13 Songs About Searching and Seeking

In our society, most of us are searching for something that can make our lives a bit better or smoother. These can be things like love, adventure, lost friends, closer relationships, more money, job satisfaction or just trying to find ourselves. If you feel like you are searching or seeking something in your life, below is a list of songs you can resonate with:

1. NF – The Search

In the track, NF opens up about the struggles inside his head and dealing with fame. He searches for a solution to deal with the struggles that come with that type of lifestyle.

 

2. Akon – Searching For Love

Akon states that his success has been able to get him anything in the world a man could ever want. However, after a deep down search, he finds that he really needs love. He is now just searching for love to make him feel more satisfied.

 

3. Sam Bruno – Search Party

The chorus of the track suggests the rebelliousness of their trip and describes how people will come after them as they search for Margo.

 

4. U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Lookin For

Even though Bono doesn’t go into detail as to what he is searching for, he states that he is searching with a single-minded focus and great longing.

 

5. Rihanna – Where Have You Been

Rihanna sings how she has been desperately searching for the lover and now that she has found him she wonders where her lover has been before they met.

 

6. Future – Turn On The Lights

The track hit #2 on the R&B/Hip-hop charts back in 2012. Lyrically, the song is about the search for a specific lady that captured Future’s attention.

 

7. Linkin Park – Looking For An Answer

The song looks into the raw emotions of Shinoda following the death of Bennington. They try to look for answers as to whether they could have done anything to save him.

 

8. Linkin Park – Nobody Can Save Me

In the song, Chester realizes that he is the only one that can help him get out of the place he is at. He is desperately searching to find what is missing.

 

9. Thirdstory – Searching For A Feeling

Searching for a feeling is a song about not being able to love someone the way they should since you feel there is something missing inside you. Thirdstory wants to find himself first.

 

10. Survivor – The Search Is Over

Jim Peterik stated that the song is about his friend’s life who had a female friend throughout their growing up years and never thought it could be anything more than that. He looked everywhere to find the dream girl only to come back to the sandbox.

 

11. Trey Songz – I Need A Girl

The song is about Trey searching for a girl he can settle down with.

 

12. G Eazy – All The Things You’re Searching For

This is the fourth track from G-Eazy’s 2020 project Everything’s Strange. It is a message to his partner hoping she finds everything she has been searching for in him.

 

13. Avicii – Waiting For Love

The song talks about Avicii’s desperate search for love and to be loved. The music vide features an elderly man with dementia who goes out on a journey to seek out his lost wife.