ᐅ The Best Adventure Songs For Your 2023 Playlist ♬♪♫♩

Are you eager to leave everything at a drop of a hat and have an adventure? I sure am. If you’re looking to escape the beaten path and could really do with an exciting experience right about now, check out this compilation of amazing adventure songs. They are sure to leave you feeling amped up to try something new. Ready? Let’s get those dopamine, adrenaline, and endorphins flowing with the best songs about adventure…

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The benefits of being adventurous are boundless.

Whether adventure is a way of life for you or something that you have to actively seek out, these songs about adventure are sure to take the experience to a whole new level. 

Your adventure music playlist starts here!

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Some adventure songs have the ability to conjure up memories of past explorations while others get us pumped to explore undiscovered destinations.

Check out this list of the best adventurous songs that needs to be front and centre of every thrill seeker’s playlist. It is sure to make every daring exploit that much more enjoyable.

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THE BEST SONGS ABOUT ADVENTURE
YOUR ULTIMATE ADVENTURE PLAYLIST

Looking for the best songs on adventure and daydreaming about your next escape too?

Let this adventure song list inspire you….

Where will you go?
A tropical island vacation, a bucket list challenge, a city break, an ancient land, or a trekking adventure.

Expect a good variety of genres, artists, eras, tempos, and a whole lot of adventure music…

There’s something here for everyone.

What are the best songs about adventure?

First up….

1 | Adventure of a Lifetime — Coldplay

From: UK
Album: A Head Full of Dreams
Released: 2015
Genre: Disco Pop rock

Turn your magic on, umi she’d say
Everything you want’s a dream away
We are legends, every day
That’s what she told him

Turn your magic on, to me she’d say
Everything you want’s a dream away
Under this pressure, under this weight
We are diamonds

Now I feel my heart beating
I feel my heart beneath my skin
I feel my heart beating
Oh, you make me feel
Like I’m alive again
Alive again
Oh, you make me feel
Like I’m alive again

Said I can’t go on, not in this way
I’m a dream that died by light of day
Gonna hold up half the sky and say
Only I own me

Now I feel my heart beating
I feel my heart beneath my skin
Oh, I can feel my heart beating
‘Cause you make me feel
Like I’m alive again
Alive again
Oh, you make me feel
Like I’m alive again

If we’ve only got this life
This adventure, oh then I
And if we’ve only got this life
You’ll get me through, oh
And if we’ve only got this life
And this adventure, oh then I
Wanna share it with you
With you, with you
Sing it, oh, say yeah

2 | Mountain Sound — Of Monsters and Men

From: Iceland
Album: My Head Is an Animal
Released: 2011
Genre: Alternative/Indie

I heard them calling in the distance
So I packed my things and ran
Far away from all the trouble
I had caused with my two hands
Alone we traveled on with nothing but a shadow
We fled far away

Hold your horses now (we sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods, we ran (deep into the mountain sound)
Hold your horses now (we sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods, we ran

Some hid scars and some hid scratches
It made me wonder about their past
And as I looked around, I began to notice
That we were nothing like the rest

Hold your horses now (we sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods, we ran (deep into the mountain sound)
Hold your horses now (we sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods, we ran Whoa
We sleep until the sun goes down
Whoa
We sleep until the sun goes down

3 | Sleep on the Floor — The Lumineers

From: USA
Album: Cleopatra
Released: 2016
Genre: Folk rock

Pack yourself a toothbrush, dear
Pack yourself a favorite blouse
Take a withdrawal slip
Take all of your savings out
‘Cause if we don’t leave this town
We might never make it out
I was not born to drown
Baby, come on

Forget what Father Brennan said
We were not born in sin
Leave a note on your bed
Let your mother know you’re safe
And by the time she wakes
We’ll have driven through the state
We’ll have driven through the night
Baby, come on

If the sun don’t shine on me today
And if the subways flood and bridges break
Will you lay yourself down and dig your grave
Or will you rail against the dying day?

And when we looked outside
Couldn’t even see the sky
How do you pay the rent?
Is it your parents?
Or is hard work, dear
Holding the atmosphere?
I don’t wanna live like that, yeah

4 | Fly Away — Lenny Kravitz

From: United States of America
Album: 5
Released: 1998
Genre: Funk rock/ R&B Soul

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I’d fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please, oh

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
Let’s go and see the stars
The milky way or even mars
Where it could just be ours

Let’s fade into the sun
Let your spirit fly
Where we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh oh oh yeah!

