What's Going On

What's going on (tell me)
People dying (yeah)
People crying (uh huh)
Lord help us (come on)

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 loving here today

Oh my father, father (father)
We don't need to escalate (need to escalate)
You see, war is not the answer (war is not the answer)
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some loving here today

Barricades can't block our way (sister, sister)
Don't punish me with brutality (sister, sister)
Talk to me so you can see (sister, sister)
Oh, what's going on (what's going on)
What's going on (what's going on)
Yeah, what's going on (what's going on, tell me)
What's going on (what's going on)

What's going on in a world filled with pain (hey)
Where's the love for which we pray
What's going on when our children can't play
Homeless can't eat, there's gotta be a better way
What's going on when we politically blind
And can't see the signs of endangered times
What's going on

Ah, ah, tell me (let's do it)
What's going on in the world today (yeah, uh)
I'd rather be dead than turn my head away (come on)
We got a first-world vision
Too comfy to lift our hands in the air and cry for a switch

Father, father (father, help us, come on)
Everybody thinks we're wrong (yeah)
Ooh, but who are they to judge us (who are they to judge us)
Together we can all be strong, yeah (yeah, united we stand, divided we fall)
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today, yeah, oh

Barricades can't block our way (brother, brother)
Don't punish me with brutality (brother, brother)
Baby talk to me so you can see (brother, talk to me)
Yeah, what's going on (what's going on)
Hey, what's going on (what's going on, wanna tell me)
What's going on (what's going on, somebody tell me)
What's going on, yeah

What's going on across seas
Every minute a child dies by this disease
In record numbers indeed
Got mommas crying out please
My baby hold on
My child ain't done nothing wrong
Still I wanna holler
Ask them why they don't bother
Oh no, oh no
Make me turn to my father
And ask him why they all got a trapped soul, trapped soul

I can feel what was bothering Marvin (yeah)
Why his words forever remain dealing with these modern-day problems
'Cause the ignorance surrounding me and my constituents
Too many infected, too many lives diminishing (no no no)
Nobody say Protestants, Jews, blacks, and whites, Latinos and Asians
Pray together
Less fight
We'd better unite
As genocide, chemical war
And the rich and the poor
Know that God delivers a cure

It's a shame our reality is devastating
People praying for a cure
Dying while they're waiting
Ask the Lord for the comfort and strength to face it
All the kids with dreams
Won't get the chance to chase it
Makes me sad
Think about the lives they would've had
Think about the orphan babies got no moms and dads
How can we sit back and not try to make it right
We gotta come together
We gotta fight for life

Somebody tell me what's going on (what's going on)
We got human beings using humans for a bomb (yeah)
But everybody wanna live (yeah)
Don't nobody really want to die
You feeling me right (right)
I can't be watching people die (die)
And watching people cry
Let me break it down for a minute (break it down)
If there's enough room here for you and for me
There's plenty of room for some humanity

Yeah
What's going on
What's going on
What's going on
What's going on

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