What's Going On (Album Version)-Norman Brown

[00:00.00] [00:01.00] [00:02.33]What's going on [00:02.99] [00:03.00] [00:03.49]Tell me [00:04.03] [00:04.58]People dying, people crying - Lord help us [00:10.38] [00:11.39]Mother, mother, There's too many of you crying [00:18.32] [00:20.46]Oh, brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying [00:27.61] [00:27.88]That's right [00:28.33] [00:29.03]You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today [00:39.42] [00:40.20]Oh my father, father We don't need to escalate [00:48.51] [00:49.06]You see war is not the answer [00:52.49] [00:53.41]For only love can conquer hate [00:58.15]You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today [01:08.44]Barricades can't block our way [01:12.71]Don't punish me with brutality [01:17.57]Talk to me so you can see [01:21.18] [01:22.57] Oh what's going on (what's going on) What's going on (what's going on) [01:26.93]Yeah what's going on (what's going on) Ahh what's going on (what's going on) [01:31.48] [01:32.00]What's going on in a world filled with pain? [01:34.44]Where's the love for which we pray? [01:36.69]What's going on When our children can't play Homeless can't eat [01:40.15]There's got to be a better way [01:41.53]What's going on when we politically blind [01:43.70]Can't see the signs of endangered times [01:46.07]What's going on [01:47.45] [01:48.45]Ah tell me What's going on in the world today [01:53.11]I'd rather be dead Than turn my head away [01:55.59]We gotta first world vision to complete [01:57.46]To lift our hands in the air and cry for a switch [02:00.45] [02:00.92]Father, father [02:02.45] [02:03.05]Father help us, come on [02:04.02] [02:04.39]Everybody thinks we're wrong [02:07.06] [02:09.19]Oh, but who are they to judge us (Who are they to judge us) [02:13.70]Together we can all be strong [02:16.91]United we stand, divided we fall [02:18.39]You know we've got to find a way [02:22.81]To bring some understanding here today [02:29.43]Barricades can't block our way [02:33.56]Don't punish me with brutality [02:37.51] [02:38.41]Baby talk to me So you can see [02:42.30]Yeah, what's going on Hey, [02:44.21]what's going on [02:45.51] [02:47.95]Somebody tell me [02:48.20]What's going on [02:49.01]Somebody tell me [02:50.06]What's going on-oh yeah yeah [02:52.68] [02:53.22]What's going on 'cross seas [02:55.18]Every minute a child dies by this disease [02:55.99]In record numbers indeed [02:57.35]Your momma's crying out please My baby hold on [03:00.22]My child ain't done nothing wrong [03:02.60]Still I want to holler Ask them why they don't bother [03:05.54]Oh no, oh no Make me turn to my father And ask him why they all [03:09.68]got us trapped souls [03:11.50] [03:12.05]I can feel what was bothering Marvin [03:13.44]Why his words forever remain Dealing with these modern day problems [03:16.39]'Cause of ignorance surrounding me And my constituents [03:18.72]Too many infected Too many lives diminishing Nobody say [03:21.68]Protestants, Jews, Blacks, And Whites, Latinos and Asians Pray together [03:25.21]Less fight We better unite As genocide chemical war And the rich and the poor [03:29.03]Know that God delivers a cure [03:30.45] [03:30.77]It's a shame our reality is devastating [03:32.84]People praying for a cure [03:34.20]Dying while they're waiting Ask the Lord for the comfort [03:36.73]And strength to face it All the kids with dreams [03:38.80]Won't get the chance to chase it Makes me sad [03:40.83]Think about the lives they would've had [03:42.56]Think about the orphan babies Got no moms [03:44.49]and dads How can we sit back and not try to make it right [03:47.48]We gotta come together We gotta fight for life [03:50.00] [03:50.29]Somebody tell me what's going on (What's going on) [03:52.41]We got human beings using humans for a bomb [03:54.64]But everyone wanna live Don't nobody really want to die [03:57.75] [03:58.24]You feeling me, right? (Right) [03:59.64]I can't be watching people die (Die) [04:01.28]And watching people cry Let me break it down for a minute [04:03.99]If there's enough room here for you and for me [04:06.20]There's plenty of room for some humanity [04:08.22] [04:08.80]Tell me what's going on You got to tell me (What's going on) [04:16.05]Tell me (What's going on) Tell me (What's going on) [04:19.96]