50 Best Country Songs About Dreams
Best Country Tracks on Chasing Dreams
There’s a certain mood that comes with thinking about where you’re headed. Sometimes it feels big and wide open, other times it’s like you’re staring at a locked door with no clue what’s on the other side. You catch yourself drifting in the middle of a long drive or standing in the kitchen with coffee gone cold, and a song catches you off guard. The kind that makes you picture what could be without promising it’ll work out. Country music can do that in a way that cuts past the shiny pep talks and leans into something messier and closer to real.
Not every dream feels light. Some are heavy, tied to things you can’t shake even when you try. You hear it in the slow drawl of a steel guitar, in the way a chorus lingers like it knows you’ve been carrying the same hope for years. Then there are tracks that sound wide awake, with the kind of drive that could pull you through the longest stretch of road. That same feeling lives in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs too, but in country there’s a way the stories stick like they’ve been passed down through a dozen worn notebooks.
It’s not always about reaching the goal. Sometimes the dream shifts halfway through, sometimes it unravels, and sometimes it becomes something entirely new. The best songs don’t sugarcoat that. They sit with the uncertainty, the risk, the weird mix of hope and doubt, and turn it into something you can hum at midnight or play loud with the windows down. Here are the best country songs on chasing dreams.
Top 10 Dream Songs
1. 'I Hope You Dance'—Lee Ann Womack
2. 'Til You Can't'—Cody Johnson
3. 'The Climb'—Miley Cyrus
4. 'Live Like You Were Dying'—Tim McGraw
5. 'Girl Goin' Nowhere'—Ashley McBryde
6. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
7. 'My Wish'—Rascal Flatts
8. 'In Dreams'—Sierra Ferrell
9. 'Just a Dream'—Carrie Underwood
10. 'The Impossible'—Joe Nichols
Country Music About Pursuing a Dream #11—20
11. 'I'm Gonna Be Somebody'—Travis Tritt
12. 'Follow Your Arrow'—Kacey Musgraves
13. 'Doin' This'—Luke Combs
14. 'Humble and Kind'—Tim McGraw
15. 'Even If It Breaks Your Heart'—Eli Young Band
16. 'The Cape'—Guy Clark
17. 'Coal Miner's Daughter'—Loretta Lynn
18. 'I Hope You Dream of Me Tonight'—Jocelyn Soriano
19. 'The Underdog'—Aaron Watson
20. 'Washed Up Rock Star Factory Blues'—Corb Lund
Finding a Way to a Better Life in Country #21—30
21. 'Believe'—Brooks & Dunn
22. 'The Outsiders'—Eric Church
23. 'Born in the U.S.A.'—Bruce Springsteen
24. '9 to 5'—Dolly Parton
25. 'Last Dollar (Fly Away)'—Tim McGraw
26. 'I'm a Survivor'—Reba McEntire
27. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
28. 'Smokey Mountain Memories'—Dolly Parton
29. 'I Can't Stop Loving You'—Ray Charles
30. 'The Impossible Dream (The Quest)'—Glen Campbell
Lyrics on Hope and Ambition in Country Music #31—40
31. 'Bless the Broken Road'—Rascal Flatts
32. 'The Dance'—Garth Brooks
33. 'Where I Come From'—Alan Jackson
34. 'The Way I Am'—Merle Haggard
35. 'The River'—Garth Brooks
36. 'The Gambler'—Kenny Rogers
37. 'Getting Good'—Lauren Alaina
38. 'Old Jeans, Big Dreams'—Journey Tune Media
39. 'Living in America'—James Brown
40. 'My Town'—Montgomery Gentry
Chasing Country Music Dreams #41—50
41. 'Livin' The Dream'—Morgan Wallen
42. 'The Mountain'—Dierks Bentley
43. 'It's a Great Day to Be Alive'—Travis Tritt
44. 'American Dream'—Willie Jones
45. 'In Case You Didn't Know'—Brett Young
46. 'I'm Movin' On'—Rascal Flatts
47. 'The Tree'—Maren Morris
48. 'The Longest Daydream'—Tyler Childers
49. 'Starting Over'—Chris Stapleton
50. 'I'd Have to Be Crazy'—Willie Nelson
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