ᐅ Top 100 Tropical Songs for Your [VACATION] Beach Playlist ♬♪♫♩

Summer is here. Are you dreaming of a tropical vacation or making real plans for a trip to the beach anytime soon? I sure am. A trip to the beach is simply incomplete without some good beach music songs. That’s where I come in. Read on to discover the ultimate summer vacation playlist for 2023. A roundup of the best songs about the beach, that also include island songs, tropical songs, and vacation songs ♬♪♫♩.

Even if you’re nowhere near the beach right now, these best beach songs and lyrics that fit the mood will transport you right there — guaranteed to get you fantasising about the sand, the sun, the surf, and all of those chill vacation vibes.

Best Vacation Songs | Your summer beach playlist starts here!

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Top Songs about Adventure and Travel

Some tropical songs about vacations have the ability to pull us right in and transport us on a journey to a happy place.

The blueprint of coming up with a good vacation playlist should not be underestimated. It has to be chill enough to induce feelings of pleasure, relaxation, leisure, and recreation. While being upbeat enough to evoke a sense of nostalgia, joy, dance, and delight at the thought of the seashore. 

Whether you’re headed to the exotic coastal stretches of the Caribbean or French Polynesia, the famous beaches of Europe and Asia, the unraveled sands of Africa, the shoreline of Hawaii and the U.S., or on a tropical family vacation I’ve got you covered.

These sounds of summer beach songs are guaranteed to keep you fresh
while you hang out by the sea.

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VACATION MUSIC TROPICAL SONGS:
YOUR ULTIMATE SUMMER BEACH PLAYLIST

High tides and good vibes. Prepare for some tropical music, good beach songs about islands, some chill beach tracks, and an escape to paradise.

You will find everything from classic vacation songs about the beach and mellow surf tracks to catchy new summer melodies and anthem-like best beach songs about the ocean — perfect for a day by the water. Expect a good variety of genres, artists, eras, languages, tempos, and anything beachy music…

There’s something here for everyone.

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The most beautiful islands to visit in the world

First up….

1 | Kokomo — The Beach Boys

From: CA, USA
Album: Cocktail
Released: 1988
Genre: Rock pop surf

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don’t we go, Jamaica

Off the Florida Keys, there’s a place called Kokomo
That’s where you wanna go to get away from it all
Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand
We’ll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band
Down in Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don’t we go
Oh I want to take you down to
Kokomo, we’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we want to go, way down in Kokomo

Martinique, that Montserrat mystique
We’ll put out to sea and we’ll perfect our chemistry
And by and by we’ll defy a little bit of gravity
Afternoon delight, cocktails and moonlit nights
That dreamy look in your eye, give me a tropical contact high
Way down in Kokomo

2 | Sun Goes Down — Robin Schulz feat. Jasmine Thompson

From: Germany/England
Album: Vicious Cuts Summer
Released: 2015
Genre: Dance Electronic

Nothings ever what we expect
But they keep asking where I go next
Oh, we’re chasing as the sun set
Got my mind on you

Doesn’t matter where we are are are are
Doesn’t matter where we are are are are
Doesn’t matter, no

If there’s a moment when it’s perfect
We’ll carve our names as the sun goes down
Yeah
As the sun goes down
Yeah
As the sun goes down
As the sun goes down

3 | Waves — Mr. Probz

From: Netherlands
Album: The Treatment
Released: 2013
Genres: Rhythm and blues, Soft rock

My face above the water
My feet can’t touch the ground
Touch the ground, and it feels like
I can see the sands on the horizon
Everytime you are not around

I’m slowly drifting away (drifting away)
Wave after wave, wave after wave
I’m slowly drifting (drifting away)
And it feels like I’m drowning
Pulling against the stream
Pulling against the stream

I wish I could make it easy
Easy to love me, love me
But still I reach, to find a way
I’m stuck here in between
I’m looking for the right words to say

4 | Sun is Shining — Bob Marley

From: Jamaica
Album: Soul Revolution
Released: 1978
Genre: Reggae

Sun is shining
Weather is sweet
Make you want to move
Your dancing feet, now

When the morning
Gather the rainbows, yeah
Want you to know I’m a rainbow too (I’m a rainbow too)

To the rescue
Here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Where I stand
Oh, no, no

5 | Syn Cole — Miami 82 (Kygo Remix)

From: Estonia
Album: Miami 82
Released: 2013
Genre: Dance/Electronic

Oh
How quickly I come undone
Like melting ice on the sun
Why would that stop when I’m falling free
Midnight daydream

Oh
You watch me and I’m exposed
Like lightning bolts in my bones
Why would that stop when I’m falling free
Midnight daydream

Midnight daydream
Midnight daydream

6 | Ocean Eyes — Billie Eilish

From: USA
Album: Common Culture
Released: 2016
Genre: Dance/Electronic

I’ve been watchin’ you for some time
Can’t stop starin’ at those ocean eyes
Burning cities and napalm skies
Fifteen flares inside those ocean eyes
Your ocean eyes

No fair
You really know how to make me cry
When you gimme those ocean eyes
I’m scared
I’ve never fallen from quite this high
Fallin’ into your ocean eyes
Those ocean eyes

I’ve been walkin’ through a world gone blind
Can’t stop thinkin’ of your diamond mind
Careful creature made friends with time
He left her lonely with a diamond mind
And those ocean eyes

7 | Watermelon Sugar — Harry Styles

From: England
Album: Fine Line
Released: 2019
Genre: Pop, Alternative/Indie

Tastes like strawberries
On a summer evenin’
And it sounds just like a song
I want more berries
And that summer feelin’
It’s so wonderful and warm

Breathe me in, breathe me out
I don’t know if I could ever go without
I’m just thinking out loud
I don’t know if I could ever go without

Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar

8 | Soak Up The Sun — Sheryl Crow

From: USA
Album: C’mon C’mon
Released: 2002
Genre: Pop

I’m gonna soak up the sun
I’m gonna tell everyone
To lighten up
I’m gonna tell ’em that
I’ve got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I’m looking up

I’m gonna soak up the sun
I’m gonna soak up the sun

I’ve got a crummy job
It don’t pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love

Every time I turn around
I’m looking up, you’re looking down
Maybe something’s wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do

9 | Dancing in the Moonlight — Toploader

From: UK
Album: Onka’s Big Moka
Released: 2009
Genre: Pop Rock

We get it almost every night
When that moon is big and bright
It’s a supernatural delight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight
They don’t bark and they don’t bite
They keep things loose they keep it tight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody’s feeling warm and bright
It’s such a fine and natural sight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

We like our fun and we never fight
You can’t dance and stay uptight
It’s a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight

10 | Somewhere on a Beach — Dierks Bentley

From: USA
Album: Black
Released: 2016
Genre: Country

Bet you think I’m sitting at home, no
Bet you think that I’m all alone, no
Bet you think I’m missing you and wishing you would call my phone
Hell, no

I went wheels up on a runway
And that ticket was a long way
I’m somewhere on a beach
Sipping something strong
Got a new girl, she got it going on
We drink all day, and party all night
I’m way too gone to have you on my mind
She got a body and she’s naughty
And she got me like you ain’t never got me
I’m getting sun, getting some, and I ain’t slept in a week
Yeah, I’m somewhere on a beach

I wish it could’ve worked out
But I’m gettin’ over you now
On a beach towel with my shades on
My drink’s up And the sun’s out
Huh, I’m somewhere on a beach

11 | Island Song — Zac Brown Band

From: U.S
Album: Uncaged: Songs about Islands
Released: 2012
Genre: Country Southern Rock

Can anybody here pass me a beer
And I’ma keep playing this music that you hear
And if you know the song
Then come and sing along with me

Walking with the beach to my left
Sea to my right
And I’ma get faded at the Tiki bar tonight
Then I’ma roll one up
Like my name is Bob
Yeah I’m gonna party like I’m a Jamaican

If you really wanna know where you can find me
I’ll be unwinding
Down in the island songs, down in the islands
You should lose track of your timing
Grab a drink beside me
Down in the island music, down in the islands

12 | El Mismo Sol — Alvaro Soler & Jennifer Lopez

From: Spain
Album: Eterno Agosto
Released: 2015
Genre: Latin pop

Saca lo malo, malo
No digas paro, paro
Vale la pena, mi amor
La pena, mi amor
No hay fronteras – eras
Será lo que tú quieras
Lo que tú quieras, amor
Se puede, amor

Yo quiero que este sea el mundo que conteste
Del este hasta oeste y bajo el mismo sol
Ahora nos vamos y juntos celebramos
Aquí todos estamos bajo el mismo sol

Y bajo el mismo sol
(¡Hey, hey, hey!)
Y bajo el mismo sol
(¡Hey, hey!)

Quiero que el mundo se – mundo se – mundo se…
Quiero que el mundo se una, mi amor
Quiero que el mundo se – mundo se – mundo se…
Quiero que el mundo se una, mi amor
Se una, mi amor

13 | Margaritaville — Jimmy Buffett

From: USA
Album: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Released: 1977
Genre: Country Rock

Nibbling on sponge cake, watching the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strumming my six string, on my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp, they’re beginning to boil

Wasting away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame
But I know it’s nobody’s fault

Don’t know the reason that I stayed here all season
With nothing to show but this brand new tattoo
But it’s a real beauty, a Mexican cutie
How it got here I haven’t a clue

Wasting away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame
Now I think, hell it could be my fault

14 | Mama — Jonas Blue

From: Britain
Album: Jonas Blue: Electronic nature
Released: 2017
Genre: Tropical house music

Where should we run to?
We got the world in our hands and we’re ready to play
They say we’re wasted
But how can we waste it if we’re loving every day?
Okay
I got the keys to the universe so stay
With me, ’cause I got the keys, baby

Don’t wanna wake up one day wishing that we’d done more
I wanna live fast and never look back, that’s what we here for
Don’t wanna wake up one day wondering “where’d it all go?”
‘Cause we’ll be home before we know, I wanna hear you sing it

Hey, mama, don’t stress your mind
We coming home tonight
Hey, mama, we gonna be alright
Dry those eyes
We’ll be back in the morning when the sun starts to rise
So mama, don’t stress your mind
So mama, don’t stress your mind

15 | Some Beach — Blake Shelton

From: America
Album: Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill
Released: 2004
Genre: Country

Driving down the interstate
Running thirty minutes late
Singing Margaritaville and minding my own
Some foreign car drivin’ dude with a road rage attitude
Pulled up beside me talking on his cell phone
He started yelling at me like I did something wrong
He flipped me the bird an’ then he was gone

Some beach
Somewhere
There’s a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair
Palm trees are growing and warm breezes blowing
I picture myself right there
On some beach, somewhere

Some beach
Somewhere
There’s a beautiful sunset burning up the atmosphere
There’s music and dancing and lovers romancing
In the salty evenin’ air
On some beach
Somewhere
On some beach, somewhere

16 | Sunrise — Kygo & Jason Walker

From: Norway
Album: Kids in Love
Released: 2017
Genre: Tropical House

Wake me up
My eyes are heavy and I need some sun
One hit, I’m ready for whatever comes
Nothing can keep me from you
Nothing can keep me from you
Something ’bout the things you told me
Oh, I wrote ’em down, yeah
I took ’em with me to the place we found
And I’ll be waiting for you
Yeah, I’ll be waiting for you, for you

I follow the moon
From the dark to the break of dawn
We let it loose
Smoking weed and writing songs about beach

Meet me at the sunrise, at the sunrise
I can get you so high, so high
Burning up the daylight, in the daylight
Meet me at the sunrise, sunrise

17 | Sun is Shining — Tomas Skyldeberg

From: Sweden
Album: Sun is Shining
Released: 2019
Genre: Electronic

18 | Beachin’ — Jake Owen

From: USA
Album: Days of Gold
Released: 2013
Genre: Country

Just watching her blonde hair, sun burn, stare at them
Whitecaps rolling over
Laid back in a thrift store beach chair
Dropping limes in her Corona
Well she looks back, yeah, she throws me a kiss
Like “Honey, I sure want you”
And it’s a hundred and three between her and me
And only 92 in Daytona

And it’s sunshine, blue eyes, tan lines, it’s low tide
Rolling white sand, cold can koozie in my hand, just a summertime strollin’
Chillin’, breezin’, sippin’, singin’ whoa-oh-oh
Beachin’

We got two-for-ones, we’re at a margarita bar
Whatever happens happens
And there’s a reggae band, full of dread heads
Just sittin’ in the corner laughin’
Well my baby walks over, drops a 20 in a jar
She smiles and shakes it at me
Yeah, she gets ’em going, she gets ’em playing
A little, don’t worry, be happy

19 | Heatstroke — Calvin Harris

From: Scotland
Album: Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
Released: 2017
Genre: Dance Electronic

Won’t you please?
Slow it down
I’m tryna talk to you, darling
Tryna walk with you, darling
Do you hear me?
And no-no-no-no-nobody can stop it
The love you got from me
And every time, I look out at my seat today
They chase, they flash they flash, yes

