50 Best Rock Songs About Needing Help
Rock Songs on Needing Help
There’s a certain heaviness that sneaks into songs where the bravado slips and the cracks start showing. It’s not the clean kind of struggle that comes wrapped in a lesson. It’s messy, blunt, and sometimes loud enough to rattle windows. You hear a riff or a hook and it feels like someone’s reaching out mid-collapse, not knowing if anyone’s really listening. The guitars don’t smooth it over, they push the weight around until it fills the room. Some tracks in this space may not literally center on needing help, but they still hit the same nerve when the volume goes up.
It’s not all gloom either. Some bands throw out the SOS with a smirk, like they know the spiral but can’t help dancing through it anyway. Others lean into that desperate edge where the mic stand might topple and the lyrics spill out unpolished. That’s where rock feels closest to pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that live on vulnerability without hiding the mess. It’s the same pull, different skin. What makes these tracks stick is how raw they sound, even when they’re stadium-sized.
These songs fit into reels and stories because they don’t play pretend. They carry the same scrambled energy you feel when you want to say you’re fine but the cracks are too obvious. The riffs don’t solve anything, they just underline the ask that sits in the background. Here are the best rock songs about needing help.
Top 10 Rock Songs About Needing Help
1. 'Help!' by The Beatles
2. 'I Am Broken Too' by Killswitch Engage
3. 'Sober' by Tool
4. 'One' by Three Dog Night
5. 'I Don't Love You' by My Chemical Romance
6. 'Otherside' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. 'Numb' by Linkin Park
8. 'Every Day Is Exactly The Same' by Nine Inch Nails
9. 'Adam's Song' by Blink-182
10. 'Helplessly Hoping' by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Rock Songs of Desperation #11 to 20
11. 'Lost Without Your Love' by Bread
12. 'Unsteady' by X Ambassadors
13. 'How to Save a Life' by The Fray
14. 'The Last Lost Continent' by La Dispute
15. 'Hurt' by Nine Inch Nails
16. 'Crawling' by Linkin Park
17. 'You Won't Know' by Brand New
18. 'Left Outside Alone' by Anastacia
19. 'Creep' by Radiohead
20. 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)' by The Doors
Seeking Assistance in Rock Songs #21 to 30
21. 'Don't Look Back' by Boston
22. 'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers
23. 'Give Me a Helping Hand' by Bobby Marchan
24. 'I'll Stand by You' by The Pretenders
25. 'With a Little Help From My Friends' by The Beatles
26. 'Bridge over Troubled Water' by Simon & Garfunkel
27. 'Somebody Help Me' by The Spencer Davis Group
28. 'A Better Place to Be' by Harry Chapin
29. 'Stand by Me' by Ben E. King
30. 'Helpless' by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Rock Music on Being Lost #31 to 40
31. 'Fade to Black' by Metallica
32. 'Where Am I Going' by Gino Vannelli
33. 'Where Do We Go From Here' by Chicago
34. 'Can't Find My Way Home' by Blind Faith
35. 'The Kids Aren't Alright' by The Offspring
36. 'Walking Disaster' by Sum 41
37. 'Need the Sun' by DYLYN
38. 'I Wish I Was Sober' by Frightened Rabbit
39. 'The Light' by Disturbed
40. 'Let It All Go' by Birdy
Finding Your Way in Rock Songs #41 to 50
41. 'You Gotta Be' by Des'ree
42. 'Move on Up' by Curtis Mayfield
43. 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor
44. 'Reach Out I'll Be There' by Four Tops
45. 'Keep on Truckin'' by Eddie Kendricks
46. 'I Won't Back Down' by Tom Petty
47. 'Changes' by David Bowie
48. 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles
49. 'Sweetness' by Jimmy Eat World
50. 'No Excuses' by Alice in Chains
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