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FlourishAnyway believes there is a playlist for just near any situation and is on a mission to unite and entertain the world through song.

Make a playlist of popular, rock, and country songs about clouds and the sky.

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Glancing Skyward

What do you run across when you lot cast a glance skyward? The respond may depend on whether you

• lean artistic (eastward.g., poets, artists)
• need to make accurate predictions (eastward.one thousand., meteorologists and astronomers)
• rely on the skies for your livelihood (due east.m., pilots and farmers) and/or
• how preoccupied you are by your internal thoughts (e.yard., lovers, daydreamers, and mourners).

Whereas ane person may perceive big lumpy pillows of shapeshifting cotton dotting Earth's azure blanket, the next could take a more than scientific approach. Peradventure they see nothing more than than water and water ice droplets suspended in the atmosphere.

Clouds and the sky accept our long captured human attending. Regardless of whether your mind is cloudy, you take pie in the heaven ideas, or yous take your head in the clouds, gloat the magic in a higher place us with a playlist of pop, stone, and country tunes on the subject field. We have a long list to outset you out.

1. "Become Off of My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones

The simply problem with achieving a chart-topping, worldwide hit single is repeating your success. The pressure can be immense as everyone wants to know what's next.

In June 1965, The Rolling Stones striking it big with "(I Tin can't Go No) Satisfaction," just instead of being able to take some time to enjoy their first number ane chart-topper, the band was hounded with inquiries regarding when they would release follow-upwardly material. Three months after, this song was their response. It's the ring'southward manner of flipping off the music establishment, telling those who were pressuring them to give it a rest.

2. "A Sky Full of Stars" by Coldplay

This 2014 electronic dance hit features a narrator professing unconditional dearest using the symbolism of an expansive sky. The narrator's sweetheart is a sky full of brilliant stars. They correspond the purity of her spirit, and light his path forward.

3. "Clouds" by Zach Sobiech

Zach Sobiech was a vocalist-songwriter from Minnesota who was just 14 years quondam when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a deadly os cancer. After living with the affliction for several years, doctors informed him when he was a high school senior that his cancer was terminal. He had less than a year to live.

This 2012 indie-pop tune was one of the songs that Sobriech wrote to say good day to loved ones. It describes how his end is near and shortly he'll be watching from the clouds. After going viral on YouTube and inbound the Billboard Superlative 40, "Clouds" inspired a 2020 Disney biographic film of the same name.

4. "Midnight Sky" past Miley Cyrus

Forget that provocateur Miley Cyrus is about every bit classy as a sewer rat because she just doesn't care. In this globally pop disco-tinged ditty from 2020, the former Disney darling sings about her personal liberation and evolution. Cyrus divorced Australian actor Liam Hemsworth subsequently less than eight months of wedlock, although the couple had dated on and off for the better role of a decade.

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In the vocal, Cyrus declares her independence. She doesn't belong to anyone and was born to seek her personal freedom in a lofty, sky-high realm of her own making:

The midnight sky is the road I'chiliad takin'
Head high up in the clouds.

v. "Skyfall" past Adele

Adele released this 2012 pop number as a theme vocal for the James Bond motion-picture show of the same name. Tinged with elements of jazz, her tune describes death and rebirth. The fallen sky signifies that the narrator expects to face up any number of situations together with her ally. It is them continuing tall against the world. Co-written by Adele, "Skyfall" impressively won her an Academy Accolade, Golden Earth Award, and a Grammy Award. This is one more reason why Adele is Wonder Woman.

half dozen. "Just a Cloud" past Lusine

With its recurring lyrics, this 2017 ambient song reflects the anxiety that is rampant in our culture today. 1 often seeks soothing and solace by disappearing unnoticed into a nebulous groundwork, but every bit the narrator wishes they could do:

I wish that I was just a deject
In the sky of the light
I wish that I was merely a deject
Take less shape and disappear.

The song's warped electronica adds successive layers of repetitive elements to its audio: finger snaps, claps, computer blips, and even a laser gun thingy towards the end, before mellowing back down to silence. Perchance finally the narrator has taken shape as a cloud and evaporated after all?

