50 Best Country Songs About Coming Home
Country tracks that feel like pulling into the driveway
Coming home hits different when your tires crunch into the same gravel you left months or years ago. The porch light's still there, flickering like always, and the mailbox leans a little more than it used to. It's not a triumphant return. It's weird. Familiar things feel too small, or too still, or too quiet. You walk into the kitchen and the air smells the same but the silence feels heavier. These are the songs that understand that kind of return. Not in some grand cinematic moment, but in the slow exhale when the door clicks shut behind you and the memories crawl out from wherever they were hiding.
The best ones don’t treat coming home like a bow-wrapped ending. They sit with the ache. They know what it feels like to fall back into old patterns you thought you'd outgrown, or to drive past old hangouts that don’t hit the same. It’s a strange kind of comfort, the kind that doesn’t need fixing. There’s that Luke Combs kind of stumble, or a Miranda Lambert sort of tension where the front porch might be familiar but you’re not sure if you still fit on it. And there’s always one track that sounds like it was written in the backseat of a truck parked outside your old high school while the engine idled.
Not every return feels earned. Some are messy. Some are overdue. Some are way too early. But they all land in that emotional tangle that’s somewhere between relief and confusion. The pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that really get it tend to show their cracks. They don’t try to wrap it all up in a lyric—they leave room for the silence after. Here’s the playlist that understands what it really feels like to come back.
Top 10 Country Songs
1. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
2. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
3. 'I'm Coming Home'—Chris Young
4. 'Who Says You Can't Go Home'—Bon Jovi feat. Jennifer Nettles
5. 'Back Where I Come From'—Mac McAnally
6. 'Coming Home'—Keith Urban feat. Julia Michaels
7. 'Home'—Dierks Bentley
8. 'My Hometown'—Charlie Robison
9. 'Coming Home'—Old Dominion
10. 'Carolina'—Parmalee
Returning Home Country Songs #11—20
11. 'Back to Tennessee'—Josiah and the Bonnevilles
12. 'Home'—Blake Shelton
13. 'That's What I Call Home'—Blake Shelton
14. 'I Want to Go Home'—Oliver Anthony
15. 'Hometown Girl'—Josh Turner
16. 'Back Home'—Dustin Lynch
17. 'Home'—Alan Jackson
18. 'Back Home Again'—John Denver
19. 'Homegrown'—Zac Brown Band
20. 'Home'—Sheryl Crow
Country Songs About Getting Back to Your Roots #21—30
21. 'My Town'—Montgomery Gentry
22. 'Feels Like Home'—Garth Brooks
23. 'Right Where I Need to Be'—Gary Allan
24. 'Coming Home'—Leon Bridges
25. 'Homecoming'—Josh Abbott Band
26. 'Home Sweet Home'—Mötley Crüe
27. 'Home'—Phillip Phillips
28. 'Back to Austin'—Jamestown Revival
29. 'Hometown'—Kane Brown
30. 'Coming Home'—Falling in Reverse
Songs About Going Back to Your Home #31—40
31. 'Home'—Billy Currington
32. 'The Boys Are Back in Town'—Thin Lizzy
33. 'I'm Comin' Home'—Murder by Death
34. 'Back in the Saddle'—Luke Combs
35. 'Long as You're Coming Home'—Eric Paslay
36. 'Coming Home to You'—MacKenzie Porter
37. 'Home'—Hunter Hayes
38. 'Wagon Wheel'—Old Crow Medicine Show
39. 'Outlaws & Mustangs'—Cody Jinks
40. 'Love's the Only House'—Martina McBride
Country Songs About Returning to Your Hometown #41—50
41. 'Homebound'—The Avett Brothers
42. 'Hometown'—The Chicks
43. 'Homegrown'—Zach Bryan
44. 'Come Home'—OneRepublic
45. 'Home'—Toby Keith
46. 'Homecoming'—Kanye West
47. 'Coming Home to Me'—Trace Adkins
48. 'Home Again'—Michael Kiwanuka
49. 'My House'—Kacey Musgraves
50. 'I'll Be Home For Christmas'—Brett Eldredge
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