50 Best Rock Songs About Taking a Chance on Love
Taking a Leap in Love Rock Songs That Risk It All
There’s that split second before you lean in—heart stuttering, brain running warnings you won’t listen to anyway. Taking a chance on love feels like holding your breath before a chord drop. It’s messy, sometimes reckless, never fully timed right. The kind of moment that makes you scroll through old messages at 2 a.m. or blast a song loud enough to drown out thinking. These tracks hit that same nerve. Not all of them spell it out, but the pulse is there. That electric maybe. The push past common sense.
Love in rock songs tends to sound raw, even clumsy. It’s not candlelight and grand gestures but quiet confessions under streetlights or shouting through distortion. You can feel it in a riff that stretches too long, or in a lyric that sounds like someone trying to talk themselves into courage. Some of these are technically pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that wander into the same space. The place where you risk looking stupid, and somehow that’s what makes it real. A few of these tracks may not even be literally on the topic, but they carry the same charge that comes with taking that swing.
So here’s to the ones who said yes when they should’ve waited, and the ones who didn’t but still think about it. These songs live in that in-between—where fear meets curiosity, and volume makes it easier to breathe. Here are the best rock songs about taking a chance on love.
Top 10 Romantic Risk Rock Songs
1. 'I Want to Know What Love Is' by Foreigner
2. 'Open Arms' by Journey
3. 'Can't Fight This Feeling' by REO Speedwagon
4. 'Crazy on You' by Heart
5. 'Wild Horses' by The Rolling Stones
6. 'I'll Stand By You' by The Pretenders
7. 'Don't Stop Believin'' by Journey
8. 'I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)' by Meat Loaf
9. 'Dare You To Move' by Switchfoot
10. 'Waiting for a Girl Like You' by Foreigner
Great Rock Songs About New Love and Hope #11 to 20
11. 'All I Want Is You' by U2
12. 'Iris' by Goo Goo Dolls
13. 'Love of a Lifetime' by Firehouse
14. 'Whole Lotta Love' by Led Zeppelin
15. 'Forever' by Kiss
16. 'May You Never' by John Martyn
17. 'You Get What You Give' by New Radicals
18. 'Everlong' by Foo Fighters
19. 'This I Promise You' by N'Sync
20. 'If It Makes You Happy' by Sheryl Crow
Rock Songs About Daring to Fall in Love #21 to 30
21. 'More Than Words' by Extreme
22. 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks
23. 'Heaven' by Bryan Adams
24. 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' by Poison
25. 'Is This Love' by Whitesnake
26. 'Nothing Else Matters' by Metallica
27. 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure
28. 'Wonderwall' by Oasis
29. 'Into the Great Wide Open' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
30. 'Thank You' by Led Zeppelin
Rock Songs That Capture the Essence of New Romance #31 to 40
31. 'Can't Stop Lovin' You' by Van Halen
32. 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns N' Roses
33. 'Tangerine' by Led Zeppelin
34. 'Still Loving You' by Scorpions
35. 'In My Life' by The Beatles
36. 'Love Song' by The Cure
37. 'Lovesong' by Adele
38. 'You're My Best Friend' by Queen
39. 'If You Leave Me Now' by Chicago
40. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' by Queen
Rock Songs About Committing to Love #41 to 50
41. 'Faithfully' by Journey
42. 'The Flame' by Cheap Trick
43. 'This Love' by Maroon 5
44. 'You've Got the Love' by Florence and the Machine
45. 'She Will Be Loved' by Maroon 5
46. 'Crimson and Clover' by Tommy James and the Shondells
47. 'Love Me Two Times' by The Doors
48. 'The Sound of Silence' by Simon and Garfunkel
49. 'Love Her Madly' by The Doors
50. 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by U2
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