7. "Dancing in the Heaven" by Dani and Lizzy

If you lot're like me, you probably ponder what your lost loved ones are doing in the not bad beyond. Take they institute peace? Do they know they are loved and missed?

Following the deaths of several people they knew, Canadian twins Dani and Lizzy posted this heartfelt song on YouTube in 2013, and it immediately grew legs, going viral. The song succinctly conveys grief'due south complicated mixture of loss and promise.

The narrator misses her loved i and asks them a series of rhetorical questions nigh whether they are happy, costless, and devoid of pain and fearfulness in sky. Knowing that the sun shines gently on their face in heaven brings her condolement, and she hopes that they are dancing in the sky and singing with the angels.

8. "Wake Upwardly in the Sky" by Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars and Kodak Blackness

Pop superstar Bruno Mars took a more than active involvement in hip hop a few years ago, and songs like this 2018 collaboration are the result. Now his head is up in the clouds. With a tongue-in-cheek air, the song highlights the playboy lifestyle and having a decadently good fourth dimension.

What'due south more often than not upwards in the sky in this ditty are the massive egos of the famous song narrators who identify themselves past name throughout the track. They describe poverty-to-riches success and the love of luxury that they accept become accustomed to. Additionally, as the rappers brag near being "super wing," they banter nigh their fast-paced life that includes operation-enhancing drugs similar Adderall, an abundance of alcohol, and loose women. Bruno, come dorsum downward to Earth!

ix. "Clouds" past Imagine Dragons

Recurring threads of depression and anxiety announced throughout stone band Imagine Dragons' song catalog, in improver to the theme of rejection and the struggle for personal acceptance. This 2009 song is a brilliant example, and they modified the vocal several times.

Being raised in a strict Mormon environment created lingering problems for the band's pb singer, Dan Reynolds, and it spills over into the vocal lyrics. The down-hearted narrator describes a globe of missed opportunities, disappointments, and confusion. He looks around him and sees that anybody is making the best they can out of a miserable situation, but really, it'due south all pointless. The man doesn't know whether he wants to live or die, and as he remarks, "Nosotros're sinking to the sky," he isn't certain which fashion is up or down.

10. "Male monarch of the Clouds" by Panic! At the Disco

If you lot find the meaning of this 2018 alt-rock song to be a little cloudy, there'due south a good reason for it. The tune was completed on the day the anthology was due, with lyrics based on a doped-up writing session Brandon Urie had the week before wherein he spouted "verbal vomit" nearly Carl Sagan, the multiverse, and inter-dimensional travel. Little did Urie know that his songwriting partner was writing downwards his ramblings while Urie was taking tokes. The completed song describes getting lost high in the clouds where the narrator flies high and blisses out.

eleven. "Blue Clear Sky" by George Strait

If your quest for a romantic soulmate has left y'all stubbornly unmarried, perhaps you've considered giving up on love. But wait. Don't give up and start hoarding cats into your old age just all the same. According to this 1996 country hit, information technology's at this low signal when a love match oftentimes takes identify.

Addressing a lonely, love-hungry friend, the vocal narrator tells him that just as he's well-nigh to throw in the towel, a soulmate volition surprise him by dropping out of the blueish clear sky and into his life. Then he will go from a solitary available to a man shopping for date rings. Hope springs eternal! (But at that place's zilch incorrect with cats.)

Demi Lovato could easily choose the path of the victim. At such a young historic period, she has faced sexual assail, mental disease, booze and drug abuse, an eating disorder, and self-harm (cutting). However, the former Disney princess recenters herself, reaffirming her identity, by challenge this 2011 self-empowerment anthem as her own.

The pop carol depicts the skies equally "crying" as a partner tries to tear her downwardly. Notwithstanding, she is the high-rise building that valiantly fights back, determined to stand her ground. If she is demolished, she is determined to rise again like a bold powerful skyscraper that leaps upward towards the clouds.

13. "Mr. Bluish Heaven" by Electrical Light Orchestra

This effervescent 1978 pop melody exudes pure joy that rain has ended, the sun is out again, and the blueish heaven has returned overhead. The narrator is so tickled about the modify in weather that he addresses the blue sky equally if it were a much-loved person, asking where information technology was hiding and why information technology stayed gone for so long. The jubilant tune has become a signature song for ELO and has been used in movies, tv shows, and commercials, as well as for major sporting events (e.g., 2012 Summertime Olympics).

