Story Behind The Song
A contemplation of love as the greatest power
Song Description
This is a song written in several movements related to the message of each section.
First a statement that no matter how eloquent I am, without love, I am nothing. It then follows with a listing of what love is, and what love is not. A comparison is made with knowledge, prophesies and tongues. It then describes how love is the greatest power of all and is eternal. A stripped down female solo.
| Song Length |
3:13 |
Genre |
Unique - Gospel, Unique - Religious |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Peaceful, Content |
Subject |
General, Spirituality |
| Similar Artists |
Cece Winans, Yolanda Adams, Babbie Mason |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Love Chant
If I speak in the tongue of men and of angels and have no love
I'm just making noise; I'm just making noise.
If I prophesy, move mountains and solve mysteries, and have no love,
I am nothing
I can give all I have to the poor
I can walk into the fire
Yet without love, this means nothing
Love is patient, love is kind
Does not envy, never boasts
Is not proud, love is not rude
Love bears all things, believes all things
Hopes all things, endures all things
Is not easily angered, delights in the truth
Where there are prophecies, they will cease
Where there are tongues, they will be stilled
Where there is knowledge, it will pass away
For we know in part and we prophesy only in part
But when love comes, real love, all those are nothing
When I was a child, I talked like a child
I reasoned like a child
No more, no more
What I don't know, I will know
What I can't see, I will see
Face to face, face to face.
So we walk. in faith and hope and love forever
But the ...greatest one of these
Yes the greatest one of these is love
Perfect love