Limit to Your Love
James Blake Lyrics


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There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion
Like a map with no ocean
There's a limit to your love
Your love, your love, your love (your love)

There's a limit to you care
So carelessly there
Is it truth or dare?
There's a limit to your care

There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion
Like a map with no ocean
There's a limit to your love
Your love, your love, your love

There's a limit to you care
So carelessly there
Is it truth or dare? (There's a limit to your care)
Is it truth or dare? (There's a limit to your care)

There's a limit to your care
So carelessly there
There's a limit to your care

There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion
Like a map with no ocean
There's a limit to your love

There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion (like a waterfall in slow motion)
Like a map with no ocean (like a map with no ocean)
There's a limit to your love




There's a limit to your love
Your love, your love, your love (your love)

Overall Meaning

In James Blake's song "Limit to Your Love," the lyrics explore the idea of a love or care that has a limit. The first stanza describes this limit as being like a waterfall in slow motion, emphasizing the idea that the end is inevitable but drawn out. The use of "a map with no ocean" suggests a lack of depth or infinite possibility in the love or relationship. The repetition of "your love" highlights the focus on the subject's emotional capacity.


The second stanza shifts to the limit of the subject's care, describing it as "carelessly there" and questioning whether it is "truth or dare." This could suggest that the subject behaves carelessly without regard for the consequences, or that their care is limited by their willingness to take risks.


The repetition of the chorus emphasizes the cyclical nature of the song's theme, with the limit to the subject's love and care being reiterated. Overall, the lyrics suggest a sense of inevitability and limitation in relationships, and question the depth and truthfulness of the emotions involved.


Line by Line Meaning

There's a limit to your love
The love you have for someone has its limits.


Like a waterfall in slow motion
The love fades away slowly like a waterfall's motion.


Like a map with no ocean
The love that is shown has no depth and is shallow like a map without an ocean.


There's a limit to your love
There is a boundary to which the love can reach.


Your love, your love, your love (your love)
Repeated emphasis on the love that has limits.


There's a limit to you care
You can only care until a certain point.


So carelessly there
You don't put enough effort into caring.


Is it truth or dare?
Do you honestly care or are you just pretending?


There's a limit to your care
The care someone shows has its limits.


There's a limit to your love
The love someone has has a boundary.


Like a waterfall in slow motion
The love slowly disappears just as the waterfall slowly moves.


Like a map with no ocean
The shallow love shown is like a map without an ocean.


There's a limit to your love
The love you show has limits.


There's a limit to your care
The care you show can only go so far.


So carelessly there
The care given is not enough or done without thought.


Is it truth or dare? (There's a limit to your care)
Are you genuinely caring or just pretending to?


Is it truth or dare? (There's a limit to your care)
The previous line repeated for emphasis.


There's a limit to your care
The amount of care one can give has a boundary.


There's a limit to your love
The love that someone shows has its limits.


Like a waterfall in slow motion (like a waterfall in slow motion)
The same imagery is used to emphasize the point being made again.


Like a map with no ocean (like a map with no ocean)
The same comparison is being used to add emphasis again.


There's a limit to your love
The idea that love can only go so far is reiterated.


Your love, your love, your love (your love)
The repetition of this phrase further emphasizes the idea of love having a limit.




Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Jason Charles Beck, Leslie Feist

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@xkjane

There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion
Like a map with no ocean
There's a limit to your love
Your love, your love, your love

There's a limit to your care
So carelessly there
Is it truth or dare?
There's a limit to your care

There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion
Like a map with no ocean
There's a limit to your love
Your love, your love, your love

There's a limit to your care
So carelessly there
Is it truth or dare?
There's a limit to your care
So carelessly there
There's a limit to your care

There's a limit to your love
Like a waterfall in slow motion
Like a map with no ocean
There's a limit to your love
Your love, your love, your love



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Walkiers; Sluta rösta i fler musiktävlingar nu.
WALL OF TEXT INCOMING ;)

you could basically take nearly every real (oldschool) dubstep song (not music like skrillex, or most popular artists on ukf and such channels), this sub bass is pretty much typical for the genre
some examples that come to my mind would be:

Distance - Delight (and others)
Loefah - Truly Dread
Skream - Dutch Flowerz (also other songs)
Caspa - Cockney Flute/Cockney Violin
Digital Mystikz - Restructure 2 Rebuild
Distance & Skream - Wise Men
Bukez Finezt - Under Control
Headhunter - Entity
(For really dark and heavy songs: Kryptic Minds, Biome, Benton)

But there are much more and different dubstep songs, thats just to give you an example (I mean, James Blake for example is heavily dubstep influenced as you probably will see^^)

I hope I could help you a little bit, the music is not popular by any means and a lot of people dislike it, but when you get a little into it (and especially when you listen to it with a proper soundsystem and subwoofer^^) you can really start to enjoy it even if it sounds strange or boring at first listen^^



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@CarianneRHixson

i always catch myself singing this song and then i realize there's a limit to my lungs

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@Missymel91

that cracked me up!!!

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@Shketri94

My new headphones brought me here needed to test the bass

@LeGeminiMind

+Milutin Trisic always my go to song to test headphones

@huntermaclennan4677

Indeed. My speakers needed christening.

@iainenfc

I just realised how shit mine are. Wow.

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