50 Best Rock Songs About Stalking

Creepiest Rock Songs That Follow Too Closely

There’s a strange tension in songs that hover between romance and fixation. The ones that sound like love songs until you notice the unease under the melody. It’s that uncomfortable pulse that feels both magnetic and off. You hear it in the verses that linger too long, in the choruses that repeat like someone refusing to let go. These tracks capture that charged space where attraction turns restless and curiosity turns into watching from the shadows. Some might not spell out stalking outright, but the feeling hangs heavy enough to count.

There’s something unsettling when a guitar riff feels like footsteps or when a singer’s voice comes off too close, whispering through the static. The kind of song that crawls under your skin because it sounds way too personal, like it knows you when it shouldn’t. Rock has always played with obsession, from smoky bar anthems to stadium shouts that sound like confessions shouted into the dark. The line between devotion and fixation keeps blurring, and somehow that makes the music hit harder.

Some tracks lean into the unease, others hide it under pretty chords and radio polish. The weird part is how they fit right next to pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that flirt with the same themes. It’s that blurry overlap that makes them stick—the way they hum in the background like a thought that won’t leave. Not every track here spells it out, but they all carry that haunted pull of wanting too much and not backing off. Here are the best rock songs about stalking.

1. 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police

2. 'One Way or Another' by Blondie

3. 'I Will Possess Your Heart' by Death Cab for Cutie

4. 'Possession' by Sarah McLachlan

5. 'I Want You' by Elvis Costello

6. 'Creep' by Radiohead

7. 'Run for Your Life' by The Beatles

8. 'Gonna Get Close to You' by Queensrÿche

9. 'Invisible Sun' by The Police

10. 'The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get' by Morrissey

11. 'Dream Police' by Cheap Trick

12. 'Walking After You' by Foo Fighters

13. 'Private Eyes' by Hall & Oates

14. 'I'm Only Happy When It Rains' by Garbage

15. 'Tear You Apart' by She Wants Revenge

16. 'Psycho Killer' by Talking Heads

17. 'Picture of You' by U2

18. 'Crash Into Me' by Dave Matthews Band

19. 'Ultraviolence' by Lana Del Rey

20. 'Where the Wild Roses Grow' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

21. 'Ava Adore' by The Smashing Pumpkins

22. 'Obsession' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

23. 'Hungry Like the Wolf' by Duran Duran

24. 'Deep Inside of You' by Third Eye Blind

25. 'Hello' by Lionel Richie

26. 'I Put A Spell On You' by Marilyn Manson

27. 'The Bed's Too Big Without You' by The Police

28. 'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails

29. 'I Want You To Want Me' by Cheap Trick

30. 'Polly' by Nirvana

31. 'The Horror of Our Love' by Ludo

32. 'Following' by The Bangles

33. 'You Give Me Nothing' by Placebo

34. 'I'm Slowly Turning Into You' by The White Stripes

35. 'It's No Good' by Depeche Mode

36. 'Somebody's Watching Me' by Rockwell

37. 'An Unhealthy Obsession' by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

38. 'My Bloody Valentine' by Good Charlotte

39. 'The Day I Tried to Live' by Soundgarden

40. 'Blade' by Third Eye Blind

41. 'You'll Follow Me Down' by Skunk Anansie

42. 'Stalker' by Recoil

43. 'One Of Those Crazy Girls' by Paramore

44. 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' by Dead or Alive

45. 'Your House' by Alanis Morissette

46. 'Bitch I Love You' by Nasty Idols

47. 'Red Right Hand' by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

48. 'The End of this Chapter' by Sonata Arctica

49. 'Dreaming' by Blondie

50. 'I Will Follow Him' by Little Peggy March