50 Best Rock Songs About Fatherhood
Best Rock Tracks on Fatherhood
There’s a strange weight in songs that circle around fatherhood. Not the polished greeting card kind, but the mix of pride, regret, and unspoken things that hang heavy. You can hear it in riffs that stretch too long, in choruses that sound like they’re trying to reach someone across a distance. Some of these tracks hit the theme head-on, while others drift around it, carrying echoes of fathers and sons even if the lyrics wander elsewhere. Rock always had room for that push and pull, the mess of admiration and rebellion clashing in the same verse.
It doesn’t always feel celebratory. Sometimes it’s blunt, like a confessional over distorted guitar, or it creeps in sideways during a love song that turns into something else entirely. A few artists wrap fatherhood in nostalgia, pulling on memory like an old flannel, while others crank it through amps so loud the feelings fray at the edges. That tension sits right alongside the warmth. The same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can take one subject and bend it until it fits, these tracks carve their own lane inside the theme.
There’s nothing neat about the way these songs live. They can be messy, bitter, sweet, or flat-out confusing, but they hold something real enough to stick. Some aren’t literally tied to fatherhood, yet the energy is there and it makes sense to hear them in this light. These are the best rock songs on fatherhood worth turning up loud.
Top 10 Rock Songs About Dads
1. 'Father and Son' by Cat Stevens
2. 'Cats in the Cradle' by Harry Chapin
3. 'My Father's Eyes' by Eric Clapton
4. 'Father of Mine' by Everclear
5. 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' by John Lennon
6. 'The Living Years' by Mike + The Mechanics
7. 'Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)' by Billy Joel
8. 'Father to Son' by Queen
9. 'Isn't She Lovely' by Stevie Wonder
10. 'With Arms Wide Open' by Creed
More Rock Songs for Fathers #11 to 20
11. 'Independence Day' by Bruce Springsteen
12. 'A Better Son/Daughter' by Rilo Kiley
13. 'Song for Dad' by Keith Urban
14. 'Daughters' by John Mayer
15. 'Father and Daughter' by Paul Simon
16. 'The Story of My Old Man' by Good Charlotte
17. 'Papa Was a Rollin' Stone' by The Temptations
18. 'My Father's House' by Bruce Springsteen
19. 'Walk' by Foo Fighters
20. 'Still Fighting It' by Ben Folds
Rock and Pop Rock Songs About Dads #21 to 30
21. 'Simple Man' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
22. 'Like a Rock' by Bob Seger
23. 'Drive (For Daddy Gene)' by Alan Jackson
24. 'My Old Man' by Zac Brown Band
25. 'He Didn't Have to Be' by Brad Paisley
26. 'I Learned From You' by Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus
27. 'Just the Two of Us' by Will Smith
28. 'A Father and a Son' by Loudon Wainwright III
29. 'Sail to the Moon' by Radiohead
30. 'The Best Day' by George Strait
Songs for Fathers and Their Kids #31 to 40
31. 'Forever Young' by Bob Dylan
32. 'Your Mother's Son' by Conor Oberst
33. 'Daddy' by The Front Bottoms
34. 'Unforgettable' by Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole
35. 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' by James Brown
36. 'Color Him Father' by The Winstons
37. 'A Boy Named Sue' by Johnny Cash
38. 'My Old Man' by Ian Dury
39. 'Kooks' by David Bowie
40. 'The Weeping Song' by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Celebrating Fatherhood Through Music #41 to 50
41. 'Papa' by The Monkees
42. 'Father Figure' by George Michael
43. 'That's My Job' by Conway Twitty
44. 'He Walked On Water' by Randy Travis
45. 'My Little Girl' by Tim McGraw
46. 'Daddy's Working Boots' by Dolly Parton
47. 'The Best Part of Me' by Lee Brice
48. 'The Last Song' by The All-American Rejects
49. 'Watching You' by Rodney Atkins
50. 'Forever My Father' by Go Radio
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