my dad would always play this song in the car when i was a kid, i didnt appreciate it then because i thought it was horrible and the album cover was “weird”. but ive come back to them now, i have no words for how good this is and live is one of the best hands down. thank you dad, i didn’t appreciate it then but i do now
A very successful band who wrote great rock 90s Anthems They used to be from Pennsylvania and were trained by the best vocal coaches and guitar 🎸 players and percussionists and choreographers Alternative rocked because of bands like this Nirvana and Pearl Jam set the bar high Live went higher Still touring New music 🎶
A perfect song that represents the darker thoughts that run through everyone's mind when they're feeling at their lowest or most vulnerable. We alone are our own worst enemies.
the words I Alone Love You ran thru my brain whenever I was with dashing Dave. I lost him suddenly in 1998 at age 34. RIP my dearest love and favorite lawyer. I will love him until I take my last breath.
Damn, this takes me to my teen years. Jamming out in 1994 at 14 and again in 1999 when I turned 19 trekking across India. Oh to go back to those years just once. Guess I'll settle for time travel through music.
I like how this song goes right into the action. It doesn’t work for every song, and maybe this was the only way this one did… but it suits it so well.
I can't imagine a more perfect song for my fire and I. . .Fear is not the end of this. . .and only love can save us now! 1 of the best things to ever hit radio . .. .LIVE!
@Sarma Sniper You are all wrong. Anyone could figure out that this song is about prostitutes and taking ungodly amounts of drugs. Just kidding. The great thing about lyrics like this that are somewhat vague and ambiguous is that the listener can interpret the song however they want. I always kinda thought this song was about the many challenges many people encounter while re arranging their sock drawer.
this is the ultimate dark night of the soul battle song. I could see this being played as the score to a movie about Jesus' battle with temptation in the desert
Reminds me of when i was a little girl. Always had it on the radio with my dad when we were going somewhere. And if it was not in the car with my dad, it was in the car with my best friend back then and her dad. Childhood memories for sure!!! love it
@@marka6187 l completely agree, the 90s was an unparalleled decade of the most brilliant and original musical creativity. Right up there with the 60s and 70s in terms of innovation and genius. We may never see its like again.
A scientist that lost his religious fiance... I come back to this and cry. We battled about who was right. She experienced something I cant until it's too late...
oh shit that's crazy memory..i was a child and sometimes used to listen a lot of original cds of my brothers..this one and selling the drama i use to listen in loop..great 90s..
i remember reading an interview in the 90s where he explained that the song is about the alienating effects of organized religion, and that what he's doing is portraying god as an abusive father or abusive husband that controls through fear.
live _did_ get far too christiany for my tastes starting with the fifth record. but, i'd place their first four records in a category with bands like u2 and rem, and nine inch nails, that were more about questioning faith and trying to get past it - but without losing the communitarian aspects of religion. they're great records for kids that want to believe people are fundamentally good, but have a really hard time with the basic premise of a sky god.
Very well put Jessica. I'm not religious or spiritual per se, but the message of the song being to discover your own beliefs and not subscribe to dogma is welcome even if it is still pro-deism.
I have loved this song since I first heard it although I'm confused by it's meaning. I read some of the posts to see what others thought it might mean. Good rock and roll song.
@@blucat4 it is but in a humbling way. Why do you think he mentions Chuch? There's quotes that are loosely from the bible (I alone tempt you) and it's clearly a spiritual song. Here, He alludes to it heavily in this interview: "The opening line, ’It’s easier not to be wise,’ was based on me always having had an interest in spiritual traditions and finding answers to the big questions in life. That initial lyric is a surrender to the obviousness that it’s easier not to be a wise man. It’s easier to be what we are: fledgling beings trying to find our way through life. It’s a pretty obvious statement but it’s also a kind of surrender, an acknowledgement of our weakness. Then the verses are setting up this meditative place - they even mention a church - just trying to put together an image of a man in contemplation about these bigger ideas. Then it was really a matter of putting these little pieces of meaning together, in almost a montage"
@@ro3843 Dude, I think Live has made it clear with songs like "Top" and "Operation Spirit" that they are (or were) far from Christian. It is an ANTI-Christian song. This song is about how Satan temps us. Ed is singing from Satan's point of view. It display's many of Satan's typical lies to human's. It's easier not to be wise and measure these things by your brains It's easier not to be great and measure these things by your eyes Satan likes to keep us dumb, so it is easier for him to tempt us. I sank into Eden with you "Sank into Eden" implies entering Eden. God was always there, and the song is clearly not written form Adam or Eve's point of view. The greatest of teachers won't hesitate to leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate" 'Jesus will leave you.' Sounds like something Satan would say. On the chorus: I alone love you (God threw you away from paradise so I love you because I give you pleasure, and everything you've ever dreamed of) I alone tempt you (I tempt you because I'm the incarnation of sin and by pleasing you I make sin) I alone love you (I love you, I give pleasure, does GOD does that for you?, no... but I do) Fear is not the end of this! That last line is scary, chilling, dare I say, Oh my God. There is the Tree of Knowledge, and the snake which tempted Adam and Eve. This is clearly Satan tempting them, "I alone tempt you." Then there is the video. How Ed is dressed, and how he acts - it is disgusting, sickening. He is channeling some energy here, and it ain't Jesus. That's why I have the lyric video on my playlist - I won't watch the official video. Having said that, the song is really good, and Ed sings it with great talent and feeling, it's awesome. Almost like Satan wrote it for them. I hope they didn't sell their souls for a song. It's ANTI-Christian, make no mistake. Have a nice day.
