What`s goin` on? (tell me) People dyin`. (yeah) People cryin`.(uh huh) Lord, help us.
Mother, mother, there`s too many of you crying.
Oh, brother, brother, brother, there`s far too many of you dying. (that`s right)
You know we`ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin` here today
Oh, my father, father, we don`t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
Only love can conquer hate
We`ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin` here today
Barricades (sister) can`t block our way (sister)
Don`t punish me (sister) with brutality (sister)
Talk to me (sister) so you can see (sister)
Oh, what`s goin` on (what`s goin` on)
What`s goin` on (what`s goin` on)
Yeah, what`s goin` on (tell me) (what`s goin` on)
What`s goin` on (what`s goin` on)
What`s goin` on
In a world filled with pain
Oh, where`s the love, always refrain
What`s goin` on
When our children can`t play
When the homeless can`t eat
There`s gotta be a better way
What`s goin` on
With politically battles
Can`t see the signs
Of endangered times
What`s goin` on (I...I...tell me)
What`s goin` on in the world today
I`d rather be dead than turn my head away
We`ve got a first-world vision
To comfort, to lift our hands in the air
To grab hope and swim
Father, father, (father) everybody thinks we`re wrong (yeah)
Oh, but who are they to judge us (who are they to judge us)
Together we can all be strong
You know we`ve got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Barricades (brother) can`t block our way (brother)
Don`t punish me (brother) with brutality (brother)
Baby talk to me (brother) so you can see (brother)
Yeah, what`s goin` on (what`s goin` on)
Hey, what`s goin` on (somebody tell me)
What`s goin` on (somebody tell me) (what`s goin` on)
What`s goin` on (what`s goin` on)
All across seas
Every little child dies by this disease
Workin` mamas to eat
I just trying to please my baby, hold on
My child ain`t done nothin` wrong
Still I wanna holler
As the money don`t bother
Oh no, oh, no
Lemme turn to my father
That the money all got us
Track`s on, track`s on
Yo, I can feel what was bothering Marvin
Wise words forever remain dealing with these modern day problems
Cuz of ignorance surrounding me and my constituents
Too many infected too many lives diminished
Nobody`s safe
Protestants, Jews, Blacks and Whites, Latinos and Asian
Pray together, let`s fight
We better unite
As genocide chemical war
On the rich and the poor
Only God can lend us the cure
It`s a shame my reality is devestating
People praying for a cure, now they`re out and waitin`
Ask the Lord for the comfort and the strength to face it
All the kids with dreams won`t get the chance to chase it
Makes me sad, thinkin` about the lives they would`ve had
Thinkin` about the orphan babies, got no moms or dads
How could we sit back and not try to make it right
We gotta come together
We gotta fight for life
Somebody tell me what`s goin` on (what`s goin` on)
We got human beings using humans for a bomb
How could everybody wanna live
Don`t nobody really wanna die
You feelin` me, right
I can`t be watching people die (die)
Or watching people cry (cry)
Lemme break it down for you
There`s enough room here for you and for me
There`s plenty of room for some humanity
You`ve got to show me how...
What`s goin` on
What`s goin` on