14. "The Heaven Is a Neighborhood" by Foo Fighters

This trippin' rock song from 2017 was inspired by frontman Dave Grohl'south hobby of stargazing besides as astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson's video, The Almost Astounding Fact. Both Tyson'southward video and this song are a thinking human being's commentary on the interconnected cosmic oneness that humans share with the galaxy.

xv. "Scar on the Sky" by Chris Connell

A hazy melancholy clouds the worldview of the narrator in this 2007 rock rails that is sheer poesy. Alluding to depression, the deplorable narrator reaches out to a kindred spirit who understands his loneliness because they experience it too. Together they find a connection in spending time together, with the narrator hoping that his friend might save him. However, ultimately we can only salvage ourselves. Singer Chris Cornell struggled with his mental health for many years before dying by suicide in 2017.

16. "Amarillo Sky" by Jason Aldean

Between the financial pressures and the long workdays, the farming life isn't like shooting fish in a barrel, so this 2006 state vocal pays tribute to those who till the fields, harvest the crops, and feed the nation. By twenty-four hours, the nameless Texas farmer in this song works the land that was passed down from his male parent and grandfather, and each night he prays that his dreams don't run dry underneath an Amarillo sky.

17. "A One thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton

The daughter in this curiously chipper 2000 pop song bebops through the crowd downtown, completely zoned out and not paying attention to her surroundings. She dwells on a lost opportunity for love with someone whose retentiveness remains vivid:

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
If I could just hold you this evening.

The vocaliser wrote this song about her own unrequited love experience with a homo who is at present a famous histrion, although she won't reveal who her crush was on.

18. "Sky's the Limit" by American Authors

Count on this energetic 2020 alt-rock tune for encouragement that anything is achievable if you try hard enough. The man in this song recounts his parents' wise counsel to not be afraid of failure because the biggest regret is in not trying at all. They repeatedly inspired the narrator by pushing him forward: "Get alive your life because the heaven's the limit." Are yous allowing something to concur you back?

nineteen. "Airplanes" by B.o.B. (featuring Hayley Williams)

Sometimes fame comes likewise hard and fast. An artist expresses a want to return to the anonymous person they previously were, dorsum when they pursued their craft for the sheer passion of it. That's what this 2010 hip-hop/rock track is nigh.

The guy in the song used to thirst for fame and fortune, but now that he has a sense of taste of success—and the politics that come up with it—the singer wishes his life were simpler. He needs a shooting star to make that wish come up true. In the absence of a falling star, however, the man makes practice by pretending that an airplane is a star, casting his wish only in case.

Although it's certainly a catchy song, it'due south ironic that rapper B.o.B. would limited the desire to return to his Decatur, Georgia, roots. He dropped out of loftier school in the ninth grade, plain in a rush to exit the city of fewer than 25,000 people. Does he know the phrase, "Yous can never go home again"?

20. "Clouds" past Montgomery Gentry

The grief-stricken human being in this poignant 2006 country song is addressing a dead loved ane, wondering wistfully if they are resting in the clouds. He imagines that grey clouds are his loved one crying, while on sunny days he can see their confront in the billowing pockets of condensation in the sky. It can be comforting to imagine that lost loved ones reside in the clouds.

"Women hold upward one-half the heaven" - Mao Zedong, Quondam President of the People's Democracy of China

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Even More than Songs About Clouds and the Sky

Know a song that should be on this playlist? Make a suggestion in the Comments Section below!

