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