There are certain songs that mysteriously return every spring. Some push you forward into a new chapter of life, while others bring back old memories and feelings you thought you had forgotten.
In this article, we’ve carefully selected 10 songs — both Western and Japanese — that feel perfect for spring.
A sunny afternoon walk, the evening sky on the way home, a sleepless and anxious night. Consider this a playlist for all the different emotions that quietly return with the season of spring.
Songs that come back in the spring
For some reason, certain songs always seem to return in spring.
The anxiety of new life, the slightly whitish blue sky, the breeze on the way home, the nostalgia of the evening. Spring feels like a season of moving forward, while quietly bringing old feelings back at the same time.
In this article, we’ve put together a playlist of both international and Japanese songs that feel perfect for spring.
From songs that suit the blue sky in the daytime to those that gently accompany you at night. Here is a playlist for discovering the music that quietly drifts through the “sky of the heart.”
- Windy Day / ELLEGARDEN
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A song that feels made for looking up at the spring sky. It goes well with the daytime breeze and the slightly whitish blue sky. One of those songs that perfectly captures the feeling of early spring.
🎧Listen to "Windy Day" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "Windy Day" on Spotify
📺Watch "Windy Day" on YouTube - Horizon / Taiyo Marchand
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A song that feels like stumbling across a quiet spring sky by chance. Rather than pushing too hard, it gently opens up the sky and lets the moment breathe. On a sunny spring day, it somehow makes the road ahead feel a little lighter.
🎧Listen to "Horizon" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "Horizon" on Spotify
📺Watch "Horizon" on YouTube - This Is the Day / The The
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Surprisingly, “that day” is rarely recognized in the moment. It is only when you look back on it later that you realize that something has changed since that day. The song carries the kind of emotions that quietly return with the spring air.
🎧Listen to "This Is the Day" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "This Is the Day" on Spotify
📺Watch "This Is the Day" on YouTube - More Than Useless / Relient K
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Spring brings not only anticipation, but also anxiety. Its quiet tenderness feels especially comforting during moments of self-doubt. It feels like a supportive song you can lean on.
🎧Listen to "More Than Useless" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "More Than Useless" on Spotify
📺Watch "More Than Useless" on YouTube - Shine (feat. Spektrem & Camellis) / Avxy
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This song is like the moment when the sky changes from winter to spring. You can feel the slightly whitish blue sky and the soft light. This music is like a spring scenery, suitable for both morning and afternoon.
🎧Listen to "Shine (feat. Spektrem & Camellis)" on Apple Music
- the Cookie Crumbles / BIGMAMA
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This song goes well with blue skies and green grass. Rather than pushing you forward, it has a gentleness that feels like someone sitting beside you and saying, “You don’t have to force yourself.”
🎧Listen to "the Cookie Crumbles" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "the Cookie Crumbles" on Spotify
📺Watch "the Cookie Crumbles" on YouTube - THINK ABOUT MY DAUGHTER / GLAY
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This song gives a feeling of the sparkle of life in spring. Filled with TAKURO’s signature tenderness, this song feels made for soaking up the morning sun. One of the first songs that comes to mind whenever spring arrives.
🎧Listen to "THINK ABOUT MY DAUGHTER" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "THINK ABOUT MY DAUGHTER" on Spotify
📺Watch "THINK ABOUT MY DAUGHTER/GLAY" on YouTube - Sunset Glow / BIGBANG
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This song feels perfect for spring evenings and the walk home. For some reason, it carries the atmosphere of youth and warm evening air. The kind of song that fits perfectly with a walk home in the warm spring wind.
🎧Listen to "Sunset Glow" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "Sunset Glow" on Spotify
📺Watch "Sunset Glow" on YouTube - Wide Awake / Hot Milk
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A song that instantly feels like spring from the very first note. It has the energy of a rock number that pushes you forward, but it also carries a sadness that feels unique to spring. It’s a song about noticing the unfairness of not being able to stay pure, and still trying to move forward.
🎧Listen to "Wide Awake" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "Wide Awake" on Spotify
📺Watch "Wide Awake" on YouTube - Don't Stop Believin’ / Journey
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This song gives the feeling of the air changing from winter to spring. The bouncing bass line and piano sound like footsteps moving forward. Anxiety, anticipation, leaving home, and hope. It has the power to move forward while carrying all the emotions that spring brings.
🎧Listen to Don’t Stop Believin’ on Apple Music
🎧Listen to Don’t Stop Believin’ on Spotify
📺Watch Don’t Stop Believin’ on YouTube - Free Bird / Lynyrd Skynyrd
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This song feels made for seasons of goodbye and new beginnings. From its quiet beginning, the second half suddenly takes off into the sky.
🎧Listen to "Free Bird" on Apple Music
🎧Listen to "Free Bird" on Spotify
📺Watch "Free Bird" on YouTube
For those who want to delve deeper into spring
Spring has a slightly different atmosphere in the morning, afternoon, evening, and night. Here are the “spring feelings” that didn’t fit into the main playlist, divided by time of day.
☀️ Songs to listen to on a spring morning
These songs suit the whitish spring sky and the beginning of a new day.
- Do Or Die / Afrojack vs. THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS Remix — A morning song that makes you want to move forward.
- Tomorrow, Maybe / Better Luck Next Time — The word “tomorrow” feels especially fitting in spring.
- Book of Love / The Monotones — Even though it’s an oldies song, it somehow carries the feeling of spring.
- Lighter Than Air (Mixed)/Feenixpawl & Marlo Hoogstraten - A song with an air like spring light.
🌆 Songs to listen to on a spring evening
A little nostalgic, on a spring evening when emotions return.
- When I Wake Up / The Pretty Reckless — A fast-moving rock song for spring evenings and restless feelings.
- Clear Bones / Jean Dawson — A song with an unexplainable spring-like feeling, perfect for lying in a sunny field and letting the day drift by.
- Closer To The Edge / Thirty Seconds To Mars — A rock anthem for the messy, forward-moving energy of a new season.
🌙 A song to accompany a spring night
On a spring night, when anxiety and true feelings quietly return.
- What It Takes / Adelitas Way — A song that offers the strength to look ahead, even in the darkest moments.
- Can’t Lose This Fight / New Hope Club — A gentle song that stays beside late-night anxieties and quietly pushes forward.
- This Love / Maroon 5 — For some reason, this song keeps finding its way back in spring.
The songs introduced here can also be enjoyed on Amazon Music Unlimited.
For moments of spring nostalgia or restless nights in a new season.
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Summary｜Spring returns with music
Spring seems like a new season, but in fact it brings old feelings with it.
The whitish blue sky, the evening walk home, the late-night anxieties. The songs gathered here are tracks that seem to linger naturally in that spring-like atmosphere.
Some days feel hopeful, while others quietly bring old memories back. Even so, music has a way of quietly making the future feel a little brighter.
Hopefully, this spring will bring each listener a song worth coming back to.
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