5 | On Top of the World — Imagine Dragons

From: USA
Album: Night Visions
Released: 2012
Genre: Pop rock

I’ve had the highest mountains
I’ve had the deepest rivers
You can have it all but not til you move it
Now take it in but don’t look down’

Cause I’m on top of the world, ‘ey
I’m on top of the world, ‘ey
Waiting on this for a while now
Paying my dues to the dirt
I’ve been waiting to smile, ‘ey
Been holding it in for a while, ‘ey
Take it with me if I can
Been dreaming of this since a child
I’m on top of the world

I’ve tried to cut these corners
Try to take the easy way out
I kept on falling short of something

I coulda gave up then but
Then again I couldn’t have ’cause
I’ve traveled all this way for something
Now take it in but don’t look down’

Cause I’m on top of the world, ‘ey
I’m on top of the world, ‘ey
Waiting on this for a while now
Paying my dues to the dirt
I’ve been waiting to smile, ‘ey
Been holding it in for a while, ‘ey
Take it with me if I can
Been dreaming of this since a child
I’m on top of the world

6 | Go Big or Go Home — American Authors

From: USA
Album: What We Live For
Released: 2016
Genre: Pop rock

I don’t feel like going home
But all my cash is gone
Yeah, I got nothing to do tonight
I’m passed out on the floor
Up in the hotel bar
But it don’t matter, ’cause I’m feeling fine

I’m thinking life’s too short, it’s passing by
So if I’m gonna go at all
Go big or go

Go big or go home
(Go! Go!)

I gave the dice a roll
And then we lost control
You know we’re lucky that we survived
‘Cause when we jumped the ship
Oh, man, that boat, it flipped
But we should do it all again tonight

I’m thinking life’s too short, it’s passing by
So if we’re gonna go at all
Go big or go

7 | Born To Be Wild — Steppenwolf

From: California USA
Album: Steppenwolf
Released: 1968
Genre: Hard rock

Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way

Yeah, darlin’ gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightnin’
Heavy metal thunder
Racing with the wind
And the feeling that I’m under

Yeah, darlin’ gonna make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature’s child
We were born
Born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wildGet your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way

8 | Good Life — One Republic

From: Colorado, USA
Album: Waking `Up
Released: 2009
Genre: Alternative Indie pop rock

Woke up in London yesterday
Found myself in the city, near Picadilly
Don’t really know how I got here
I got some pictures on my phone

New names and numbers that I don’t know
Address to places like Abbey Road
Day turns to night
Night turns to whatever we want
We’re young enough to say

Oh, this has gotta be the good life
This has gotta be the good life
This could really be a good life, good life
I say oh, got this feeling that you can’t fight
Like this city is on fire tonight
This could really be a good life
A good, good life
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

To my friends in New York, I say hello
My friends in L.A. they don’t know
Where I’ve been for the past few years or so
Paris to China to Colorado

Sometimes there’s airplanes I can’t jump out
Sometimes there’s bullshit that don’t work now
We all got our stories but please, tell me
What there’s to complain about

9 | Wake Me Up — Avicii

From: Sweden
Album: True
Released: 2013
Genre: House music, Dance/Electronic

Feeling my way through the darkness
Guided by a beating heart
I can’t tell where the journey will end
But I know where to start
They tell me I’m too young to understand
They say I’m caught up in a dream
Well life will pass me by if I don’t open up my eyes
Well that’s fine by me

So wake me up when it’s all over
When I’m wiser and I’m older
All this time I was finding myself, and I
Didn’t know I was lost

I tried carrying the weight of the world
But I only have two hands
Hope I get the chance to travel the world
But I don’t have any plans
Wish that I could stay forever this young
Not afraid to close my eyes
Life’s a game made for everyone
And love is a prize

So wake me up when it’s all over
When I’m wiser and I’m older
All this time I was finding myself, and I
I didn’t know I was lost

I didn’t know I was lost
I didn’t know I was lost

What is your favorite song about adventure?

10 | Castle On The Hill — Ed Sheeran

From: England
Album: Divide
Released: 2017
Genre: Pop

When I was six years old, I broke my leg
I was running from my brother and his friends
And tasted the sweet perfume of the mountain grass I rolled down
I was younger then, take me back to when I

Found my heart and broke it here
Made friends and lost them through the years
And I’ve not seen the roaring fields in so long
I know I’ve grown, but I can’t wait to go home

I’m on my way
Driving at 90 down those country lanes
Singing to Tiny Dancer
And I miss the way you make me feel, and it’s real
When we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill

15 years old and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes
Running from the law through the backfields and
Getting drunk with my friends
Had my first kiss on a Friday night
I don’t reckon that I did it right, but
I was younger then, take me back to when

We found weekend jobs, when we got paid
We’d buy cheap spirits and drink them straight
Me and my friends have not thrown up in so long
Oh, how we’ve grown, but I can’t wait to go home

11 | Hopeless Wanderer — Mumford & Sons

From: Britain
Album: Babel
Released: 2012
Genre: Alternative Indie/Folk

But hold me fast, hold me fast
‘Cause I’m a hopeless wanderer
And hold me fast, hold me fast
‘Cause I’m a hopeless wanderer

I wrestled long with my youth
We tried so hard to live in the truth
But do not tell me all is fine
When I lose my head, I lose my spine

So leave that click in my head
And I won’t remember the words that you said
You brought me out from the cold
Now, how I long, how I long to grow old

So when your hope’s on fire
But you know your desire
Don’t hold a glass over the flame
Don’t let your heart grow cold
I will call you by name
I will share your road

12 | Anywhere — Passenger

From: England
Album: Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea
Released: 2016
Genre: Folk

If you get out on the ocean
If you sail out on the sea
If you get up in the mountains
If you go climbing on trees
Or through every emotion
When you know that they don’t care
Darling, that’s when I’m with you
Oh, I’ll go with you anywhere

