50 Best Rock Songs About Home

Rock Tracks That Feel Like Going Home

There’s a strange quiet that hits when you’re heading back to the place that built you. The road’s familiar, the sky feels smaller, and every mile makes something old start humming in your chest. You know where every crack in the driveway sits, where the floorboards creak, where you’ll fall back into old rhythms before you mean to. Some songs tap straight into that ache. They sound like peeling the sticker off a new keychain while the same station that played in your parents’ car hums through the static. These tracks catch that blur between comfort and restlessness, where going home feels like rewinding without pausing first.

Rock has always had a weird relationship with home. It can sound like peace or confinement, depending on who’s holding the mic. Some tracks sound like small-town claustrophobia, others like open windows and backyard air. A few of these songs may not be literally centered on home, but they fit that energy—the kind that turns a drive down your old street into a full-blown movie scene in your head. They belong next to the kind of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that hit when you’re unpacking in your childhood room again, wondering how things got both smaller and heavier.

Maybe it’s Springsteen yelling into the night or The Killers turning nostalgia into a sprint. Maybe it’s Fleetwood Mac coasting through memory with their windows down. These songs don’t reach for closure. They linger in the feeling, the in-between space that doesn’t need to make sense. Here are the best rock songs about home.

1. 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

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

3. 'Home Sweet Home' by Mötley Crüe

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

5. 'Our House' by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

6. 'Small Town' by John Cougar Mellencamp

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

8. 'Lights' by Journey

9. 'Homeward Bound' by Simon & Garfunkel

10. 'The Old Apartment' by Barenaked Ladies

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

12. 'Home' by Daughtry

13. 'My Hometown' by Bruce Springsteen

14. 'Home' by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

15. 'Long Walk Home' by Bruce Springsteen

16. 'Going Home' by Ten Years After

17. 'Home at Last' by Steely Dan

18. 'Our House' by Madness

19. 'Home' by Sheryl Crow

20. 'Home' by Foo Fighters

21. 'Comin' Home' by Lynyrd Skynyrd

22. 'Goin' Home' by The Rolling Stones

23. 'Two of Us' by The Beatles

24. 'Home' by Phillip Phillips

25. 'My Little Town' by Simon & Garfunkel

26. 'Back Home Again' by John Denver

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

28. 'In My Room' by The Beach Boys

29. 'A Sort of Homecoming' by U2

30. 'Back in the Day' by Blues Traveler

31. 'I'm Coming Home' by Beeb Birtles and Graeham Goble

32. 'Going to California' by Led Zeppelin

33. 'Take Me Home' by Phil Collins

34. 'The Last Resort' by Eagles

35. 'Leaving Home' by The Jezabels

36. 'Long Distance Runaround' by Yes

37. 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica

38. 'Home' by Machine Gun Kelly

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

40. 'The House is a Rockin'' by Stevie Ray Vaughan

41. 'Come Back Home' by Suburban Legends

42. 'Going Home' by Alice Cooper

43. 'If I Ever Leave This World Alive' by Flogging Molly

44. 'The House of the Rising Sun' by The Animals

45. 'Nobody Home' by Pink Floyd

46. 'Come On Home' by Led Zeppelin

47. 'Home Again' by Michael Kiwanuka

48. 'I'm Going Home' by Tim Curry

49. 'Welcome Home' by Radical Face

50. 'I Wanna Stay Home' by Jellyfish