57 Post-Grunge Wedding Songs To Get Your Rock On
Incorporate great post-grunge wedding songs for rock music fans! Not only do we include songs perfect for the first dance but also find songs for the processional, father-daughter dance songs and so much more.
Post-grunge is a mix between alternative rock and hard rock that emerged in the mid-’90s.
The bands and musicians listed below may not be considered the stereotypical pop love songs that are known to be played at weddings. YES, we thought you would like that!
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Popular Post-Grunge Wedding Songs
3 Doors Down – When I’m Gone
Released in 2002 on the album Away from the Sun
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You can hold me when I’m scared, you won’t always be there
So love me when I’m gone
Love me when I’m gone
3 Doors Down – Your Arms Feel Like Home
Released in 2008 on the album 3 Doors Down
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I don’t care if I lost everything that I have known
It don’t matter where I lay my head tonight, your arms feel like home, feel like home
Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet
Released in 1996 on the album Jagged Little Pill
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You’ve already won me over in spite of me
And don’t be alarmed if I fall head over feet
And don’t be surprised if I love you for all that you are
Alter Bridge – Life Must Go On
Released in 2010 on the album AB III
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
It feels like the end
Just pay no mind at all
Keep rolling
Rolling
Life must go on
Audioslave – Yesterday to Tomorrow
Released in 2005 on the album Out of Exile
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And unlike the times before
From yesterday comes tomorrow
When life comes alive the past moves aside
No regrets and no remorse
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Better Than Ezra – Breathless
Released in 2005 on the album Before the Robots
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I’ll never judge you
I can only love you
Come now, running headlong into my arms
Breathless
Better Than Ezra – I Just Knew
Released in 2009 on the album Paper Empire
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
There’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you
How about making it for real
Something changed but I just knew
And I just knew
Breaking Benjamin – Ashes of Eden
Released in 2016 on the album Dark Before Dawn
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Because there’s nothing left at all
Stay with me, don’t let me go
Until the ashes of Eden fall
Breaking Benjamin – Forever
Released in 2002 on the album Saturate
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
In a fight, I could never fight you
Never mind, I will not forget you
Can I stay alive forever?
Bush – Comedown
Released in 1995 on the album Sixteen Stone
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
So are you, be a creature
What do you say, do you do
When it all comes down?
Candlebox – Breathe Me In
Released in 2008 on the album Into the Sun
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I watch you listen, and I watch you share
You make me want more
And you make me scared
You’re so much more than I’d ever hoped
Candlebox – She Comes Over Me
Released in 2012 on the album Love Stories & Other Musings
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I will be taking time hey
Await her answering
And I got all I have
She come over me
Collective Soul – Adored
Released in 2007 on the album Afterword
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Count your lucky stars, count what you’ve been wishing for
Oh boy, oh boy
Count the life you lead, count how you are now adored
Collective Soul – Under Heaven’s Skies (Also available in acoustic version)
Released in 2006 on the album Hom
Creed – With Arms Wide Open (Also available in acoustic version)
Released in 2000 on the album Human Clay
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
With arms wide open under the sunlight
Welcome to this place, I’ll show you everything
With arms wide open
Creed – Higher
Released in 1999 on the album Human Clay
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Can you take me higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me higher?
To a place with golden streets
Creed – Lullaby
Released in 2001 on the album Weathered
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
If there’s one thing I hope I showed you
If there’s one thing I hope I showed you
Hope I showed you
Just give love to all
Crossfade – Invincible
Released in 2006 on the album Falling Away
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
This is all so new to me
Just when I think I’m invincible
You come and happen to me
Daughtry – Life After You
Released in 2009 on the album Leave This Town
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And I think that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we’ve been through
‘Cause I know there’s no life after you
Daughtry – Start of Something Good
Released in 2012 on the album Break the Spell
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And hope to God that it don’t scare you away
Don’t wanna be misunderstood
But I’m starting to believe that this could be the start of something good
Eels – Fresh Feeling
Released in 2001 on the album Souljacker
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Love,
Orange sky above lighting your way
There’s nothing to fear
Evanescence – Good Enough
Released in 2007 on the album The Open Door
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Good enough
I feel good enough
It’s been such a long time coming
But I feel good
Foo Fighters – Everlong (Acoustic)
Released in 1997 on the album The Colour and the Shape
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I’ll ever ask of you
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when
Foo Fighters – Times Like These
Released in 2003 on the album One by One
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I am a little divided
Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?
