50 Best Rock Songs About Heaven

Rock Songs That Reach Toward Heaven

There’s something strange that happens when a rock song aims for the sky. Not every one of them paints clouds or angels, but there’s a pull upward you can feel in the guitar lines, the echo in the vocals, the lift that hits somewhere behind your ribs. It’s not always comfort. Sometimes it’s the sound of missing something you can’t name. The kind that makes you stare out a window longer than you meant to. Some of these tracks lean into faith, others trip over loss or longing, but they all hover in that same thin air where the noise fades and something bigger hums underneath.

You can hear it in the slow-burn build of a power ballad or the wail of a singer trying to reach whatever’s out there. It’s that stretch between belief and disbelief, a push that feels human in a way most things don’t. A few might have nothing to do with heaven in a literal sense, but they carry that weight anyway. The mix of ache and awe shows up across pop, rock, country, and R&B songs too, all chasing the same shimmer that feels both near and out of reach. These tracks don’t explain anything. They reach, they fall short, and somehow that’s enough.

Some songs lift you up with choir-like harmonies, others crumble halfway through the climb. They hit different at night when the house is quiet or when the drive home feels endless. That’s when the guitars start to sound like prayers no one finished writing. These are the ones that get close to heaven without saying how. Here are the best rock songs about heaven.

1. 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin

2. 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' by Guns N' Roses

3. 'Tears in Heaven' by Eric Clapton

4. 'Heaven and Hell' by Black Sabbath

5. 'Heaven' by Warrant

6. 'Heaven' by Bryan Adams

7. 'Heaven Beside You' by Alice in Chains

8. 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure

9. 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd

10. 'Heaven Is' by Def Leppard

11. 'Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)' by Tesla

12. 'Say Hello to Heaven' by Temple of the Dog

13. 'Heaven Knows' by The Pretty Reckless

14. 'Heaven For Everyone' by Queen

15. 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' by Pixies

16. 'Heaven Can Wait' by Meat Loaf

17. 'Hungry for Heaven' by Dio

18. 'Afterlife' by Avenged Sevenfold

19. 'Angel' by Aerosmith

20. 'The Great Gig in the Sky' by Pink Floyd

21. 'Heaven Nor Hell' by Volbeat

22. 'Heaven' by The Psychedelic Furs

23. 'Heaven In Her Arms' by Converge

24. 'Heaven Tonight' by Cheap Trick

25. 'Heaven Is Here' by Florence + The Machine

26. 'Heaven On Our Side' by Foreigner

27. 'Who Wants to Live Forever' by Queen

28. 'Free Bird' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

29. 'All Good Junkies Go to Heaven' by Glassjaw

30. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses

31. 'Am I in Heaven' by King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

32. 'Breaking into Heaven' by The Stone Roses

33. 'Heaven Knows' by Robert Plant

34. 'Carry On Wayward Son' by Kansas

35. 'Heaven' by Talking Heads

36. 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' by Phil Collins

37. 'Heaven' by Los Lonely Boys

38. 'Kingdom of Heaven Part 1' by Epica

39. 'Heaven' by Warrant

40. 'My Hero' by Foo Fighters

41. 'Heaven and Back' by Chase Atlantic

42. 'The Last Goodbye' by Billy Boyd

43. 'For Me This Is Heaven' by Jimmy Eat World

44. 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan

45. 'Say Yes To Heaven' by Lana Del Rey

46. 'Just A Step From Heaven' by Rick Astley

47. 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' by The Smiths

48. 'The Show Must Go On' by Queen

49. 'Hells Bells' by AC/DC

50. 'Sweet Sounds of Heaven' by The Rolling Stones