What's Going On

制作人 : Arif Mardin/Jerry Wexler

鼓 : Fred White

贝斯 : Willie Weeks

康加鼓 : Earl DeRouen

吉他 : Cornell Dupree/Mike Howard

混音工程师 : Arif Mardin

录音工程师 : Tom Flye

电钢琴 : Donny Hathaway

主人声 : Donny Hathaway

What's going on

Tell me

People dying, people crying - Lord help us

Mother, mother, There's too many of you crying

Oh, brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying

That's right

You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today

Oh my father, father We don't need to escalate

You see war is not the answer

For only love can conquer hate

You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today

Barricades can't block our way

Don't punish me with brutality

Talk to me so you can see

Oh what's going on (what's going on) What's going on (what's going on)

Yeah what's going on (what's going on) Ahh what's going on (what's going on)

What's going on in a world filled with pain?

Where's the love for which we pray?

What's going on When our children can't play Homeless can't eat

There's got to be a better way

What's going on when we politically blind

Can't see the signs of endangered times

What's going on

Ah tell me What's going on in the world today

I'd rather be dead Than turn my head away

We gotta first world vision to complete

To lift our hands in the air and cry for a switch

Father, father

Father help us, come on

Everybody thinks we're wrong

Oh, but who are they to judge us (Who are they to judge us)

Together we can all be strong

United we stand, divided we fall

You know we've got to find a way

To bring some understanding here today

Barricades can't block our way

Don't punish me with brutality

Baby talk to me So you can see

Yeah, what's going on Hey,

what's going on

Somebody tell me

What's going on

Somebody tell me

What's going on-oh yeah yeah

What's going on 'cross seas

Every minute a child dies by this disease

In record numbers indeed

Your momma's crying out please My baby hold on

My child ain't done nothing wrong

Still I want to holler Ask them why they don't bother

Oh no, oh no Make me turn to my father And ask him why they all

got us trapped souls

I can feel what was bothering Marvin

Why his words forever remain Dealing with these modern day problems

'Cause of ignorance surrounding me And my constituents

Too many infected Too many lives diminishing Nobody say

Protestants, Jews, Blacks, And Whites, Latinos and Asians Pray together

Less fight We better unite As genocide chemical war And the rich and the poor

Know that God delivers a cure

It's a shame our reality is devastating

People praying for a cure

Dying while they're waiting Ask the Lord for the comfort

And strength to face it All the kids with dreams

Won't get the chance to chase it Makes me sad

Think about the lives they would've had

Think about the orphan babies Got no moms

and dads How can we sit back and not try to make it right

We gotta come together We gotta fight for life

Somebody tell me what's going on (What's going on)

We got human beings using humans for a bomb

But everyone wanna live Don't nobody really want to die

You feeling me, right? (Right)

I can't be watching people die (Die)

And watching people cry Let me break it down for a minute

If there's enough room here for you and for me

There's plenty of room for some humanity

Tell me what's going on You got to tell me (What's going on)

Tell me (What's going on) Tell me (What's going on)