50 Best Rock Songs About Flowers

There’s a strange kind of mood that flowers stir up in rock music. Not soft or decorative, but something tangled, fragile, and sometimes heavy. A lyric that drops the image of roses or daisies can hit like a bruise, the prettiness clashing with whatever noise is happening in the background. It’s the way a band can lean into beauty without making it sweet, bending it into something off-kilter instead. Some tracks might not literally be centered on flowers, but they still hold the same energy that blooms and decays at the same time.

Think of it like scrolling through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs where flowers sneak in as symbols, half-romantic, half-fatal. One singer might lace them into heartbreak, another might turn them into a banner of survival. They can be wilted, thorny, fake, or blindingly bright. That push and pull makes the imagery stick harder than a plain confession. Flowers in rock tracks feel like props you trip over while the guitar screeches on, forcing you to look down and notice what’s scattered at your feet.

Nobody’s using flowers here the way a greeting card does. It’s messy, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes way too sincere, and that’s why it lands. These tracks drag flowers into smoky bars, into shouted choruses, into hooks that you can’t scrub out of your head. They fit reels and stories when you want something beautiful but not too clean, and when you want a little chaos hidden inside the petals. Here are the best rock songs with flower themes for your playlist.

1. 'Dead Flowers' by The Rolling Stones

2. 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' by Poison

3. 'Bed of Roses' by Bon Jovi

4. 'Wildflowers' by Tom Petty

5. 'Black Roses Red' by Alana Grace

6. 'Blue Orchid' by The White Stripes

7. 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

8. '(Nothing but) Flowers' by Talking Heads

9. 'Push th' Little Daisies' by Ween

10. 'Marigold' by Nirvana

11. 'Flowers in the Window' by Travis

12. 'Crimson and Clover' by Tommy James and the Shondells

13. 'The Flowers of Guatemala' by R.E.M.

14. 'Dandelion' by The Big Thief

15. 'Scarlet Begonias' by Grateful Dead

16. 'Hyacinth House' by The Doors

17. 'Lotus Flower' by Radiohead

18. 'For the Roses' by Joni Mitchell

19. 'A Rose for Emily' by The Zombies

20. 'Black Rose' by Thin Lizzy

21. 'Amaryllis' by Shinedown

22. 'Magnolia' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

23. 'Flowers on the Wall' by The Statler Brothers

24. 'Daisy Jane' by America

25. 'Blood Red Roses' by Rod Stewart

26. 'Fading Like a Flower' by Roxette

27. 'Yankee Rose' by David Lee Roth

28. 'Flowers in My Hair, Demons in My Head' by The Mystery Lights

29. 'Love Is a Rose' by Linda Ronstadt

30. 'Lilac Wine' by Jeff Buckley

31. 'The Last Living Rose' by PJ Harvey

32. 'Black Flowers' by Chris Isaak

33. 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' by Pete Seeger

34. 'Orchid' by Black Sabbath

35. 'Tokyo Rose' by The Damned

36. 'Desert Rose' by Sting

37. 'Rose of Sharyn' by Killswitch Engage

38. 'Flowers in the Rain' by The Move

39. 'Flowers in December' by Mazzy Star

40. 'Grows a Rose' by The Black Crowes

41. 'In Bloom' by Nirvana

42. 'The Rose' by Bette Midler

43. 'Kiss from a Rose' by Seal

44. 'Scarborough Fair' by Simon and Garfunkel

45. 'Run for the Roses' by Dan Fogelberg

46. 'King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3' by Neutral Milk Hotel

47. 'Lily' by The Smashing Pumpkins

48. 'Iris' by The Goo Goo Dolls

49. 'Sunflowers' by The Replacements

50. 'Flowers' by The Neighbourhood