Lisa Michelle Anderson finds love, regret, and sacrifice in “Spend a Little Time”

In “Spend a Little Time,” Lisa Michelle Anderson looks at love through one of life’s most difficult questions: would everything have been different if we’d had more time with someone we once loved? But the song is more about selfless love. Anderson conveys the painful truth that sometimes the only way to love someone fully is to allow them to go where you can’t go with them.