The show 'Homicide Life on the Street' (1993-1999 RIP) brought me here a long time ago. I think this song appeared twice in the show's soundtrack. Great song paired with an even greater show.
GOD SAY UNTO THE SUFFERING "YOU SUFFER BECAUSE YOU KNOW NOT MY WILL... OBEY AND I MIGHT RECEIVE YOU." AND UNTO THOSE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED THAT SAY, "MY WILL I GIVE UNTO YOU MY CHILDREN." GOD CALLS THEM HIS EQUALS. THE ONES WHO BEGOT THE SUFFEREDS SUFFERING
Religion divides us but God is real and I'll never say different. Once you get an unmistakable sign from him like the one I got you'd feel the same. You just have to look for the signs
God is not real. Don't be misguided by blind faith and lies. Religion is a lie meant so a person can climb the stairs of wealth and feel powerful in their life. They lie so their followers can feel that their lives had meaning. They die with the guilt of living a lie and directing their followers upon false hopes.
This song is about cause & effect, action & consequence, good & evil, a very poignant piece and I like it!!! Or perhaps it’s about how bad things lurk around every corner or in every emptier space? Mans’ twisted relationship with higher power?
my dad would always play this song in the car when i was a kid, i didnt appreciate it then because i thought it was horrible and the album cover was “weird”. but ive come back to them now, i have no words for how good this is and live is one of the best hands down. thank you dad, i didn’t appreciate it then but i do now
"Fear is not the end of this." Wow. Gives me chills every time.
It should
That's my life quote, no matter how bad life can get, always remember...
_Fear is not the end of this!_
.....yeast (up)rising
The greatest of teachers won’t hesitate to leave you there by yourself chained to fate
Chills.
The Greatest Of Teachers Won't Hesitate To Leave You There By Yourself Chained To Fate ‼️💯🙅♂️🧢❤️🔥🙏👨🎤
2:31 one of the best moments of rock history
👍
What an incredible song! Love it just as much today as I did in 1994...
Live is such a beautiful band and is extremely underated and under appreciated....what's wrong with this world today?
Katrina Ashcraft we took it back to far only love can save us now only love can save anyone
K pop crap
i never stopped listening. the are one of my fav bands from the 90s.
One of the best bands of the 90's I miss this time in music
A very successful band who wrote great rock 90s Anthems
They used to be from Pennsylvania and were trained by the best vocal coaches and guitar 🎸 players and percussionists and choreographers
Alternative rocked because of bands like this
Nirvana and Pearl Jam set the bar high
Live went higher
Still touring
New music 🎶
PA proud. GO! NAVY
Gi Jane from Philadelphia
It's Philly😉✌️@@lacygorman9154
A perfect song that represents the darker thoughts that run through everyone's mind when they're feeling at their lowest or most vulnerable. We alone are our own worst enemies.
no your thinking of sad but true
It's easier not to be wise
Mix this
With
Rattlesnake by Live
Play that in suroundsound...
If you are your own worst enemy then you are the only one can that can save yourself. As my man Adam up there said, “it’s easier not to be wise.”
Word. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest. You know, the trees..
the words I Alone Love You ran thru my brain whenever I was with dashing Dave. I lost him suddenly in 1998 at age 34. RIP my dearest love and favorite lawyer. I will love him until I take my last breath.
who's Dave?
this album is a real ALBUM. every single song on it is great! not just the singles & a bunch of filler songs like todays albums.
couldnt agree more
+Holly Roxy Huge album, 20 yrs later still kicks one in the proverbial butt, every time. Genius!