Tell me how you feel right now
‘Cause all I wanna do is keep it real right now
I’m tryna beat it up
Beat Pills right now
Athletic in the sheets
I got skills right now
Red braids, with some red baby hair
Ballin’ in that club, Ace of Spades, yeah
Pop that bitch and spray it like ‘Raid’
Yellow diamonds on you like a glass of lemonade
QB, I’ll throw it
Teeth white, Newports
I want knees, right choice
80 thousand dollar Birkin bag in the Porsche
I’m tryna fuck with you till we on life support
I’ll split it with you if we get half of Michael Jordan
No toilet tissue, I shit on niggas ’cause life’s short (facts)
No passport to go with me
I had to get deported

Please let go, and have a good time
Have a good, have a good time, yeah

20 | Bob Marley — Jammin 

From: Jamaica
Album: Exodus
Released: 1977
Genre: Reggae

We’re jammin’
(See)
I wanna jam it wid you
We’re jammin’, jammin’,
And I hope you like jammin’, too

We’re jammin’
To think that jammin’ was a thing of the past
We’re jammin’,
And I hope this jam is gonna last
We’re jammin’
Jammin’
Jammin’
Jammin’

Now we’re jammin’ in the name of the Lord
We’re jammin’,
Jammin’
Jammin’
Jammin’
Now we’re jammin’ right straight from yard

21 | I Got U — Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones

From: England
Album: Access All Areas
Released: 2014
Genre: House

Ask me what I did with my life
I spent it with you
If I lose my fame and fortune (really don’t matter)
As long as I got you, baby

As long as I got you, baby
(Clap your hands, drop so right)
As long as I got you
Ask me what I did with my life
I spent it with you
If I lose my fame and fortune (really don’t matter)
As long as I got you, babyAs long as I got you, baby
(Clap your hands, drop so right)
As long as I got you

As the years, they pass us by (years they, years they, years they)
We stay young through each other’s eyes (each other’s eyes)
And no matter, oh yeah, it’s okay
As long as I got you, baby

22 | Island in the Sun — Weezer

From: USA
Album: Weezer
Released: 2001
Genre: Alternative Rock

When you’re on a holiday
You can’t find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too

On an island songs in the sun
We’ll be playin’ and havin’ fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t control my brain

Hip, hip
Hip, hip

When you’re on a golden sea
You don’t need no memory
Just a place to call your own
As we drift into the zone

We’ll run away together
We’ll spend some time forever
We’ll never feel bad anymore

23 | Beach Songs — San Cisco

From: Australia
Album: San Cisco
Released: 2012
Genre: Alternative/Indie Pop

Hello hello
I’ve been waiting, watching you all night
I don’t know why

In the morning
I’ll be waking wishing I was right
Maybe sometimes
In the evening I’ll take you out for dinner and a fight
Can’t read your mind I can’t read your mind
We watched the sun go down and then the moon comes out
Paint pictures with your hand
I’ll chase you
I’m your biggest fan

Who’s gonna catch you now who’s gonna catch you now
Running so far away so far away

My mind is black and blue
It keeps pictures of you
Now I know why

24 | School’s Out — Alice Cooper

From: USA
Album: School’s Out
Released: 1972
Genre: Rock

Well, we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin’ all that noise
‘Cause they found new toys
Well, we can’t salute ya
Can’t find a flag
If that don’t suit ya
That’s a drag

School’s out for summer
School’s out forever
School’s been blown to pieces

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks

Well, we got no class
And we got no principals
We ain’t got no innocence
We can’t even think of a word that rhymes

25 | Knee Deep — Zac Brown Band 

From: USA
Album: You Get What You Give
Released: 2011
Genre: Country music about the beach

Gonna put the the world away for a minute
Pretend I don’t live in it
Sunshine gonna wash my blues away

Wishing I was knee deep in the water somewhere
Got the blue sky breeze and it don’t seem fair
Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair
Sunrise there’s a fire in the sky
Never been so happy
Never felt so high
And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise

Wrote a note said be back in a minute
Bought a boat and I sailed off in it
Don’t think anybody gonna miss me anyway

Mind on a permanent vacation
The ocean is my only medication
Wishing my condition ain’t ever gonna go away

26 | Summer of ’69 — Bryan Adams

From: Canada
Album: Reckless
Released: 1984
Genre: Pop rock

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it ’til my fingers bled
Was the summer of ’69

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

Standin’ on your mama’s porch
You told me that you’d wait forever
Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Oh, yeah!
Back in the summer of ’69, oh
Man, we were killin’ time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin’ can last forever
Forever, no!
Yeah!

27 | Summer Rain  — ATB

From: Germany
Album: The DJ 3 in the Mix
Released: 2006
Genre:

She put a smile upon your face
Every time you see her
She comes running through your veins
Just like summer rain, like summer rain

She builds you up and tears you down
She’s that queen without a crown
Just like summer rain, like summer rain

28 | Good Vibrations — Beach Boys

From: American
Album: Smiley Smile
Released: 1967
Genre: Rock

I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air

I’m pickin’ up good vibrations
She’s giving me excitations
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations
(oom bop bop good vibrations)

She’s giving me excitations
(oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(oom bop bop)

Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations

29 | Summertime — Kenney Chesney 

From: U.S.A.
Album: The Road and the Radio
Released: 2005
Genre: Country

Summertime is finally here
That old ballpark, man, is back in gear
Out on 49
Man I can see the lights

School’s out and the nights roll in
Man, just like a long lost friend
You ain’t seen in a while
And can’t help but smile

Perfect vacation song on the radio
Sing along ’cause it’s one we know
It’s a smile, it’s a kiss
It’s a sip of wine, it’s summertime
Sweet summertime

Temperature says 93
Down at the Deposit and Guarantee
But that swimmin’ hole
It’s nice and cold

Bikini bottoms underneath
But the boys’ hearts still skip a beat
When them girls shimmy off
Them old cutoffs

30 | Like It is — Kygo ft. Zara Larsson

From: Various
Album: Golden Hour
Released: 2020
Genre: Dance Tropical Music House

Maybe you should leave this girl alone
But you won’t
But you don’t
Now delete my number from your phone
But you won’t
You gotta go
Oh, line-by-line, gotta spell it right out
(Yeah)

I don’t know what you’re looking for
But I don’t think it’s me
I wish I could give you my all
Not caught in make believe
I don’t feel how you feel
I’m just tellin’ it like it is
I don’t need you to say those words no more

I’m just tellin’ it like it is (you got me, you got me)
I’m just tellin’ it, tellin’ it (you got me, you got me)