If you get up in a jet plane
Or down in a submarine
If you get onto the next train
To somewhere you never been
If you wanna ride in a fast car
And feel the wind in your hair
Darling just look beside you
Oh, I’ll go with you anywhere

Oh, and I will be with you
When the darkest winter comes
Oh, and I will be with you
To feel the California sun
Oh, and I will be with you
In the night sounds and it’s true
Oh, I’ll go anywhere with you

If you get up in the hillside
If you ride out on the planes
If you go digging up dirt
If you go out dancing in the rain
If you go chasing in rainbows
Just to find the gold end there
Darling just look behind you

Oh, and I will be with you
When the darkest winter comes
Oh, and I will be with you
To feel the California sun
Oh, and I will be with you
In the night sounds and it’s true
Oh, I’ll go anywhere with you

Yeah, I’ll go anywhere with you

13 | Every Day Is a Winding Road — Sheryl Crow

From: USA
Album: Sheryl Crow
Released: 1996
Genre: pop

I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man
He says he’s been down this road more than twice
He was high on intellectualism
I’ve never been there but the brochure looks nice
Jump in, let’s go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low,
These are the days when anything goes

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

He’s got a daughter he calls Easter
She was born on a Tuesday night
I’m just wondering why I feel so all alone
Why I’m a stranger in my own life
Jump in, let’s go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
These are the days when anything goes

I’ve been swimming in a sea of anarchy
I’ve been living on coffee and nicotine
I’ve been wondering if all the things I’ve seen
Were ever real, were ever really happening

14 | Our Adventure Songs — The Long Valley

From: Seattle
Album: Our Adventure Songs (EP)
Released: 2016
Genre: rock

This is our adventure
This isn’t our goodbye
It’s only the beginning
And time is on our side
We can send a postcard
We can drive all night
We can count the stars until the sunrise fills the sky and hides the moon
It’s just me and you

Never look behind us
Always look ahead
We’ve been through the country like a needle pulls a thread
Honey, you might catch me
Starring at your smile
It’s just that sitting next to you
Mile after mile is all we do
It’s just me and you

This is our adventure song
This isn’t our goodbye
Honey we can start running
I can see the sun coming

15 | Road Trippin’ — Red Hot Chili Peppers

From: USA
Album: Californication
Released: 1999
Genre: rock

Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It’s time to leave this town it’s time to steal away
Let’s go get lost anywhere in the U.S.A.
Let’s go get lost, let’s go get lost

Blue you sit so pretty west of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing, just a mirror for the sun

Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for

In Big Sur we take some time to linger on
We three hunky-dory’s got our snakefinger on
Now let us drink the stars, it’s time to steal away
Let’s go get lost right here in the USA
Let’s go get lost, let’s go get lost

Blue, you sit so pretty west of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing, just a mirror for the sun

16 | Fly Away With Me — Tom Walker

From: Scotland
Album: Acoustic Café 2
Released: 2017
Genre: Alternative/Indie

I’m strummin on the corner
About to catch the last train home
I’ll have to jump the barriers
So can you spare a penny for my thoughts?
I’ve been praised upon the pavements
Passers by don’t pay much
Chased away by neighbors
Seen things you couldn’t make up
If the streets could talk
They’d tell a story or two
I’ll paint a picture for you

I can tell you what it feels like
To lose your home on a cold night
Can you see the blood in my red eyes?
Have another total forget life

So come on fly away with me
To a place where we could be anyone we wanna be
And we can bottle up our fears
Brew a taste so sweet
Knock us off our feet or more
Burn our troubles
Inhale them all
Paint our future on a fractured wall
So come on fly away with me
To a place where we can be anyone we wanna be

Still in the station when I wake up
I missed the last train home
Jump back over the barriers
No ones got a penny for my flaws
I’ma sleep upon the pavement
Passers by don’t say much
Tutted at by strangers
Dreamt things you’d never dream of
If these streets could talk
They’d tell a story or two
I’ll paint a picture for you

17 | Catch & Release — Matt Simons

From: United States of America
Album: Catch & Release
Released: 2014
Genre: pop

There’s a place I go to
Where no one knows me
It’s not lonely
It’s a necessary thing

It’s a place I made up
Find out what I’m made of
The nights I’ve stayed up
Counting stars and fighting sleep

Let it wash over me
Ready to lose my feet
Take me on to the place
Where one reveals life’s mystery

Steady on down the line
Lose every sense of time
Take it all in
And wake up that small part of me

Day to day I’m blind to see
And find how far to go

Everybody got their reason
Everybody got their way
We’re just catching and releasing
What builds up throughout the day

It gets into your body
And it flows right through your blood
We can tell each other secrets
And remember how to love

18 | Have Love Will Travel — The Sonics

From: Washington
Album: Here Are The Sonics
Released: 1965
Genre: garage rock

Wow, have love
Whoa, baby I will travel
Uh-huh, uh-huh, have love
Whoa, baby I will travel
I said if you need loving then
Mm, hmm, I’ll travel

Yeah, I’ll travel from main to Mexico
Just to find a little girl that loves me so
No matter when, no matter where I’ll be
I’m looking for a woman that’ll satisfy me

Have love
Whoa, baby I will travel or sail, yeah, yeah
Have love
Whoa baby, I will travel
I said if you need loving then
Mm, hmm, I’ll travel

