 afro-pop collab, Together, is a fresh, summery track about staying together with your girl through every fight and adventure, establishing a relationship that can withstand anything;
“We go stay together, forever, our love is weather free, anytime, whenever, however, anyhow way you like, make it be.”
Both artists blanket their lyrics with a bounty of spellbindingly romantic lyrics, devising a far-from-cheesy love song for couples both new and old;
“You make me realise God make you specially for me … Remember the cuddling at night, forever inna me arms, me I hold you so tight … Even though everyday we fight, girl I still adore you, I still adore you.”
5. The 1975 – Me & You Together Song
This track by The 1975 is clad in a colourfully dreamy pop atmosphere with an innocent, cheeky punk flair glimmering within its attitude.
Me & You Together Song is an insight into school-age love, the teen boy narrator getting closer with his long-term crush whilst inadvertently planting himself deep in the friendzone;
“I can’t remember when we met because she didn’t have a top on, I improvised a little bit, she said my references were spot on, ‘Can I take you for a drink?’ she said, ‘Oh God, I have to think because we’re mates, it doesn’t feel right.’”
Beneath its intoxicatingly youthful approach, this track captures an absolutely timeless message within its chorus lyrics, shaping a song for the hopelessly love-dazed, young or old; “I’ve been in love with her for ages and I can’t seem to get it right, I fell in love with her in stages my whole life.”
6. Casting Crowns – Broken Together
Casting Crowns’ cinematic track, Broken Together, is centred in its atmospheric piano harmony, sounding with compelling sparsity to give centre stage to the crushing lyrical story. Casting Crowns tell the tale of a married couple dissolving into lovelessness and ruin from the dreams they once shared.
This track’s open-ended lyrics are crafted to echo profoundly with any couple wishing they could return to the simpler days of love;
“What do you think about when you look at me, I know we’re not the fairytale you dreamed we’d be … How I wish we could go back to simpler times, before all our scars and all our secrets were in the light.”
Broken Together gains its title from the chorus’ notion towards healing, peace-keeping and perseverance, crafting a ballad for anyone cutting back the dead foliage burdening their once beautiful romance;
“Maybe you and I were never meant to be complete, could we just be broken together?.. The only way we’ll last forever is broken together.”
7. H.E.R – Hold Us Together
Whilst H.E.R’s pop track, Hold Us Together, was featured on the official soundtrack of the 2020 Disney+ film, ‘Safety’, this song’s meaning completely transcends its connotations with the film, fashioning a pop anthem of devotion and strength.
Hold Us Together is dedicated to the person in your life who holds your world together. Its lyrics are laced with clear Christian symbolism, reading almost like a prayer to God, yet cleverly crafted in a way which allows the audience to place their own guardian figure at the centre of the song, whether it inspires your thought of your father, mother or grandma, or so on;
“Even in the darkness, you will be my light, even when I’m hopeless, you will be my guide … You’re the keeper, protector, it is you that holds us together, when everything else fails us, it is you that holds us together.”