Manic Street Preachers ft Nina Persson - Your Love Alone is Not Enough

I’ve never been a fan of the Manic Street Preachers but, much like U2, I don’t dislike them either! I think it’s because I’m attracted more to pop songs with unusual chord progressions rather than the usual bog-standard three or four. But, it hasn’t stopped Bob Dylan from being a revered songwriter and, like Mr Zimmerman, I think the point of the Manics is their politics. I presume the song that springs to most people’s minds, that best represents their ideology, is “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”.

Having long been a fan of The Cardigans, however, I was curious to discover how the duet turned out between their lead singer Nina Persson and James Dean Bradfield, lead singer of the Manics. There’s some dodgy word setting but the English language is notoriously difficult to set to music. German is much easier! But Nina’s looking good, not that that has anything to do with how it sounds, and it’s a fun video, in which the two stages are joined together in a show of unity, so I’ve posted “Your Love Alone is Not Enough”, the first single from the Manic Street Preachers’ new album “Send Away the Tigers”, for you to make up your own minds!

Your love alone – is not enough, not enough, not enough
When times get tough – they get tough, they get tough, they get tough

Trade all your heroes in for ghosts, in for ghosts, in for ghosts
They’re always the one’s that love you most, love you most, love you most

Your love alone – is not enough, not enough, not enough
It’s what you felt – it’s what you said, what you said, what you said

You said the sky would fall on you, fall on you, fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed blue – they stayed blue, baby blue

But your love alone won’t save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all, you made it worse
It left you lonely, it left you cursed

You stole the sun – straight from my heart, from my heart, from my heart
With no excuses – just fell apart, fell apart, fell apart

No, you won’t make a mess of me, mess of me, mess of me
For you’re as blind as a man can be, man can be, man can be

I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive
I could have placed us in exile
– I could have written all your lines –
I could have shown you – I could have shown you – how to cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone is not enough

La, la, la, la – la, la, la, la–a–a
I could have shown you, shown you how to cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone