50 Best Rock Songs About Circles

Rock Songs That Spin in Circles

There’s something strange about circles. They feel endless, like you’re stuck repeating yourself, but they can also feel safe, like a track you keep finding your way back to. Rock bands love leaning into that duality. Some songs paint circles as traps, others as comfort, and a few never explain what they mean at all. Not every track here is literally tied to circles in the lyric sheet, but the mood lines up, and that’s enough to pull it into the theme.

Think of it less like a tidy playlist and more like walking laps in your own head. One riff keeps looping, a chorus spins back around when you think it’s done, and suddenly you’re humming the same line under your breath without realizing. The best songs hit that hypnotic space. They borrow from the same energy you hear in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs where repetition gets stuck in your chest. That circular pull works because it doesn’t let you move in a straight line.

These tracks don’t chase resolution. They circle back, stall out, and hang there long enough to feel familiar again. A few are playful, a few feel heavy, and some split the difference, carrying that strange mix of inevitability and freedom. Here are the best rock songs that circle back again and again.

1. 'The Circle Game' by Joni Mitchell

2. 'Will It Go Round in Circles' by Billy Preston

3. 'Full Circle' by The Doors

4. 'Round and Round' by Ratt

5. 'Circles' by Incubus

6. 'The Width of a Circle' by David Bowie

7. 'Circle' by Slipknot

8. 'Spin the Black Circle' by Pearl Jam

9. 'Circle of Life' by Elton John

10. 'Perfect Circle' by R.E.M.

11. 'Full Circle' by Five Finger Death Punch

12. 'Walking in Circles' by Dead by Sunrise

13. 'Run-Around' by Blues Traveler

14. 'Coming Around Again' by Carly Simon

15. 'I Get Around' by The Beach Boys

16. 'Around the Sun' by R.E.M.

17. 'Crazy Circles' by The Kinks

18. 'Circles' by Hollywood Undead

19. 'Full Circle' by Creed

20. 'Circle' by Ocean Colour Scene

21. 'Revolve Around You' by Lola Young

22. 'The Circle' by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

23. 'Outside of a Small Circle of Friends' by Phil Ochs

24. 'Circle of Love' by The Steve Miller Band

25. 'Circle of Fire' by Sam Phillips

26. 'Circle for a Landing' by Don Preston

27. 'Circle of Friends' by David Ball

28. 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken' by Marshall Tucker Band

29. 'Full Circle' by Drowning Pool

30. 'Circles' by Pierce the Veil

31. 'I'll Stick Around' by Foo Fighters

32. 'I Hear a New World' by Joe Meek

33. 'Orbit Around the Moon' by Joe Meek

34. 'The Man Comes Around' by Johnny Cash

35. 'Don't Come Around Here No More' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

36. 'Circle the Drain' by Katy Perry

37. 'Bicycle Race' by Queen

38. 'My White Bicycle' by Nazareth

39. 'In Circles' by Sunny Day Real Estate

40. 'Circles' by Mac Miller

41. 'Round and Round' by Aerosmith

42. 'The Circle' by Weezer

43. 'Full Circle' by The Damned

44. 'Circle' by Edie Brickell

45. 'Circle' by Bon Iver

46. 'I'll Be Around' by The Spinners

47. 'Circle of the Tyrants' by Celtic Frost

48. 'The Man Comes Around' by Johnny Cash

49. 'Full Circle' by The Grateful Dead

50. 'Circles' by Post Malone