Alternative Wedding Songs: Lyricsas seen on Rock'n'Roll BrideListed here in alphabetical order, you'll find lyrics to all the alternative wedding songs mentioned in our Rock'n'Roll Bride article. Check your favourites and tell your band if there's any verses or lines you want them to cut out to make the song suit you two lovebirds perfectly. Just click the song title and away you go. The on-page spotify playlist will let you listen whilst you browse. Enjoy! And if you're after more alternative song ideas, you should check out our newest article on non-mainstream processional songs. ALL I WANT IS YOU - BARRY LOUIS POLISAR
If I was a flower growing wild and free All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee And if I was a tree growing tall and green All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves All I want is you, will you be my bride Take me by the hand and stand by my side All I want is you, will you stay with me? Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea If you were a river in the mountains tall The rumble of your water would be my call If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow CHORUS If you were a wink, I'd be a nod If you were a seed, well I'd be a pod If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug CHORUS If you were the wood, I'd be the fire If you were the love, I'd be the desire If you were a castle, I'd be your moat And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float CHORUS ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU - THE MOLDY PEACHES
You're a part time lover and a full time friend The monkey on your back is the latest trend I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you I kiss you on the brain in the shadow of the train I kiss you all starry eyed, my body's swinging from side to side I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you Here is the church and here is the steeple We sure are cute for two ugly people I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you The pebbles forgive me, the trees forgive me So why can't you forgive me? I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you I will find my niche in your car With my MP3, DVD, rumple-packed guitar I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B A start Just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you You are always trying to keep it real I'm in love with how you feel I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you We both have shiny happy fits of rage You want more fans, I want more stage I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you Don Quixote was a steel driving man My name is Adam, I'm your biggest fan I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you Squinched up your face and did a dance You shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else but you Baby's Arms - Kurt Vile
There has been but one true love In my baby's arms, in my baby's arms And I got the hands to hold onto them I get sick of just about everyone And I hide in my baby's arms, hide in my baby's arms 'Cause except for her, you know, as I've implied I will never ever ever be alone 'Cause it's all in my baby's hands Shiny, shiny secret stones In my baby's hands, in my baby's hands I get sick of just about everyone And I hide in my baby's arms Shrink myself just like a tom thumb And I hide in my baby's hands, hide in my baby's hands 'Cause except for her there just ain't nothin' to latch onto There has been but one true love In my baby's arms, in my baby's arms In my baby's arms, in my baby's arms crawled out of the sea - laura marling
Oh you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms, Straight into my arms Oh you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms, Straight into my arms Oh you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms, Straight into my arms Oh you crawled out of the sea Straight into my arms, Straight into my arms EMMYLOU - FIRST AID KIT
Oh the bitter winds are coming in And I'm already missing the summer Stockholm's cold but I've been told I was born to endure this kind of weather When it's you I find like a ghost in my mind I am defeated and I gladly wear the crown I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too No, I'm not asking much of you Just sing little darling, sing with me Now so much I know that things just don't grow If you don't bless them with your patience And I've been there before I held up the door For every stranger with a promise But I'm holding back, that's the strength that I lack Every morning keeps returning at my window And it brings me to you and I won't just pass through But I'm not asking for a storm CHORUS And yes I might have lied to you You wouldn't benefit from knowing of the truth I was frightened but I held fast I need you now at long last CHORUS Flatlands - Chelsea Wolfe (COVER BY Mark Lanegan)