Vocal	Creative person(s)	Year Released
21. Bullet in a Blueish Sky	U2	1987
22. Even the Skies Are Blue	Jamey Johnson	2010
23. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	The Beatles	1967
24. Heaven Fits Heaven	Madonna	1998
25. Behind the Clouds	Brad Paisley	2006
26.Impact the Sky	Julie Fowlis	2012
27. Cloud Nine	Evanescence	2006
28. Touch the Heaven	Hillsong United	2015
29. Clouds	One Management	2014
30. Cycle in the Sky	Journey	1978
31. Centre in the Sky	Alan Parsons Project	1982
32. Blue Sky	The Allman Brothers Band	1972
33. To the Sky	Owl City	2010
34. Vanilla Twilight	Owl City	2010
35. Run into Me Half Way	Kenny Loggins	1987
36. When I Look to the Sky	Train	2003
37. Bluish Sky	Hale	2005
38. From the Clouds	Jack Johnson	2010
39. Cloud Number 9	Bryan Adams	1998
40. Just a Cloud Abroad	Pharrell Williams	2013
41. Both Sides, At present	Joni Mitchell	1968
42. The Little White Deject That Cried	Ray and The Iv Lads	1951
43. Touch on the Sky	Cedric Gervais (featuring Digital Farm Animals & Dallas Austin)	2017
44. I Tin See Clearly Now	Johnny Nash	1972

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FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s.a. on May 06, 2021:

Mary - Thanks for the kind compliment. I remember identifying the unlike types of clouds in unproblematic school and learning what they typified. I had plant it interesting. Then they introduced the hybrid types and I found it a bit perplexing at that historic period with the really long names. I do wonder how much meteorologists truly geek out on this stuff and how much they just rely on computers to do their piece of work. Some of them seek to be all almost the weather while others are more than like actors or models who present the weather.

FlourishAnyway (author) from The states on May 06, 2021:

gyanendra mocktan - How lucky you lot are to have had those experiences. Thanks for sharing them here. I wish yous well. We are all one under this not bad big sky whether we believe it or not.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 06, 2021:

Adrienne - Bow wow yo yippee yay.

Mary Norton from Ontario, Canada on May 06, 2021:

It's amazing how you can focus on a word or words and find the best songs on them. I await forward to listening to some of these. I have to be outside looking at the skies, not on my computer.

gyanendra mocktan from Kathmandu,Nepal on May 06, 2021:

FlourishAniway, Your thought from your optics are so powerful. They help me sympathise the metophor of the word cloud and sky securely.

I've been to the base of operations of Mt.Everest several times. I've gazed at night heaven many times. In one occasion the whole sky lit up with stars all over my head.

But I 've never been able to draw them in the words. Perhaps I've non tried plenty. However, my memory is still flooded with those rich visuals of the nights and days.

The lyrists have mastered the craft of words and they could describe the clouds in words and sangs them to add their feeling. Finally share their thoughts with the world.

Thank yous

Adrienne Farricelli on May 06, 2021:

Oh how wonderful! I will refer to this listing when I organize doggy events and will pass it on to other dog trainers! Have a swell weekend too!

FlourishAnyway (author) from United states on May 06, 2021:

Adrienne - There is no shortage of topics. Information technology does require a lot of inquiry besides every bit memory jogging. Hither you go along the domestic dog playlist:

https://spinditty.com/playlists/Dog-Lovers-Playlis...

Have a wonderful remainder of your calendar week!

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 06, 2021:

Bill - Happy holiday

Adrienne Farricelli on May 05, 2021:

It'southward amazing how you lot are always able to come up with so many compilations of songs roofing a specific theme. I am sure this requires lots of research. I couldn't fifty-fifty come upward with one vocal about clouds or the heaven on my ain, but and then as I read through your list, it was a tada! moment. I would dear to come across a list of songs almost dogs, one solar day!

Bill Holland from Olympia, WA on May 05, 2021:

On vacation and not ignoring your article, but I am kind of.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s. on May 05, 2021:

Chitrangada - I'1000 glad you enjoyed this. Whether in verse or song, clouds and heaven are such a great subject. I was impressed at the multifariousness of approaches that artists took in exploring the topic.

FlourishAnyway (author) from U.s. on May 05, 2021:

Bill - Thanks for that suggestion. Forgot virtually that 1! Promise the skies are sunny in your globe.

Chitrangada Sharan from New Delhi, Republic of india on May 05, 2021:

Interesting introductory paragraph. Well, I wait at the clouds from a author'south point of view. The clouds e'er astonish me past their irresolute shapes and movements.

I have also done a few manufactures on the clouds and the sky.

