Cursive - I Couldn't Love You Lyrics






Love may be man-made
But it must exist
It's what you want the most
And most resist
Love's polluted
No, no, it's pure
It's convoluted
One thing I could say for sure
I couldn't love you anymore

I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore

It's a game of fetch
We'll never win
You throw me out
It brings us back
You throw me out again
Loves an affliction
No, it's a cure
It's a contradiction that harms and heals
Adores and abhors
I couldn't love you anymore

I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore

Love is a tantrum
Love is an interlude
Love is an instinct
Not now, dear, I'm not in the mood anymore

No, no, no, no, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

It's no big deal
It's not worth losing sleep
You over-analyze
The simplest things
Love's what you take
But can never give
Love's what you hate
You'll never figure out what it's for
I couldn't love you anymore

I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore
I couldn't love you anymore





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  1. A.... ....

    2020 this song still goes hard

  2. H.... ....

    I listened to this song at least a million times after the death of my boyfriend in 2011.

  3. A.... A....

    the cure xd

  4. r.... m....

    I remember first listening to this in middle school haha
    now here I am in my senior year of highschool

    r.... m....

    Well now I feel old. I was going through a divorce when this album came out, lol.

  5. k.... v....

    This song is still jammin' in 2018. The album gets better with age

  6. S.... B....

    I couldn't love you any more- my love for you is so grand Its impossible to love you more
    I couldn't love you any more- with how things turned out I cant love you anymore.

    S.... B....

    So is it both? I wonder every time I listen

  7. A.... D....

    I have been a fan. I love me some cursive. I've gone through that type of thing before... But, I do believe in love. Jesus does save.

  8. w.... ....

    The vid is maybe a ref to the most obscure board game ever

  9. c.... ....

    why are all of cursives songs so fucking good?

  10. s.... ....

    I like music

  11. S.... P....

    This song is amazing. Not only does it describe perfectly what you feel and the very ambiguous nature of love but also combines it with this sick guitar riff. Sick

  12. C.... ....

    What are they doing on the Island! :O

  13. u.... ....

    Tim Kasher has accurately described anything i have ever felt in my relationships.

  14. S.... O....

    I just realized that's the girl from Lost.. Damn I love this band.

  15. �.... �....

    LOST! :)

  16. B.... S....

    is that the kid from malcolm in the middle?

  17. D.... E....

    Tania Raymonde i love

  18. L.... P....

    i definitely look at this song as an easy summary for some of my relationships. such a good double entendre

  19. t.... ....

    How long it take you to type this comment?

  20. O.... ....

    and Alex Rosseau in Lost.

  21. G.... S....

    That the title is "I couldn't love you" shows the first impression is that it's about love lost; but after you think about it, you realize that it works the other way, that you couldn't love someone any more than you already do. So I think its about the bad taste at first but later realizing that you miss that tension and discord

  22. E.... L....

    Holy shit. I never knew that was a flute!

  23. J.... K....

    nice one

  24. e.... ....

    exactly what I thought of at first....:)

  25. g.... ....

    Dude, I was just thinking that same thing. Like how they're a mature version of tbs. I can't wait to see these guys in a couple days.

  26. B.... ....

    Like a mature taking back Sunday

  27. j.... ....

    boy does the past bring me back. to some not so good memories. but im ok with it. what doesn't kill me makes me a better person.....or very very lucky to be sane

  28. v.... c....

    i love the cure....i mean cursive...

  29. J.... E....

    How's the world look up there on your high horse?

  30. T.... M....

    This song brings a knot to my throat! Memories!

  31. A.... ....

    @starsawphd not ironic at all. Purposeful

  32. A.... O....

    im going to see these guys next week :D so excited

  33. J.... F....

    I still wonder if he really shoots her at the end...

  34. B.... ....

    shuddup ok there i said it

  35. e.... ....

    nothing "wrong" with that, unless your stuck in the wave of new is better

  36. A.... S....

    Is it just me, or is this video incredibly 80's / cheesy in it's production? Watch it without the audio and you'll know what I mean

  37. B.... ....

    totally :)

  38. R.... S....

    I'm a big fan of Cursive AND Lost. So this was a nice treat.

  39. E.... J....

    Check out THE DRY SPELLS. They're an amazing band. You won't be disappointed

  40. N.... ....

    yin yang... ;)

  41. D.... ....

    the vocals remind me of the cure...

  42. h.... a....