I want flatlands I never cared about money and all its friends I want flatlands I want flatlands I don't want precious stones I never cared about anything you've ever owned I want flatlands I want simplicity I need your arms wrapped hard around me I want open plains and scattered trees I want flower fields I want salty seas I want flatlands soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves I want flatlands will you go there with me when it's said in the dark and you know it's always there when it's dead in our heart but your mind is unafraid when it's said in the dark and you know it's never coming back when it's there in your heart in your mind you set it free Got Me - She & Him
Saw your face My hand you took Just like in a storybook And you got me Yeah, you got me I can't even argue Couldn't, cause it's true Now you got me Yeah, you got me Got me tucked up in your pocket Don't know how you won my heart Cause I'd locked it Yeah, I'd locked it I can't feel your heartbeat Where I lay my head Cause you got me Yeah, you got me I can't feel your heartbeat Where I lay my head Cause you got me Yeah, you got me Got me tucked up in your pocket Don't know how you won my heart Cause I'd locked it Yeah, I'd locked it I Could Even Grow A Moustache For You - Daniel Norgren
Oh blue days of spring, and I'm thinking about you baby The moon and the ring, it was hung up for you baby I took my old car, and I rolled down to the station and I waited in the bar, but I would never see your face again I could fight in the ring I could walk on a string even grow a moustache for you The night black as tar, and the band was playing shady Your eyes full of stars, and you used to shake that thing little baby You swung your little shoes so hard bet it could brake the neck on a stallion and I spun like a fuse on a turkish nuclear powerline I could fight in the ring I could walk on a string even grow a moustache for you And now the angels stand all lined up, bringing everything you want And your left like a gypsy monroe, I can hear it in my dream so clear and strong Oh blue days of spring, and I'm thinking about you baby The moon and the ring, it was hung up for you baby I took my old car, and I rolled down to the station and I waited in the bar, but I would never see your face again I could fight in the ring I could walk on a string even grow a moustache for you I Got You - Quarry Mountain Dead Rats
The river never ceases flowin', but I can't go with you today, cos' I know a thing or two myself as sure as I'm tired in the mornin', I know I'll be gettin' through the day, cos' I know a thing or two myself Stones sink, wool it shrinks, and I got you Grass grows, I got ten toes, and I got you Bird flies north in the cold, To find itself a place in the warmth, well I know, a trick or two myself People say that I'm the fool, Sometimes thats probly' very true but I know a thing or two myself The earth turns, wood it burns, and I got you Leaves fall, seeds get tall, and I got you Sun it rises for the next day, Stars they all shine through the night, I know a thing or two myself Things don't always go quite right But I don't let that worry me at all, cos' I know a thing or two myself Stones sink, wool it shrinks, and I got you Grass grows, I got ten toes, and I got you I Love You, HOneybear - Father John Misty
Oh, honeybear, honeybear, honeybear ooh-ooh Mascara blood ash and cum On the rorschach sheets where we make love Honeybear, honeybear, honeybear ooh-ooh Fuck the world damn straight malaise It may be just us who feel this way But don't ever doubt this, my steadfast conviction My love, you're the one I want to watch the ship go down with The future can't be real, I barely know how long a moment is Unless we're naked getting high on the mattress While the global market crashes As death fills the streets we're garden variety oblivious You grab my hand and say In I-told-you-so voice "It's just how we expected." Everything is doomed, and nothing will be spared But I love you, honeybear ooh-ooh ooh-ooh Honeybear, honeybear, honeybear ooh-ooh You're bent over the altar And the neighbors are complaining That the misanthropes next door Are probably conceiving a damian Don't they see the darkness rising? Good luck figuring oblivion We're getting out now while we can You're welcome boys, have the last of the smokes and chicken Just one cadillac will do to get us out to where we're going I've brought my mother's depression You've got your father's scorn and a wayward aunt's schizophrenia But everything is fine Don't give into despair Cause I love you, honeybear I'm Holding You - Ween
I'm flyin (flying) In a frame of my mind That time cannot erase I'm seein' (seein') The future, the past As I lay the present to waste I'm scopin' (scopin') All these feelings I have And hopin' for them to come true And I'm holdin' Something more precious than fine ore Baby, I'm holdin' you I'm breathin' (breathin') The fumes of the grid That rid my lobe of oxygen I'm climbin' (climbin') The walls to where good And evil make amends I'm trippin' (trippin') Writhin' and squealing, pewkin' Looking for someone like you And I'm holdin' Something more precious than fine ore Baby, I'm holdin' you I'm Sticking With you - The Velvet Underground
