Aloe Blacc Songs - Love is the Answer Lyrics

Aloe Blacc - Love is the Answer

Aloe Blacc - Love is the Answer Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lift Your Spirit
Released: 2013

Love is the Answer Lyrics

Broken hearts everywhere
From stepping on them, we don’t care
Somebody tell me what we gonna do
Even though it’s plenty to share
People hungry on the streets, it ain’t fair
But you don’t think about it until it’s you

Now I’m gonna say how I feel
And what I wanna say is love’s the only thing that’s real
I won’t tell you what to do
Just believe that love, the only thing we have that’s true

‘Cause Love is the Answer
It’s the answer to the questions in your mind
Love is the answer
It’s the answer, if you’re looking you will find

The answer is love
Yes, indeed
The answer is love
Say it again
The answer is love
I’m telling you now
The answer is love

Friends know where to be found
To help you when you are down
But you know you are the one to blame
You know what’s wrong from what’s right
Nobody wins in a fight but still we play the game

I’m gonna say how I feel
And what I wanna say is love’s the only thing that’s real
I won’t tell you what to do
Just believe that love, the only thing that’s real and true

‘Cause love is the answer
It’s the answer to the questions in your mind
Love is the answer
If you’re looking it’s the answer you gonna find

Love is the answer
It’s the only thing that everybody needs
Love is the answer
It’s the only thing that makes us truly free

Just look around the whole wide world
So many beautiful things to see
Take my hand and come along
Spread some love with me

‘Cause love is the answer
It’s the answer to the questions in your mind
Love is the answer
If you’re looking it’s the answer you gonna find

Love is the answer
It’s the only thing that everybody needs
Love is the answer
It’s the only thing that makes us truly free

The answer is love
Yes, it is
The answer is love
Now say it again
The answer is love
The answer is love
The answer is love
The answer is love
Yes, it is
The answer is love
Now say it again
The answer is love

Writer/s: Williams, Pharrell L / Blacc, Aloe
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Love is the Answer

This big and brassy old-school soul anthem was co-written and produced by Pharrell Williams. Blacc recalled to The Sun: "Pharrell had an idea of how we wanted the song to sound and I watched him build the instrumentation from the very beginning, in just a couple of hours."

Blacc's lyrics are about being in a culture where criticism is preeminent. "We live in a cynical time," he told The Guardian. "You can see it when you go on YouTube and there's 75% negative comments. It's just a disease of our time."

"That's why I wrote a song called Love is the Answer," Blacc continued. "Love is the answer, not hate or cynicism or anonymous denigration: 'Oh, I can hide behind this computer screen and be as foul and ignorant as I want.'"

Blacc told Pharrell Williams that he wanted the songs on the Lift Your Spirit album to "make people happy." Pharrell's response: "Funny you should say that, I'm working on a song called 'Happy' right now."

This is certainly not the first song called "Love is the Answer" (although there has only been one hit with that title: by England Dan & John Ford Coley, written by Todd Rundgren). Blacc was not deterred. "That's the most basic solution to the world's problems," he said in his Guitar Center Session interview. "Working with the biggest producer in the world, I really want this to be our message."