Sure Enough

Amy Grant's "Sure Enough" is a plainspoken vow of lasting love, sung with the ease of someone who has already answered the question more than once. The opening lines put everything on the table: love is not a forgotten fable, and the heart is not some cheap locked box from a five-and-dime. That image of a flimsy store-bought lock sets up the whole song's insistence that this commitment cannot be picked or mislaid. The chorus repeats the title phrase like a settled fact, adding that she is sure enough to stay for good and sure enough in every little thing about the other person. The second verse moves from declaration into ordinary life — collaboration, dinner and a movie, a baby or two — and calls this shared life a revelation, something the modern world said could not be done. Even when the love grows mellow and aging, even when both are old and wise, the answer stays the same. It is a song about certainty that has been tested by time rather than merely felt in a moment.