Big Star
A teenage hangout anthem reduced to its essential ingredients: boredom, minor mischief, and the pleasure of doing nothing with…
adolescent boredom small-town restlessness friendship/companionship
Randy Newman
Written for the animated film 'Toy Story,' this is a plain-spoken pledge of loyalty from one companion to another, stripped of…
loyalty reassurance humility versus devotion
Emmylou Harris
A narrator looks back at a childhood friend, Lillian, whose life in a small Southern town never escapes the gravity of that…
rural poverty and stasis female friendship the cost of unfulfilled ambition
Prince
A slow, gospel-shaped ballad in which a speaker apologizes for hurting someone, then gradually widens the address from a single…
apology and regret failed intimacy that could not become friendship spiritual deliverance