Everybody Needs a Best Friend's lyrics were by a Japanese person.
`` Everybody Needs a Best Friend '' is a song from the 2012 feature film Ted , with music composed by Walter Murphy and lyrics by Seth MacFarlane .	Seth MacFarlane	Seth MacFarlane	Walter Murphy	Walter Murphy	Ted	Ted (film)
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane -LRB- -LSB- s_wdbri_mkfrln -RSB- born October 26 , 1973 -RRB- is an American actor , filmmaker , and singer , working primarily in animation and comedy , as well as live-action and other genres .
Walter Anthony Murphy , Jr. -LRB- born December 19 , 1952 -RRB- is an American composer , arranger , pianist , musician , songwriter , and record producer .