31 | The Drifters — Under The Boardwalk

From: U.S.
Album: Under the Boardwalk
Released: 1964
Genre: R&B/Soul

Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot you wish your tired feet were fire proof
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I’ll be

Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We’ll be havin’ some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We’ll be fallin’ in love
(Under the boardwalk) Yeah (boardwalk)

From the park you hear the happy sound of the carousel
You can almost taste the hot dogs and french fries they sell, yes you can
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby is where I’ll be

32 | Walking on Sunshine — Katrina and the Waves

From: Canada
Album: Walking on Sunshine
Released: 1983
Genre: New wave Pop rock

I used to think maybe you loved me now, baby, I’m sure
And I just can’t wait ’til the day when you knock on my door
Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
‘Cause I just can’t wait ’til you write me you’re coming around

Now I’m walking on sunshine, whoa-oh
I’m walking on sunshine, whoa-oh
I’m walking on sunshine, whoa-oh
And don’t it feel good
Hey, all right now
And don’t it feel good
Hey, yeah

I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that it’s true
And I don’t wanna spend my whole life just a-waiting for you
Now I don’t want you back for the weekend
Not back for a day, no, no, no
I said, baby, I just want you back
And I want you to stay
Oh, yeah

33 | Sunset Lover — Petit Biscuit

From: France
Album: Petit Biscuit
Released: 2016
Genre: Tropical House Electronic

For my sunset lover tonight Sunset lover, like stupid carrot top
Sit thinking while awake
And barely blinking
What have we been drinking It’s time to take it to the next step
With sweet quiet kisses
From sunset lover tonight You drive me completely
You drive me completely crazy
Completely crazy, completely crazy
For my sunset lover tonight You drive me completely crazy
Oh, completely crazy
Baby, you drive, crazy for my sunset lover
My sunset lover tonight Baby, I’m crazy tonight
You drive me crazy for, crazy for my
Completely crazy
Completely crazy in love
Completely crazy in love

34 | Summer Breeze — The Isley Brothers

From: OH, USA
Album: Summer Breeze
Released: 1974
Genre: Soul

Ah-ha-ha, yeah
Summer Breeze, all in my mind
Ah-ha, yeah
Summer Breeze, all in my mind
No-no-no-no, it’s all in my mind
No-no-no-no, it’s all in my mind

Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin’ through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze makes me feel fine
Blowin’ though the jasmine in my mind

See the curtains hangin’ in the window
In the evening on a Friday night
A little light shinin’ through the window
Lets me know every-everything’s all right

35 | I’m Yours — Jason Mraz

From: America
Album: We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
Released: 2008
Genre: Pop

Well, you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill, but you’re so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I’m trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I’ll be giving it my bestest
And nothing’s gonna stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it’s again my turn
To win some or learn some

But I won’t hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I’m yours
Hmm (hey, hey)

Well, open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and, damn, you’re free
And look into your heart, and you’ll find love, love, love, love
Listen to the music of the moment, people dance and sing
We’re just one big family
And it’s our God-forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved, loved, loved

36 | The Embers — I Love Beach Music

From: NC, USA
Album: Embers 25th Anniversary
Released: 1988
Genre: Rock

I love beach music
I always have and I always will
There ain’t no other kind of music in the world that gives me quite the thrill
When I here “Sixty Minute Man”
And “Walking Up A One Way Street”
He’s “up on the roof” he’s “under the boardwalk”
“Sumertime’s calling me”
Ooh ooh (bom bom bom, bom bom bom)
(Wee ooo beach music)
(Bom bom bom, bom bom bom wee ooo beach music)
I love beach music
Cause I was born with it in my bones
I learned to shag on the beach, the salt in air and the sand at my feet
Yeaaaah
“Ooh ooh ooh Miss Grace”
“39-21-40 shape”
“What kind of fool do you think I am”
When “forever and ever it will stand”
Yes, I love beach music
Every single day of my life
I love beach music songs
You know that I do

37 | Are You With Me — Lost Frequencies

From: Belgium
Album: Are You With Me
Released: 2014
Genre: Tropical Deep House

I wanna dance by water ‘neath the Mexican sky
Drink some Margaritas by a string of blue lights
Listen to the Mariachi play at midnight
Are you with me, are you with me?

Are you with me?
Are you with me?

Drink some Margaritas by a string of blue lights
Listen to the Mariachi play at midnight
Are you with me, are you with me?

38 | Summertime — DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

From: USA
Album: Homebase
Released: 1991
Genre: Hip Hop

Summer, summer, summertime
Time to sit back and unwind

Here it is the groove slightly transformed
Just a bit of a break from the norm
Just a little somethin’ to break the monotony
Of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be
A little bit out of control it’s cool to dance
But what about the groove that soothes that moves romance
Give me a soft subtle mix
And if ain’t broke then don’t try to fix it
And think of the summers of the past
Adjust the bass and let the Alpine blast
Pop in my CD and let me run a rhyme
And put your car on cruise and lay back ’cause this is summertime

Summer, summer, summertime
Time to sit back and unwind

39 | Sunshine — KYLE ft. Miguel

From: USA
Released: 2017
Genre: Hip Hop

Sunshine (so good)
If you threw it in the air, babe
I couldn’t help but stare, babe
I’d let you love me blind, sunshine
I’m gonna bathe in your light, babe
All day, all night, babe, make me wanna say
La-la-la-la-la-la-la, (so good) la-la-la-la-la-la-la, (oh my God) la-la-la-la-la-la-la (oh my God)
La-la, make me want to say (ah)

Ay, yep, hey, let’s take a trip
Down to the beach where the pretty girls live
Away from your condo, way up in the cold
Girl, you too fine to be gettin’ snowed in
You know that shit, heh
You spend your days inside
That ain’t how you’re designed
Was tan but now you’re white (ugh)
Think you could use some shine

40 | Welcome to Jamrock — Damian Marley

From: Jamaica
Album: Welcome to Jamrock
Released: 2005
Genre: Reggae

Welcome to Jamrock, camp where the thugs dem camp at
Two pound ah weed inna van back
It inna your hand bag, your knapsack, it inna your backpack
The smell ah give your girlfriend contact

Some boy nuh know dis, dem only come around like tourist
On the beach with a few club sodas
Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris
And don’t know the real hardcore’

Cause Sandals ah nuh back too the thugs
Dem will do whe dem got to and won’t think twice to shot you
Don’t make dem spot you, unless you carry guns a lot too
A bare tuff tings come at you

