50 Best Rock Songs About Eagles
Best Rock Tracks Featuring Eagles
There’s something strange that happens when a band or songwriter leans on the eagle. It’s not just a bird, it’s a stand-in for pride, survival, freedom that feels both cinematic and ragged at the same time. You can hear it in the crunch of guitars, in the way a chorus lifts higher than it should, in the way lyrics grab the sky and hang there for a second. Not every track is literally tied to the bird itself, but the spirit sticks around in the riffs and imagery, sometimes bold, sometimes hidden under distortion.
The eagle theme pulls at different moods depending on who’s holding the mic. Some lean into the soaring anthem feel, wings wide, drums heavy, guitar lines bent upward. Others sit closer to the dirt, where the eagle is less a symbol of triumph and more of watchfulness. That’s part of what makes these songs sticky. They swing from grounded to untouchable in the same breath. The shift hits hard, a reminder that the bird has been claimed across pop, rock, country, and R&B songs and reshaped into something new each time.
This is not a tidy category. It’s messy, scattered, and all the better for it. You’ve got straightforward nods mixed with tracks where the eagle slips in sideways, a metaphor hiding in plain sight. It doesn’t matter if the hook feels mythic or the verses lean rough, they still land inside the same restless sky. Here are the best rock songs tied to eagles.
Top 10 Eagle Themed Rock Songs
1. 'Fly Like an Eagle' by Steve Miller Band
2. 'Hotel California' by Eagles
3. 'Where Eagles Dare' by Iron Maiden
4. 'Day of the Eagle' by Robin Trower
5. 'The Eagle and the Hawk' by John Denver
6. 'Eagle' by ABBA
7. 'Free Bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. 'White Bird' by It's a Beautiful Day
9. 'Learning to Fly' by Pink Floyd
10. 'I Believe I Can Fly' by R. Kelly
Classic Rock Songs With an Eagle Theme #11 to 20
11. 'Take It Easy' by Eagles
12. 'Already Gone' by Eagles
13. 'The Eagle Will Rise Again' by The Alan Parsons Project
14. 'Love Will Keep Us Alive' by Eagles
15. 'Wings of an Eagle' by Russ Ballard
16. 'Seven Bridges Road' by Eagles
17. 'Eagle Rock' by Daddy Cool
18. 'Fly Eagle Fly' by Eagles
19. 'The Phoenix' by Fall Out Boy
20. 'Eagle Fly Free' by Helloween
Songs About The Essence of Flying High #21 to 30
21. 'Lyin' Eyes' by Eagles
22. 'Take It to the Limit' by Eagles
23. 'New Kid in Town' by Eagles
24. 'One of These Nights' by Eagles
25. 'Best of My Love' by Eagles
26. 'I Can't Tell You Why' by Eagles
27. 'Desperado' by Eagles
28. 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' by Eagles
29. 'Witchy Woman' by Eagles
30. 'The Last Resort' by Eagles
Rock Music About Soaring and Freedom #31 to 40
31. 'Soaring Through a Dream' by The Al Di Meola Project
32. 'Soaring Through the Sky' by Vanguard Sound
33. 'Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly' by Aaron Tippin
34. 'Jet Airliner' by Steve Miller Band
35. 'The Zephyr Song' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
36. 'The Sparrow' by Mastodon
37. 'Blackbird' by The Beatles
38. 'Bird on the Wire' by Leonard Cohen
39. 'Birdland' by Patti Smith
40. 'On the Wings of a Nightingale' by The Everly Brothers
More Soaring Rock Songs and Flying Birds #41 to 50
41. 'Don't Look Back in Anger' by Oasis
42. 'Bluebird' by Electric Light Orchestra
43. 'Wings' by Hawkwind
44. 'Soaring' by Helynt
45. 'The Soaring Eagle' by Michael McGoldrick
46. 'Eagle Birds' by The Last Shadow Puppets
47. 'Golden Eagle' by Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
48. 'Golden Eagle' by Vangelis
49. 'Flight of the Eagle' by Frank Zappa
50. 'I Was an Eagle' by Laura Marling
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