When Answers Aren't Enough

Scott Wesley Brown admits that past spiritual victories don't guarantee the next one in "When Answers Aren't Enough" — "you have faced the mountains of desperation, you have climbed, you have fought, you have won, but this valley that lies coldly before you casts a shadow you cannot overcome." Experience alone isn't treated as sufficient preparation.

"You knew every verse to get you through, but this time the sorrow broke more than just your heart, and reciting all those verses just won't do" names a specific failure of the usual coping method rather than assuming it always works. The title itself concedes the same point before the chorus even begins.

"When answers aren't enough, there is Jesus, he is more than just an answer to your prayer, and your heart will find a safe and peaceful refuge" answers the admitted insufficiency not with a better answer, but with a person, repeating the same structure — "when answers aren't enough, He is there" — as the song's entire resolution.