Dare You to Move

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Dare You to Move is a Switchfoot song from their 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown. It was originally written for their 2000 album Learning to Breathe as "I Dare You to Move" but was reworked for The Beautiful Letdown. It was released to Christian radio on February 6, 2004, and to modern rock radio the following month. The song peaked at No. 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100, Switchfoot's highest-charting single, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in April 2005. Critics praised it, and it earned a spot on Rhapsody's Top 100 Tracks of the Decade.

Written by Jon Foreman and produced by Charlie Peacock and John Fields. It is in the key of E major, with a jangly guitar and a strong chorus, and follows a simple structure of intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, final chorus.

There are two official music videos: one shows a man running through a crowd, the other shows a surfer being revived on a beach; the second video reached No. 2 on VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown. The song appears as the first track on Learning to Breathe and the fifth track on The Beautiful Letdown. It has appeared on the A Walk to Remember soundtrack and in episodes of One Tree Hill.

In 2005, Dare You to Move won two Dove Awards (Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year and Short Form Music Video of the Year) and was nominated for Song of the Year. Foreman has called it a defining song and a personal push to move forward.