Released: October 28, 2016
Songwriter: Billy Walsh Illangelo Alicia Keys
Producer: Illangelo Alicia Keys
[Verse 1]
If war is holy and sex is obscene
We've got it twisted in this lucid dream
Baptised in boundaries, schooled in sin
Divided by difference, sexuality and skin
[Pre-Chorus 1]
So we can hate each other and fear each other
We can build these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked in
Yeah we can hate each other and fear each other
We can build these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked
[Chorus]
Maybe we should love somebody
Maybe we could care a little more
Maybe we should love somebody
Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war
[Verse 2]
What if sex was holy and war was obscene
And it wasn't twisted, what a wonderful dream
Living for love, unafraid of the end
Forgiveness is the only real revenge
[Pre-Chorus 2]
So we can heal each other and feel each other
We can break these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself open, yourself open
Yeah we can heal each other and feel each other
We can break these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself open, you open
[Chorus]
Maybe we should love somebody
Maybe we could care a little more
Maybe we should love somebody
Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war
[Outro]
What if love was holy and hate obscene
We should give life to this beautiful dream
Cause peace and love ain't so far
If we nurse our wounds before they scar
Nurse our wounds before they scar
If war is holy and sex is obscene
We've got it twisted in this lucid dream
Baptised in boundaries, schooled in sin
Divided by difference, sexuality and skin
[Pre-Chorus 1]
So we can hate each other and fear each other
We can build these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked in
Yeah we can hate each other and fear each other
We can build these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself locked in, yourself locked
[Chorus]
Maybe we should love somebody
Maybe we could care a little more
Maybe we should love somebody
Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war
[Verse 2]
What if sex was holy and war was obscene
And it wasn't twisted, what a wonderful dream
Living for love, unafraid of the end
Forgiveness is the only real revenge
[Pre-Chorus 2]
So we can heal each other and feel each other
We can break these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself open, yourself open
Yeah we can heal each other and feel each other
We can break these walls between each other
Baby, blow by blow and brick by brick
Keep yourself open, you open
[Chorus]
Maybe we should love somebody
Maybe we could care a little more
Maybe we should love somebody
Instead of polishing the bombs of holy war
[Outro]
What if love was holy and hate obscene
We should give life to this beautiful dream
Cause peace and love ain't so far
If we nurse our wounds before they scar
Nurse our wounds before they scar
HERE
- In Common
- More Than We Know
- You Glow (Interlude)
- Girl Can’t Be Herself
- Cocoa Butter (Cross & Pic Interlude)
- Work on It
- Illusion of Bliss
- Elevate (Interlude)
- Kill Your Mama
- Elaine Brown (Interlude)
- Pawn It All
- The Beginning (Interlude)
- Holy War
- Blended Family (What You Do For Love)
- The Gospel
- She Don’t Really Care_1 Luv
- Hallelujah
- Where Do We Begin Now
- HERE (2016)
- If I Ain’t Got You
- Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down
- No One
- Girl on Fire
- It’s On Again
- Girl on Fire (Inferno Version)
- Unthinkable (Remix)
- Fallin’
- You Don’t Know My Name
- Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)
- Underdog
- In Common
- Show Me Love
- Diary
- Blended Family (What You Do For Love)
- Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart
- So Done
- Fire We Make
- Brand New Me
- Show Me Love (Remix)
- Like You’ll Never See Me Again
- Gramercy Park
- Superwoman
- Holy War