Be Love

This song is the first fruits of our partnership with The King Center. We wrote it for their Be Love initiative, but, when we saw that MLK Day 2025 coincided with the inauguration of the new US President, we rushed to record the song so that we could release it the Friday before these concurrent events.
While our world seems to be inflamed with hatred, meanness, bullying, vengeance and division, pulling us away from civil rights and human rights and into autocracy, we still believe in the way of Jesus, where loving on the widow, the orphan, the foreigner and the disenfranchised are priorities. This song helps steer us away from the distortions of Christian nationalism, and its toxic, power hungry culture, toward the underground community of Christ followers who still believe in love and servanthood.

BE LOVE
Written by Jalen Seawright (ASCAP), Nabil Ince (BMI), James Paek (BMI), Ben Hardesty (BMI), Michael Walter (BMI), Royce Lovett (BMI), Vincent Charlow (BMI), Tommy Sims (BMI)
© 2024 Common Hymnal Publishing (ASCAP), Jalen Seawright (ASCAP), Common Hymnal Digital (BMI), Seaux Chill Publishing (BMI), J Paek Music (BMI), Benjo Darro Music Company (BMI), MJ Walter Music (BMI), Royce Lovett Music (BMI), Soul Lore Creative (BMI), Tommy Sims (BMI) (admin by IntegratedRights.com)

VERSE 1
A A7 D/A Dm/A
Children are starving, mothers are trying
A A7
The best they can
D/A Dm/A
Will you be love?
A A7 D/A Dm/A
People are dying, institutional violence
A A7
The silence is deafening
D/A Dm/A
Will you be love?
F#m
“Too long” some might say
Db/F
Can’t begin to describe the wait
A/E
For a justice long delayed
B/D#
Is a justice far too late
DM7
Where is the love?
Dm6
Will we be love?

VERSE 2
Sisters and brothers, time is far spent
And we’re still suffering
Will we be loved?
In the arc of the drama emotions run higher
Than they’ve ever been
Will we be love?
And in the dark before the dawn
Waiting for the light to come on
Still singing “we shall overcome”
We’ll keep singing these love songs
Where is the love?
Where is the love?

CHORUS
Db/F F#m
Let our minds be love
B/D# E
Our hands be love
A/C# D
Our hearts be love
E/G# A
Be love