41 | Electric Feel — Henry Green & Kygo

From: England
Album: Electric Feel
Released: 2017
Genre: Rock

All along the Eastern shore
Put your circuits in the sea
This is what the world is for
Making electricity
But you can feel it in your mind
Oh you can do it all the time
Plug it in and change the world
You are my electric girl
I said, “Ooh girl”
Shocked me like an electric eel
“Baby girl, turn me on with your electric feel”
I said, “Ooh girl”
Shocked me like an electric eel

42 | Caribbean Queen — Billy Ocean

From: Trinidad
Album: Suddenly
Released: 1984
Genre: Post disco

She dashed by me in painted on jeans
And all heads turned ’cause she was the dream
In the blink of an eye I knew her number and her name, yeah
Ah she said I was the tiger she wanted to tame

Caribbean Queen
Now we’re sharing the same dream
And our hearts they beat as one
No more love on the run

I lose my cool when she steps in the room
And I get so excited just from her perfume
Electric eyes that you can’t ignore
And passion burns you like never before

I was in search of a good time
Just running my game
Love was the furthest
Furthest from my mind

43 | The Ocean — Mike Perry ft. Shy Martin

From: Sweden
Album: Berlin Tag & Nacht: Party & Feiern 2017
Released: 2016
Genre: Deep Tropical House

Like the air I breathe
I let you in
Keep me warm underneath my skin
‘Cause I’m

Giving in
To your touch
I can never get enough
Dive in deep
Into your ocean

Ocean Ocean Ocean

You can be my safety zone
Somewhere
I can go and feel unknown

Like an endless stream
You take me in
To a place that I’ve never been
Now I’m

44 | West Coast — Lana Del Rey 

From: USA
Album: Ultraviolence
Released: 2014
Genre: Soft Rock

Down on the West Coast they got a saying
“If you’re not drinking then you’re not playing”
But you’ve got the music, you’ve got the music in you, don’t you?

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like
It all could happen that’s why I’m leaving you for the music
You for the music it’s true, it’s true

I push it hard, you pull away, I’m feeling hotter than fire
I’m feeling like there’s no one else that brings me higher than higher
Te deseo, cariño, boy it’s you I desire
Your love, your love, your love

I can see my baby swinging
His Parliament’s on fire and his hands are up
On the balcony and I’m singing
Ooh baby, ooh baby, I’m in love
I can see my sweet boy swaying
He’s crazy y Cubano como yo, la la
On the balcony and I’m sayin
Move baby, move baby, I’m in…

45 | Songs about Beach Please — Kevin Fowler

From: USA
Album: Barstool Stories
Released: 2019
Genre: Country

Beach, please, I’m up to my knees
In crystal blue water with a tropical breeze
Cooler full of cold Corona
Girl now if you wanna find me
You know where I’ll be
I’ll be laying in a hammock ‘tween some coconut trees
Don’t wake me up from this dream
Beach please

You keep I’m saying I’m good for nothing
Hey now everybody’s good at something
I can shotgun beer like no-one’s business
Not a single drip, God is my witness
Might as well go ahead and take a pill
Ain’t nobody gonna melt my chill
Said I’ll get to it, baby I will
As soon as I get back

46 | Levels — Avicii

From: Sweden
Album: Levels
Released: 2011
Genre: Progressive house

Oh, sometimes
I get a good feeling, yeah
Get a feeling that I never, never
Never, never had before, no, no
I get a good feeling, yeah

Oh, sometimes
I get a good feeling, yeah
Get a feeling that I never, never
Never, never had before, no, no
I get a good feeling, yeah

47 | The Beatles — Here Comes The Sun

From: U.K.
Album: Abbey Road
Released: 1969
Genre: Folk Pop

Here comes the sun do, do, do
Here comes the sun
And I say it’s all right

Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here

Here comes the sun do, do, do
Here comes the sun
And I say it’s all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here

48 | Rooftop — Tabú

From: Poland
Released: 2017
Genre: Dance Electronic

I got your fingerprints on my skin
Ever since that day you’ve let me in
I feel your vibes, they are circlin’
You cut so deep, cut so deep
Who needs love leaning to one side
We’re free fallin’ in the jungle lights?
You have it all, got me on standby
You cut so deep, cut so deep

‘Cause I thought that the trust had gone
Didn’t see this comin’ along
You made me a believer
You made me a believer

And now I’m
I’m shoutin’ from the rooftop, baby
Tell me, will you come and safe me?
I’m shoutin’ from the rooftop, baby
Come pick me up, come pick me up
Are you just a lover or my twins soul?
Fire the shots and I need to know
I’m shoutin’ from the rooftop, baby
Come pick me up, come pick me up

49 | Feels like summer — Childish Gambino

From: The United States
Album: Summer Pack
Released: 2018
Genre: R&B/Soul

You can feel it in the streets
On a day like this, the heat
It feel like summer
I feel like summer
I feel like summer
You can feel it in the streets
On a day like this, the heat
I feel like summer (ey)
She feel like summer
This feel like summer
I feel like summer

Seven billion souls that move around the sun
Rolling faster, faster, not a chance to slow down
Slow down
Men who made machines that want what they decide
Parents tryna tell the children please slow down
Slow down

50 | Seven Days In Sunny June — Jamiroquai

From: Britain
Album: Dynamite
Released: 2005
Genre: Funk/Acid Jazz Electronic

The pebbles you’ve arranged, in the sand they’re strange
They speak to me like constellations as we lie here
There’s a magic I can’t hold, your smile of honey gold
And that you never seem to be in short supply of
Ooh, so baby, let’s get it on

Drinkin’ wine and killin’ time, sitting in the summer sun
You know I’ve wanted you so long
Why’d you have to drop that bomb on me?
Lazy days, crazy dolls
You said we’d been friends too long

Seven days in sunny June but long enough to bloom
The flowers on the summer dress you wore in spring
The way we laughed as one and then you dropped the bomb
That I’ve know you too long for us to have a thing
Ooh, so baby, let’s get it on

51 | Shoreline — John Frinzi

From: USA
Album: Shoreline
Released: 2009
Genre: Folk

Out here off the shoreline, a conspiracy at dawn…
The poet and the mermaids, with the window shades all drawn… The facts are not the story, and dreams choose up the sides,
The mermaids tend to breakfast, the poet’s throat is dry.

A race to bridge the morning, a vote to change the tune, Hot ideas cool their feet, soon come the afternoon…

Out here off the shoreline, conspiracies take time…
And the mermaids have their troubles. The poet waits for rhymes.

Out here off the shoreline, the calling of the ocean Out here off the shoreline, the dreams of a poet, Out here off the shoreline…

The ocean has an answer for the dryness of the tongue, The facts become the poems, the dreams all laugh in fun. A thought to bridge the water, is sand to change the beach, Mermaids drink their loving when the poet’s out of reach.

