TRACK 8:
Less Than Love Is Nothing
JONATHA'S NOTE:
We just had way too much fun working on this one. I went down to Philly with a bunch of ideas and this chorus, and hung out for a day with Eric Bazilian. (The Hooters, Joan Osborne
.) That's how I ended up in Germany on tour opening for the Hooters last summer, and singing "What if God was One of Us" with Eric for one of their encores. Anyway, once we got the vibe, this one came out like an express train.
LYRICS:
I give you love but you won't take it
You flip your collar as you leave
The bicycles on cobblestones
The corner cafe all alone
They whisper, they whisper
"Don't let him take your love for granted
Don't think that he's the only one
There's more to love than keeping time
More to reason than the rhyme
So listen, just listen;
Less than love is nothing
And nothing is not enough
And more than anything
I wish you love
Less than love is nothing
And nothing is not enough
And more than anything
I wish you love, wish you love"
'Cause there might be love around the corner
These streets have seen it all before
They've seen every up and down
Every callous lucky clown
Mistaken, and sorry now
'Cause less than love is nothing
And nothing is not enough
And more than anything
I wish you love
Less than love is nothing
And nothing is not enough
And more than anything
I wish you well I wish you might
I wish you were alone tonight
I wish that I could leave the past behind
For once, I wish that love would last
'Cause nothing is not enough
and more than anything
I wish you love
.
Less than love is nothing, less than love is nothing, less than love is nothing