50 Best Country Songs About Wanting Someone Back

Country Songs for Missing Someone Deeply

There’s a specific ache that comes when you want someone back. It doesn’t come in clean, dramatic swells like in the movies. It seeps in during quiet moments, like when you reach for the passenger seat out of habit or find yourself replaying a conversation that went wrong. Sometimes the memory feels sharp, other times blurry and warm, but it’s always there, looping like a stubborn melody you can’t shake. The songs that hit hardest in this space don’t tidy things up or hand out easy fixes. They sit right in the mess of longing, where pride slips and feelings spill out anyway.

Country music has always thrived in that raw, vulnerable space, but these tracks reach beyond genre lines. Some might come from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, but they still capture that restless pull of wanting someone to return. Not every song here is literally about a breakup or getting back together. Sometimes it’s a line, a mood, or the way the chorus builds that makes it feel like someone cracked open a part of you you’d been trying to hide. These tracks lean into that desperate, impulsive, sometimes stubborn hope that a story isn’t finished yet.

The thing is, longing doesn’t play out neatly. It’s messy, sometimes dramatic, sometimes quiet, and completely unhinged when the wrong song catches you at the right moment. These are the songs that flood your mind while you stare at a phone that refuses to light up or drive roads you know too well, pretending you aren’t hoping to see a familiar car. Here are the best country songs for when you want someone back.

1. 'Austin' by Blake Shelton

2. 'Need You Now' by Lady A

3. 'I Can't Make You Love Me' by Bonnie Raitt

4. 'Stay' by Sugarland

5. 'Whiskey Lullaby' by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss

6. 'Back to December' by Taylor Swift

7. 'It's a Little Too Late' by Tanya Tucker

8. 'I'm Not Over You' by Martina McBride

9. 'What Hurts the Most' by Rascal Flatts

10. 'Strawberry Wine' by Deana Carter

11. 'You'll Think of Me' by Keith Urban

12. 'More Than a Memory' by Garth Brooks

13. 'A Fire I Can't Put Out' by George Strait

14. 'In Another's Eyes' by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood

15. 'Give It Away' by George Strait

16. 'Today I Started Loving You Again' by Merle Haggard

17. 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline

18. 'I Still Believe in You' by Vince Gill

19. 'Broken Window Serenade' by Whiskey Myers

20. 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' by George Jones

21. 'You Look So Good In Love' by George Strait

22. 'I've Been Better' by Brad Paisley

23. 'What If It's You' by Reba McEntire

24. 'Digging Up Bones' by Randy Travis

25. 'Fifteen Years Ago' by Conway Twitty

26. 'You Know Me Better Than That' by George Strait

27. 'You Still Move Me' by Dan Seals

28. 'Last Night' by Kenny Chesney

29. 'I Can't Love You Back' by Easton Corbin

30. 'The Way I Loved You' by Taylor Swift

31. 'Someone Else's Star' by Bryan White

32. 'Where Do I Fit In the Picture' by Clay Walker

33. 'Don't Think I Don't Think About It' by Darius Rucker

34. 'I Drive Your Truck' by Lee Brice

35. 'Give Me a Minute' by Eric Church

36. 'It Ain't My Fault' by Brothers Osborne

37. 'A Thousand Stars' by LeAnn Rimes

38. 'There's a Girl' by Chris Stapleton

39. 'Cold' by Chris Stapleton

40. 'I'm Gonna Miss Her' by Brad Paisley

41. 'You Don't Know Me' by Ray Charles

42. 'Always On My Mind' by Willie Nelson

43. 'Don't Close Your Eyes' by Keith Whitley

44. 'Don't Let Me Cross Over' by Carl and Pearl Butler

45. 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack

46. 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' by Hank Williams

47. 'The Promise' by Sturgill Simpson

48. 'Kiss to Forget' by Brett Young

49. 'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)' by Gary Stewart

50. 'Forever Girl' by Jon Langston