52 | Waves — Aaron Scherz

From: TX, USA
Album: Waves
Released: 2018
Genre: Country

It took a while but I think I might,
have finally found me a way that I
can let go of all those yesterdays.
It comes in waves, rollin’ off the ocean
Palm trees swaying, salt breeze blowin’
Kickin’ back diggin’ that warm sunshine
and girl you’re barely on my mind.
Every buffet is jammin’
and girl I’ve been slammin’
every single drink that they send my way
I’m Landshark buzzin’
Worried ‘bout nothin’
Findin’ out feeling good comes in waves.
Now I could find me another you

53 | September — Earth, Wind & Fire

From: USA
Album: September
Released: 1978
Genre: Disco, R&B/Soul

Do you remember, 21st night of September?
Love was changing the mind of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away
Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing
As we danced in the night
Remember
How the stars stole the night away, oh yeah

Hey, hey, hey
Ba-dee-ya, say, do you remember?
Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September
Ba-dee-ya, never was a cloudy day

Ba-du, ba-du, ba-du, ba-du
Ba-du, ba-du, ba-du, ba-du
Ba-du, ba-du, ba-du-da, yeah

54 | The Ocean — U2

From: Ireland
Album: Boy
Released: 1980
Genre: Rock

A picture in grey
Dorian Gray
Just me by the sea

And I felt like a star
I felt the world could go far
If they listened
To what I said, the sea

Washes my feet
Washes the feet
Splashes the soul of my shoes

55 | Passion Fruit — Drake

From: Canada
Album: More Life
Released: 2017
Genre: Tropical house ‎R&B‎

Listen
Seein’ you got ritualistic
Cleansin’ my soul of addiction for now
‘Cause I’m fallin’ apart, yeah
Tension
Between us just like picket fences
You got issues that I won’t mention for now
‘Cause we’re fallin’ apart

Passionate from miles away
Passive with the things you say
Passin’ up on my old ways
I can’t blame you, no, no
Passionate from miles away
Passive with the things you say
Passin’ up on my old ways
I can’t blame you, no, no

Listen
Harder buildin’ trust from a distance
I think we should rule out commitment for now
‘Cause we’re fallin’ apart
Leavin’
You’re just doing that to get even
Don’t pick up the pieces, just leave it for now
They keep fallin’ apart

56 | Vamos A La Playa — Loona

From: Netherlands
Album: Rakatakata (Un Rayo de Sol)
Released: 2014
Genre: Pop

57 | The Only Place — Best Coast

From: USA
Album: The Only Place
Released: 2012
Genre: Alternative/Indie

We were born with sun in our teeth and in our hair
When we get bored we like to sit around, sit around and stare
At the mountains, at the birds, at the ocean, at the trees
We have fun, we have fun, we have fun when we please

We wake up with the sun in our eyes
It’s no surprise that we get so much done
But we always, yes we always, we always have fun
Yes we always, yes we always, we always have fun

Why would you live anywhere else?
Why would you live anywhere else?
We’ve got the ocean, got the babes
Got the sun, we’ve got the waves
This is the only place for me

So leave your cold behind
We’re gonna make it to the beach on time
Yeah leave the cold behind
We’re gonna make it to the beach on time

58 | Sweat (A La La La La Long) — Inner Circle

From: Jamaica
Album: Bad to the Bone
Released: 1992
Genre: Reggae

Standing across the room I saw you smile
I said I want to talk to you for a little while
But before I make my move my emotions start running wild
My tongue gets tied and that’s no lie
I’m looking in your eyes
I’m looking in your big brown eyes (Ooh yeah)
(And I’ve got this to say to you)
Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat ’til you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push it some more
Girl I want to make you sweat
Sweat ’til you can’t sweat no more
And if you cry out I’m gonna push it
Push it push it some more

A la la la la long
A la la la la long long li long long long
Come on
A la la la la long
A la la la la long long li long long long

59 | Healing — Marvin Gaye (Kygo Remix)

From: United States America
Album: Midnight Love
Released: 2015
Genre: Tropical House vibes

Oh, baby now let’s get down tonight
Ooh baby, I’m hot just like an oven
I need some lovin’
And baby, I can’t hold it much longer
It’s getting stronger and stronger
Baby, I got sick this mornin’
A sea was stormin’ inside of me
Baby, I think I’m capsizin’
The waves are risin’ and risin’
And when I get that feeling

60 | La Playa — La Oreja de van Gogh

From:
Album: El Viaje de Copperpot
Released: 2000
Genre: Pop

Si pudiera volver a nacer
Te vería cada día amanecer (Amanecer)
Sonriendo como cada vez (Eh ahh)
Como aquella vez

Te voy a escribir la canción más bonita del mundo
Voy a capturar nuestra historia en tan solo un segundo
Un día verás que este loco de poco se olvida
Por mucho que pasen los años de largo en su vida

El día de la despedida
De esta playa de mi vida
Te hice una promesa
Volverte a ver así

Más de cincuenta veranos
Hace hoy que no nos vemos
Ni tú, ni el mar, ni el cielo
Ni quien me trajo a ti

61 | Life Goes On — BTS

From: South Korea
Album: BE
Released: 2020
Genre: K-Pop

Like an echo in the forest
하루가 돌아오겠지
아무 일도 없단 듯이
Yeah, life goes on
Like an arrow in the blue sky
또 하루 더 날아가지
On my pillow, on my table
Yeah, life goes on like this again

이 음악을 빌려 너에게 나 전할게 (ayy)
사람들은 말해 세상이 다 변했대 (yo)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm
다행히도 우리 사이는 아직 여태 안 변했네

I remember (oh, ayy-yeah-yeah-yeah)
I remember (oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh)

62 | Toes — Zac Brown Band 

From: The U.S.
Album: Live – The Rock Bus Tour
Released: 2006
Genre: Country

Well, the plane touched down just about three o’clock
And the city’s still on my mind
Bikinis and palm trees danced in my head
I was still in the baggage line
Concrete and cars are their own prison bars like this life I’m living in
But the plane brought me farther
I’m surrounded by water
And I’m not going back again

Four days flew by like a drunk Friday night
As the summer drew to an end
They can’t believe that I just couldn’t leave
And I bid adieu to my friends
Because my bartender she’s from the islands
Her body’s been kissed by the sun
And coconut replaces the smell of the bar
And I don’t know if it’s her or the Rum

Life is good today
Life is good today
Songs about islands

63 | Fiesta de Verano — Maia ft. Maluma

From: Colombia
Album: Maía
Released: 2016
Genre: Latin Pop

Quiero quitarte la ropa
Que nos vea todo el mundo
Viviendo la vida loca
Aprovechando cada segundo

Si quieres, me puedes besar
Que no me voy a molestar
No aguanto la’ gana’ ‘e tocar
Si tú te zumbas, pues, yo me zumbo

Sigue bailando
(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh) No hay nadie mirando
(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh) Sigue bailando
(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh) No hay nadie mirando

Mirándome y yo volviéndome loco y yo
Besándote, quiero quitarte la ropa, y tú
Mirándome y yo volviéndome loca y yo
Tocándote

64 | I love you baby — Surf Mesa ft. Emilee

From: USA
Album: ily (i love you baby)
Released: 2019
Genre: Chillwave Music Tropical House Dance

I love you, baby
And if it’s quite all right
I need you, baby
To warm these lonely nights
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say

I love you, baby
And if it’s quite all right
I need you, baby
To warm these lonely nights
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say

65 | Free Fallin’ — John Mayer

From: United States
Album: Where the Light Is
Released: 2008
Genre: Pop

She’s a good girl, loves her mamma
Loves Jesus and America too
She’s a good girl, crazy bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too, yeah, yeah

It’s a long day livin’ in Reseda
There’s a freeway running through the yard
I’m a bad boy ’cause I don’t even miss her
I’m a bad boy for breaking her heart

And I’m free
Free fallin’, fallin’
And I’m free
Free fallin’, fallin’

All the vampires walkin’ through the valley
They move west down Ventura Boulevard
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
And the good girls are home with broken hearts

66 | Bloom — Sol Calor

From: Spain
Album: Bloom
Released: 2017
Genre: Pop

In the mornin’ when I’m awake
And the sun is comin’ through
Oh you fill my lungs with sweetness
And you fill my head with you

Shall I write in a letter?
Shall I try to get it down?
Oh you fill my head with pieces of a song I can’t get out
Can I be close to you?

Can I be close to you?
Can I take you to your mornin’
Where the fields are painted gold
And the trees are filled with memories of the feelings never told

When the evening pulls a sun down
And the day is almost through
Oh the whole world is asleep yeah
But my world is you

67 | California Dreamin — Freischwimmer

From: Switzerland
Album: California Dreamin’
Released: 1995
Genre: Dance Electronic

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray
I went for a walk
On a winter’s day

I’d be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California dreamin’
Such a winter’s day

Stopped into the church
I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
And I began to pray

You know the preacher likes the cold
He knows I’m gonna stay
California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day

68 | Positive Vibration — Bob Marley

From: Jamaica
Album: Rastaman Vibration
Released: 1976
Genre: Reggae

Live if you want to live
(Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!)
That’s what we got to give!
(I’n’I vibration yeah! Positive)
Got to have a good vibe!
(Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!)
Wo-wo-ooh!
(Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!)

If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You’re saying prayers to the devils, I say.
Wo-oh-ooh!
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier
(Just a little bit easier)

Are you pickin’ up now?
Jah love, Jah love (protect us)
Jah love, Jah love (protect us)

69 | Sea and Sand — The Who

From: England
Album: Quadrophenia
Released: 1973
Genre: Pop Rock

Here by the sea and sand
Nothing ever goes as planned
I just couldn’t face going home
It was just a drag on my own
They finally threw me out
My mother got drunk on stout
My dad couldn’t stand on two feet
As he lectured about morality
Now I guess the families complete
With me hanging round on the street
Or here on the beach songs

The girl I love
Is a perfect dresser
Wears every fashion
Gets it to the tee
Heavens above
I got to match her
She knows just how
She wants her man to be
Leave it to me

70 | Lighthouse — Hearts & Colors ft. Andrelli

From: Sweden
Album: Prologue
Released: 2016
Genre: Deep house

We have come so far
We can’t turn back now
Let me walk you down this road

Follow me, follow me when its dark out
I will be, I will be your lighthouse
And if you’re lost, ohhh
I’ll lead you back home
Follow me, follow me

There was a time you told me secrets
But you were scared I wouldn’t keep them
Oh, but nobody knows

71 | Coastal — Kenny Chesney

From: U.S.A.
Album: Hemingway’s Whiskey
Released: 2010
Genre: Country

No more freezing their tails off
It’s cataract sunglasses and a round of golf
Red skin, green plaid, margarita, dog track
Before you know it Mom and Dad
They’ll go coastal on ya

Sounds so good, got me thinking
What do y’all say after I’m done singing

We just take a little getaway
Cruise it down the A1A
Florabama to the Keys
Better keep your eye on me

I’ll go coastal on ya
I’ll go coastal on ya
Yeah, I’ll go coastal on ya

72 | Better Together  — Jack Johnson

From: HI, USA
Album: In Between Dreams
Released: 2005
Genre: Acoustic Rock

There’s no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard
No beach song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a shoe box of photographs
With sepia-toned loving
Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it’s so hard?
It’s not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I’ll tell you one thing, it’s always better when we’re together

Mmm, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, we’ll look at the stars when we’re together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together

73 | Catch a Wave — The Beach Boys

From: American
Album: Surfer Girl
Released: 1963
Genre: Surf Rock

Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world
Don’t be afraid to try the greatest sport around (Catch a wave, catch a wave)
Everybody tries it once
Those who don’t just have to put it down
You paddle out turn around and raise
And baby that’s all there is to the coastline craze
You gotta catch a wave and you’re sittin’ on top of the world

Not just a fad cause it’s been going on so long (Catch a wave, catch a wave)
All the surfers going strong
They said it wouldn’t last too long
They’ll eat their words with a fork and spoon
And watch ’em they’ll hit the road and all be surfin’ soon
And when they catch a wave they’ll be sittin’ on top of the world

74 | California Gurls — Katy Perry

From: USA
Album: Teenage Dream
Released: 2010
Genre: Disco Pop

You could travel the world
But nothing comes close
To the golden coast
Once you party with us
You’ll be falling in love
Ooh oh ooh oh oh ooh

California girls
We’re unforgettable
Daisy dukes
Bikinis on top
Sun-kissed skin
So hot
We’ll melt your popsicle
Ooh oh ooh
Ooh oh ooh

75 | The Girl From Ipanema — Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos

From: USA
Album: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim
Released: 1964
Genre: Jazz

But each day when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead not at me

Tall and tan and young and lovely smile
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, I smile but she doesn’t see
Doesn’t see

Olha que coisa mais linda mais cheia de graça
É ela, menina, que vem e que passa
Num doce balanço a caminho do mar
Moça do corpo dourado do sol de Ipanema
O seu balançado parece um poema
É a coisa mais linda que eu já vi passar

