50 Best Country Songs About Getting Back With Your Ex

Country Tracks for Those Who Circle Back to Old Flames

There’s a strange headspace that hits when you’re stepping back into something you swore you’d left behind. It’s not full-on romance, not pure regret, but this knotted middle where memory and impulse keep trading places. You might be driving back from nowhere in particular, staring at a text you should probably ignore, and some twang-heavy ballad starts bleeding through the radio. That feeling when you can’t tell if you’re about to make a mistake or fix one can be the most electric thing in the world. These songs know that tension and they don’t try to smooth it over.

Getting back together never lands like the movies. It’s a weird mix of old arguments you still remember word for word, mixed with that uncanny rush of seeing them smile like it’s the first time again. It’s quiet mornings where neither of you is sure how to act, and late nights where things slip into old rhythms before you’ve even noticed. The right track catches all of that mess. It can sound like relief, or like a warning, sometimes both in the same verse. This is where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs all bleed into the same emotional palette, but country leans into the raw edges best.

Some reunions crash and burn, others drag on through every stubborn mile, and a few somehow stick. The songs here live in that space between holding on and walking away, where nostalgia is heavy but not enough to drown out the doubt. They’re the kind that hit hard enough to make you think about sending that message you’ve been avoiding. Here are the best country songs for finding your way back into something familiar.

1. 'Love You Anyway'—Luke Combs

2. 'I Wish Grandpas Never Died'—Riley Green

3. 'Always Be Us'—David J and Frawley

4. 'Right Girl Wrong Time'—Jon Langston

5. 'Back to Loving You'—Logan Ransley

6. 'Watching My Old Flame'—Cody Johnson

7. 'I Need You'—Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

8. 'Come a Little Closer'—Dierks Bentley

9. 'Starting Over'—Chris Stapleton

10. 'Old Love Song'—Zac Brown Band

11. 'Love Me Like You Used To'—Toby Keith

12. 'In Another's Eyes'—Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood

13. 'I'll Go On Loving You'—Alan Jackson

14. 'Old Red'—Blake Shelton

15. 'Forever and Ever Amen'—Randy Travis

16. 'The Good Stuff'—Kenny Chesney

17. 'You Look So Good in Love'—George Strait

18. 'This Kiss'—Faith Hill

19. 'It's Your Love'—Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

20. 'I'm Not Who I Was'—Brandon Heath

21. 'You Say'—Lauren Daigle

22. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss

23. 'Forgiveness'—Chris Young

24. 'I Hope You Dance'—Lee Ann Womack

25. 'Bless the Broken Road'—Rascal Flatts

26. 'I Can Only Imagine'—MercyMe

27. 'Stay'—Sugarland

28. 'If I Didn't Love You'—Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood

29. 'I Miss You'—Kacey Musgraves

30. 'How Do I Live'—LeAnn Rimes

31. 'Die a Happy Man'—Thomas Rhett

32. 'We Danced'—Brad Paisley

33. 'I Run to You'—Lady Antebellum

34. 'Young Love (Strong Love)'—The Judds

35. 'Don't You Wanna Stay'—Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson

36. 'Lost in This Moment'—Big & Rich

37. 'She's Everything'—Brad Paisley

38. 'Strawberry Wine'—Deana Carter

39. 'This Love, Our Song'—Unspecified Artist

40. 'I've Been Better'—Brad Paisley

41. 'You Decorated My Life'—Kenny Rogers

42. 'Islands in the Stream'—Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton

43. 'It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)'—Merle Haggard

44. 'And Still'—Reba McEntire

45. 'One Promise Too Late'—Reba McEntire

46. 'Today I Started Loving You Again'—Merle Haggard

47. 'The Fool'—Lee Ann Womack

48. 'The Way I Loved You'—Taylor Swift

49. 'Back On My Mind Again'—Ronnie Milsap

50. 'New Looks from an Old Lover'—B.J. Thomas