Travellers often find it hard to talk about home since it’s a concept hard to define or understand when living in different places. Here’s ten of my favourite songs about home I like to listen to when feeling nostalgic about this concept that has become so strange to me.
1. Passenger – Home
“They say home is where the heart is
but my heart is wild and free
So am I homeless
Or just heartless?”
2. Phillip Phillips – Home
“If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home”
3. Backstreet Boys – No Place
“I’ve been all around the world, done all there is to do
But you’ll always be the home I wanna come home to”
4. Jack Johnson – Home
“Home is wherever we are if there’s love here too”
5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home
“Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I’m with you”
6. Cinematic Orchestra – To Build a Home
“Cause, I built a home
For you
For me
Until it disappeared
From me
From you
And now, it’s time to leave and turn to dust”
7. Harrison Storm – Sense of Home
“Tell your brother you’re listening to his dreams
Tell your sister she is all you need
Tell your mother she is the only one
And your father has made you all that you’ve become”
8. John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads
“Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads”
9. Zac Brown Band – Two places at one time
“And my heart knows a way back home
When the wind sings that old familiar song”
10. Veritasaga – Dor de Casa (Homesickness)
“Home is where your heart is
Where people do not let you fall
Home is where your mind is”
What are your favourite songs about Home?
If you liked this list, then also check out my other list on songs about travel.
Oh what a lovely topic to share, since all travellers must have experienced that feeling of homesickness at one point or another. I had not come across Jack Johnson’s track before but I love the sentiments. And who can not smile at John Denver’s Take Me Home?
Great list! I love the Backstreet Boys 😀 Another great boy band song about home that you could add is “Don’t Forget Where You Belong” by One Direction. It’s a great one!
This is such an lovely topic. I love to listen to music while traveling and this is such a great playlist. I love backstreet boys and John Denver. Will add the others to playlist too.
Every one of these songs tugs at my heart strings. I grew up listening to John Denver with my family. We used to sing Take Me Home, Country Road around our living room after big family meals. It is an amazing memory. Thank you for sharing this wonderful list.
This is a great travel playlist. I often make playlists for each vacation, but I never thought about a nostalgic playlist to remember home by. What a great idea! I definitely love the Backstreet Boys’ track and Passengers’. You also introduced me to a few new artists, which was a treat.
Such an off-beat topic to include on a travel blog…Love this. For me it has to be the backstreet boys and a lot of bollywood numbers back home. Listening to these songs indeed gives me strength as a wanderer!
Thanks for sharing this great list. The quotes are so lovely and romantic. It’s easy to notice the common chord among most of these – home is where love is.
So lovely. Thank you for putting up this list. I am reading this away from home and it feels emotional as well as beautiful to think about home.
Music makes me nostalgic – it’s really nice to have a playlist with memories that will be evoked whenever one relistens to a song. I love the Philip Philip’s version of Home and of course the evergreen Take Me home. Thanks for the unique share.