Where Is The Love by the Black Eyed Peas

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA fightin'
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

   I find it interesting that they say that if you only have love for your own race, you cause discrimination, which leads to hate. That is so true. If I only look out for my own people, that leaves billions who aren't like me. Billions who may not look like me, who are people just the same. The song says you need to "have love to set it straight". If we loved one another, and stopped looking at color and culture, we'd realize that problems can be solved. Its almost like what happened in Rwanda. The people spent so much time trying to kill anyone who was "too light", that they didn't take into account that they could use these innocent people to make the struggling country a better place.

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you 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 questionin'
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, always unchanged
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 gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'
in

 

"Is the world insane"? Is it? Its kind of scary when you take into account all of the bad things that have happened, all of the madmen set on killing. Its interesting how the song says that in this world, people keep on giving in. Are we giving into the craziness around us by acting like its okay? Or are we giving in by being bystanders and not upstanders?

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, it's 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)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all

  We really are people who are severely bent on money. Some people will do anything for money- sell little girls, cheat people, rob their own families. It's actually quite sickening how money has become so important to us, we're willing to lose our humanity to obtain it.

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you 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 questionin'
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 (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' our 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 in equality
Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found
Now ask yourself

I remember my dad telling me that children's minds were like sponges. If you raise a child in a world of loving, caring people, chances are, monkey see, monkey do- they'll be loving people as they age.
Sadly, however, if a child is raised watching angry parents, they'll be filled with rage. If they sit in front of a TV all day, watching music videos that degrade women, they'll be the same way when they get older. That's why kids need to see LOVE, so that when they're older, they'll spread LOVE.

Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love?

Sing wit 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 wit it (Yeah)
Something's wrong wit it (Yeah)
Something's wrong wit the wo-wo-world, yeah
We only got
(One world, one world)
That's all we got
(One world, one world)

 

I find this song very interesting. We spend so much of our time fighting, debating, and all this other stuff that we don't stop to see the real problem in this world. People have forgotten to love. What happened to kids playing on the streets and being JUST FINE? What happened to "loving thy neighbor"? Now, all we do is think of ourselves, how WE can make money, how WE can be powerful and successful. We need to LOVE to to solve problems, LOVE to truly understand eachother. We need to love, so we can be loved.