I'm sticking with you Cause I'm made out of glue Anything that you might do I'm gonna do too You held up a stage coach in the rain And I'm doing the same Saw you're hanging from a tree And I made believe it was me I'm sticking with you Cause I'm made out of glue Anything that you might do I'm gonna do too Some people go Into the stratosphere Soldiers fighting With the cong But with you by my side I can do anything When we swing We hang past right or wrong I'll do anything for you Anything you want me too I'll do anything for you Oh I'm sticking with you Oh I'm sticking with you Oh I'm sticking with you Ivory Road - King Charles
You're the nose on my bullet, the trigger on my gun You're the sandbank in the ocean, oxygen in my blood You're the fastest of the fish, you're the prickliest pear You're a chameleon in the night, you're the sahara's sun glare You're my mind's rest, you're the strings on my guitar You're the wax in my moustache, the keys to my car You're the magical mermaid's hollowed illusion You cool them, fool them, and they hope so much And you let them down, and you watch from your rock And your heart beats fast as you watch their's stop I will keep on loving, 'cos I believe in love I don't mind dying, if you follow me up Your victory's your defeat, your head above your heart Only the brave surrender, death cannot tear us apart Death cannot tear us apart Death cannot tear us apart Death cannot tear us apart Well my smile is wider, than your's when we meet And the winter is colder, for me underneath And I know that you glow, from the inside out You can keep it for yourself and I'll go without You are the fire and I'm the chimney You'll burn away and I'll choke on your memory All the words, my sense, you're the poet to my pen You're the dream that brings the morning sadness Start the day storm in my head Well you're the Oscar Wilde short stories in my bookcase You're positively 4th street isolated in my itunes You're the word in the dictionary that I can't spell Can't describe, can't put in a sentence but use all the time Your own pair of trousers look better on me The boots of spanish leather at the bottom of the sea Every symbol of love that doesn't relate to a meaning Every feeling, every sensation only real when I'm dreaming I will keep on loving 'cos I believe in love I don't mind dying if you follow me up Your victory's your defeat your head above your heart Only the brave surrender death cannot tear us apart Wild horses in the wilderness will know no journey home Well my love is locked in chains the lion walks alone Well the lion walks alone nature is cruel But he knows it's his home He to his demons and you to your own Please let me stand by you and we'll conquer them all Oh I will conquer them all (x3) Johnny & June - Truckstop Honeymoon
Well, I’m going to stay by you You’re going to stay by me We ain’t going to need to spell out no D-I-V-O-R-C-E We ain’t like Tammy and George We don’t sing them tunes You and me we’re going to be more like Johnny and June Johnny tell it like it is even when he lied June had the courage to look the devil in the eye and say I love you And maybe I speak too soon But honey, I think I love you like Johnny he loved June Well, I’m going to stay by you You’re going to stay by me We ain’t going to need to spell out no D-I-V-O-R-C-E We ain’t like Tammy and George We don’t sing them tunes You and me we’re going to be more like Johnny and June Well, June she told Johnny “Love is a burning thing” Baby, I’m on fire and I’m going to buy you a nine dollar ring But you burned me bad in the third degree Like Johnny he burned June that’s how you burned me Well, I’m going to stay by you You’re going to stay by me We ain’t going to need to spell out no D-I-V-O-R-C-E We ain’t like Tammy and George We don’t sing them tunes You and me we’re going to be more like Johnny and June Just Right - Tessa Violet
You were, too much And all at once, you were, just enough You're just right, you're the perfect temp You're my coffee cup when I've over slept You are, complete You're my final cord in my even beat You're the perfect rhyme, in the perfect time So please can I, make you mine Don't wanna make you, just wanna tell you, I like you Bells keep ringing Don't wanna get by, Can't keep it inside, I like you My heart keeps singing You are, the best The battery poundin' in my chest If we're playing space and we have to dock You will be my Kirk and I will be your Spock You're the, Bee's knees The sunny day in a cool breeze You're the night time drive in my favorite tee Please will you marry me? Don't wanna make you, just wanna tell you, I like you Bells keep ringing Don't wanna get by, Can't keep it inside, I like you My heart keeps singing I think you are perfect even though you don't agree Maybe cause you're lookin', You will see what you will see Baby If you're lookin', grow old with me I wanna know, what it is to, tell you I like you all the time I wanna know, how it feels to, have our fingers intertwined Don't wanna make you, just wanna tell you, I like you Bells keep ringing Don't wanna get by, Can't keep it inside, I like you My heart keeps singing Kiss With A Fist - Florence & The Machine
