50 Best Rock Songs About Forests and Trees
Rock Tracks Connected to Forests and Trees
There’s something strange that happens when songs lean into images of trees and forests. They carry weight in ways that feel bigger than the lyrics themselves, like standing in a clearing and realizing how small you actually are. It isn’t always peaceful either. Some tracks lean into the shadows of the woods, pulling out that uneasy feeling of being lost among branches that all look the same. Others throw light through the leaves and stretch things toward a kind of hope that feels both fragile and massive. Not every song here literally points at forests, but they wrap around the same atmosphere.
The best of these tracks carry a sense of scale. Guitars crash like falling trunks, vocals echo like wind through tall pines, and sometimes the rhythm itself feels rooted deep into the ground. A lot of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs find themselves circling around these images because forests aren’t easy symbols to pin down. They’re alive, they’re heavy, they’re changing without asking permission. You can find intimacy in the quiet spaces and chaos in the louder ones, and both versions fit.
Scroll through enough playlists and you’ll find songs that stumble into this territory even when they don’t directly aim for it. They end up carrying that restless pull of green spaces anyway, the kind that makes you want to wander in deeper without checking the time. Some of these songs may not be literally focused on forests or trees, but they capture the same restless energy. Here are the best rock songs connected to forests and trees.
Top 10 Forest Rock Songs
1. 'A Forest' by The Cure
2. 'Fake Plastic Trees' by Radiohead
3. 'The Trees' by Rush
4. 'Feed the Tree' by Belly
5. 'From the Woods to the Coastline' by Hollow Coves
6. 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)' by The Beatles
7. 'Thorn Tree in the Garden' by Derek and the Dominos
8. 'Shadows and Tall Trees' by U2
9. 'Harlequin Forest' by Opeth
10. 'Woods' by Bon Iver
Rock Songs for Nature Lovers #11 to 20
11. 'Black Horse and the Cherry Tree' by KT Tunstall
12. 'A Thousand Trees' by Stereophonics
13. 'Wood and Wire' by George Jones
14. 'Little Willow' by Paul McCartney
15. 'Weeping Willow' by The Verve
16. 'The Dreaming Tree' by Dave Matthews Band
17. 'Forest' by System of a Down
18. 'Wooden Ships' by Crosby, Stills & Nash
19. 'Old Pine' by Ben Howard
20. 'Under Giant Trees' by Agnes Obel
Best Rock Songs for the Woods #21 to 30
21. 'Trees' by Marty Casey and the Lovehammers
22. 'Birch Tree' by Foals
23. 'Tree By the River' by Iron & Wine
24. 'A Day in the Life of a Tree' by The Beach Boys
25. 'Forest' by The Birthday Party
26. 'Wilderness' by Sleater-Kinney
27. 'Go Back to Your Woods' by Robbie Robertson
28. 'Treefingers' by Radiohead
29. 'If a Tree Falls' by Bruce Cockburn
30. 'The Hanging Tree' by James Newton Howard featuring Jennifer Lawrence
Songs About Trees and Forests #31 to 40
31. 'House In The Woods' by Tom Petty
32. 'No More Walks in the Wood' by Eagles
33. 'Pine For Cedars' by Jars of Clay
34. 'The Cherry Tree' by Sting
35. 'Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree' by The Magnetic Fields
36. 'Family Tree' by Megadeth
37. 'Tall Tall Trees' by Alan Jackson
38. 'Chop 'em Down' by Matisyahu
39. 'Redwood Tree' by Van Morrison
40. 'Bird on the Buffalo' by Angus Stone
Rock Music About Forests #41 to 50
41. 'Sugar Magnolia' by Grateful Dead
42. 'Blue Ridge Mountains' by Fleet Foxes
43. 'Going Up the Country' by Canned Heat
44. 'Wildwood Flower' by The Carter Family
45. 'Lemon Tree' by Fool's Garden
46. 'Beds Are Burning' by Midnight Oil
47. 'Shaking the Tree' by Peter Gabriel
48. 'Cactus Tree' by Joni Mitchell
49. 'Walk in the Black Forest' by Horst Jankowski
50. 'Flame Trees' by Cold Chisel
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