Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"Everybody Needs Love" by @mavisstaples from the album 'Sad And Beautiful World', out now
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Written by Eddie Hinton
Produced by Brad Cook
Engineered & mixed by Brad Cook and Paul Voran
Mastering by Tim Smiley

Lead Vocals - Mavis Staples
Background Vocals - Bonnie Raitt, Patterson Hood, Katie Crutchfield and Nathaniel Rateliff
Acoustic Guitar - MJ Lenderman
Electric Guitar - Rick Holmstrom
Slide Guitar - Bonnie Raitt
Bass - Brad Cook
Drums - MJ Lenderman
Organ - Phil Cook
Piano - Andy Kaulkin

Lyrics

There's moonbeams
We can dream on
When our working day it's done

There's stars
We can wish upon
At the setting of the sun

There's sunsets
We can cry over
When are troubles on the run

But more than all these miracles above
Are people
We gotta love

Everybody needs a love, love, love
Everybody needs a love, love, love
Everybody needs love, love, love
Just like they need the sun and the moon and the stars above

Ain't nobody ever find happiness
Living the life all alone
I used to go around and saying
I didn't need nobody
To be happy and belong
Then one sad day I find myself in trouble
Went down without a friend
And along came a love of a real good woman
Sexually loving me 'til the end

Everybody needs a love, love, love
Everybody needs a love, love, love
Everybody needs love, love, love
Just like they need the sun and the moon and the stars above

I was walking down the road the one day
Collecting candies for sale
When I saw an old man up in a bank by the side of the road
He had a bible in his hands and tears all in his eyes
I said: "Hey mr. what's wrong?"
He said: "Nothing son, you see
I preached up the road the church
In that beneath the church
I just came out here in the woos today
To have a cold meal with Nathan."
and while he went on and saying
This thought came to me

Everybody needs a love, love, love
Everybody needs a love, love, love
Everybody needs love, love, love
Just like they need the sun and the moon and the stars above

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