Yeah, yeah, yeah, have love
Oh baby, I will travel
Uh-huh, have love
Oh pretty baby, will I travel
I said if you need loving then
Mm, I’ll travel

Well, I might take a boat, or I’ll take a plane
I might hitchhike or jump a railroad train
You’re kind of love drives a man insane
So look for me walking just a any old way

19 | Africa — Toto

From: USA
Album: Toto IV
Released: 1982
Genre: pop rock

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She’s coming in 12:30 flight
Moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say hurry boy it’s waiting there for you
Gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had…
Ooh-ooh

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what’s deep inside frightened of this thing that I’ve become
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had…
Ooh-ooh

Hurry boy she’s waiting there for you
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
(I bless the rain)

I bless the rains down in Africa
(I… bless the rains)
I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
(Ah… gonna take some time)
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had…
Ooh-ooh

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20 | Running Away — Ed Sheeran ft. Kygo

From: Various
Album: X
Released: 2017
Genre: dance electronic

How long you leaving?
Well, dad just don’t expect me back this evening
Oh it could take a bit of time to heal this
It’s been a long day, thumb on side of the roadway, but

I love him from my skin to my bones
But I don’t wanna live in his home
There’s nothing to say ’cause he knows
I’ll just run away and be on my own (own)

I’ve never seen my dad cry
Cold as stone in the kitchen light
I’ll tell you it’s about time
But I was raised to keep quiet
This is what I’m gonna do
Gonna run away, gonna make that move
Gonna grab clothes and when it’s morning, go

How long you leaving?
Well, dad just don’t expect me back this evening
Oh it could take a bit of time to heal this
It’s been a long day, thumb on side of the roadway, but

Backpack and a flat cap turned to the back
As I packed my clothes up
My dad wasn’t down with that plan to attack, intends to show love
I don’t wanna live this way
Gonna take my things and go, but
If things change in a matter of days
I could be persuaded to hold on
Mama was the same
None of us are saints, I guess that God knows that
I don’t wanna run away
And one of these days I might just show that
Put my home in a suitcase, tie both shoe laces, and hope that
Things change, but for now I’ll leave town with a backpack on my shoulder

21 | Send Me on My Way — Rusted Root

From: USA
Album: Cruel Sun
Released: 1992
Genre: roots rock

I would like to reach out my hand
I may see you, I may tell you to run (on my way, on my way)
You know what they say about the young

Well pick me up with golden hand
I may see you, I may tell you to run (on my way, on my way)
You know what they say about the young

Well, I would like to hold my little hand
And we will run, we will, we will crawl, we will
I would like to hold my little hand
And we will run, we will, we will crawl

Send me on my way (on my way)
Send me on my way (on my way)

22 | On My Way — Phil Collins

From: London
Album: Brother Bear
Released: 2003
Genre: pop

Tell everybody, I’m on my way
New friends and new places to see
With blue skies ahead, yes
I’m on my way
And there’s nowhere else that I’d rather be

Tell everybody, I’m on my way
And I’m loving every step I take
With the sun beating down, yes
I’m on my way
And I can’t keep this smile off my face

‘Cause there’s nothing like seeing each other again
No matter what the distance between
And the stories that we tell will make you smile
Oh, it really lifts my heart

So tell ’em all I’m on my way
New friends and new places to see
And to sleep under the stars
Who could ask for more
With the moon keeping watch over me

Not the snow, not the rain
Can change my mind
The sun will come out, wait and see
And the feeling of the wind in your face
Can lift your heart
Oh, there’s nowhere I would rather be

‘Cause I’m on my way now
Well and truly
I’m on my way now

Tell everybody, I’m on my way
And I just can’t wait to be there
With blue skies ahead yes
I’m on my way
And nothing but good times to share

23 | On The Road Again — Willie Nelson

From: USA
Album: Honeysuckle Rose
Released: 1980
Genre: country

On the road again
Just can’t wait to get on the road again
The life I love is making music with my friends

And I can’t wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Goin’ places that I’ve never been
Seein’ things that I may never see again
And I can’t wait to get on the road again

On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
And our way
Is on the road again
I just can’t wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin’ music with my friends
And I can’t wait to get on the road again

24 | Dirty Paws — Of Monsters And Men

From: Iceland
Album: My Head Is an Animal
Released: 2011
Genre: alternative rock

Jumping up and down the floor
My head is an animal
And once there was an animal
It had a son that mowed the lawn
The son was an OK guy
They had a pet dragonfly
The dragonfly it ran away
But it came back with a story to say

Her dirty paws and furry coat
She ran down the forest slope
The forest of talking trees
They used to sing about the birds and the bees
The bees had declared a war
The sky wasn’t big enough for them all
The birds, they got help from below
From dirty paws and the creatures of snow

La la la
La la la la

So for a while, things were cold
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines
But she and her furry friends
Took down the queen bee and her men
And that’s how the story goes
The story of the beast with those four dirty paws

25 | Step Out — José González

From: Sweden
Album: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Released: 2013
Genre: indie folk

Time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step out, time to step out
Time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step outside you

House on fire, leave it all behind you
Dark as night, let the lightning guide you
Step outside, time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step outside you

