What Good Are Love Songs (If They Don't Make Us Lovers)

The Gaither Vocal Band with Janet Paschal sing “What Good Are Love Songs (If They Don't Make Us Lovers)” as a question about whether music alone changes people. The opening lines ask it outright: “What good are love songs if they don't make us lovers? Why be an eagle that won't spread its wings?” The singers wonder why anyone writes their heart out if they aren't moved by the passion, and why they sing if the songs do not change them.

The verses look back at how God has dealt with people who were slow to respond. “Once there were prophets, but we would not hear them. Once there were wonders, we would not believe.” They recall fire and manna from heaven and winds that parted the seas. The last section turns to the answer that was given: “When we were blindest, God sent His vision. When we were deaf, He spoke and we heard. The Light of the World walked through our darkness, Jehovah Himself, the incarnate Word.” The song is a challenge to let worship turn into action, and its harmony arrangement gives the question time to land.

Being doers of the word is James 1:22. Loving in deed and truth is 1 John 3:18, and the Word becoming flesh is John 1:14.