The song is a duet featuring lead singer James Dean Bradfield and Nina Persson of the Cardigans, with additional vocals from bass guitarist Nicky Wire.

[3] According to Wire, the song is in part concerned with the disappearance of Richey Edwards: "While I was writing those words addressed to him on Your Love Alone… something touched me at my desk when I wrote, 'I could have shown you how to cry.

'"[4] As with all Send Away the Tigers-related material, the cover image is from the photography book Monika Monster Future First Woman on Mars by Valerie Phillips.

[9] On 5 May, Music Week reported that the single was due to top the chart; however, the following day, it rose to number two, behind the Beyoncé-Shakira collaboration "Beautiful Liar".

[12] Outside the United Kingdom, "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" reached the top 20 in Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway; in the latter two countries, this song was the band's highest-charting single.