House on fire, leave it all behind you

Living life, feeding appetites
Stayed through every hard stop, every go
Being bland
Breathing half the time

House on fire, leave it all behind you
Dark as night, let the lightning guide you

Step outside, time to step outside, time to step outside
Time to step out

Broke tooth Monday
Something’s not the same
Blank head, crossed eyes sweep the floor
Feel your presence
In your absence shut the door

House on fire, leave it all behind you
Dark as night, let the lightning guide you

26 | Gravity — Coldplay

From: UK
Album: X&Y
Released: 2005
Genre: rock britpop

Baby
It’s been a long time coming
Such a long, long time
And I can’t stop running
Such a long, long time
Can you hear my heart beating
Can you hear that sound?
‘Cause I can’t help thinking
And I won’t stop now

And then I looked up at the sun and I could see
Oh, the way that gravity pulls on you and me
And then I looked up at the sky and saw the sun
And the way that gravity pushes on everyone
On everyone

Baby
When your wheels stop turning
And you feel let down
And it seems like troubles
Have come all around
I can hear your heart beating
I can hear that sound
But I can’t help thinking
And I won’t look now

And then I looked up at the sun and I could see
Oh, the way that gravity pulls on you and me
And then I looked up at the sky and saw the sun
And the way that gravity pushes on everyone
On everyone

27 | A Thousand Miles — Vanessa Carlton

From: USA
Album: Be Not Nobody
Released: 2002
Genre: pop

Making my way downtown
Walking fast, faces pass and I’m homebound
Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way through the crowd

And I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder

If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight

It’s always times like these
When I think of you
And wonder if you ever think of me
Cause everything’s so wrong and I don’t belong
Living in your precious memory

Cause I need you
And I miss you
And now I wonder

If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight

And I, I don’t wanna let you know
I, I drown in your memory
I, I don’t wanna let this go
I, I don’t

28 | I’ve Been Everywhere Man — Johnny Cash

From: Australia
Album: Unchained
Released: 1996
Genre: country

I’ve been everywhere, man
I’ve been everywhere, man
Crossed the desert’s bare, man
I’ve breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I’ve a’had my share, man
I’ve been everywhere

I’ve been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo
Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I’m a killer

I’ve been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana,
Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,
Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa,
Tennessee to Tennesse Chicopee, Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devils Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete’s sake.

29 | Sand in my Shoes — Dido

From: England
Album: Life for Rent
Released: 2003
Genre: pop

Two weeks away it feels like the whole world should’ve changed
But I’m home now
And things still look the same
I think I’ll leave it till tomorrow to unpack
Try to forget for one more night
That I’m back in my flat on the road
Where the cars never stop going through the night
To a life where I can’t watch the sunset
I don’t have time
I don’t have time

I’ve still got sand in my shoes
And I can’t shake the thought of you
I should get on, forget you
But why would I want to
I know we said goodbye
Anything else would’ve been confused but I wanna see you again

Tomorrow’s back to work and down to sanitation
Run a bath and then clear up the mess I made before I left here
Try to remind myself that I was happy here
Before I knew that I could get on the plane and fly away
From the road where the cars never stop going through the night
To a life where I can watch the sunset
And take my time
Take all our time

30 | Traveling On — Kongos

From: South Africa
Album: Lunatic
Released: 2012
Genre: French indie rock

So long my friend, my foe, my love, my pain
The road’s calling out my name
Dreaming of La Boheme
Maybe I’ll go to Barbizon
Or see a girl before she catches cold and she’s gone
Or maybe I’ll just travel on
Travel on

So long my flame, my warmth, my fear, my fight
The road’s calling again tonight
Dreaming under street lights
Maybe I’ll catch a train to Rome
See the world until I can’t go on
Then maybe I’ll come traveling home

And when the years pass us by
I wonder if we’ll cry
For losing so much time
For moments we may miss
For the love that still exists tonightMaybe I’ll go it all alone
See the world and make my way back home
Or maybe I’ll keep traveling on

31 | Life in the City — The Lumineers

From: USA
Album: lll
Released: 2019
Genre: Alternative/Indie

And if the city’s skyscrapers rise over this island
Would you be glad to see Manhattan for once?
I knew the dream, it died, JMZ line, Myrtle, and Broadway
But I’d be glad to see Manhattan for once

Woah woah, living life in the city
Woah woah, it will never be pretty, oh, oh
Woah woah, we can plan if we make it
Woah woah, we won’t let ’em
They won’t take it from me, no, oh, oh, woah (2, 3, 4)

Woo, woo
Woo, woo
And if you leave, don’t leave me all alone
‘Cause I’ll be scared, I’ll be naked, I’ll get cold
And I miss my dad and Cleopatra sitting on a phone
So take me back off these streets and we’ll never be apart
Together from the start
Never, never falling back alone

Living life in the city
Oh oh, it will never be pretty, oh, oh
Oh oh, we can plan if we make it
Woah woah, we won’t let ’em
They won’t take it from me, no, oh, oh, woah

And if the sun don’t shine on me today
And if the subways flood and bridges break
Will you just lay down and dig your grave?
Or will you rail against your dying day?

