50 Best Songs About Prophecy
Songs That Capture the Feeling of Prophecy and Fate
There’s a certain weight that hits when you think about what might come next. It’s not fear, not exactly awe, but a tangle of both that makes your chest tighten and your thoughts wander. You’re scrolling through playlists late at night, half-curious, half-expecting, and the right song hits. The kind that catches you in that suspended moment where the future feels both inevitable and unknown. Some of these tracks might not be literally about prophecy, but they carry that pulse, that sense of something hovering just beyond reach, in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs alike.
Nobody’s walking into the future with perfect clarity. It’s shadows in lyrics, cryptic lines that hint at outcomes, the quiet dread in a minor chord, the flash of revelation in a sudden drum hit. Maybe it’s Florence Welch raising her voice at destiny, maybe it’s David Bowie sketching visions no one saw coming, or Lauryn Hill weaving warnings between verses. These songs don’t explain the moment—they live inside it. They give you the feeling that something bigger is moving, that you’re part of a thread you can’t quite trace.
Some tracks are messy, eerie, even playful in the way they imagine what’s next. They fold uncertainty into rhythm, prophecy into melody, and somehow make it all feel human. These are the tracks you catch in a Story, on a quiet ride, or at a party where everything feels like it could pivot at any second. Here are the best songs for prophecy themes that slip into the mind and stay there.
Top 10 Prophecy Songs
1. 'Estimated Prophet' by Grateful Dead
2. 'London Calling' by The Clash
3. 'The Prophet's Song' by Queen
4. 'The Prophecy' by Taylor Swift
5. 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' by Bob Dylan
6. 'The Seer' by Big Country
7. 'The Witch's Promise' by Jethro Tull
8. 'Cassandra' by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
9. 'Nostradamus' by Al Stewart
10. 'The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine (Six-Six-Six)' by The Cowsills
Music About Foretelling The Future #11 to 20
11. 'Freewill' by Rush
12. 'Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)' by Doris Day
13. 'Instant Destiny' by Tame Impala
14. 'The Circle Game' by Joni Mitchell
15. 'Virtual Insanity' by Jamiroquai
16. 'Prophet Has Arise' by Israel Vibration
17. 'The Oracle' by Kenny Barron and Dave Holland
18. 'In the Year 2525' by Zager and Evans
19. 'Future World' by Helloween
20. 'The Psychic' by Crash Test Dummies
Exploring Musical Themes of Fate and Destiny #21 to 30
21. 'Rewrite the Stars' by Zac Efron and Zendaya
22. 'Life's What You Make It' by Talk Talk
23. 'Invisible String' by Taylor Swift
24. 'Fate' by Chaka Khan
25. 'Falls to Climb' by R.E.M.
26. 'Simple Twist of Fate' by Bob Dylan
27. 'Go Down Moses' by Louis Armstrong
28. 'Prophesy' by Nitin Sawhney
29. 'Tea Leaf Prophecy' by Herbie Hancock featuring Joni Mitchell
30. 'The Four Horsemen' by Aphrodite's Child
Top Songs About Predicting Tomorrow #31 to 40
31. 'Future Legend' by David Bowie
32. 'The Comet Is Coming' by The Comet Is Coming
33. 'Born Under a Good Sign' by Teenage Fanclub
34. 'The Wheel' by Jerry Garcia
35. 'The Oracle's Prophecy' by Vindsvept
36. 'Prophecy' by Latoyah Bless
37. 'Almost Maybes' by Jordan Davis
38. 'Bad News' by Black Francis
39. 'Free Range' by The Fall
40. 'The Eyes of Fate' by The Incredible String Band
Forecasting and Premonition Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Julius' by Phish
42. 'The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades' by Timbuk 3
43. 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield
44. 'Mean to Be' by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line
45. 'See the Sky About to Rain' by Neil Young
46. 'I Ain't Superstitious' by Howlin' Wolf
47. 'There But for Fortune' by Joan Baez
48. 'Ripple' by The Grateful Dead
49. 'The Prophecy' by David Dam
50. 'Can't Put It in the Hands of Fate' by Stevie Wonder featuring Rapsody and Busta Rhymes
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