"They Stood Up For Love" as written by Edward Joel Kowalczyk, Chad David Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Alan Gracey....
naked lovers feel the blood beneath their
veins
electric nerves communicate
with tiny explosions through our brains
who is this energy that never left or
came?
give rise to passion the only glory
of this human story
I give my heart and soul to the one
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
looking back to our birth forward to our
demise
even scientists say everything is just
light
not created, destroyed but eternally
bright
masters in everytime lord in everyplace
those who stood up for love down in spite
of the hate
in spite of the hate
who put the flower in the barrel of that
gun?
who lit the candle that started the fire,
burnt down the fortress, the throne?
who could house all the refugees in a
single shack
or a lowly bungalow?
who lives in a different dimension, free
from the
struggles we know?
I give my heart and soul to the one
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
looking back to our birth, forward to our
demise
even scientists say, everything is just
light
not created, destroyed but eternally
bright
masters in everytime lord in everyplace
those who stood up for love down in spite
of the hate
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
they live in the light
we made it to the moon
but we can't make it home
waitin' on a rescue that never comes
made it to the moon
but we can't make it home
maybe home is where the heart is given
up
to the one
to the one
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
lookin' back to our birth, forward to our
demise
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
they live, they
they stood up for love
stood up for love
stood up for love
they stood up for love
stood up for love
stood up for love
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
masters in everytime
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our
minds
stood up for love
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"They Stood Up for Love" as written by Chad David Taylor Chad Alan Gracey
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Those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate in spite of the hate
Speaks about forbidden love very clearly, also they stood up for their forbidden love.
Who put the flower in the barrel of that gun?
Forbidden lovers who were killed.
We spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds.
Why do we need to make an issue out of it ?
Even scientists say everything is just light not created, destroyed but eternally bright.
Calls in the scientist who say love is love, scientist is the opposite of religion. Love is just light, not created or destroyed. Love is not changed by upbreeding or education neither can it be changed.
We made it to the moon but we can't make it home.
We can go to the moon, but we can't go home because we don't accept it. Or Human kind can work together to achieve such a thing as going to the moon but we can't achieve that people are accepted home.
Maybe home is where the heart is given up to the one.
Shouldn't home be where love is given to the one who is loved. Not give love to someone who isn't the one because others find it inappropriate.
The text can certainly be inter pretended this way however I found that the video of the non acoustic version also suggest this direction.
If you look it up:
00:18 inter-racial couple (first couple seen)
00:28 woman sleeping alone in the shower (second person to be seen)
00:40 now there are more persons in the background, notice the inter-racial differences
1:24 At the right is an inter-racial couple, middle white guy looking very interested at a black woman dancing up in the front. On the left there seems to be a non inter-racial couple
2:07 the sleeping white woman from 00:28 in the shower gets joined by another black woman
2:18 artist strokes the legs of a black woman while singing those who stood up for love
The shower situation escalates while the video moves on
02:55 the shower is getting steamy
02:58 the 2 woman leave the shower very happy
we spend all of our lives goin' out of our minds
looking back to our birth, forward to our demise
&
we made it to the moon
but we can't make it home
waitin' on a rescue that never comes
ACOUSTIC, BEAUTIFUL
"electric nerves communicate
with tiny explosions through our brains "
from a philosophical perspective to whether or not we are just carbon based life forms or if we're more, we're souls we're emotion, we're real, we matter or if its all just shorts of brainly functions making us feel what we do its all chemical
"who put the flower in the barrel of that gun?" such a hippie thing to do...protests war, yes
and yes mad mad props to laughing giraffe we spend so much time analyzing our lives than actually living them
life isnt a measure of time, its a measure of feeling, thats how l've always thought of it.
Ed then transitions through the observation that however we might physically describe reality, there's no denying the power of the intangible, of love, something you can't measure like you can a nerve impulse. Furthermore, it is scientific fact that everything *is* light (literally true, e = mc^2), existing eternally.
This transcendence transitions to the transcendent nature of Jesus (love personified) himself, appearing in the "masters in everytime, lords in everyplace: those who stood up for love down in spite of the hate."
All this is why he gives his heart and soul to the one, as those others have done before him. Musically this determination to give himself to love/Jesus is contrasted with the directionless despair of what it's like to now know all this, to go out of your mind looking back to your birth and forward to your demise, seeing nothing in your life but a physical lifespan and then a meaningless end.