Song Lyrics:

What’s going on?
Tell me
People dying (yeah)
People crying (uh-huh)
Lord help us (c’mon)

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 the find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today

Oh, my father, father (father)
We don’t need to escalate (don’t 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

Barricades (sister)
Can’t block our way (sister)
Don’t punish me (sister) with brutality (sister)
Talk to me (sister) talk to me
Yeah you will see (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)
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 pay
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…ah… tell me (let’s do it)
What’s going on in the world today
I’d rather be dead
Than turn my head away
We got a first world vision
Too comfy to lift our hands in the air
And cry for a switch
(Put your hands in the air)

Father, father
Father help us, come on
Everybody thinks we’re wrong, oh
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Who are they to judge us
Together we can all be strong
United we stand, divided we fall
Oh 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 you punish me (brother)
With brutality (brother)
C’mon talk to me (brother)
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 going 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, 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 their 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 woulda 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

We gotta come from the streets
The world of racism the poverty
It’s hard to make peace
With the girl with big dreams
You don’t have to settle
We goin’ to get out da ghetto
We fight, but still things ain’t right
Too many dyin’ Lord knows I keep tryin’
You don’t know the pain I feel
I miss you VID
Let’s find a cure for AID

What’s going on (what’s going on)
What’s going on (what’s going on)
Oh, what’s going on, child labor (what’s going on)
What’s going on (what’s going on)
Hey hey hey
What’s going on (what’s going on)…[to end]