You hit me once I hit you back You gave a kick I gave a slap You smashed a plate over my head Then I set fire to our bed, oh My black eye casts no shadow, your red eye sees nothing Your slap don't stick, your kicks don't hit So we remain the same Love sticks Sweat drips Break the lock if it don't fit A kick to the teeth is good for some A kiss with a fist is better then none I broke your jaw once before I spilled your blood upon the floor You broke my leg in return So sit back and watch the bed burn Love sticks Sweat drips Break the lock if it don't fit A kick in the teeth is good for some A kiss with a fist is better then none Love Interruption - Jack White
I want love to, roll me over slowly Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around. I want love to, grab my fingers gently Slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground. I want love to, murder my own mother and Take her off to somewhere like hell or up above. I want love to change my friends to enemies, Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault. I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore. I want love to, walk right up and bite me Grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground. And I want love to, split my mouth wide open and Cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound. I want love to, forget that you offended me Or how you have defended me when everybody tore me down. Yeah I want love to change my friends to enemies, Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault. Yeah I wont let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore. Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin - The Magnetic Fields
It makes you blind, it does you in It makes you think you're pretty tough It makes you prone to crime and sin It makes you say things off the cuff It's very small and made of glass And grossly over-advertised It turns a genius into an ass And makes a fool think he is wise It could make you regret your birth Or turn cartwheels in your best suit It costs a lot more than it's worth And yet there is no substitute They keep it on a higher shelf The older and more pure it grows It has no color in itself But it can make you see rainbows You can find it on the Bowery Or you can find it at Elaine's It makes your words more flowery It makes the sun shine, makes it rain You just get out what they put in And they never put in enough Love is like a bottle of gin But a bottle of gin is not like love Love Love Love - The Mountain Goats
King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong And Joseph's brothers sold him down the river for a song And Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove Some things you do for money And some you do for love, love, love Raskolnikov felt sick, but he couldn't say why When he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye Some things you'll do for money and some you'll do for fun But the things you do for love Are going to come back to you one by one Love, love is going to lead you by the hand Into a white and soundless place Now we see things as in a mirror dimly Then we shall see each other face to face And way out in Seattle, young Kurt Cobain Snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain Snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above Some moments last forever But some flare out with love, love, love Make It Wit Chu - Queens Of The Stone Age
You wanna know if I know why I can't say that I do Don't understand the you or I Or how one becomes two I just can't recall what started it off Or how to begin again I ain't here to break ya Just see how far it will bend Again and again, again and again I wanna make it I wanna make it wit' chu Anytime, anywhere I wanna make it (Again and again) I wanna make it wit' chu Sometimes the same is different But mostly it's the same These mysteries of life That just ain't my thing If I told you that I knew about the sun and the moon, I'd be untrue The only thing I know for sure Is what I won't do Anytime, anywhere, and I said I wanna make it I wanna make it wit' chu Anytime, anywhere I wanna make it (Again and again) I wanna make it wit' chu Never Had Nobody Like You - M Ward
Well, since time I had a mind, I been lazy And times before that I was cruel And times before that I was lean, I was mad Honey, I ain't never had nobody like you And the times before that, well, I was crazy I saw the dark side of the moon And the stars in the sky, they never caught my eye 'Cause I ain't never had nobody like you I ain't never had nobody like you Now it's just like ABC Life's just like 123 Yeah yeah Yeah yeah Ah oh I watched my own habits die and its painful sometimes its painful in the light of the truth but you can be faster than light I'd like to thank you tonight Honey, I ain't never had nobody like you I ain't never had nobody like you And it's just like ABC Life's just like 123 Yeah yeah Yeah yeah Ah oh I trusted liars and thieves in my madness Honey I was wasting away in the room But now that I been through that hell I got a story to tell Honey, I ain't never had nobody like you I ain't I never had nobody like you I ain't never had nobody like you Run From Me - Timber Timbre
