11 Songs About Seeing Someone Again After A Long Time

Seeing someone after a long time can be a significant and often emotional experience. Whether it’s a friend, family member, or someone with whom you share a personal connection, reuniting with someone you haven’t seen in a while can bring about a range of feelings and reactions.

The experience of reuniting with someone after a long time is highly personal and can vary widely depending on the nature of your relationship, the reasons for the separation, and the individual personalities involved. It often involves a mix of emotions, but it can be a meaningful and enriching experience that allows you to strengthen bonds and create new memories together. Below are some songs about seeing someone again after a long time.

1. Trey Songz – Song Goes Off

The single is from his album Tremaine (2017). In it, Trey runs into his ex while in the club and reveals they have not seen each other for a long time so he won’t just let her walk off. He feels there is a reason why he just bumped into her since the chances were highly unlikely. Now all the feelings he had bottled up inside start coming back and he starts sharing how he had been lost without her. He also persuades her to spill her emotions before the moment is lost.

 

2. Skyler Grey – Coming Home

This is the second part of Diddy’s original song Coming Home. Skyler wrote different verses but kept the chorus the same. Lyrically, she sings about being determined to go back home after spending a period away from it due to the mistakes she had made. She is looking forward to a new start after experiencing a lot of pain.

3. Kanye West – Homecoming

The track is from the album Graduation (2007) which was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA. He uses an extended metaphor to describe his feelings for Chicago, his hometown, by comparing it to a lost girlfriend. He tells a story of a girl he met when they were kids but he left her to pursue his dreams.

 

4. Lanco – Greatest Love Story

The song is a story about a love story between the singer and a girl. They started dating each other while in high school and believed their love story would be the best in the town. She then went off to college while he got a job thus this led to them breaking up since they couldn’t see each other.

After four years, the girl came back and the singer learned that she was single after breaking up with her college boyfriend. They went out for a couple of drinks to catch up and they found out they still had deep feelings for each other. He decided to propose to her.

 

5. Adele – When We Were Young

The song is part of the album 25 which was released in 2015. In a town hall interview for SiriusXM’s The Spectrum, Adele described the setting of the song as a party with old friends and acquaintances.

“everyone that you’ve ever fallen out with, everyone that you’ve ever loved, everyone that you’ve never loved…And you’re all thrown together at this party when you’re like 50, and it doesn’t matter and you have so much fun and you feel like you’re 15 again.”

 

6. Ed Sheeran – Photograph

The song is from the album X (Multiply) which was released in 2014. Ed drew inspiration from his ex-girlfriend Nina Nesbitt. He is going to be away from her for a while so he asks her to keep a photograph of him close by so that she won’t feel alone until the next time they see each other.

 7. Rudimental – These Days

Macklemore raps about an ex-girlfriend whom he broke up with so that he could get a chance to work on himself. He hopes that someday in the future they will get a chance to sit down and laugh about the days they had together. Every once in a while he tries to reach out to her but changes his mind right away. All he knows is she moved to Austin, got an apartment and settled down.

 

8. Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa – See You Again

The song is a tribute to the late Furious actor Paul Walker who passed away after a car crash. It was the first hip-hop song to reach 1 billion views on YouTube and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for twelve weeks. Lyrically, it talks about the things you will tell your friend when you finally get to see each other again in the future. There is also a reflection on the different memories they created all the years they were together.

 

9. Carrie Underwood – See You Again

The song is about moving forward after a loss. It was originally written for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Carrie’s message is that the loss is not the end and they will get to see each other at some point in the future.

 

10. Ed Sheeran – Visiting Hours

Ed Sheeran wrote the song after the passing of his friend Michael Gudinski who was a music promoter. Lyrically, he talks about wishing heaven had visiting hours so that he could show up and share what is happening in his life with his loved ones who had passed on. He adds that this is not goodbye but till they meet again.

 

11. Frank Sinatra – That Old Feeling

Frank sings about getting a familiar feeling the time he met an ex he had not seen in a long time. He realizes that he still has a lot of feelings for her and does not wish to start a new relationship with someone else.