Needtobreathe’s Let Us Love is the Contemporary Christian pop-rock band’s latest single, the third track released to radio from the group’s spectacular CD, The Outsiders (#20 peak Billboard 200, #2 peak Billboard Christian Albums). It wasn’t easy to follow up carrier single Lay ‘Em Down, which peaked at #8 on Billboard’s Christian Songs chart, but Something Beautiful peaked at a more-than-respectable #7 sometime towards the end of 2009. Airplay-only track The Hurricane has received enough airplay to chart on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.
Let Us Love is decidedly different from what I’m used to getting from Needtobreathe. The chilled-out pace of Washed by the Water, or even Lay ‘Em Down, which certainly has that patented rock-gospel sound, is nowhere to be found on Let Us Love. Instead, we get a faster-paced track, almost like a rock jam, which highlights vocalist Bear Rinehart’s glorious baritone to full magnificent effect as he sings about our calling to love one another. His distinctive voice is one of the reasons why I love Needtobreathe – both Washed by the Water and Lay ‘Em Down were Top 3 hits on my chart. Let Us Love is currently one of the five most-added tracks on Christian AC this week, and I’m sure it will chart in the weeks ahead. I predict a Top 15 finish for Let Us Love – if only because I’m doubtful Christian AC and CHR radio programmers will be as open to this kind of sound from Needtobreathe as we the fans are. Well, I hope I’m proven wrong, because Let Us Love deserves to be a hit!
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LET US LOVE Lyrics
Needtobreathe
We were born to embrace, not accept it
We were given nothing more, and so we kept it
As the colors of our boots keep fading
We live a life that we hate without saying
Who would listen to the cries of a poor man
We’ve never done nothing
How could we be something
Every heart has an hour of existence
Every breath brings a chance for redemption
If somehow we could wake up
Let us love
Like we were children
Make us feel
Like we’re still living
In a world I know that’s burning to the ground
Give us time
To beat the system
Make us find
What we’ve been missing
In a world I know that’s burning to the ground
In the crowd of the dead and disappointed
We’re ashamed, giving up on what we wanted
Take a chance on a long shot this time
Aren’t we all just at least worth another try
I’m a king in a land of abuses
Undermined by the promise of excuses
Who’s to win if we know that it’s not fair
Who’s to fight when it seems that no one cares
If somehow we could wake up
Let us love
Like we were children
Make us feel
Like we’re still living
In a world I know that’s burning to the ground
Give us time
To beat the system
Make us find
What we’ve been missing
In a world I know that’s burning to the ground
It’s hard to stay here, but where do we go
I know we can’t feel it anymore
It’s true that time is wearing us down
We fall further and further away
Waiting for always to change
Let us love
Like we were children
Make us feel
Like we’re still living
In a world I know that’s burning to the ground
Leave your hurting on the road behind you
Let the wind go with you ‘til the morning comes
Yeah your sorrow, it can’t save you
It won’t answer for what you’ve done
