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{{trope}}
{{quote|''We gotta get out of this place
''if it's the last thing we ever do''
|[[The Animals]] }}
A song about life on the road. Frequently this will be about a young person running away from home, and seeking a better life somewhere else. ''Anywhere'' else. This often results from [[Small Town Boredom]], and the belief that life on the road is more romantic.
Related to the [["Somewhere" Song]], which is about a ''specific'' place where the grass is believed to be greener, and to the [["I Want" Song]]. See also [[The Runaway]] and [[Walking the Earth]].
{{examples}}
▲'''Titled [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Wanderlust"]]'''
* "Wanderlust" by [[Bjork]]
* "Wanderlust" by [[Flogging Molly]]
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* "Wanderlust" by [[Megadeth]]
=== Alternative Rock ===▼
▲== Alternative Rock ==
* "The Taste of Ink" by The Used
* "The World at Large" by [[Modest Mouse]]
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* "Naveed" by Our Lady Peace
=== Blues ===
* "Boogie Chillen" by John Lee Hooker
=== Blues-Rock ===
* "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", [[The Animals]]
=== Classical ===
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5gWlmJqaB4 "Das Wandern"]'' from [[Franz Schubert]]'s song cycle ''Die schöne Müllerin'' (''The Pretty Milleress'').
* Emmanuel Geibel and Justus Wilhelm Lyra's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5phLBjpgpU "Der Mai ist gekommen"]. This is a very popular genre in Germany.
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* "Slim's Song" from Benjamin Britten's ''Paul Bunyan'' (text by W.H. Auden)
=== Country ===
* "King of the Road" by Roger Miller
* "On the Road Again" by [[Willie Nelson]].
=== Electropop ===
* "Moving On" by Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the album ''Sweet Revenge',' is a particularly poignant example
=== Folk ===
* Tom Paxton's "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound" is a song about how wanderlust isn't such a good idea after all: the narrator is lonely and lost constantly traveling. It ends:
{{quote|''"If you see me passing by, and you sit and wonder why,
''And you wish that you were a rambler too,
''Nail your shoes to the kitchen floor, lace 'em up and bar the door
''And thank the stars for the roof that's over you"'' }}
* "The Greatest Adventure" by Glenn Yarborough. It's the song that plays at the beginning of the 1977 film of [[The Hobbit]].
* "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman.
{{quote|''You got a fast car,
''Is it fast enough so we can fly away? We gotta make a decision;
''Leave tonight, or live and die this way?'' }}
* Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l3K5oNZ0_w "The Happy Wanderer"] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QJi7wVENE "Der fröhliche Wanderer"])
* "Boomer's Story" (trad)
=== Folk Metal ===
* "Journey Man" by [[Korpiklaani]].
* "The Road Goes Ever On" by Wuthering Heights
=== Folk Rock ===
* "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens.
* "America" by [[Simon and Garfunkel]].
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* "The Road" by [[Frank Turner]]
=== Gypsy Punk ===
* "Sally" by Gogol Bordello
=== Hard Rock ===
* "Born to be Wild" by [[
* "Fly By Night" By [[Rush]]
** And the lesser known "Dreamline"
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* "Stone Free" by [[Jimi Hendrix]].
{{quote|''Stone free, to do what I please,
''Stone free to ride the breeze,
''Stone free, I can't stay,
''I've got to, got to, got to get away'' }}
* [[Cold Chisel]]'s "Bow River" and "Houndog"
* "Bat Out Of Hell" by [[Meat Loaf]]. It arguably [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs the trope]], given that the protaganist gets so caught up in the act of getting the hell out of dodge that he ends up wrecking his motorcycle and dying.
=== Heavy Metal ===
* "Running Free", by [[Iron Maiden]].
* "Wherever I May Roam" by [[Metallica]].
=== Indie Rock ===
* [[The Protomen]] song "Breaking Out".
* "Seeds" by [[Music/Hey Rosetta|Hey Rosetta]]
=== Melodic Hardcore ===
* "Anywhere But Here" by [[Rise Against]].
=== New Wave ===
* "Screaming Skin", by [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]. "Following my lust for wander everywhere I've never been, I can't escape from the sound of it--the sound of my screaming skin."
=== Pop ===
* The Russian pop song "Zelenoglazoe taksi" ("Green-Eyed Taxi") by Mikhail Boyarsky is about wanting to leave one's home life and go somewhere far away.
=== Pop Punk ===
* "Our Hometown" by [[Bowling for Soup]].
=== Pop Rock ===
* [[Kelly Clarkson]]'s "Breakaway"
=== Punk Rock ===
* "Wayfarer" by Hot Water Music.
