Love Songs: ROCK

It is Valentines day, and what better way to blog than creating a list of love songs?
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Creating a list of angry, break up or independent songs? Well I see your point.

This V-Day I bring to you 10 ROCK love songs and, in a few days, 4 AMAZING songs for the single folks *raises hand*
I have no real guide lines or rules I want to follow; it's my damn blog and I'll put what I see fit.

The love songs:

Sorry - Buckcherry
You may think I am cheating since this song is a "declaration of love" but come on! It is, in fact a love song. It is also a song that will get you out of hot water when you screw up with someone you love "I'm sorry about all the things I said to you, and I know I can't take it back. I love how you kiss, I love all your sounds and baby the way you make my world go round, and I just, wanted to say: I'm sorry"

Wonderwall - Oasis
Let us thank Noel Gallagher for one of the best songs of 1995. Of course, we may never know if he intended it to be a love song, considering after he divorced the woman he said it was about, he changed the story. Who cares? It's a love song.  Wonderwall most likely has been covered more than any other song in this list, which should hint at the sheer genuine quality of it.
"Because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me. And after all, you're my wonderwall"

Focus - 10 years
I am guilty of playing this song when I am lonely and maybe, just maybe, day dreaming a bit.  With the lyrics: "I can't focus when I'm near you, do you notice me at all? I can't focus when I hear you, do you notice that I can't focus?" I am quite impressed that a man wrote these lyrics, (even though it is reminiscent of cheesy teenage love) Focus is poetic, as most 10 years songs are.

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Who would I be if I didn't include this song in my countdown?

The Promise - In This Moment ft. Adrian Patrick
A song that has some substance to the meaning and is lovely while still being completely metal.
The Promise is the reason I have a girl crush on Maria Brink (tell no one). Its amazing riffs and music, the meshing of Maria's lovely singing, desperate screaming and gentle inflections with Adrian Patrick's power house vocals and distinct tone is nothing short of a symphony of conflicted love wrapped in a metal package.
"It's haunting...this hold that you have over me, I grow so weak....I see you and everything around you fades, and I can't speak....but you can never know what it is you do to me" I particularly love the ending, the songs with a the reason, a resolution, what "The Promise" is and I'm left feeling as if I have watched an tragic opera "My promise is I will hurt you"

The Way - Egypt Central
A pure, hard rock song with a killer bass line and yes, it is no doubt a love song. This my friends, is the way a love song should be. John Fall's voice is low and *cough* smexy *cough* in the verses, The Way is mellowing as it starts and I think very visual "Here I lay, in candlelight, I'm drenched in shadows. I need a way to get it right, I lost my halo" this song is entrancing. The best part (in my opinion) is the bridge where: "I MISS YOUR VOICE, I MISS YOUR TASTE, MY CHEST FEELS HOLLOW. ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE AND I CAN'T LET GO" is screamed.
Check it out for yourself at their YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLBD2dAA0U&list=UUYQd40fvc_E4-5h4ffhrZ7A&index=7

Break In - Halestorm
Here we have a more classic love song. A lovely piano composition and undaunted vocals. The thing is, if you are a Halestorm fan, you know that this song shows a side of Lzzy Hale no one has heard before.
I think that completely adds another element to it. You can tell she means what she says, she is truly in love. Break In could reduce you to tears because it is so intimate and sincere. "You let me fall apart without letting go... Then you pick up the pieces and you make me whole"

Take me away - Seether
"Take me by the hand and see beyond the lies, strip away the fences - leave me needing, leave me high"
This simple acoustic track is easy to fall in love with. Honestly, this song leaves me speechless with its perfection; my description will fall short.
Let me put it this way: Take me away is like sitting in front of a fire on a cold night. So simple, yet elegant, in a way that is unexpected and a true thing to marvel at.

Break The Spell - Daughtry
I don't care that Daughtry has gone mostly mainstream, this song has rock elements and is a fabulous song. Ladies in particular should appreciate it very much.
Excellent song writing comes into play here: "You found your way under my skin, and I'm trying not to love you, but I hate the way I keep on giving, into you, like I always do, no matter how I try, or maybe could it be, that you're the part of me, that's keeping me alive?"
Break The Spell from Daughtry's official YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fju1RKiiDbE

Not Strong Enough - Apocalyptica ft. Brent Smith
Hold your applause, please. The talent has graced your presence.
Flawless. Perfect. Pure. Realistic. Did I mention flawless?
The cellos, the drums, the vocals and the lyrics are all completely faultless and an undeniable masterpiece.
I think Not Strong Enough is the most romantic song I have ever heard while still being realistic "I'm not strong enough to stay away. What can I do? I would die without you. In your presence my heart knows no shame, I'm not blame, because you bring my heart to it's knees. And it's killing me when you're away, I want to leave and I want to stay, and I'm so confused, so hard to choose between the pleasure and the pain, and I know it's wrong and I know it's right, even if I tried to win the fight, my heart would overrule my mind and I'm not strong enough to stay away"
This is not just a "OMG I LOVE YOU, YOU FREAKING AMAZING PERSON" song or "I love the bitch but I don't like her" song either. It is struggle between emotions, there's something deep going on, the couple is troubled yet their love is too strong, it's not out of obligation, the love is still there and burning just as bright as it ever did. 
Listen to Not Strong Enough yourself, I assure you, you won't regret it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5O90uzvUA4