Where's The Love

"Love is the center, together we can work it out If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now" "Love is the center, together we can work it out If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now" Yo, how much pain can one-man take A woman and child step over crack valves Blood in the streets, thugs and the creeps Dilapidated playgrounds where kids play Broke swings and glass Dirt for grass, they run and they laugh Benz parked by the projects, Idle objects Kids stare hypnotized by the chrome glare You got dope fiends nodding on the fences Young brother smoke a blunt Selling two for fives on the benches Syringes all through the gutters and haze waters Police holding parts of these streets to blaze on us Drunks slain on the pavement hand in a fifth This ghetto life we living in, God damn it's a bitch My brothers locked up in jail, box in a cell [Told in touch] to the world is what I write in the mail Streets is infested with drugs, crips and bloods And every corner there's a thug but ain't no motherfucking love Word up "Love is the center, together we can work it out If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now" "Love is the center, together we can work it out If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now" Yo gray skies cover my city Black clouds and rain drops Well, when the pain stop? You got run down apartment rentals No heat, it's cold in these streets Gets hungry, no food to eat Hear babies crying, young black men's dying Single mothers giving up in the world, keep trying Gun shots ricochet on bricks from the building It's sick, and this ain't no place to raise children They rather go to war and buy guns for six billion Keep us in the hood right next to all the killing Murals painted on the walls, ghetto gravesites [Only tell precise], like it's coming to life When you walk past, say a prayer Pour out ya beer Reminisce all the time when ya nigga was here Son you never feel the pain till the shit hits home Son you never feel the pain till it's one of your own Where's the love? Yo I wanna say rest in peace to my nigga Jam Master Jay man Word up, it's all love my nigga To all my niggas in the streets, the fallen soldiers Keep ya guns up niggas, word up See y'all niggas soon, man, I'm out "Love is the center, together we can work it out If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now" "Love is the center, together we can work it out If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"