I Believe ( Blessid Union of Souls song ) - wikipedia I Believe ( Blessid Union of Souls song ) `` I Believe '' Single by Blessid Union of Souls from the album Home Released February 18, 1995 Format CD, cassette Recorded Length 4 : 27 Songwriter ( s ) Eliot Sloan Blessid Union of Souls singles chronology `` Let Me Be the One '' ( 1995 ) `` I Believe '' ( 1995 ) `` All Along '' ( 1996 ) `` Let Me Be the One '' ( 1995 ) `` I Believe '' ( 1995 ) `` All Along '' ( 1996 ) `` I Believe '' is a single by the American alternative rock band Blessid Union of Souls from their 1995 debut album Home. It is one of their most popular songs, and their highest - charting in the United States, reaching number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written after vocalist Eliot Sloan 's girlfriend `` Lisa '' was forced by her father to stop dating Sloan. On the third verse of the edited version, the word `` nigger '' is replaced with `` brother. '' Contents 1 History 2 Meaning 3 Chart performance 4 Music video 5 Critical reception 6 Track listing 7 Chart positions 7.1 Peak positions 7.2 End of year charts 8 References 9 External links History According to the `` I Believe Story '' from Blessid Union of Souls 's compilation album Almost Acoustic ( Volume 1 ), the song was written by vocalist Eliot Sloan in the early morning when he imagined the main piano sample which would be used in the song and then played it. `` I always tell people, and it 's the truth, ' I Believe ' was written in the middle of the night at about three in the morning. I always used to live in downtown Cincinnati, a really cool spiral staircase up to my bedroom, which kind of ended up as my studio. I kept a piano there that my mother got me when I was nine. In the middle of the night I was hearing the melody and I thought, ' this is pretty. ' I just had to get up and play it. '' Eliot Sloan stated in an interview with The Celebrity Cafe that he wrote the song about his relationship with `` Lisa '', a girl he once dated. Lisa 's father allegedly threatened to cut off her college tuition if she continued to see Eliot. They said good - bye and went their separate ways. He said that he still very much missed her, and placed a message in the liner notes of Home : `` Lisa, give me a call sometime just to say hello, my number is still the same. '' Meaning The song is about the lack of love in the world. In an interview with thecelebritycafe.com, Eliot Sloan said `` when I sing ' Love will find a way, ' I mean ' God will find a way, ' '' and that he has always believed that `` God is love. '' While the song uses fairly subtle Christian themes, as do many of the band 's songs, they tried to make it not sound too preachy. `` Well, it 's like... when we did that song, we were just like... there were so many things going on in society. We just wanted to do something positive. We just wanted to touch on a lot of points that society seems to be having a little trouble with as a whole. Racism was one of the things we wanted to distill in the song. So we were like, wanted to mention something about a relationship that I was in that people could relate to. It 's really cool because a lot of people have been really relating to that. A lot of people have been in relationships where their parents or their friends did n't want them seeing this other person for whatever reason, whether it was race, religion or background, or whatever. We just really believe that love is the answer to this stuff. Without it trying to sound hokey or whatever that 's just the honest to good answer. I 'm a witness to that. I get along with anybody who 's open minded, and who has an open heart to things. That 's the same with everybody in this band. We 've all got different backgrounds and we all agree on the same things. This is just one of them. There does n't have to be this much tension out there. There really does n't. We feel like it 's very unnecessary in a lot of situations. We just wanted to install some hope in people and hopefully people will listen to the lyrics and get that out of the song. '' '' -- Eliot Sloan, in an interview with the Celebrity Cafe. Chart performance Chart Peak position Australia ( ARIA ) 18 Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) 6 UK Singles ( The Official Charts Company ) 29 US Billboard Adult Contemporary 5 US Billboard Adult Top 40 24 US Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 26 US Billboard Billboard Hot 100 8 US Billboard Top 40 Adult Recurrents US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Music video A music video was made for `` I Believe ''. It shows the band members singing the song, interspersed with footage representing the ideas of the song. Critical reception In a review of Home by Allmusic, staff writer Tom Demalon said that the song `` revealed the band to have more of a social conscience than similar acts such as Hootie & the Blowfish through the spiritually tinged lyrics. '' In a review by Rolling Stone, staff writer Paul Evans called the song `` all righteous, wide - eyed affirmation ''. Track listing UK CD Single I Believe ( Radio Mix ) - 3 : 45 Heaven - 4 : 33 I Believe ( Original Version ) - 3 : 45 I Believe ( Blessid Q Mix ) - 4 : 02 US Cassette Single Side A I Believe ( Original Mix ) - 4 : 37 Side B I Believe ( Album Mix ) - 4 : 17 Heaven - 4 : 33 Chart positions Peak positions Chart ( 1995 ) Peak position Adult Contemporary 5 Adult Top 40 24 Rhythmic Top 40 26 Billboard Hot 100 8 Top 40 Adult Recurrents Top 40 Mainstream End of year charts End of year chart ( 1995 ) Position U.S. Billboard Hot 100 27 References Jump up ^ release date ^ Jump up to : Miserandino, Dominick A. `` Blessid Union of Souls Eliot Sloan ''. The Celebrity Cafe. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2009. Jump up ^ Home liner notes Jump up ^ `` T&T Management and Booking Agency - Blessid Union of Souls ''. T&T Management and Booking Agency. Retrieved May 26, 2009. Jump up ^ `` allmusic ( ( ( Home > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles ) ) ) ''. Allmusic. Retrieved April 6, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Australian-charts.com -- Blessid Union of Souls -- I Believe ''. ARIA Top 50 Singles. Jump up ^ Demalon, Tom. `` allmusic ( ( ( Home > Overview ) ) ) ''. Allmusic. Retrieved May 26, 2009. Jump up ^ Evans, Paul ( February 2, 1998 ). `` Blessid Union of Souls : Home : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 26, 2009. Jump up ^ http://www.discogs.com/Blessid-Union-Of-Souls-I-Believe/release/1117724 Jump up ^ http://www.discogs.com/Blessid-Union-Of-Souls-I-Believe/release/3410063 Jump up ^ `` allmusic ( ( ( Home > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles ) ) ) ''. Allmusic. Retrieved May 26, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Billboard Top 100 - 1995 ''. Archived from the original on 2009 - 08 - 15. Retrieved 2010 - 08 - 27. External links The music video hosted on YouTube. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Blessid Union of Souls Eliot Sloan Tony Clark Brian Billhimer Shaun Schaefer C.P. Roth Eddie Hedges Jeff Pence Studio albums Home Blessid Union of Souls Walking Off the Buzz Blessid Union of Souls : Play Ball Perception Close to the Edge Compilations Blessid Union of Souls : The Singles Almost Acoustic ( Volume 1 ) Singles `` Let Me Be the One '' `` I Believe '' `` All Along '' `` I Wanna Be There '' `` Light in Your Eyes '' `` Hey Leonardo ( She Likes Me for Me ) '' `` Standing at the Edge of the Earth '' `` Storybook Life '' `` Could 've Been with You '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Believe_(Blessid_Union_of_Souls_song)&oldid=804160961 '' Categories : 1995 singles Blessid Union of Souls songs Music videos directed by Michael Salomon Songs against racism and xenophobia Hidden categories : All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from April 2017 Articles with permanently dead external links Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2011 Articles with unsourced statements from July 2011 Articles with attributed pull quotes Singlechart usages for Australia Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 7 October 2017, at 04 : 28. 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Question: who sings i believe love is the answer
Answer: American alternative rock band Blessid Union of Souls