Could You Be Loved

Bob Marley

"Could You Be Loved" was released in 1980 on Bob Marley & The Wailers last album Uprising and is included on the greatest-hits album Legend. It was written in 1979 on an aeroplane while The Wailers were experimenting on guitar. In the middle of the song, background singers quote a verse from Bob Marley's first single "Judge Not": "The road of life is rocky; And you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you". Instruments used on the original record of this song are guitars, bass, drums, acoustic piano, the Hohner clavinet and an organ, as well as the Brazilian cuíca.