Alex S well thanks :)
+Alex S Jesus Christ it's UA-cam not match.com
Alex S yea sorry i'm engaged :)
I love this song. Personal grief draws out what's in your soul! At some point in life we all stone alone with or without religion.
One of the definitive 90's cuts. Great song.
Damn, this takes me to my teen years. Jamming out in 1994 at 14 and again in 1999 when I turned 19 trekking across India. Oh to go back to those years just once. Guess I'll settle for time travel through music.
What an iconic song. Powerful. Beautiful. Will stand the test of time.
well said
It is, and it has! :-)
good CD 💯
I like how this song goes right into the action. It doesn’t work for every song, and maybe this was the only way this one did… but it suits it so well.
Spiritual and powerful. Awesome songwriting.
This song reminds me of my dad who I lost when I was 3 RIP Thomas V Noel 6/10/1981-5/11/2007
Colin Noel sorry for your loss
❤
I can't imagine a more perfect song for my fire and I. . .Fear is not the end of this. . .and only love can save us now! 1 of the best things to ever hit radio . .. .LIVE!
Live is tremendously a extremely underrated beautiful of a band I'd don't give a damn what yall say they are the best
one of the best shows I have ever seen/heard, a small set they did in Jackson, MS some years ago at our arts fest. Just brilliant!
The band admitted years ago that the song was about Jesus calming the storm, when the disciples were on the boat and afraid.
Its a metaphor. Not discrediting what you have to say but we are all on a boat out to sea. Jesus is with us saving us from being castaways
The song is about not listening to others opinions on spirituality and learning for yourself what you believe.
Wonderfully said. It's also makes me feel this way about someone who DOES always seem to be despondent afraid and ready to be rejected.
@Sarma Sniper You are all wrong. Anyone could figure out that this song is about prostitutes and taking ungodly amounts of drugs. Just kidding. The great thing about lyrics like this that are somewhat vague and ambiguous is that the listener can interpret the song however they want. I always kinda thought this song was about the many challenges many people encounter while re arranging their sock drawer.
WoW this is life changing advice
The entire album, is beautiful. I will always be moved by it.
Hello there how are you doing?
@@James-dc8el Hello to you too, James Smith. At the risk of seeming rude, why did u message me?
@@HawleyBreeze Just being friendly, I hope I’m not inconveniencing you with my message
@@James-dc8el Oh no. That is fine. I suppose I'm just not used to friendly. How was your Xmas?
@@HawleyBreeze It was okay, hope you had fun as well
this is the ultimate dark night of the soul battle song. I could see this being played as the score to a movie about Jesus' battle with temptation in the desert
Reminds me of when i was a little girl. Always had it on the radio with my dad when we were going somewhere. And if it was not in the car with my dad, it was in the car with my best friend back then and her dad. Childhood memories for sure!!! love it
Melissa Fernandez Amazing the memories the 90s songs bring back for some of us.
Same! And 'All Over You' as well.
“It’s easier not to be wise” in certain situations, is the best advice I have ever heard.
Throwing Coper is amazing eery song holds meaning to me and is well written, love this album
Temptation. Cravings of the self always appear as being ALL consuming, leaving no other choices. And its "easier to be.." great song
Love this song ... Love Live!!!!
He sings with such emothion ! That's why I like his music ! I feel his emothion when he sings !!! good songs!
wtf is that
just messin man
emothion
he things with thuch emothon
WTF is emothion? don't you mean emotion?
What a beautiful and powerful song
if there was 1 band that threw it all out the door, it was LIVE . straight^ Rocked
A 90's feel good song. I like the music a lot.
I can sing along with pretty much any song from the 90s but can't remember my phone #. I miss being younger.
That first verse and law and biblical significance is amazing! Well written indeed. I remember this song as a child and had no idea...
I think rock & roll had it's greatest comeback in the 90's, thanks to "Grunge", and I was there in the late 60's.
You are so right!!
@@marka6187 l completely agree, the 90s was an unparalleled decade of the most brilliant and original musical creativity. Right up there with the 60s and 70s in terms of innovation and genius. We may never see its like again.
I agree, music today cannot touch 90's grundge and alternative. This was my era and im glad ti was.
