🎶 “Love Is Not Enough” (Roots Reggae)
[Intro – Spoken / Chant]
Love… is not enough…
No, no… not enough…
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[Verse 1]
Love alone can’t keep it alive,
through the years when the pressure arrives
’Cause love don’t guarantee the way,
presence, effort, day by day
There will be times one gives more,
while the other just stands at the door
And to me that imbalance is real,
not the body… but the bond you break and steal
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[Chorus]
Love is not enough, no no…
you need awareness too
Effort, patience, empathy,
to carry the two of you
Love is not enough, no no…
if you’re not showing up
When one keeps pouring out their soul,
eventually that’s too much
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[Verse 2]
When one stops showing up inside,
when one just takes and lets it slide
Hiding in “I’m not enough,”
getting used to easy love
Then the weight falls on one heart,
still giving from the very start
And that kind of love, my friend…
can break a soul in the end
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[Bridge – Soft / Reflective]
Many never learned how to be there,
never had a home that was aware
So they stand in love like strangers do,
waiting for someone to carry them through
But we all got wounds we bring,
we all feel that hidden sting
And what I’ve learned deep inside…
real love don’t let you hide
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[Chorus]
Love is not enough, no no…
you need awareness too
Effort, patience, empathy,
to carry the two of you
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[Verse 3]
If your love is real, you’ll feel the call,
to rise, to grow, to give your all
’Cause you can feel when you cause pain,
when your absence leaves a stain
We don’t hurt just randomly,
it’s pain inside we cannot see
So if we don’t heal what’s true…
we pass that pain right through
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[Breakdown – Chant / Nyabinghi vibe]
It’s deeper than love…
deeper than words…
It’s how you show up…
it’s what you serve…
Awareness… effort…
patience and truth…
Accountability…
that’s what makes it move…
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[Outro]
So before you love again, take a look,
at your past, at the path you took
How many times did love fall through…
was it them… or was it you?
Are we loving… or chasing the high?
Of a feeling that keeps passing by…
’Cause we decorate wounds we don’t heal,
and repeat what we don’t reveal
And slowly… we drift apart…
In love, in family, in heart…
Some still try… but many are tired…
wounded souls… feeling uninspired…
