Lyrics:

What's going on?

Tell me

People dying (Yeah)
People crying (Aha)
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 (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 lovin' here today (Say what)

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?)
What's going on? (What's going on?)
Yeah, what's going on? (What's going on?)
What's going on? (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?

Ah, tell me
What's going on in the world today?
I'd rather be dead than turn my head away
We gotta first world vision to compete 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

Oh, but who are they to judge us? (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 (Yeah)

To bring some understanding here today, yeaheaheah

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? (What's going on?)
Hey, what's going on? (What's going on?)
Somebody tell me what's going on? (What's going on?)
I'll tell you what's goin' on

What's going on 'cross seas
Every minute a child dies by this disease
In record numbers indeed
Got momma's crying out please
My baby, hold on

My child ain't done nothing wrong
Still I want to hollar
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

Yo, 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, Latino's and Asians
Pray together, less 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 the 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 bombs (Yeah)
But everyone wanna live (Aha)
Don't nobody really wanna die
You feeling me, right? (Right)
I can't be watching people 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

Tell me, tell me
You gotta tell me
What's going on?