What’s wrong with the world, Mama? / People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas / I think the whole world’s addicted to the drama / Only attracted to things that’ll bring you trauma / Overseas, yeah, we tryna stop terrorism / But we still got terrorists here livin’ / In the Usa, the big Cia / The Bloods and the Crips and the Kkk / But if you only have love for your own race / Then you only leave space to discriminate / And to discriminate only generates hate / And when you hate, then you’re bound to get irate, yeah / Madness is what you demonstrate / And that’s exactly how anger works and operates / Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight / Take control of your mind and meditate / Let your soul gravitate to the love, y’all, y’all

People killin’, people dyin’ / Children hurtin’, hear them cryin’ / Can you practice what you preach? / And would you turn the other cheek? / Father, father, father, help us / Send some guidance from above / ’Cause people got me, got me questioning / Where is the love?

(Love) Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love, the love, the love?

It just ain’t the same, old ways have changed / New days are strange, is the world insane? / If love and peace is so strong / Why are there pieces of love that don’t belong? / Nations droppin’ bombs / Chemical gases filling lungs of little ones / With ongoing sufferin’ as the youth die young / So ask yourself, is the lovin’ really gone? / So I can ask myself, really, what is going wrong / With this world that we livin’ in? People keep on givin’ in / Makin’ wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends / Not respectin’ each other, deny thy brother / A war is goin’ on, but the reason’s undercover / The truth is kept secret, and swept under the rug / If you never know truth, then you never know love / Where’s the love, y’all? Come on (I don’t know) / And where’s the truth, y’all? Come on (I don’t know) / And where’s the love y’all?

People killin’, people dyin’ / Children hurtin’, hear them cryin’ / Can you practice what you preach? / And would you turn the other cheek? / Father, father, father, help us / Send some guidance from above / ’Cause people got me, got me questioning / Where is the love?

(Love) Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love? / (Love) Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love? (The love) / Where is the love, the love, the love?

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder / As I’m gettin’ older, y’all people gets colder / Most of us only care about money-makin’ / Selfishness got us followin’ the wrong direction / Wrong information always shown by the media / Negative images is the main criteria / Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria / Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema / Yo, whatever happened to the values of humanity? / Whatever happened to the fairness and equality? / Instead of spreading love, we spreading animosity / Lack of understanding leading us away from unity / That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ under / That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ down / It’s no wonder why sometimes I’m feelin’ under / Gotta keep my faith alive ’til love is found / Now ask yourself

Where is the love?…

Father, father, father, help us / Send some guidance from above / ’Cause people got me, got me questioning / Where is the love?

Now sing with me, y’all (One world, one world) / We only got (One world, one world) / That’s all we got (One world, one world) / And something’s wrong with it (Yeah) / Something’s wrong with it (Yeah) / Something’s wrong with the w-world, world, yeah / We only got (One world, one world) / That’s all we got (One world, one world)

[By will.i.am – Taboo – Apl.de.ap – Justin Timberlake – Ron Fair – Printz Board – George Pajon Jr. – Mike Fratantuno – J. Curtis – Jalil Hutchins – Lawrence Smith © Interscope Geffen (A&M), 2003]