Run from me, darlin Run, my good wife Run from me, darlin You better run for your life Run from me, baby Run, my good wife Run from me, baby You better run for your life Each time I see you I contemplate What I love most of all Your swinging gait Run from me, darlin Run, my good wife Run from me, darlin You better run for your life Run, run, run, run, run Run, run, run, run, run Run, run, run, run, run Run, run, run, run, run Sea Of Love - Honeydrippers / Cat Power / Tom Waits
Come with me My love To the sea The sea of love I wanna tell you How much I love you Do you remember When we met That's the day I knew you were my pet I wanna tell you How much I love you Come with me My love To the sea The sea of love I wanna tell you How much I love you The Outdoor Type - The Lemonheads
Always had a roof above me Always paid the rent But I've never set foot inside a tent Can't build a fire to save my life I lied about being the outdoor type I've never slept out underneath the stars, The closest that I came to that was one time my car Broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night I lied about being the outdoor type. Too scared to let you know you knew what you were looking for I lied until I fit the bill god bless the great indoors I lied about being the outdoor type I've never owned a sleeping bag let alone a mountain bike I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend What if somethings on tv and its never shown again Its just as well I'm not invited I'm afraid of heights I lied about being the outdoor type Never learned to swim can't grow a beard or even fight I lied about being the outdoor type The Sun - Sures
The sun, the sun goes over the sea I hear her talk in her sleep Bags of sand and bones Follow us back home Feet step through the door I guess, I guess that's always the case Life in some far away place She is bound to call, one of us to shore Freedom at its core And our lives will be in our hands, in our hands In our hands, in our hands Think I'm In Love - Beck
I really think I better get a hold of myself Don't wanna let the night get ahead of myself Whisperin' her love through a smoke ring smile She doesn't know what happens when she's around I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so Probably lay my head on a wooden floor Tell her I was tired from working the store Counting all the cash from an old shoe box Saving up to buy her something she wants I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so What if it's wrong? What if it's wrong To pray in vain? What does it mean To fake your death To wake up tainted? Take a little picture in a photo booth Keep it in a locket, and I think of you Both of our pictures, face to face Take off your necklace and throw it away I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so I think I'm in love but it makes me kinda nervous to say so Really think I better get a hold of myself Don't wanna let the night get ahead of myself Whisperin' her love through a smoke ring smile She doesn't know what happens when she's around We're Going To Be Friends - The White Stripes
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walking blues Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are going to be friends I can tell that we are going to be friends Walk with me, Suzy Lee Through the park and by the tree We will rest upon the ground And look at all the bugs we found Safely walk to school without a sound Safely walk to school without a sound Here we are, no one else We walked to school all by ourselves There's dirt on our uniforms From chasing all the ants and worms We clean up and now its time to learn We clean up and now its time to learn Numbers, letters, learn to spell Nouns, and books, and show and tell Playtime we will throw the ball Back to class, through the hall Teacher marks our height against the wall Teacher marks our height against the wall We don't notice any time pass We don't notice anything We sit side by side in every class Teacher thinks that I sound funny But she likes the way you sing Tonight I'll dream while in my bed When silly thoughts go through my head About the bugs and alphabet And when I wake tomorrow I'll bet That you and I will walk together again I can tell that we are going to be friends I can tell that we are going to be friends When You Are Old And Grey - TOM LEHRER
Since I still appreciate you Let's find love while we may Because I know I'll hate you When you are old and grey So say you love me here and now I'll make the most of that Say you love and trust me For I know you'll disgust me When you're old and getting fat An awful debility A lessened utility A loss of mobility Is a strong possibility In all probability I'll lose my virility And you your fertility And desirability And this liability Of total sterility Will leed to hostility And a sense of.. futility So let's act with agility While we still have facility For we'll soon reach senility And lose the ability Your teeth will start to go dear Your waist will start to spread In twenty years or so dear I'll wish that you were dead I'll never love you then at all The way I do today So please remember When I leave in December I told you so in May |
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