Love Wins

Carrie Underwood

A stray bullet and a momma cries

Her baby won’t be coming home tonight

Sirens screaming down the avenue

Just another story on the evening news, oh woah

Politics and prejudice

How the hell it’d ever come to this

When everybody’s gotta pick a side

It don’t matter if you’re wrong or right

No, and so it goes

But I hold onto hope and I won’t let go ’cause

I, I believe you and me are sisters and brothers

And I, I believe we’re made to be here for each other

And we’ll never fall if we walk hand in hand

Put a world that seems broken together again

Yeah I, I believe in the end love wins

Sometimes it takes a lot of faith

To keep believing there will come a day

When the tears and the sadness, the pain and the hate

The struggle, this madness, will all fade away, yeah

I, I believe you and me are sisters and brothers

And I, I believe we’re made to be here for each other

And we’ll never fall if we walk hand in hand

Put a world that seems broken together again

Yeah I, I believe in the end love wins

Love is power, love is a smile

Love reaches out, love is the remedy

Love is the answer, love’s an open door

Love is the only thing worth fighting for, yeah

I, I believe you and me are sisters and brothers

And I, I believe we’re made to be here for each other

And we’ll never fall if we walk hand in hand

Put a world that seems broken together again

Yeah I, I believe in the end love wins

Oh yeah, love wins

Love will, love can, love still, love wins

Love will, love can, love still, love wins

Review

This is the second single from Carrie Underwood’s sixth studio album “Cry Pretty” (2018). Vaguely reminiscent of “Jesus Take the Wheel,” this track opens with a mother’s perspective on gun violence, evolving into a broader call for unity and peace. It manages to balance the synth shimmer of pop with country twang, a feel-good ballad reminiscent of Luke Bryan.