    @venomgurl1 ? I pull them from my garden all the time. Clip em, cure em, then ship em. Although no one seems to be happy with the fact its all weeds from my yard.

  43. l.... s....

    WEED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  44. A.... D....

    I adore Cursive, beautifuuuuul <3

  45. J.... N....

    @JesMartini
    Thaaat's Cursive! Always changing, progressing, evolving.. challenging themselves+their audience..
    It's why they're one of the greatest + most revered indie-rock bands around. They exist almost completely outside of the macho-moron-music&promotion-machine-matrix that all touring bands HAVE TO LIVE WITH + corporate radio lives OFF OF.. while staying successful enough to be able to continue making brilliant music for us, as well as for themselves.
    PS: I terribly miss Gretta Cohn!

  46. r.... ....

    @xTHExFALLx i was thinking the same thing

  47. s.... ....

    Isn't this a Cure song?

  48. A.... B....

    SHOOT THAT BITCH

  49. C.... ....

    1:07 I hit the Add to Favorites button. That's a big honer for me, not taken lightly. Good song.

  50. d.... ....

    i really dig this video. the song is pretty decent too, but the video seals the deal.

  51. c.... c....

    ok.. since he says, "one think I can say for sure is I couldn't love you any more," it's implied that he can't "love you any more than he already does," (it's b/c the first clause is in the present tense). To say "anymore," he would've had to have said "I can't love you anymore" or set the entire first clause in the past tense with something like, "one thing i knew for sure was that I couldn't love you anymore." IDK what his intentions were, but his grammar definitely favors one over the other.

  52. B.... D....

    I demand this video is viewed by every1 cursive is the best band!!

  53. M.... M....

    @PerfectallyNormal ya perhaps, but nonetheless, he doesn't feel that he has enough love to return, where she always loves him more, that's his frustration.. he's got to find someone else to fill that void.

  54. P.... ....

    I find it quite amusing that everyone is using this as a break up song, but what if he meant it in a way that states anymore as there being no more love he could have for her, because it never ends? Think about it that way, the song gets alot happier.

  55. A.... B....

    im like...in love with his voice....and his beard <3

  56. B.... ....

    Christ that woman is beautiful

  57. T.... ....

    can someone tell me what this music video is about? i don't understand it at all. im guessing that a bunch of guys are hunting down some bitch girlfriends that dumped them but im not sure.

  58. t.... ....

    @FunAndOnly congratulations, I could only name 9. who cares

  59. C.... 4....

    Tania Raymonde is beyond sexy. super jealous of Tim Kasher getting to meet her. its ok though i have meet tim before...super dick head. wont be purchasing anything to do with cursive again.

  60. s.... ....

    I LOVE how this was in the related vids. for Murder by Death.

  61. K.... ....

    @PossiblySane Do you know how to read? He said that he sings both "any more" and "anymore", which have different meanings in the context.

  62. D.... ....

    @MakeUrselfSick Ultimate Guitar dude, they probably have it, and if they don't, well they got The Recluse, which is good enough for me :).

  63. M.... ....

    @parkoflies
    i'm also looking for the chords to this song, for acoustic purposes!

  64. s.... ....

    is she the girl that came out in Malcolm in the middle years ago???

  65. p.... ....

    im wondering is their any tabs for the guitar part? i know it gets all crazy here and their but just the basic chords of it?

  66. H.... ....

    @Musiclover6803 That's the point!

  67. K.... R....

    I totally hate people banging on about their first two albums and their older stuff. Each album is different and I really like the changes they've made in each one. Happy Hollow was fucking epic, I don't understand why people don't like it, the lyrics in that album are genius and the whole concept of the album.
    Ugly organ is my favourite album by then but I like it all. This song is so good.

  68. b.... ....

    I have to admit that when Gretta left I thought the music would sound like it's missing an instrument. I was wrong. Although Domestica remains my favorite album, songs like this keep me coming back for more!

  69. K.... T....

    Why dont non of my friends like these guys? Is it becasue cursive arent so mainstream?? is it not cool to like not so popular music. People

  70. l.... ....

    THE GIRL IN THE VIDEO is in so many music videos! shes also in the maroon 5 video.... but most ppl know her from Malcolm In the Middle, she was malcolms Big Boob-ed friend.... remember? xD

  71. P.... ....

    OMG! she's alex... I love her <3

  72. D.... ....

    if your reading this,
    don't let anyone ever tell you that music of today is shit. if they try to argue with you show them anything by cursive. the good music is hidden from dumb cunts who overplay shit and take up too much room at shows.