32 | Life Is A Highway — Tom Cochrane

From: Canada
Album: Mad Mad World
Released: 1991
Genre: country rock

Love’s like a road that you travel on
When there’s one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There’s a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won’t haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won’t hesitate
Break down the garden gate
There’s not much time left today

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It’s in my blood and it’s all around
I love you know like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver’s lights
Knock me down get back up again
You’re in my blood I’m not a lonely man
There’s no load I can’t hold
Road so rough; this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ’em we’re survivors

33 | The Cave — Mumford and Sons

From: London
Album: Sigh No More
Released: 2010
Genre: rock folk

It’s empty in the valley of your heart
The sun it rises slowly as you walk
Away from all the fears
And all the faults you’ve left behind

The harvest left no food for you to eat
You cannibal you meat eater you see
But I have seen the same
I know the shame in your defeat

But I will hold on hope
And I won’t let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I’ll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I’ll know my name as it’s called again

‘Cause I have other things to fill my time
You take what is your’s and I’ll take mine
Now let me at the truth
Which will refresh my broken mind

So tie me to a post and block my ears
I can see widows and orphans through my tears
I know my call despite my faults
And despite my growing fears

So come out of your cave walking on your hands
And see the world hanging upside down
You can understand dependence
When you know the maker’s hand

34 | Land Down Under — Men at Work

From: Australia
Album: Business as Usual
Released: 1981
Genre: pop rock

Traveling in a fried-out Kombi
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said

“Do you come from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover”

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscle
I said, “Do you speak-a my language?”
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said

“I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover, yeah”

Lying in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw and not much to say
I said to the man, “Are you trying to tempt me?
Because I come from the land of plenty”
And he said

Oh, “Do you come from a land down under? (Oh, yeah-yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover”, ’cause we are

35 | Traveling Wilburys — End Of The Line

From: Britain
Album: Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
Released: 1988
Genre: rock

Well, it’s alright, ridin’ around in the breeze
Well, it’s alright, if you live the life you please
Well, it’s alright, doin’ the best you can
Well, it’s alright, as long as you lend a hand

You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring (at the end of the line)
Waiting for someone to tell you everything (at the end of the line)
Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring (at the end of the line)
Maybe a diamond ring

Well, it’s alright, even if they say you’re wrong
Well, it’s alright, sometimes you gotta be strong
Well, it’s alright, as long as you got somewhere to lay
Well, it’s alright, everyday is judgment day

Maybe somewhere down the road a ways (at the end of the line)
You’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days (at the end of the line)
Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)
Purple Haze

Well, it’s alright, even when push comes to shove
Well, it’s alright, if you got someone to love
Well, it’s alright, everything’ll work out fine
Well, it’s alright, we’re going to the end of the line

Don’t have to be ashamed of the car I drive (at the end of the line)
I’m just glad to be here, happy to be alive (at the end of the line)
And it don’t matter if you’re by my side (at the end of the line)
I’m satisfied

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36 | I lived — One Republic

From: Colorado
Album: Native
Released: 2014
Genre: pop rock

Hope when you take that jump
You don’t fear the fall
Hope when the water rises
You built a wall
Hope when the crowd screams out
It’s screaming your name
Hope if everybody runs
You choose to stay

Hope that you fall in love
And it hurts so bad
The only way you can know
You give it all you have
And I hope that you don’t suffer
But take the pain
Hope when the moment comes you’ll say

I, I did it all
I, I did it all
I owned every second that this world could give
I saw so many places
The things that I did
Yeah, with every broken bone
I swear I lived

Hope that you spend your days
But they all add up
And when that sun goes down
Hope you raise your cup
Oh, oh
I wish that I could witness
All your joy
And all your pain
But until my moment comes, I’ll say

I, I did it all
I, I did it all
I owned every second that this world could give
I saw so many places
The things that I did
Yeah, with every broken bone
I swear I lived

37 | Take Me Home, Country Roads — John Denver

From: USA
Album: Poems, Prayers & Promises
Released: 1971
Genre: country

Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze.

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma
Take me home, country roads.

All my memories gather round her
Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.

I hear her voice in the mornin’ hour, she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin’ down the road, I get a feelin’
That I should’ve been home yesterday, yesterday.

38 | Life is a Highway — Rascal Flatts

From: USA
Album: Me and My Gang
Released: 2006
Genre: adventure rock music

Life’s like a road that you travel on
When there’s one day here, and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There’s a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won’t haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore

We won’t hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There’s not much time left today, yeah
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re goin’ my way
Well, I wanna drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It’s in my blood, and it’s all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road, and these are the hands

From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver’s lights
Knock me down and back up again
You’re in my blood, I’m not a lonely man

There’s no load I can’t hold
A road so rough, this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ’em we’re survivors

39 | Traveling — Paper Lions

From: Prince Edward Island
Album: Paper Lions
Released: 2007
Genre: adventurous indie

Travelling the road, last known is where I want to be
My compass directing, electing, an open road with golden trees
But there’s an old man in need on the ground, I try not to make a sound
He holds out his hand as I walk away, I hear him say

Please don’t be a stranger in my place
Traveling come to a tavern for a momentary rest
I see the old man that I passed on the road in his distress
As I turned to go I can hear him say, “Son, stay. Have a drink, I’ll pay.”
Let bygones be gone, it’s all in the past, we raise a glass
Cheers