* "Night Train" by Bouncing Souls.
* The ending of two songs on [[Green Day]]'s ''[[American Idiot]]'' have this: "Jesus of Suburbia" and "Letterbomb".
=== Rock ===
* "Don't Stop Believin'", [[Journey (band)|Journey]]
{{quote|''"Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world,
''She took the midnight train goin' anywhere"'' }}
* "Baba O'Riley", [[The Who]]
{{quote|''"Sally, take my hand
''We'll travel south, 'cross land
''Put out the fire, and don't look past my shoulder."'' }}
** "Goin' Mobile" is another one:
{{quote|''"Out in the woods or in the city
''It's all the same to me
''When I'm driving free, the world's my home."'' }}
* Both "Thunder Road" and "Born to Run" by [[Bruce Springsteen]].
{{quote|''"We got to get out while we're young
''Because tramps like us, baby we were born to run"'' }}
* "She's Leaving Home" by [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]].
** And possibly "Ticket to Ride".
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* "Turn the Page" by [[Bob Seger]].
=== Roots Rock ===
* "Proud Mary", [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] (though it still holds true in the [[Covered Up|Tina Turner cover]].
=== Southern Rock ===
* "Ramblin' Man", [[The Allman Brothers Band]], and a different song by the same name, The Zutons.
=== Swing Revival ===
* "Wolftown Blues" by the Deluxtone Rockets.
{{quote|''Small town blues, can't wait to get away.
''Leaving this town ain't no mistake.
''Jump the first rail I got the money to pay.
''On and on, ride these blues away.'' }}
==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Quite a few of the songs associated with ''[[One Piece]]'' have this theme, since the series is all about sailing the seas in search of adventure.
* The opening of the first season of ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'', "Tabi no Tochuu" ("On a Journey") is half Wanderlust Song, half love ballad. Quite fitting for the series.
=== [[Film]] ===
* Spoofed with the song "Never Did No Wanderin'" from ''[[A Mighty Wind]]''.
* "Movin' Right Along" from ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''.
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* "Wandering Star" from ''[[Paint Your Wagon (theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]''.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* "Song of the Wanderer" from [[Bruce Coville]]'s [[The Unicorn Chronicles|book of the same name]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlFM3QrVlQ Here's a video some fans made with their own tune]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXGRF3irfKk "Follow Me"] from ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', sung by explorers Traveling Matt and his nephew Gobo.
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* "Skid Row" and "Somewhere That's Green" in ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]''.
* "Wanderin' Star", from ''[[Paint Your Wagon (theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]''.
* In the musical ''[[In the Heights]]'', Vanessa's [["I Want" Song]], "It Won't Be Long Now," also takes this form.
{{quote|''"And one day, I'm hoppin' to JFK, and I'm gonna fly!
''It won't be long now, any day." }}
* Occurs twice in ''[[Passing Strange]]'':
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the Narrator:
{{quote|''"[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|At this point in the play]], we were planning a show tune
''[[Genre Savvy|An upbeat 'gotta leave this town' kind of show tune]]
''But we don't know how to write those kinds of tunes" }}
** During "Passing Phase," which doubles as a [[Rockstar Song]], the main character Youth sings about his plans to "live in vans crammed with guitars / I'll sleep on floors and play in bars / I'll dance to my own metronome / Until chaos feels like home."
* "Fortune Favors the Brave" from ''[[Aida]]'' features the male lead and his shipmates singing about how much they love exploring. Later, "Enchantment Passing Through" finds the two leads sharing their desires to escape their inescapable lives.
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* The beginning of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from "Hello Dolly" (also used as the opening tune to [[WALL-E]]). Or it could be a [["Somewhere" Song]] about New York.
{{quote|''"Out there,
''There's a world outside of Yonkers
''Way out there [[Small Town Boredom|beyond this hick town]], Barnaby...
''There's a slick town, Barnaby!"'' }}
* "Joey, Joey, Joey" from ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]''.
* "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" from ''St. Louis Woman''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The first song Anya sings in ''[[Anastasia]]'' is "Journey to the Past".
* Belle's [["I Want" Song]] in ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' doubles as this:
{{quote|''"I want much more than this provincial life!
''I want adventure in the great wide somewhere!
''I want it more than I can tell!" }}
* "Man's Road" from ''[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]'', as performed by [[America (band)|America]].
* "When Will My Life Begin?" from ''[[Tangled]]''.
=== [[Poetry]] ===
* Robert Service touches on this in [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/207/207-h/207-h.htm#2H_4_0019 The Men That Don't Fit in]
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