  73. W.... I....

    @themagnetc Their "peak" never happened. They started off amazing, continued to be amazing, and are still, to this day, amazing. Cursive is, and will forever be, my favorite musical group.

  74. s.... ....

    LAMO I love the guy who stands all creepy in the shadows at 2:58

  75. C.... ....

    it feels like they're going back to thier roots a bit. I like it.

  76. D.... I....

    is it funny to just me that the girl in this video is Alex from Lost? She is super pretty though. i havent heard this song in a while and right now im really into Lost. I just finished season 4 and she just died in the series. And now i find this video which she is, again, running through the woods. And again she she gets finished off with a gun to her head. Awesome. You will be remembered Alex, or whatever your name is.

  77. f.... ....

    @iLikeToPlay8 Cursive is just a band name... not a genre. How can you say that those two albums are the defining Cursive albums and everything else is too different to be called Cursive? It's (almost) all the same members... Tim Kasher is still the main songwriter... so why should two albums define their entire career?

  78. f.... ....

    Let the man write the songs he wants to write. He's not trying to please everyone. I'm sure if he was he would've made Domestica Pt. II or The Ugly Organ Returns or some other such bullshit.

  79. T.... G....

    such blinding stars for starving eyes, and domestica the end. this other stuff isnt even cursive. i still like it, just saying its a different band

  80. D.... B....

    @themagnetc I like that comment. You are absolutely right.

  81. D.... B....

    @cyrustheheman They were already a great band before Mama, I'm Swollen. I don't think their is anythin wrong with a band progressing, but I think they aren't doing what they should be and could be. It is my opinion so it isn't like I am saying I am right. Opinions are like assholes , everybodys got one.

  82. G.... S....

    @cyrustheheman @handicappeddoilookok i think the debate is over their more raw material vs. their more polished stuff. they definitely reached their peak some time between or shortly after the domestica/ugly organ eras, and i guess you can't really blame them for running out of steam because there's only so much you can say about one failed relationship or whatever...the thematic songwriting kind of backed tim into a corner he apparently didn't know how to get out of

  83. N.... W....

    @handicappeddoilookok I saw them at house of blues a little over a week ago, and I have to say if they had been the "just rock" music you're talking about, yeah they wouldn't have been bad but I wouldn't have really liked them. Mama, I'm swollen is really original and creative, which is what changes a band from pretty good to awesome in any case.

  84. D.... B....

    @themagnetc I have seen Cursive 8 times and the last time I saw them was in 2006. Happy Hollow was totally disapointing and Mama, Im Swollen is shit. They need to get rid of all the instruments and just make a good rock song like domestica and storms. Also feel like Tim needes to quit being so metaphorical and like he is trying to be more than what he really is. I appreciate a good song with a lot of meaning, but its getting way too redundant on his part.

  85. G.... S....

    @handicappeddoilookok <3 this is the first non-argumentative conversation i've ever had on youtube LOL

  86. D.... B....

    @themagnetc you are the only smart person on here.

  87. G.... S....

    fair enough

  88. S.... ....

    I disagree. I like the tone of the new albums.

  89. G.... S....

    this song is ok...cursive got boring.

  90. x.... ....

    Love may be man-made
    But it must exist
    It's what you want the most
    And most resist
    Love's polluted
    No, no, it's pure
    It's convoluted
    One thing I could say for sure
    I couldn't love you anymore

    I couldn't love you anymore
    I couldn't love you anymore
    I couldn't love you anymore
    I couldn't love you anymore

  91. r.... ....

    total break up song for me and my ex..dumb bitch..great song

  92. 4.... ....

    My thoughts about love are pretty much the same as this song =)

  93. K.... S....

    great point.

  94. z.... ....

    damn, this girl was on malcolm in the middle...she grew up way hot! Hayden panatierre was on MITM and isnt she on lost or heroes or or csi, something like that...

    sweet song

  95. b.... ....

    hahahaha..yup.

  96. N.... C....

    i love cursive
    :) :)

  97. r.... ....

    Does anyone know where I can find an mp3 of the demo version of this song?

  98. k.... ....

    share a link for that song, bro.

  99. T.... ....

    wow that bridge after 2:30 is pretty identical to the bridge in brazil's "metropol". but of course cursive takes brazil anyday.