A road trip is incomplete without tunes. The music playing in the background as you drive through landscapes is an important part of the experience, which is why many people take it upon themselves to create mixes just for driving. Here, I’ve compiled a list of some of the best songs to drive to. My top choice will be in a different color than the rest.
1. Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
“Strangers waiting up and down the boulevard, their shadows searching in the night. Streetlights, people, living just to find emotion hiding somewhere in the night.”
2. Hooked On a Feeling – Blue Swede
“I can’t stop this feeling deep inside of me. Girl you just don’t realize what you do to me. When you hold me in your arms so tight you let me know everything’s alright. I’m hooked on a feeling, I’m high on believing, that you’re in love with me.”
3. California – Phantom Planet
Whether or not you’re going to California, this song is perfect for driving with the windows down. “We’ve been on the run, driving in the sun, looking out for number one. California, here we come. Right back where we started from.”
4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
“I have climbed highest mountains, I have run through the fields, only with to be with you. Only with to be with you. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls, these city walls, only to be with you. But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”
5. A Place In This World – Taylor Swift
“I’m alone, on my own, and that’s all I know. I’ll be strong, I’ll be wrong, oh but life goes on. Oh I’m just a girl, tryna’ find a place in this world. Got the radio on, my old blue jeans, and I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve. Feeling lucky today, got the sunshine, could you tell me what more do I need?”
6. Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty
“I wanna glide down over Mulholland. I wanna write her name in the sky. I’m gonna free fall out into nothin’. Gonna leave this world for awhile.”
7. Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
“No one else can feel it for you, only you can let in. No one else, no one else, can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken, live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.”
8. Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts
You can also do the Tom Cochrane version (the original) if you prefer, but I think this one has a better driving quality. “Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long. If you’re going my way, I wanna ride it all night long.”
9. Getaway Car – Taylor Swift
“You were drivin’ the getaway car, we were flyin’, but we’d never get far. Don’t pretend it’s such a mystery, think about the place where you first met me. Ridin’ in a getaway car, there were sirens in the beat of your heart. Should’ve known I’d be the first to leave, think about the place where you first met me.”
10. Tiny Dancer – Elton John
“Hold me closer, tiny dancer. Count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen. You had a busy day today.”
11. Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams
“Oh, when I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever. And if I had the choice, yeah I’d always wanna be there. Those were the best days of my life.”
12. American Pie – Don McLean
“So bye bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good old boys were drinking whisky and rhye, singing ‘this’ll be the day that I die’.”
13. Friday I’m In Love – The Cure
“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray, and Wednesday too. Thursday, I don’t care ’bout you. It’s Friday, I’m in love.”
14. Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
“Won’t you come see about me? I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby. Tell me your troubles and doubts, given everything inside and out. And love’s strange, so real in the dark, think of the tender things that we were working on. Slow chains may pull us apart. When our life gets into your heart, baby, don’t you forget about me.”
15. Hey Jude – The Beatles
“Hey Jude, don’t make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better. Remember, to let her into your heart. Then you can start to make it better. Hey Jude, don’t be afraid. You were made to go out and get her. The minute you let her under your skin, then you begin to make it better.”
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