What’s Going On Songtext
von Artists Against AIDS Worldwide

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 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?
What's going on?

Yeah, 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 gotta be a better way

What′s going on
When we politically blind

Can't see the signs of endangered times?
What's going on?


Oh, oh, tell me
What′s goin′ 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

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, divided we fall
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
What's going on?
Hey, what's going on?
Somebody tell me what′s going on

I′ll tell you what's going on

What′s going on 'cross the 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
Less fight
We better unite
As genocide and chemical war
And the rich and the poor
Know that God delivers a cure
It′s a shame our reality is devestating
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 a bomb
But everybody wanna live
Don′t nobody really wanna 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 for me
There's plenty of room for some humanity
Somebody tell me what′s going on
What's going on?