As a 90s teen, this in a sense honours my generation
Except the 90's were better but yes
I FINALLY FOUND IT! I literally thought it said I don't know, but it said I alone! Really, I could not find this song!
I have always loved this band..
Listening to more Live music. love everything I've heard by them
Measure these things by your GRACE
..saw em in concert 3 x in like 2 yrs lol LIVE ROCKS!!
first concert i ever saw live, was live. lol. the 90s were so awesome i wish i could go back
2:48 is my favorite part, it's so randomly aggressive.
Great decade for rock music great decade overall gosh I miss the 90s go back in time for music though
This brings me back. The music I grew up with.
Yesssss!! I just rediscovered this song when the chorus got stuck in my head..
Same! I haven't listened to this for like 8 years!
sounds appropriate for 2020, before your time boys. Always a great band.
I listen to this when I was 17 years old... It helped HEAL my souls Helle to ALL Beleivers!!!!
Karolyn Lefebvre only love can save us now is always the truth
Awesome song! 🤘🏻❤🎶🎵🎶🎵🌹🍀
The greatest of teachers won't hesitate
To leave you by yourself chained to fate
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Live is such a incredibly amazingly brilliant of a band
Now that I’m close to God again, after many years in the dark, I now understand the lyrics
Love this song!
Another Great Canadian Band ooh yeah Thanks LIVE
Sometimes the best thing to do with true love is to cradle the treasure that which is the self and send the twat to destructive oceans.
And send the twat to destructive oceans? What the hell does that even mean?
A scientist that lost his religious fiance... I come back to this and cry. We battled about who was right. She experienced something I cant until it's too late...
:/
When I was a kid I didn't like Live,but warmed up to them over the years
Jeffery Micheal Merrill where we live apart doesn't matter. This song is the best way to tell you exactly how I will always feel. Always
Battle of the band in the 90's favorite song to play
oh shit that's crazy memory..i was a child and sometimes used to listen a lot of original cds of my brothers..this one and selling the drama i use to listen in loop..great 90s..
Dis was my jam when I was 11 yrs old
Me too I think lol
How old r u?
RockersEdge Produxns thankyou so much for posting this. I love this song. I listen to it about 4x in a row before switching.
Rock on 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I heard this song the first time I tuned in on Reckful's stream and today i heard it on a stream rerun. R.I.P Byron
i remember reading an interview in the 90s where he explained that the song is about the alienating effects of organized religion, and that what he's doing is portraying god as an abusive father or abusive husband that controls through fear.
live _did_ get far too christiany for my tastes starting with the fifth record. but, i'd place their first four records in a category with bands like u2 and rem, and nine inch nails, that were more about questioning faith and trying to get past it - but without losing the communitarian aspects of religion. they're great records for kids that want to believe people are fundamentally good, but have a really hard time with the basic premise of a sky god.
what's brought me here today is trump's tendency to claim that "i alone can fix this". i think they nailed that kind of demagoguery, here.
+jessica It makes so much more sense now! Thank you.
Very well put Jessica. I'm not religious or spiritual per se, but the message of the song being to discover your own beliefs and not subscribe to dogma is welcome even if it is still pro-deism.
REALLY? If you could direct us to that interview that would be muchly appreciated :)
Heard this on the radio today, I turned it way up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have loved this song since I first heard it although I'm confused by it's meaning. I read some of the posts to see what others thought it might mean. Good rock and roll song.
To me, it means you can't blame others for your actions. You ALONE are accountable for your choices.
....6 years later😄
Russ Hanneman loves this song.
Did anybody watch Rock Star Supernova on TV in 2006?! Ryan Star and Magni both did great covers of this song!
I'm not at all into the christian scene... But this is one of the most moving christian songs I've ever heard.
Dude I'm pretty sure this song is not a Christian song.
@@blucat4 it is but in a humbling way. Why do you think he mentions Chuch? There's quotes that are loosely from the bible (I alone tempt you) and it's clearly a spiritual song.
Here, He alludes to it heavily in this interview:
"The opening line, ’It’s easier not to be wise,’ was based on me always having had an interest in spiritual traditions and finding answers to the big questions in life. That initial lyric is a surrender to the obviousness that it’s easier not to be a wise man. It’s easier to be what we are: fledgling beings trying to find our way through life. It’s a pretty obvious statement but it’s also a kind of surrender, an acknowledgement of our weakness. Then the verses are setting up this meditative place - they even mention a church - just trying to put together an image of a man in contemplation about these bigger ideas. Then it was really a matter of putting these little pieces of meaning together, in almost a montage"
@@ro3843 Dude, I think Live has made it clear with songs like "Top" and "Operation Spirit" that they are (or were) far from Christian. It is an ANTI-Christian song. This song is about how Satan temps us. Ed is singing from Satan's point of view. It display's many of Satan's typical lies to human's.
