- "Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles: This song features the line "No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low," which some have interpreted as a metaphor for drowning in the ocean.
- "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd: This song features the line "There's no sensation to enlighten us," which some have interpreted as a metaphor for the loss of sensation that can occur during drowning.
- "Drown" by Bring Me the Horizon: This song explicitly deals with the theme of drowning, with lyrics such as "I'm drowning in my thoughts again" and "I can't breathe, I'm suffocating."
- "In the Ocean" by The Walkmen: This song features the line "I'm sinking in the ocean," which is a straightforward expression of the theme of drowning.
- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot: This song tells the story of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes freighter that sank in a storm in 1975, with the loss of all 29 crew members.