What's going on   Tell me   People dying   People crying   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   For only love can conquer hate   You know we've got to find a way   To bring some lovin' here today      Barricades can't block our way   Don't punish me with brutality   Talk to me, so you can see      Oh what's going on   What's going on   Yeah, what's going on   Ah what's going on      What's going on in a world filled with pain?   Where's the love for which we pray?   What's going on   When our children can't play   Homeless can't eat?      There's got to be a better way   What's going on   When we politically blind?   Can't see the signs of endangered times   What's going on      What's goin' on in the world today?   I'd rather be dead than to turn my head away   We got this first world vision too   Comfy to lift up our hands in the air   And cry for a switch      Father, father   Father help us, come on   Everybody thinks we're wrong      Oh, but who are they to judge us?   Together we can all be strong   United we stand, united we fall      Oh you know we've got to find a way   To bring some understanding here today   Barricades can't block our way      Don't punish me with brutality   Baby, talk to me so you can see      Yeah, what's going on   Hey, what's going on   Somebody tell me what's going on   I'll tell you what's goin' on, uh      What's going on 'cross 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 want to 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      I can feel what was bothering Marvin   Why his words forever remain   Dealing with these modern day problems   'Cause of ignorance surrounding me and my constituents   Too many infected, too many lives diminishing      Nobody say Protestants, Jews   Blacks and Whites, Latinos and Asians   Pray together, let's fight we 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   But everyone wanna live   Don't nobody really want to die?      You feeling me right   I can't be watching people die   (Die)   And watching people cry   Let me break it down for a minute   If there's enough room here for you and me   There's plenty of room for some humanity      Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)   Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)      Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)   Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)      Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)   Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)      Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)   Somebody tell me what's going on   (What's going on)