50 Best Rock Songs About Going Home

Best Rock Tracks That Feel Like Going Home

There’s a strange kind of relief that comes when you’re finally on your way back home. The drive feels slower, the air smells familiar, and every song seems to land a little heavier. You catch yourself singing along to something you’d normally skip, windows cracked, sunlight sneaking through the windshield. It’s not really nostalgia—it’s that blur between being gone too long and realizing you were different when you left. Some tracks sound like that. Not literal homecoming anthems, but songs that hold the feeling in their bones, messy and worn from the road.

It’s never the picture-perfect version of home, either. Sometimes it’s a small-town street that feels tighter now, or a bedroom that hasn’t changed since high school but feels smaller somehow. There’s a rhythm to it, the way guitars hum under the noise of memory. You can hear it in the rasp of Springsteen, the steady pulse of Tom Petty, the way Fleetwood Mac turns restlessness into something soft. Even the loud ones, the anthems that spill into the car’s roof, have that pull—like gravity tugging you back to the place you swore you’d outgrow.

And yeah, some of these tracks don’t really talk about home at all, but they fit the headspace like they were made for it. They cut through the noise of long miles and quiet thoughts, bridging pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that circle the same ache in different ways. These are the tracks that make going home feel like a slow rewind, every lyric brushing against something you didn’t realize you missed. Here are the best rock songs that capture that feeling of going home.

1. 'Home Sweet Home' by Mötley Crüe

2. 'Mama, I'm Coming Home' by Ozzy Osbourne

3. 'Who Says You Can't Go Home' by Bon Jovi

4. 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

5. 'Lights' by Journey

6. 'I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)' by Grand Funk Railroad

7. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver

8. 'Home At Last' by Steely Dan

9. 'Coming Home' by Cinderella

10. 'The Boys Are Back in Town' by Thin Lizzy

11. 'Goin' Home' by The Rolling Stones

12. 'My Hometown' by Bruce Springsteen

13. 'Born to Run' by Bruce Springsteen

14. 'Take the Long Way Home' by Supertramp

15. 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' by Peter Schilling

16. 'Runnin' Down a Dream' by Tom Petty

17. 'Home' by Daughtry

18. 'Can't Find My Way Home' by Blind Faith

19. 'Home Again' by Carole King

20. 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica

21. 'Tones of Home' by Blind Melon

22. 'Better Be Home Soon' by Crowded House

23. 'Homeward Bound' by Simon & Garfunkel

24. 'My Town' by Glass Tiger

25. 'Home' by Foo Fighters

26. 'Long Walk Home' by Bruce Springsteen

27. 'Homecoming' by Green Day

28. 'Back Where It All Begins' by Allman Brothers Band

29. 'Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town' by Pearl Jam

30. 'Going Home' by Ten Years After

31. 'Coming Home' by Iron Maiden

32. 'Back in the Day' by Blues Traveler

33. 'Solsbury Hill' by Peter Gabriel

34. 'In My Life' by The Beatles

35. 'Turn the Page' by Bob Seger

36. 'Midnight Rider' by Allman Brothers Band

37. 'Castle on the Hill' by Ed Sheeran

38. 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple

39. 'Back to the Old House' by The Smiths

40. 'The Long Way Home' by Roseanne Cash

41. 'Small Town' by John Cougar Mellencamp

42. 'Going to California' by Led Zeppelin

43. 'California Dreamin'' by The Mamas & the Papas

44. 'Running on Empty' by Jackson Browne

45. 'Life Is a Highway' by Tom Cochrane

46. 'I Am the Highway' by Audioslave

47. 'Homesick' by Catfish and the Bottlemen

48. 'The Passenger' by Iggy Pop

49. 'Caledonia' by Dougie MacLean

50. 'I'm Going Home' by Ten Years After