Maybe, what we need
Right now is love
What we need right now
More than anything
Don't relax
Take a journey though my angst
As I separate myself
From the collective mind
Maybe I lean a little too far
To the live and let live
In a world that's humming
Live and let die
Either way I shall stay
Far away from polluted thoughts
The vicious lies and
Confusing talk of divisive wars
Won't shake my confidence
In what history will decide
Maybe, what we need
Right now is love
What we need right now
More than anything
Forget the photographs
Forget the television
Forget the news
Forget the lies
They're all misleading anyway
Maybe, what we need
Right now is love
What we need right now
More than anything
Forget the war on drugs
The war on terrorism
On immigrants
On poverty
They're all misleading anyway
Outside in America
There's a growing fear
As our future's take a slide
Through the downward spiral
Of indifference
Never ending war
And repressed lives
Not for me how you see
Life should be in Utopia
Where the wealthy few can thrive
Your vindictive, manipulative,
Dismissive ways will not withstand
The scrutiny of
What history will decide
Maybe, what we need
Right now is love
What we need right now
More than anything
Forget the photographs
Forget the television
Forget the news
Forget the lies
They're all misleading anyway
Maybe, what we need
Right now is love
What we need right now
More than anything
Forget the call to war
The militant solution
Forget the bombs
Forget the guns
Where do they get us anyway?
Maybe what we need is love