A song for a best friend who passed away has a different job than a family memorial — it has to hold the plans you made and the nights nobody else witnessed. At Songbond, a custom tribute about your friend is $39.90 and lands in 24–48 hours, built from the stories only the two of you knew. "We Were Going to Get Old" is ours, written for everyone who lost the person they planned to grow old arguing with.
Hear it: "We Were Going to Get Old"
Listen to "We Were Going to Get Old" in the Song Library — the story behind it, the full lyrics, and more songs like it.
9 songs for a friend's service or celebration of life
- I'll Be Missing You — Diddy & Faith Evans. Recorded in tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. — proof that a personal goodbye can carry a whole room.
- See You Again — Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth. Written as a farewell to Paul Walker; the friendship song of its decade.
- My Old Friend — Tim McGraw. Quieter and more grown-up than most tribute songs; for friendships measured in decades.
- Fire and Rain — James Taylor. Taylor wrote it partly about losing a friend — sudden loss, told plainly.
- One Sweet Day — Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men. Written while both acts were grieving people close to them.
- Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd. For the friend-shaped silence in the room.
- If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away — Justin Moore. An afternoon visit you can't make anymore.
- Drink a Beer — Luke Bryan. Sitting on the dock with the loss instead of talking it away — closest in spirit to how many men actually grieve.
- For Good — from Wicked. Not a funeral song by birth, but "because I knew you, I have been changed" is the whole eulogy in one line.
Questions friends ask
What do you play at a best friend's celebration of life?
Celebrations of life have looser rules than funerals — the song he blasted with the windows down is fair game. Pair one loud memory with one quiet tribute.
Can a custom song include our inside jokes?
It should. The bar order, the fishing trip that caught nothing, the nickname nobody else gets — that's the material. Songbond turns it into a finished song for $39.90 in 24–48 hours.
Is it okay if the song isn't sad?
Yes. Some of the best friend-tributes are three-quarters grin. Honest beats somber — he'd have wanted the laugh.
The lyrics
I bought the second rocking chair
You'd laugh
Go ahead. Laugh.
You always ordered for the both of us before I hit the door
Two of whatever's cold, and don't you let him pay
We mapped it out at twenty-five like idiots and prophets
A porch, two chairs, bad knees, and forty years of giving each other hell
The plan was simple, man
You broke the only rule — you left
We were going to get old, you and me — that was the deal
Gray and loud on some porch, lying about the fish we caught
So I'm keeping the appointment, old friend — every year, I show up
I'm getting old for the both of us
You'd better be watching me do it
Your truck still pulls up in my dreams, gravel popping in the drive
Cheap beer and fresh-cut grass, the July you taught me poker
You laughed too loud in quiet rooms and made them better for it
Nobody's filled your stool down at the bar. Nobody's going to.
I drove out to the lake last week, first time since
Caught nothing — like always
Told the water every story you'd be embarrassed by
The plan's still on, old friend
I'm just running both our legs of it
Two chairs on the porch now
One's for whoever needs it
That was always your way anyhow
Keep the appointment
Have a tribute song written about your friend — $39.90, delivered in 24–48 hours, revised until it sounds like the two of you on that porch.
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