40 | Follow the Sun — Xavier Rudd

From: Australia
Album: Follow the Sun
Released: 2012
Genre: alternative pop

Follow, follow the sun
And which way the wind blows
When this day is done
Breath, breath in the air
Set your intentions
Dream with care

Tomorrow is a new day for everyone
A brand new moon, brand new sun
So follow, follow the sun
The direction of the birds
The direction of love

Breath, breath in the air
Cheerish this moment
Cheerish this breath

Tomorrow is a new day for everyone
Brand new moon, brand new sun
When you feel love coming down on you
Like a heavy wave
When you feel this crazy society
Headin’ to the strand
Take a straw to the nearest waters
And remember your place
Many moons have risen and fallen long, long before youve came
So which way is the wind blowin’
And what does your heart say?

41 | Where The Streets Have No Name — U2

From: Ireland
Album: The Joshua Tree
Released: 1987
Genre: rock

I want to run, I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside
I wanna reach out and touch the flame
Where the streets have no name, ha, ha, ha

I wanna feel sunlight on my face
I see that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I wanna take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh

Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We’re still building then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
It’s all I can do

The city’s a flood
And our love turns to rust
We’re beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dustI’ll show you a place
High on the desert plain, yeah
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh

42 | First Day Of My Life — Bright Eye

From: Omaha, Nebraska
Album: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
Released: 2005
Genre: Alternative songs adventure rock

This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours was the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
And I don’t know where I am, I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go

And so I thought I’d let you know
Yeah, these things take forever, I especially am slow
But I realized that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning?
And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
You felt as if you’d just woke up

And you said
“This is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”

So if you wanna be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery, ah-ha, mm-hmm

43 | Born to Wander — Rare Earth

From: Detroit, Michigan
Album: Ecology
Released: 1970
Genre: R&B/Soul

There’s nothin’ you can do girl,
There’s nothin’ you can say.
You’re talkin’ to the sky girl,
I just got to get away.
Got to hear the wind song
Singin’ in my ear.
Got to get it on girl
And I’ll never make it here.
‘Cos the wind was my mother,
The highway is my brother.
I was born to wander,
And it’s time for movin’ on.
I was born to wander,
Turn around and I’ll be gone, gone, gone.
I’m just followin’ my heart girl,
And it’s followin’ the sun.
Lookin’ for an answer
I know may never come,
But I gotta chase my dreams girl,
Like a river to the sea,
Got to find a rainbow,
That’s waitin’ there for me.
‘Cos the wind was my mother,
The highway is my brother.
I was born to wander,
And it’s time for movin’ on.
I was born to wander,
Turn around and I’ll be gone, gone, gone.

44 | Free — Donavon Frankenreiter

From: USA
Album: Donavon Frankenreiter
Released: 2004
Genre: Rock Blues

We could let this love be the fading sky
Or we could drift all night until the new sunrise
Pass me a drink or maybe two
One for me and one for you
And we’ll be free
Free Free Free

Here comes corner winds and the changin’ tide
We better drop them sails and get inside
When will the weather ever let us go?
I guess we’ll have to wait until the trade winds blow
When we’ll be free
Free Free Free

There’s nothing in between
What we are, what we see
There’s nothing in between
What we are, what we see, what we are
We are just

On a life boat sailin’ home
With our drunken hearts and our tired bones
Well, I just take one last look around
Yeah an’ every place feels like a familiar town
And now we’re free
Free

45 | Indian Summer — Jai Wolf

From: Bangladesh
Album: XOXO
Released: 2016
Genre: dance electronic

chand pe…
chand pe…
chand pe…
chand pe…

chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye yaar mere
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye yaar mere
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye yaar mere
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye…
chand pe le g-ye yaar mere

chand pe le g-g-g-g-g-ga
(le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye)
chand pe le g-g-g-g-g-ga
(le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye)
chand pe le g-g-g-g-g-ga
(le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye)
chand pe le g-g-g-g-g-ga
(le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye, le g-ye)

46 | Road Less Traveled — Lauren Alaina

From: USA
Album: Road Less Traveled
Released: 2017
Genre: country

Why do you keep on staring?
That mirror, mirror, it ain’t fair at all (Mmm, mm)
Dress sizes can’t define
Don’t let the world decide what’s beautiful
No

You won’t make yourself a name if you follow the rules
History gets made when you’re acting a fool
So don’t hold it back and just flaunt it
Show what you got and just own it
No, they can’t tear you apart

If you trust your rebel heart, ride it into battle
Don’t be afraid, take the road less traveled
Wear out your boots and kick up the gravel
Don’t be afraid, take the road less traveled on
Oh, ooh-whoa, oh, ooh-whoa
Take the road less traveled on

Don’t follow anyone
March to the rhythm of a different drum
Why do we analyze
Break down, and criticize the crazy ones?
Oh-oh-oh

You won’t make yourself a name if you follow the rules
History gets made when you’re acting a fool
So don’t hold it back and just flaunt it
Show what you got and just own it
No, they can’t tear you apart, no

