50 Best Rock Songs About Patience
Timeless Rock Songs on Holding On
There’s something strange in the space between frustration and calm. That slow pull where everything feels stalled and your head’s full but your hands can’t do a thing. The songs that linger there have a certain heaviness, like a cigarette burning too slow or a clock you swear is skipping seconds. You can feel it in old tapes that hum with restraint, in guitars that lean back instead of rushing forward. It’s not always peaceful either. Sometimes patience sounds like biting your tongue through the noise.
The thing with tracks that deal in this kind of waiting is that they don’t always spell it out. Some circle the idea, some bury it under noise. A few of them sound nothing like calm at all, but they hit that nerve anyway. These songs stretch out time until it folds in on itself, turning small moments into something big and unsteady. The theme sneaks in through slow builds, held notes, long breaths before the drop. Even songs that drift outside rock—those pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that test your pulse instead of racing it—fit right into this mood.
Not every melody preaching patience feels serene. Some sound like pacing a room, some like watching a storm fade without knowing if it’s done. They carry a quiet kind of tension that hooks into the gut and stays there. And while not every track in this list literally talks about the subject, they all live in the same slow ache. Here are the best rock songs about patience.
Top 10 Patience Rock Songs
1. 'Patience' by Guns N' Roses
2. 'The Waiting' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
3. 'Waiting For a Girl Like You' by Foreigner
4. 'Time Is On My Side' by The Rolling Stones
5. 'I'll Wait' by Van Halen
6. 'Tired of Waiting for You' by The Kinks
7. 'Waiting on a Friend' by The Rolling Stones
8. 'I'd Wait a Million Years' by The Grass Roots
9. 'Waiting For The Sun' by The Doors
10. 'Patiently' by Journey
Finding Songs on Waiting and Holding On #11 to 20
11. 'I Can Wait Forever' by Simple Plan
12. 'Waiting for the End' by Linkin Park
13. 'I Will Wait' by Mumford & Sons
14. 'Still Waiting' by Sum 41
15. 'Watchin' and Waitin'' by The Moody Blues
16. 'The Long and Winding Road' by The Beatles
17. 'I'll Be Waiting' by Lenny Kravitz
18. 'Crying, Waiting, Hoping' by Buddy Holly
19. 'Waiting In The Weeds' by Eagles
20. 'Right Here Waiting' by Richard Marx
Rock Music on Perseverance and Hope #21 to 30
21. 'Don't Stop Believin'' by Journey
22. 'Dream On' by Aerosmith
23. 'I Won't Back Down' by Tom Petty
24. 'Hold On' by Kansas
25. 'Keep On Loving You' by REO Speedwagon
26. 'With a Little Help from My Friends' by The Beatles
27. 'You Get What You Give' by New Radicals
28. 'Simply the Best' by Tina Turner
29. 'Hold On' by Tom Waits
30. 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus
Classic Rock Songs on Taking Time #31 to 40
31. 'Slow Ride' by Foghat
32. 'Take It Easy' by Eagles
33. 'Changes' by David Bowie
34. 'Landslide' by Fleetwood Mac
35. 'Long Time Gone' by Crosby, Stills & Nash
36. 'It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)' by AC/DC
37. 'A Change Is Gonna Come' by Sam Cooke
38. 'I'm Still Standing' by Elton John
39. 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes?' by Fairport Convention
40. 'Time' by Pink Floyd
More Rock Songs About Patience and Waiting #41 to 50
41. 'Come Back Home' by The Righteous Brothers
42. 'The Sound of Silence' by Simon & Garfunkel
43. 'Waiting for the Big One' by Robert Plant
44. 'Waiting for the World to Change' by John Mayer
45. 'Waiting on You' by Weezer
46. 'Waiting On a War' by Foo Fighters
47. 'Waiting' by Madonna
48. 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure
49. 'Longview' by Green Day
50. 'Still Waiting' by Uncanny X-Men
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