50 Best Rock Songs About Rising From the Ashes
Best Rock Anthems for Starting Over
There’s a particular kind of noise that comes after everything falls apart. Not the explosion itself, but the quiet that follows—the part where you’re trying to stand back up, still covered in smoke. It’s where cracked voices and raw guitars start to make sense again. These tracks lean into that. They’re scraped-up, defiant, sometimes fragile in a way that feels earned. They don’t glamorize survival. They sound like it.
Not all of them spell it out. Some were never meant to be tied to rebirth, but they hum with that pulse anyway. A lyric here, a riff there, something in the way the drums hit like muscle memory kicking back in. They belong in the same breath as pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that find beauty in the aftermath, even when the picture’s still blurred. Some tracks hit like running through the wreckage, others like a whisper under the smoke that says keep going.
The playlist lives in that restless space between ruin and rebuild. It’s not clean or cinematic. It’s loud, cracked, sometimes uneven, but there’s something in that noise that sounds a lot like breathing again. Here are the best rock songs about rising from the ashes.
Top 10 Resilience Rock Songs
1. 'The Phoenix' by Fall Out Boy
2. 'I'm Still Standing' by Elton John
3. 'The Rising' by Bruce Springsteen
4. 'Tubthumping' by Chumbawamba
5. 'I Won't Back Down' by Tom Petty
6. 'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor
7. 'Start All Over' by Miley Cyrus
8. 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)' by Kelly Clarkson
9. 'We Are the Champions' by Queen
10. 'Don't Stop Believin'' by Journey
Rock Songs About Overcoming Adversity #11 to 20
11. 'The Show Must Go On' by Queen
12. 'Dream On' by Aerosmith
13. 'A Change Is Gonna Come' by Sam Cooke
14. 'Wasted Years' by Iron Maiden
15. 'New Skin' by Incubus
16. 'The Art of Starting Over' by Demi Lovato
17. 'Breakaway' by Kelly Clarkson
18. 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles
19. 'Solsbury Hill' by Peter Gabriel
20. 'Second Chance' by Shinedown
Uplifting Rock Songs About Rebirth #21 to 30
21. 'Right Now' by Van Halen
22. 'Brand New Day' by Sting
23. 'Purify' by Metallica
24. 'Every Day Is a Winding Road' by Sheryl Crow
25. 'Breathe Again' by Alter Bridge
26. 'I Ignite' by Echo Harper
27. 'New Beginning' by Tracy Chapman
28. '(Just Like) Starting Over' by John Lennon
29. 'I Will Buy You a New Life' by Everclear
30. 'That Was Yesterday' by Foreigner
Rock Songs About Redemption and New Starts #31 to 40
31. 'Redemption Song' by Bob Marley
32. 'Don't Give Up' by Peter Gabriel
33. 'Fresh Start Fever' by You Me At Six
34. 'Start Again' by OneRepublic
35. 'Starting Over' by Chris Stapleton
36. 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield
37. 'Walking on Broken Glass' by Annie Lennox
38. 'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash
39. 'Alive' by Sia
40. 'Let It Be' by The Beatles
Essential Rock Songs About Overcoming Challenges #41 to 50
41. 'Start of Something Good' by Daughtry
42. 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus
43. 'Going Back to My Roots' by Odyssey
44. 'Start Today' by Gorilla Biscuits
45. 'Only the Beginning' by Chicago
46. 'Start Over' by Abandoned Pools
47. 'Where Time Still Lives' by Symphonies of the New Millennium
48. 'Fight Song' by Rachel Platten
49. 'Skyscraper' by Demi Lovato
50. 'Brand New Start' by Paul Weller
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