"Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins, which was released in 1996 as the fifth and final single from her second studio album Whaler (1994).

For its release as a single, "Only Love" was remixed, much to the disapproval of Hawkins.

She told Steve Morse of The Boston Globe in 1996, "I said, 'You've taken all the soul out of the song.'

"[2] On its release as a single, Larry Flick of Billboard described "Only Love" as a "charming sing-along ditty".

He felt the chorus is "rife with earnest references to the residual effects of sharing love" which Hawkins "delivers with sweet sincerity".