Love Is Not Enough
Love Is Not Enough (Instrumental)
Love Is Not Enough (Live At Rehearsals)
Love Is Not Enough (Beside You In Time)
NIN 2022
"Love Is Not Enough" is the fifth track on With Teeth. It was the first song Trent Reznor wrote for that album. It is sometimes referred to by its acronym LINE, though this may be confused with "The Line Begins to Blur." There is speculation that the title of the song comes from dialog in episode 27 (aka "The Path To The Black Lodge") of Twin Peaks. According to the US Copyright Office, the song had a working title of "The Clamp".[1]
Contents
Appearances
Halos
- With Teeth
- Only
- Beside You In Time
Versions
Love Is Not Enough
This is the original album version. Beginning with a simple drum loop as the synthesizer's delay effect from the end of "The Hand That Feeds" fades away, a tom and bass drum pattern in a different drum loop soon enter on top. A loud, distorted verse bassline and vocals soon enter. A distorted guitar riff enters halfway through this verse, which then opens up into the chorus with more prominent guitars. Reznor's vocals in the choruses mark one of the first occasions he would add extra-lyrical "words," specifically "hey," in between the lyrics, a technique he would go on to use quite often in many songs on ensuing tours. A bridge featuring loud melodic guitar follows the second chorus, which resolves into a quieter denouement with repeated high register wordless background vocals. The song soon ends as suddenly as it began.
Love Is Not Enough (Instrumental)
Released exclusively through Apple Music.
Love Is Not Enough (Live At Rehearsals)
This version appears as audio only on the Only single and as a video DVD extra on Beside You In Time. It and all subsequent live performances of the song use new percussion loops during the introduction and through the entire song, often a consistent pulse with the secondary drum loop on top.
Love Is Not Enough (Beside You In Time)
A live performance video on Beside You In Time, this is the opening track. It ends with Reznor shouting the song title.
Song Credits
- Writing: Trent Reznor
- Performance: Alessandro Cortini, Jerome Dillon, Aaron North, Trent Reznor, Jeordie White
- Mix: Dave Sardy
Live
"Love Is Not Enough" was performed at about half of shows on the Live: With Teeth tour in 2005/6. It was the first song played in its debut show on March 25th, 2005, and opened a majority of the shows it was played at. It would become rarer as the tour went on, not appearing on the summer amphitheater tour.
Every performance of the song has featured new percussive backing tracks beneath the main drum beat; one is used on Beside You In Time, while the Lights In The Sky Tour version used a new ethnic percussion loop.
"Love Is Not Enough" was performed eight times at the early shows of the Performance 2007 tour, and then twice on the Lights In The Sky Tour. It did not return until 2022.
Lyrics
The more that we take
The paler we get
I can't remember what it is
We try to forget
The tile on the floor
So cold it can sting
In your eyes is a place
Worth remembering
For you to go and take this
To smash it apart
I've gone all this fucking way
To wind up
To wind up back at the start
Hey the closer we think we are
Well it only got us so far
Now you got anything left to show?
No, no, I didn't think so
Hey, the sooner we realize
We cover ourselves with lies
But underneath we're not so tough
And love is not enough
It hides in the dark
Like the withering vein
We didn't give it a mouth
So it cannot complain
It never really had a chance
We'd never really make it through
And to think I believed
I believed I could get better with you
Hey the closer we think we are
Well it only got us so far
Now you got anything left to show?
No, no, I didn't think so
Hey, the sooner we realize
We cover ourselves with lies
But underneath we're not so tough
And love is not enough
The final lines of the first verse were changed to:
To wind up back at
Back at the start
Additional lyrics printed in the With Teeth PDF booklet, but not appearing in the song itself
Left for dead and all used up
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