Amazing list of songs, related to this theme, and cheers for telling the states, that there are and then many.

Enjoyed going through the list and reading your commodity.

Give thanks y'all for sharing.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 05, 2021:

Linda - Cheers for your kind annotate. I'm glad you notice value in reading even though this type of music isn't always your cup of tea.

Bill De Giulio from Massachusetts on May 05, 2021:

Another great list, Flourish. I love the topic, clouds and the heaven. Another one that might brand the listing is "I Can See Clearly At present" by Johnny Nash. I always loved that song. Great job as always.

Linda Crampton from British Columbia, Canada on May 04, 2021:

I enjoy learning about musicians and their work by reading your articles. Most of the songs that you share are new to me. I appreciate the education!

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Peggy - For some reason Jimmy is extra hungry lately and has fallen off his schedule. It'south incommunicable to go mad at him. He'southward onetime, obese, and is my loyal shadow. Having ever been deaf with low vision, Jimmy finds that food is the one affair that really jazzes him, so he'due south non going to miss an opportunity for early breakfast. Like Dusty, when the breadbasket get rumbly information technology needs fixing.

At least these cats are/were polite about waking their people up. I have another cat who bites my toes or runs across my body full force when I'm sleeping. What a style to wake upwardly! That sweet soul spends nights in the garage equally a result.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Pamela - I'd like to recall that Zach is in a content country now as he sings along with the everlasting vibrations of the universe.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Liz - Thank you for stopping past. I thought about the Pixar picture show, "Up" while writing this and listening to some of the songs.

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Devika - I'm glad you've given a thought to them now. Have a bright beautiful day with no clouds in the sky.

FlourishAnyway (writer) from U.s.a. on May 04, 2021:

John - I had never heard of that one. Thanks for the song proffer which I added. I bet the sky is beautiful downwardly in gorgeous Australia.

Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on May 04, 2021:

It is amazing all the topics covered differently when thinking of clouds. I had to laugh when I read near your Jimmy. We used to take a true cat named Dusty. Toward morning time, he would look at my hubby'due south face in bed, and my husband would wake up because Dusty's whiskers ticked his confront. Dusty was ready for his breakfast! Haha! My married man nicknamed him "Mr. Whiskers."

FlourishAnyway (author) from USA on May 04, 2021:

Linda - Lately my heed has been a bit cloudy too because I'chiliad not sleeping well. I have my sweet old true cat, Jimmy, to partially thank for that. He has developed a new habit of pawing softly at my confront when he feels I've been resting also long, regardless of the hour.

Thank you for the song recommendation which I added. I understand that it won Judy Collins a Grammy. I hope yous are well.

Pamela Oglesby from Sunny Florida on May 04, 2021:

This article has such a diverseness of music types. That is a distressing story about Zach Sobiech. I had never head of him. There were a few others that were new to me. I am not a Miley fan. I call back I have heard that Rolling Stones song a few hundred times. :) I enjoyed exploring all these singing groups and solo singers also. Cheers, Flourish.

Liz Westwood from UK on May 04, 2021:

The sky and clouds are fascinating. The Beatles song sprang to heed get-go for me. I also thought of the DreamWorks opening scene of clouds in the sky. This is another great compilation.

Devika Primić from Dubrovnik, Republic of croatia on May 04, 2021:

I haven't given a thought to these songs. I like listening to music and this list of songs sounds proficient to me. I recall you lot have got a practiced niche hither music is one of my all-time pastimes.

John Hansen from Gondwana Land on May 04, 2021:

Flourish, this was a wonderful list of songs about clouds and the sky, and most I had surprisingly never heard. One more than you may check out is the quite touching song "The Piddling White Cloud That Cried" originally past Jonnie Ray 1956, and afterward past Jamie Redfern in 1971.

Linda Lum from Washington State, Usa on May 04, 2021:

Hullo Flourish, I'm the "my mind'southward a bit cloudy" person on your poll. I always have half a dozen projects going at in one case, and always planning one more than.

This was a fun list--I surprised myself by how many I actually know. But, the showtime song I idea of when I saw the title isn't in your list. Would you consider "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell?

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