76 | “Twentytwo” — Sunflower Bean

From: American
Album: Twentytwo in Blue
Released: 2018
Genre: Alternative/Indie

Independent, that’s how you view yourself
Now that you’re twentytwo, twentytwo
If I could do it, I would stay young for you
We could live inside a place
Where we’d never have to face
All the people who disgrace us
And make us hide our face

If I could do it, I would fly into the sun
I would become warm
And I meant it when I said you’re my favourite son
With your finger that is reaching
For the trigger of the gun
And you know you’ve got to prove it
To yourself and everyone

I do not go quietly
Into the night that calls me
Even when I’m alone
I do not go quietly
Into the night that calls me
Even when I’m alone

77 | Beach in Hawaii — Ziggy Marley

From: Jamaica
Album: Love Is My Religion
Released: 2006
Genre: Electronic Pop, Reggae

On the beach in Hawaii

I wish you were here with me
Walking on the beach in Hawaii
Playing on the golden sand
Looking at the ocean now I understand
Love is like the open sea
And I wish you were here with me
On the beach in Hawaii

Since you’ve been gone away
I think about you everyday
Don’t you know I miss you much
And you know I need your touch
I’m on a rocky cliff
Oh I wish you were here with me
(I wish you were here with me)
On the beach in Hawaii

78 | Saturdays — Twin Shadow

From: Dominican Republic
Album: Caer
Released: 2018
Genre: Indie New Wave Chill

This could be the last time
That could be the fault line slipping away
This could be your last line
Care about everything you say
This might be the last ride
Every road could fall right under our feet
I’m sinking to the ocean
This will be a lost street

When you open your eyes it’s like
Nothing’s real
When you open your eyes it’s like

Did the good days go away?
In the bright lights, did it fade?
We were heavy, we were sideways
When we danced in the dark over my place
If it’s my face you remembered
From all the Sundays in the summer
Then you’d know there was so much more than a spark
Enough to make me run and follow you in the dark

79 | Boys of Summer — Don Henley

From: United States
Album: Building the Perfect Beast
Released: 1984
Genre: Pop

Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach song
I feel it in the air
The summer’s out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I’m driving by your house
Though I know you’re not home

But I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your
Sunglasses on, baby
I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream?
Now I don’t understand what happened to our love
But babe, I’m gonna get you back
I’m going to show you what I’m made of

80 | Cake by the Ocean — DNCE

From: USA
Album: DNCE
Released: 2015
Genre: Nu-disco; funk

Nah, nah, yeah
(Cake by the ocean)

Oh, no
See you walkin’ ’round like it’s a funeral
Not so serious, girl, why those feet cold?
We just gettin’ started, don’t you tiptoe, tiptoe (ah)Waste time with a masterpiece, don’t waste time with a masterpiece (huh)
You should be rollin’ with me, you should be rollin’ with me (ah-ah-ah)
You’re a real-life fantasy, you’re a real-life fantasy (huh)
But you’re movin’ so carefully, let’s start livin’ dangerously

Red velvet, vanilla, chocolate in my life
Funfetti, I’m ready, I need it every night
Red velvet, vanilla, chocolate in my life
I-I-I-I-I-I keep on hopin’ we’ll eat cake by the ocean (uh)

81 | Vacation Songs — Johnny Stimson

From: TX, USA
Album: Songs Vacation
Released: 2019
Genre: Pop

I guess I’m kind of in a mood right now
I’ve got a million things to do right now
I need a minute just to breathe
I just got home
My body doesn’t have a timezone yet
A benadryl before we climb in bed
My phone is buzzing in the sheets
I just got home

Let’s fly away from here I
Need a vacation
Blast off tonight for Malibu
Wake up in Shangri-la
With no reservations
Real life can wait on me and you

I wanna run away
I wanna run away

We’ll sip mimosas in the south of France
And drift away to Never-never land
We can take a little break from growing up

82 | Wipe Out — The Surfaris

From: United States of America
Album: Juke Box Classics: The Wanderers
Released: 1988
Genre: Surf Rock

♫ [Instrumental] ♫
Songs about a beach
Hahahahahahahaa Wipe Out!

83 | We Are Young — F.U.N.

From: USA
Album: Some Nights
Released: 2012
Genre: Indie Rock

Give me a second I
I need to get my story straight
My friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the Empire State
My lover she’s waiting for me just across the bar
My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses asking ’bout a scar, and
I know I gave it to you months ago
I know you’re trying to forget
But between the drinks and subtle things
The holes in my apologies, you know
I’m trying hard to take it back
So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I’ll carry you home

Tonight
We are young
So let’s set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun

84 | Summertime Sadness — Lana Del Rey

From: American
Album: Born to Die: The Paradise Edition
Released: 2012
Genre: Pop

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby, you the best

I got my red dress on tonight
Dancin’ in the dark, in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big, beauty queen style
High heels off, I’m feelin’ alive

Oh, my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above are sizzlin’ like a snare
Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothin’ scares me anymore
(One, two, three, four)

I got that summertime, summertime sadness
Su-su-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

I’m feelin’ electric tonight
Cruisin’ down the coast, goin’ about 99
Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
I know if I go, I’ll die happy tonight

85 | Summer — Calvin Harris

From: Scotland
Album: Motion
Released: 2014
Genre: Progressive House

When I met you in the summer
To my heartbeat’s sound
We fell in love
As the leaves turned brown

And we could be together, baby
As long as skies are blue
You act so innocent now
But you lied so soon
When I met you in the summer

Summer
When I met you in the summer
Summer

86 | Pure Shores — All Saints

From: London
Album: The Beach
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic Dream Pop
This was the lead single to the movie “The Beach” feat Leonardo DiCaprio

I’ve crossed deserts for miles
Swam water for time
Searching places to find
A piece of something to call mine (I’m coming)
A piece of something to call mine (I’m coming)
Coming closer to you

Ran along many moors
Walked through many doors
The place where I want to be
Is the place I can call mine (I’m coming)
Is the place I can call mine (I’m coming)
Coming closer to you

I’m moving, I’m coming
Can you hear what I hear
It’s calling you, my dear
Out of reach (Take me to my beach)
I can hear it calling you
I’m coming, not drowning
Swimming closer to you

Never been here before
I’m intrigued, I’m unsure
I’m searching for more
I’ve got something that’s all mine
I’ve got something that’s all mine

Take me somewhere I can breathe
I’ve got so much to see
This is where I want to be
In a place I can call mine
In a place I can call mine

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I hope you enjoyed this list of best vacation songs about the beach.

Over to you.... What top beach songs are always on your summer beach playlist?
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Until the next dance yo'

Rai