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{{song
| title =Love Is Not Enough
| album =''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
| length =3:41
| BPM = 123
| versions =Love Is Not Enough<br>Love Is Not Enough (Instrumental)<br>Love Is Not Enough (Live At Rehearsals)<br>Love Is Not Enough (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')
| live =[[Live: With Teeth]] through [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]<br>[[NIN 2022]] through present
}}"'''Love Is Not Enough'''" is the fifth track on ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' It was the first song [[Trent Reznor]] wrote for that album.[https://www.nin.wiki/images/6/6b/2005_02_26Questions9.gif] It is sometimes referred to by its initialism, '''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 filing, the song had a working title of "The Clamp".[https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/10652885]

==Appearances==
===Halos===
*''With Teeth''
*''[[Only (halo)|Only]]''
*''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|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 (song)|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 [[2005/03/25|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.

Most performances of the song have 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. The performance during [[2022/06/17 Cornwall, England|The Eden Project 2022]] featured the live drumming intro from the album version.

"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. It was then performed as a remixed version in collaboration with [[Boys Noize]] on the [[Peel It Back Tour]].

==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


{{Succession box
| title=[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]
| before=[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]
| after=[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]
| track=5}}
[[Category: NIN Songs]][[Category:Songs With Unused Lyrics]]