A World Full of Love

Love is a burning thing. And it makes a fiery ring.

Money can't buy me love.

I can't help falling in love with you.

And the truth, you know love is all we need.

I just can't stop loving you.

Two strangers learn to fall in love again.

One love, one life.

You give love a bad name.

You know I love you so.

She will be loved.

Love alone is worth the fight.

To give me all your love is all I ever asked.

Darling, I will be loving you 'til we're seventy.

All of me loves all of you.

I love you like a love song baby.

Ain't nobody love you like I love you.

We found love in a hopeless place.

Boys only want love if it's torture.

I have loved you for a thousand years.

Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, k, k, k, I've heard it a million times. Like seriously. Are there any other subjects to sing about? Is there anything else you can write songs about?

(I shouldn't be talking, I write love songs too) :D

Honestly though, there are so many songs about love because that's what people care about. Music is often referred to as the language of love. People want to hear love songs because it helps them to love. Like Jordan asked, because we hear so much about love, can we assume we live in a loving world?

Think about 9-11. What about the Baltimore riots? School shootings? War after war. Politicians fighting for power and buisnessmen fighting for money. Murder. Theft. Deceit. etc., etc., etc.

The truth is, all of these happen because of love. Every one. The difference is the love. Things like this happen because people love money. Because people love power; people love hate. To sum it up, these things happen because people love themselves.

Love is on the radio because nobody wants to hear the truth. People like to think that we live in a loving world. If songs talked about hate, then only a few people would listen to them. If only a few people listened to music, the music industry would go broke. Love is on the radio because music distributors love money, not because they are trying to paint an accurate portrayal of our world. 

The hard truth is that we live in a world full of hate. Not to say that love doesn't exist among men, because it definitely does, but selfishness greatly outweighs true love right now in our world. 

So what is true love? It's pretty simple. We all know the answer. True love is charity. It's the pure love of Christ. Not the love of money or the love of self, but the love of God and the love of others. The greatest commandments are to love God and love your neighbor, and there is a stark contrast between that and loving yourself.

One day the love of God will overcome everything else. One day all hate and selfishness will cease to exist, and everyone will love everyone perfectly. That's what a lot of love songs are about: an ideal world with no hate. One day it will exist, and that love will be the greatest feeling of all. It will outweigh any other feelings of selfishness or thrill or lust, and we will live in the ideal world. Life is about love. Love is the answer. But we have to remember that it's about true love. It's about charity. God is love.