It's easier not to be wise
and measure these things by your brains
It's easier not to be great
and measure these things by your eyes
Satan likes to keep us dumb, so it is easier for him to tempt us.
I sank into Eden with you
"Sank into Eden" implies entering Eden. God was always there, and the song is clearly not written form Adam or Eve's point of view.
The greatest of teachers won't hesitate
to leave you there, by yourself,
chained to fate"
'Jesus will leave you.' Sounds like something Satan would say.
On the chorus:
I alone love you (God threw you away from paradise so I love you because I give you pleasure, and everything you've ever dreamed of)
I alone tempt you (I tempt you because I'm the incarnation of sin and by pleasing you I make sin)
I alone love you (I love you, I give pleasure, does GOD does that for you?, no... but I do)
Fear is not the end of this!
That last line is scary, chilling, dare I say, Oh my God.
There is the Tree of Knowledge, and the snake which tempted Adam and Eve. This is clearly Satan tempting them, "I alone tempt you."
Then there is the video. How Ed is dressed, and how he acts - it is disgusting, sickening. He is channeling some energy here, and it ain't Jesus. That's why I have the lyric video on my playlist - I won't watch the official video.
Having said that, the song is really good, and Ed sings it with great talent and feeling, it's awesome. Almost like Satan wrote it for them. I hope they didn't sell their souls for a song. It's ANTI-Christian, make no mistake. Have a nice day.
I love this song !!
Great music! I alone love this.
This brings back memories of my poser emo days back in 2011. 😭😭😭😭
Maribel Villegas RAWR XD
Great lyrics! Much LOVE!
All this time, I've been looking for this song. It plays in my head, yet I did not know the name of it till now.
Do yourself a favor and ignore the comments...
One of the definitive 90's cuts. Great song.
June 2019 from Indonesia, food memories at 90
Live is one of the most underrated bands EVER....
I just started listening to live and this song and others of theirs are why I wake up
The show 'Homicide Life on the Street' (1993-1999 RIP) brought me here a long time ago. I think this song appeared twice in the show's soundtrack. Great song paired with an even greater show.
Man atheist,christian,devil worshiper watever you are or what this song means it is still just a badass rock song when it comes down to it
Legendary...
Awesome song!
Used to listen to this when I was in college wow stil awsome not like the shit of today that was many years ago
I alone love listening to this tune😁🤘✌🙏
Love this song by live good rock song
Dears 90s
I miss you.
Love forever…
I LOVE LIVE...SIMPLE AS THAT
Great tune
This song is immortal
GOD
SAY
UNTO THE SUFFERING
"YOU SUFFER BECAUSE YOU KNOW NOT MY WILL... OBEY AND I MIGHT RECEIVE YOU."
AND UNTO THOSE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED THAT SAY,
"MY WILL I GIVE UNTO YOU MY CHILDREN."
GOD CALLS THEM HIS EQUALS.
THE ONES WHO BEGOT
THE SUFFEREDS SUFFERING
Hi rockersedge :) My eternity together forever in My new kingdom. My new 🌎 pure joy. I LOVE U. 🙋 🌹God💋
What a incredible song
POWERFUL!
I've been looking for this song for so long
ITS AGREAT SONG AND GREAT ALBUM.
Religion divides us but God is real and I'll never say different. Once you get an unmistakable sign from him like the one I got you'd feel the same. You just have to look for the signs
I'd like to hope He is real but I sometimes wonder if there's Anyone listening up there. That's life a mystery
God is not real. Don't be misguided by blind faith and lies. Religion is a lie meant so a person can climb the stairs of wealth and feel powerful in their life. They lie so their followers can feel that their lives had meaning. They die with the guilt of living a lie and directing their followers upon false hopes.
your ignorance is profound.
your ignorance is profound.
aicMadSeason or ask... Btw this song is about the devil I think
This song is about cause & effect, action & consequence, good & evil, a very poignant piece and I like it!!! Or perhaps it’s about how bad things lurk around every corner or in every emptier space? Mans’ twisted relationship with higher power?
what a throw back
Classic!!
Brilliant- pure rock
Holy Moly I still like this song at this day.