50 Best Rock Songs About Eternity

Timeless Rock Tracks That Echo Forever

There’s a certain kind of mood that happens when a song tries to stretch time itself. Not in a big cinematic sense but in a way that makes you stop and feel like the moment could spin on without an ending. It hits late at night when the guitars lean into repetition or when a lyric circles back around like it was always there. These tracks feel wired to something infinite, even when they were written out of heartbreak or boredom. Some of them pull from the same energy found in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that chase permanence in their own way.

Not every track speaks directly to the idea of eternity, but the spirit shows up anyway. A chorus that repeats until it feels like a mantra, a riff that keeps dragging the song forward until you lose sense of time, a vocal that hangs like smoke in the room. The point isn’t neat poetry or clarity but that stretched-out feeling of forever that sneaks in when the music loops. These songs lean into it, sometimes by accident, and the effect is bigger than whatever story they were telling in the first place.

There’s no clean divide between literal and loose interpretations, so some of the picks here drift outside the obvious. That makes sense because forever isn’t one thing anyway. What matters is the feeling that keeps going after the last note fades, and these tracks carry it with them. Here are the best rock songs about eternity.

1. 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin

2. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen

3. 'Kashmir' by Led Zeppelin

4. 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd

5. 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins

6. 'One' by Metallica

7. 'Free Bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

8. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses

9. 'Hallelujah' by Jeff Buckley

10. 'The Sound of Silence' by Simon & Garfunkel

11. 'Don't Stop Believin'' by Journey

12. 'Eternal Flame' by The Bangles

13. 'Time in a Bottle' by Jim Croce

14. 'Love of My Life' by Queen

15. 'Forever' by Kiss

16. 'The End' by The Doors

17. 'Forever Young' by Alphaville

18. 'Live Forever' by Oasis

19. 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' by Bob Dylan

20. 'God Only Knows' by The Beach Boys

21. 'More Than a Feeling' by Boston

22. 'Dream On' by Aerosmith

23. 'With or Without You' by U2

24. 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas

25. 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash

26. 'I'll Be There For You' by Bon Jovi

27. 'Still Loving You' by Scorpions

28. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses

29. 'I Remember You' by Skid Row

30. 'Forever' by Papa Roach

31. 'Perpetual Change' by Yes

32. 'Art of Dying' by George Harrison

33. 'Still I'm Sad' by The Yardbirds

34. 'Still Alive and Well' by Johnny Winter

35. 'The NeverEnding Story' by Limahl

36. 'Never Say Die' by Black Sabbath

37. 'Immortality' by Pearl Jam

38. 'The Show Must Go On' by Queen

39. 'Fade to Black' by Metallica

40. 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard

41. 'You'll Never Get to Me' by Killing Joke

42. 'Always' by Bon Jovi

43. 'Everlasting Love' by Robert Knight

44. 'Everlasting Light' by The Black Keys

45. 'Always Forever' by Cults

46. 'Forever' by Haim

47. 'Till Forever Falls Apart' by Ashe

48. 'Forever Now' by Psychedelic Furs

49. 'Forever Man' by Eric Clapton

50. 'Live and Let Die' by Wings