Jennifer Nettles’ latest song, “Unlove You,” deals with the painful subject of unrequited love. When thinking of the different types of love, Jennifer says there is a distinct difference between loving someone you can live with and loving someone you can’t live without. She says, “There is a beauty in loving and knowing someone and living with them and getting to know them through living with them, in the sense that you experience how he or she might react to a situation. You get to learn them because you have observed them. You get to be a witness. And that is a beautiful way of knowing.” That she says, is loving someone you can live with.

Loving someone you can’t live without goes far beyond that. Jennifer says, “When you see someone and you see his or her heart because you recognize it in a way that you recognize your own. And that stuff is Shakespearean. That stuff is the stuff that the great poets and the ancient seers and the mystics wrote about and celebrated and worshiped because it’s pretty epic. As opposed to being a witness and knowing someone’s history, you are rather connected in a way that you are future, and that is that you cannot live without. And that is beautiful. And also heartbreaking like in this song.”

“Unlove You” is the first release off of Jennifer’s latest album, Playing with Fire.

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Jennifer Nettles – live with live without 1:07
“I definitely think there is a difference between loving someone so much that you can live with them and loving them so much that you couldn’t live without them. There is a beauty in loving and knowing someone and living with them and getting to know them through living with them, in the sense that you experience how he or she might react to a situation. You get to learn them because you have observed them. You get to be a witness. And that is a beautiful way of knowing. And yet, there is something else when you cannot live without someone, when you see someone and you see his or her heart because you recognize it in a way that you recognize your own. And that stuff is Shakespearean. That stuff is the stuff that the great poets and the ancient seers and the mystics wrote about and celebrated and worshiped because it’s pretty epic. As opposed to being a witness and knowing someone’s history, you are rather connected in a way that you are future. And that is that you cannot live without. And that is beautiful. And also heartbreaking like in this song.”