Goo Goo Dolls – Come To Me
Released in 2013 on the album Magnetic
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I’ll love you more so don’t be scared
And when we’re old and near the end
We’ll go home and start again
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
Released in 1998 on the album Dizzy Up the Girl
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And I don’t want the world to see me
‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
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Green Day – Last Night on Earth
Released in 2009 on the album 21st Century Breakdown
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
So if you dare to second-guess
You can rest
Assured that all my love’s for you
Hinder – Someday
Released in 2003 on the album Far From Close
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
She brings out the me inside
She’s so perfect in her own way
And I hope she will be all mine
Someday
Hinder – The Love I Live For
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
because of you,
baby i cant sleep
stayin up all night til its 5 in the mornin
just to here you breathe
Hoobastank – Disappear
Released in 2005 on the album The Reason
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Do you know, that everytime you’re near
Everybody else seems far away
So can you come and make them disappear
Hoobastank – The Reason
Released in 2005 on the album The Reason
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I’ve found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you
Incubus – Echo
Released in 2001 on the album Morning View
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Your biggest fear will be the rescue of you
It’s strange how it turns out that way, yeah
Incubus – Monuments and Melodies
Released in 2009 on the album Monuments and Melodie
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You make me happy
You magnify my better half, yeah
You make me certain
Though all I have today is your photograph
Lifehouse – Everything
Released in 2010 on the album Smoke & Mirrors
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And how can I stand here with you
And not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be
Any better than this?
Lifehouse – You And Me
Released in 2005 on the album Lifehouse
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
‘Cause it’s you and me
And all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
Live – Dance With You
Released in 2008 on the album Live At The Paradiso – Amsterdam
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I wanna dance with you
I see a sky full of the stars that change our minds
And lead us back to a world we would not face
Matchbox Twenty – Overjoyed
Released in 2012 on the album North
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And maybe, maybe let me hold you baby
Let me come over I would tell you secrets nobody knows
I can not overstate it, I will be overjoyed
Muse – Falling Away With You
Released in 2003 on the album Absolution
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And I’ll feel my world crumbling down
Feel my life crumbling now
Feel my soul crumbling away
Falling away
Nickelback – Far Away
Released in 2006 on the album All the Right Reasons
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I love you
I loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
Nickelback – Never Gonna Be Alone
Released in 2009 on the album Dark Horse
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You’re never gonna be alone
From this moment on
If you ever feel like letting go
I won’t let you fall
No Doubt – Running
Released in 2003 on the album Rock Steady
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Sometimes it’s hard to keep on running
We work so hard to keep it going
Don’t make me want to give up
No Doubt – Simple Kind Of Life
Released in 2000 on the album Return of Saturn
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Like a sick domestic abuser
Looking for a fight
And all I wanted was the simple things
A simple kind of life
Puddle Of Mudd – We Don’t Have To Look Back Now
Released in 2008 on the album Famous
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
From the dark into the light
We can leave it all behind
We can stand together, we don’t have to look back now
Seether feat. Amy Lee – Broken
Released in 2002 on the album Disclaimer
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
‘Cause I’m broken when I’m open
And I don’t feel like I am strong enough
Shinedown – I’ll Follow You
Released in 2013 on the album Amaryllis
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I’ll follow you down to the eye of the storm
Don’t worry I’ll keep you warm
I’ll follow you down
While we are passing through space
Shinedown – Unity
Released in 2012 on the album Amaryllis
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I’ve been looking for you day and night
Shine a light in the dark
Let me see where you are
‘Cause I’m not gonna leave you behind
Silverchair – Luv Your Life
Released in 2002 on the album Diorama
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And I’ll pay for sanity but sanity don’t come cheap
You don’t know the truth and I love your life
Staind – All I Want
Released in 2008 on the album The Illusion of Progress
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You’re all I dream about
I can’t live without
All I want is you
Staind – Tangled Up In You
Released in 2008 on the album The Illusion of Progress
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
And in this world
Where nothing else is true
Here I am
Still tangled up in you
I’m still tangled up in you
Stone Sour – Say You’ll Haunt Me
Released in 2010 on the album Audio Secrecy
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Say you’ll never die, you’ll always haunt me
I wanna know I belong to you
Say you’ll haunt me
Theory of a Deadman – All Or Nothing
Released in 2008 on the album Scars & Souvenirs
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
It’s just us against the world
Looking at all or nothing
Babe it’s you and I
Looking at all or nothing
Theory Of A Deadman – Easy To Love You (Also available in acoustic)
Released in 2011 on the album The Truth Is…
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
The best part of being with you
To know you’re with me
It’s not so hard to say
It’s easy to love you
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Thirty Seconds to Mars – 100 Suns
Released in 2009 on the album This Is War
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I believe in nothing
Not in peace and not in war
I believe in nothing
But the truth in who we are
Thirty Seconds To Mars – Kings and Queens
Released in 2009 on the album This Is War
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Into your eyes
Hopeless and taken
We stole our new lives
Through blood and name
In defense of our dreams
Three Days Grace – Lost In You
Released in 2011 on the album Life Starts Now
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Let me get close to you
Change your mind
I’ll get lost if you want me to
Somehow I found a way to get lost in you
Trapt – Only One In Color (Also available in acoustic)
Released in 2008 on the album Only Through the Pain
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
There is no one like you
Into mystery I slide
I want you to keep it all uncovered
You are the only one in color
Trapt – Ready When You Are
Released in 2008 on the album Only Through the Pain
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Calm down don’t take it too far
I know only time can heal your scars
I’m ready when you are when you are
So, there you have my list of post-grunge wedding songs. If you think we should add a song, please comment below so we can add it.
