We Are on This Earth to Love

On this New Year's Day, 2025, a reminder from The Many that we are here to love.

Everything and everyone.

Drawing on indie pop and gospel influences, The Many makes music to help give voice to faith and doubt, questions and fears, laments and longings, music that speaks to a non-violent God, a Jesus who is with us and for us, and to a Spirit that can't be easily defined or controlled.  

It's music for a movement of resistance to hatred and division, for reconciliation and restoration, and music that always reminds us "we are on this earth to love." 

Here are the lyrics:

we are on this earth to love

on this earth

at this moment

to love

just love we are on this earth to love

all the life that lives on it

all of it not just some all

not just faces like ours skin like ours

not just lives like ours in zip codes

like ours

we are on this earth to love

to love

to love

all of it

to love all of it the way god loves us

the way god loves it to love the god we

meet within itself

we are on this earth to love

not just humans

no we are on this earth to love every

plant every shy shoot every blossom

every weed every creature great and

small we are on this earth to love the

aardvarks and the whales the cockatoos

and the sloths the bears and the badgers

birds and bees in all their strange and

unruly extraordinary

otherness

and yes the terrifying and wonderful

wilderness around us and within us

we are

on this earth

we are on this earth to love this water

these trees those mountains

that unbearably beautiful sky and the sun

that burns within it and this air

this air we breathe this air we breathe

this air

we breathe

breathe

it in

breathe it all in the god-soaked beauty

of this earth

all of it

and never forget

this is why we're here this is what

we're called to do

this is what gives us life

we are on this earth

to love to love to love

we are on this earth

we are