47 | Kathmandu — Bob Seger

From: America
Album: Beautiful Loser
Released: 1975
Genre: rock

I think I’m going to Katmandu
That’s really, really where I’m going to
If I ever get out of here
That’s what I’m gonna do

K-K-K-K-K-K-Katmandu
I think that’s really where I’m going to
If I ever get out of here
I’m going to Katmandu

I got no kick against the West coast
Warner Brothers are such good hosts
I raise my whiskey glass and give them a toast
I’m sure they know it’s true

I got no rap against the Southern states
Every time I’ve been there it’s been great
But now I’m leaving and I can’t be late
And to myself be true

That’s why I’m going to Katmandu
Up to the mountains where I’m going to
And if I ever get out of here
That’s what I’m gonna do

I ain’t got nothing against the East coast
You want some people where they got the most
And New York City’s like a friendly ghost
You seem to pass right through

I know I’m gonna miss the USA
I guess I’ll miss it every single day
But no one loves me here anyway
I know my plane is due

48 | Running on Empty — Jackson Browne

From: USA
Album: Running on Empty
Released: 1977
Genre: rock

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-oh-one
I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on

Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running on, running into the sun
But I’m running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don’t know when that road turned, into the road I’m on

Running on, running on empty
Running on, running blind
Running on, running into the sun
But I’m running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don’t know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that’ll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

49 | Roam — The B-52’s

From: USA
Album: Cosmic Thing
Released: 1989
Genre: alternative adventure song

I hear a wind
Whistling air
Whispering
In my ear

Boy Mercury shooting through every degree
Oh girl dancing down those dirty and dusty trails
Take it hip to hip, rocket through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

Roam if you want to
Roam around the world
Roam if you want to
Without wings, without wheels
Roam if you want to
Roam around the world
Roam if you want to
Without anything but the love we feel

Skip the airstrip to the sunset, yeah
Ride the arrow to the target, one
Take it hip to hip, rock it through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

Roam if you want to
Roam around the world
Roam if you want to
Without wings, without wheels
Roam if you want to
Roam around the world
Roam if you want to
Without anything but the love we feel

Fly the great big sky
See the great big sea
Kick through continents
Busting boundaries
Take it hip to hip, rocket through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

50 | California Dreamin’ — The Mamas & The Papas

From: California
Album: California Dreamin’
Released: 1965
Genre: folk rock

All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)
I’ve been for a walk (I’ve been for a walk)
On a winter’s day (on a winter’s day)
I’d be safe and warm (I’d be safe and warm)
If I was in L.A. (if I was in L.A.)

California dreamin’ (California dreamin’)
On such a winter’s day

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees (got down on my knees)
And I pretend to pray (I pretend to pray)
You know the preacher like the cold (preacher like the cold)
He knows I’m gonna stay (knows I’m gonna stay)

California dreamin’ (California dreamin’)
On such a winter’s day

All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)
I’ve been for a walk (I’ve been for a walk)
On a winter’s day (on a winter’s day)
If I didn’t tell her (if I didn’t tell her)
I could leave today (I could leave today)

California dreamin’ (California dreamin’)
On such a winter’s day (California dreamin’)
On such a winter’s day (California dreamin’)
On such a winter’s day

51 | We Are Tonight — Billy Currington

From: USA
Album: We Are Tonight
Released: 2013
Genre: country

Summer comin’ through a rolled down window
Tearin’ down an almost two lane back road
Freedom and fireflies in the air

The night’s still young, never gonna get old
Livin’ for today like there’s no tomorrow
Follow the grooves, the tires in the grass
Stayin’ on the gas like we’re never comin’ back

It’s a Friday night, it’s a small town girl
Everything is right and we rule the world
2 twelve’s in the truck back, beating
A bunch of rock stars on a riverbank singing,
Whoa, whoa, everything, whoa, whoa, everything we wanna be
We are, we are, we are tonight

Swayin’ back-n-forth, can’t you feel the music?
Time stands still, I don’t wanna lose it
Her tan, her touch, her laugh
Were flyin’ so high like we’re never gonna crash

It’s a Friday night, it’s a small town girl
Everything is right and we rule the world
2 twelve’s in the truck back beating
A bunch of rock stars on a riverbank singing,
Whoa, whoa, everything, whoa, whoa, everything we wanna be
We are, we are, we are tonight

We are tonight, we are tonight
Toes in the grass with our hands up high
Dream as big as a midnight sky
So untamed and we’re so alive tonight

52 | Miles From Our Home — Cowboy Junkies

From: Canada
Album: Miles from Our Home
Released: 1998
Genre: alternative country

No one in sight for fifty miles,
Sleeping fields sigh as I glide across their spines
If I could just reach the crest of that hill
This whole day will tumble and out the night will spill

The sky is still as a spinning top,
Shooting stars drop like burning words from above
If I could just connect all these dots,
The truth would tumble like a Cynic vexed by love

And yet the people keep saying
I’m miles from my home,
Miles from my home

I met you again in my sleep last night,
These are days of slow boats and false starts
Hearts remain under lock and key,
You will be the one to set them both free

And yet the people will tell you
Your miles from your home,
Miles from your home

But that’s where I want to be
Out there searching,
Out here fumbling,
Out here waiting,
For you and you for me

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