One day I'd like to be rich and famous

Maybe be funny like Andy and Ames

Be on TV and sing like Stevie

And have a girl who'd never leave me

But I'd really like a place

where there could be no war

A bright and shiny world where there ain't no poor

Where there's opportunity, peace and unity

Where people can be what they want to be

And where Apartheid could never happen again

Where people don't judge you by the color of your skin

Where I hold your hand and you hold mine

Where a helpful hand is never hard to find

A place where people care

Where no one could bear

When someone's hungry, with nothin' there

Where the heart is never cold

The young are never needy,

The old are never poor,

And the rich are never greedy

So bring the power to the people

The people to the power

Cuz now is the time, this is the hour

To stop thinkin' about war start thinkin' about peace

So on this life, we can get another lease

With a lesson to learn

A new direction to turn

So we can take it to the sky where we belong

Cuz 'fore to long, we been to wrong

We've got the right notes

But we play the wrong song

Stop thinkin' with your wallet

Think with your mind

So we can move ahead

Instead of behind

We got the people selling drugs

People are dying

Politicians talking and we know they're lyin'

Taxes for the poor, none for the rich

People starvin' here in American

Now ain't that a bummer

And now my heats been turned off

From my job, I've been laid off

What am I gonna do?

Well, is the shape I'm in

Because of my dark skin?

Now I know that can't be true

But since we're all down here

Let's work to make it better

Do our best for what it's worth

But you know the rules are bent

When you have to pay rent

Just to live on earth

Talk about justice

We're gonna do something now

That's gonna be really slick

We're gonna listen to Mr. Fleck and Chick

I'm gonna say one more thing

Then I'll get outta your face

How 'bout a sound

With a little bass

And we got missiles on the ground

Lasers in space

Underground shelters, just in case

That something goes boom

Certain doom

Cuz in our hearts we didn't make enough room

For the love

It comes from up above

Let's stop talking war

And let's offer the dove

Cuz when it's done it's over

When it's over, it's done

We look back at the wars

And see nobobdy won

It's time to make a better place

For out daughters and our sons

Or life will be a blast

Pardon the pun