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One Voice
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Oct 31, 2026 updated
Post Script: Love Will Have the Final Word album
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Song Meaning
Jason Gray starts with a question about choice: given a voice, will you "just make noise" or "make music"? The answer the song builds is communal. A single voice is enough to begin a melody, and the refrain promises "soon there will be others who want to sing along," so the sound of the kingdom spreads one person at a time.
The verses ground that melody in action rather than volume. The singers "lift the weak" and love "the broken and weary," and every act of mercy becomes another note in the tune. Later the lead passes to "the Lord of Creation," whose song carries what will "heal the nations," with a choir growing each time another voice joins.
Repeating "It's beautiful when we sing together" at the close, the lyric lands on unity as the goal. Psalm 96:1 supplies the call to sing a new song, and Romans 15:6 pictures believers glorifying God "with one voice." Mercy-driven worship is the thread: listeners are invited into a song already being sung.
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[Verse 1]
You were given a voice
And a choice to use it
So will you just make noise
Or will you make music?
To the deepest part of every heart
A melody is runnin'
It's the sound of the kingdom comin'
[Chorus]
It only takes one voice
To sing this song
So lift your one voice
Sing it loud and strong
Soon there will be others who want to sing along
With one voice
We'll be singin' with one voice
[Verse 2]
We're singin' it well
And we lift the weak
And we live to love
The broken and weary
Through every act of mercy a melody is ringin'
When you rise and start the singin'
[Chorus]
It only takes one voice
To sing this song
So lift your one voice
Sing it loud and strong
Soon there will be others who want to sing along
With one voice
It's beautiful when we sing together
With one voice
[Verse 3]
The song is led by the Lord of Creation
Cause us to carry to
What will heal the nations
A new song rising higher and higher
When ever another voice
Starts singing in the choir
[Chorus]
With one voice
To sing this song
Lift your one voice
Sing it loud and strong
Soon there will be others who want to sing along
With one voice
It's beautiful when we sing together
[Chorus]
With one voice
To sing this song
So lift your one voice
Sing it loud and strong
Soon there will be others who want to sing along
With one voice
It's beautiful when we sing together
[Outro]
With one voice
So join in the song and sing forever
It's beautiful when we sing together
It's beautiful when we sing together