BeBe Winans - It All Comes Down To Love Lyrics
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Talking heads talking to us on the television
Silver screen preachers, politicians
Say they got the answers first they wanna squeeze us
Send a little money where the tax is on Jesus
Fix it with a prayer, fix it with a dollar
Anybody out there ever wanna halla?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Self-help guru's got a best seller
Talk show host gotta drag-queen bank teller
1-900 look into the crystal
the N.R.A. says you better buy a pistol
Made a little pill but it might cause cancer
just a cheap thrill when you're looking for the answer
Now tell them the answer..
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh(u loving me, me loving u)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Suits on Wall Street they make another million
Dealer on the backstreet talkin' to your children
They cry for help nobody listens
you lay awake at night wonderin' what's missing?
You can put an end to all the confusion
Open up your heart is the only solution....
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
i said sing it up Jo'burg tell it in Soweto
singing in the gold mine and in the ghetto
the blood of hector pieterson cry for apartheid
tell it in Washington the dream will not die
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King
they only wanna tell you
they only wanna tell you
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh
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Du, du, du, du
Du, du, du, du, du, tu, dup tu, tu, du, du,
Du, du, du, du
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, it all comes down to love
Oh, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh it all comes down to love
oh, oh, oh, oh
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It All Comes Down To Love - BEBE WINANS
Meaning & Inspiration
BeBe Winans pulls no punches on the song It All Comes Down To Love, a track that found its place on his March 5, 2002 album, Live and Up Close. He looks at a culture drowning in noise, politics, and consumerist gimmicks, and he offers a sharp, biblical correction. When he critiques the talking heads and the silver screen preachers, he is pointing toward the emptiness of worldly systems that promise salvation through money or influence. It feels like he is singing from the spirit of First Corinthians 13, where the Apostle Paul reminds us that even if we have profound knowledge or move mountains but lack love, we amount to nothing. BeBe identifies the confusion of our age, where people chase pills, policies, and power, yet they miss the only thing that provides real security.
The weight of the world’s chaos—from Wall Street greed to the struggle in the ghettos—is met with a simple, radical call to open the heart. This isn’t a sentimental version of love, but the agape love defined in the Gospel of John, where the greatest commandment is to love God and your neighbor as yourself. When he calls out the names of figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu, he is grounding the song in the reality of human suffering and the cost of justice. These men understood that societal shift doesn't happen through legislative manipulation alone, but through the hard, sacrificial work of love.
By grounding his message in the blood of the innocent and the brokenness of the nations, BeBe reminds us that our horizontal relationships with one another are a direct reflection of our vertical relationship with the Creator. We are not designed to find peace in the answers of men or the security of pistols, but in the radical, sacrificial obedience to the King of Kings. If we ignore this call to love, we are just noise. When he asserts that it all comes down to love, he is echoing the very core of the New Testament, reminding us that while prophecy fails and tongues cease, love remains the only firm foundation left standing after the fire has burned away the wood, hay, and stubble of our modern distractions. Keep chasing the shadows of the world, and you will stay hungry, but turn toward the love that suffered on a cross, and you finally find the answer you’ve been looking for.