Try this song, too - FOR REAL, by Bob Franke.

There's a hole in the middle of the prettiest life,
So the lawyers and prophets say.
Not your father nor your mother,
Nor your lover's gonna ever make it go away.
And there's too much darkness in an endless night
To be afraid of the way we feel:
Let's be kind to each other,
Not forever, but for real.

I was just reminded of it because Mike Regenstreif played it on his CKUT show. Mbo, if you haven't heard anything by him, I think you'd like his music. He is one of the most powerful introspective songwriters I've heard, and most leave me cold. (The word "introspective" coupled with "songwriter" strikes fear into my heart most of the time.) He focuses on his Christian beliefs and love - for him the two subjects are probably not separate. A search for his songs in the DT yields these.

Check out this from Hard Love:

Now I'm standing in this phone booth with a dollar and a dime
Wondering what to say to you to ease your troubled mind
For the Lord's cross might redeem us but our own just waste our time
And to tell the two apart is always hard love