They Stood Up for Love

"They Stood Up for Love"
Single by Live
from the album The Distance to Here
Released	June 26, 2000 (2000-06-26)[1]
Studio	The Site (San Rafael, California) Village Recorder (West Los Angeles) A&M (Hollywood, California) The Plant (Sausalito, California)
Length	4:17
Label	Radioactive MCA
Songwriter(s)	Ed Kowalczyk Patrick Dahlheimer Chad Taylor
Producer(s)	Jerry Harrison Live
Live singles chronology
"Run to the Water" (2000) "They Stood Up for Love" (2000) "Simple Creed" (2001)
Music video
"They Stood Up for Love" on YouTube

"They Stood Up for Love" is a song by alternative rock group Live, which was released as the third and final single from their 1999 album, The Distance to Here. The song was released in the United States on June 26, 2000, and reached number 31 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 24 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It also peaked at number 88 in Australia.

The European single releases of "They Stood Up for Love" include an acoustic version of the song recorded at Jet Studios in Brussels, Belgium, in April 2000. This version was successful in the Flanders region of Belgium, reaching number one for two weeks, and it also peaked at number 19 in the Netherlands. It was Flanders' fourth-highest-selling single of 2000.