Lyrics
Intro: Michael Tait
Love
Love
Love
Verse 1: Peter Furler
Yeah, we don't always live what we believe
Yeah, we don't always share a common source
Here we are, now shoutin' 'til we're hoarse
Jesus taught us a different kind o' discourse
Pre-Chorus: Michael Tait & Peter Furler
Don't talk about it, talk about it
Just do it
Chorus: Michael Tait, Peter Furler & Kevin Max
Love one another
Sister and brother
Don't hurt each other, yeah
Lines drawn in the sand
Complicate our new command
Love one another, yeah
Verse 2: Michael Tait
Yeah, we don't always live what we believe
Yeah, we don't like the shoutin' of demands (Shoutin' of demands)
Yeah, we forget the world is in His hands
But there's one thing the whole world understands
Pre-Chorus: Michael Tait & Peter Furler
Don't talk about it talk about it
Just do it
Chorus
(Love) Love one another
(Love) Sister and brother
(Love) Don't hurt each other, yeah
Lines drawn in the sand
Complicate our new command
(Love) Love one another, yeah
Bridge: Michael Tait & Kevin Max
Love loves a troubled face (A troubled face)
Love loves a hopeless case (I'm such a hopeless case)
Love loves to break the ice (I'ma break the ice)
Love loves at any price (At any price)
Chorus: Michael Tait & Peter Furler, Michael Tait, Peter Furler & Kevin Max, & Kevin Max
Love one another
Sister and brother
Don't hurt each other, yeah
Get off the high horse
Take it to a higher source
Love is the ultimate force, yeah
Chorus: Michael Tait, Peter Furler & Kevin Max, Michael Tait
(Love) Love one another
(Love) Sister and brother
(Love) Don't hurt each other, yeah
Lines drawn in the sand
Complicate our new command
(Love) Love one another, yeah
Chorus: Michael Tait & Peter Furler, Kevin Max & Michael Tait
(Love) Love one another (Love one another)
(Love) Sister and brother (Sister and brother)
Don't hurt each other, yeah
(Love) Get off the high horse
Take it to a higher source
Love is the ultimate force, yeah
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Meaning & Inspiration
Love One Another confronts the distance between professed belief and daily conduct. Its verses acknowledge disagreement, raised voices, and the temptation to draw dividing lines, but the chorus returns to Christ’s command as the practical answer. The repeated appeal to sisters and brothers rejects injury and pride in favor of active care. Even the brief instruction to stop talking and act reinforces the song’s insistence that Christian love must become visible.
The phrase “new command” directly recalls Jesus telling his disciples to love one another as he loved them. References to a troubled face and a hopeless case broaden that command beyond easy relationships, presenting love as mercy offered where pain and failure are already present. The lyric also places the world in God’s hands, which tempers conflict with trust in a higher authority. Through its direct language and recurring chorus, the song treats love not as sentiment alone but as obedience that crosses boundaries, refuses harm, and gives Christian confession a credible public expression.
Related Scripture
- John 13:34-35 Jesus gives his disciples the new command to love one another as he has loved them.
- 1 John 4:20-21 John connects love for God with love for a brother or sister.
- Colossians 3:12-14 Paul calls believers to compassion, forgiveness, and love that binds the virtues together.