THE NEPTUNES - What's Going On lyrics

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People in the ghetto (Come on)

This one's for you

Yeah, baby

People in the ghetto

Yeah

This one's for you

Yeah, baby

It's like God's M.I.A. in the hood

You a baller when you bad, but you corny when you good

When I talk about Jesus, I misunderstood

To keep it real with your Cristol, don't boost my morale

I rather see the homeless warm and poor people get on

And rappers going platinum, singing upliftin' songs

Mama say, "God comes like a thief in the night

Do you pray everyday

Or when tragedy strikes? "

What's going on?

World war

Wanna settle the score

So who's the enemy?

This dude

I tried to tell all the little homies

Just chill on the streets

Now we all stand together

Cause we all for peace

I saw the twin towers fall

Like it's nothin' at all

I stood shook

All sad, all New Yokers is mad

And we all got our flags on the cars

Cause whether you

White or black

America's ours

I remember thinking, killin' is wrong

Waiting and wishin' that the

Bone chillin' feelin' is gone, but still, it's on

Wonderin' will I'll condone, what's goin' on in our zones

Violence that exists in our phones or that lives in our homes

Everyday, a killer is born, utility swarms

We buildin' bonds, let's chill and be calm, and heal cause we strong

I know you feelin' this song, cause killin' is wrong

Millions are gone, put your ribbons on

What's going on

People lying in the street

Ain't got no food to eat (What's going on)

So many children

Living in poverty (What's going on)

What can we do

To help the weary (What's going on)

Oooh, we gotta get down

On our knees and pray

All you do is take a look at the kids

And you

See what this world done did

And um

It's a dog gone shame

Some of the pain, we walk with cloud in our rains

And um

Don't let it get you down

Times get rough, good times come back around

Don't let it make you down

You got the power to turn your life around

What's going on

In the U.S.A.

Why we all can't live in a

F-A, B-O, L-O-U-S way

And I do just pray

That next year, I'll be tryin' to buy

A new S, instead of a new S.K.

It's so easy to grab and shoot at somethin'

But war

What is it good for?

Hun?

Absolutely nothin'

We oughta build from the boulders

I caught a chill

When I hold a thought

Of my children as soldiers (What's going on?)

What's going on?

Now, wasn't y'all them same cats, holdin' up mags

Now, look

Everybody holding up flags

It's like the real lace attack with the red, white and blue

The FED's ain't got a clue

So what we gotta do, hun?

What's going on, why does it have to be

The only time we unite is in a catastrophe?

But if I had the power, I would bring back the towers

Be the unfound hero, dead be no ground zero

What's going on

Fed up

Computer friend is crazy (What's going on?)

Hustlers bribin' for the hood

And we're sharin', baby (What's going on?)

Well, maybe, we'll keep up with the page

The future's on (What's going on?)

Maybe then, we won't have to ask

What's going on (What's going on?)

Here, it's 9/11, and I turned on my T.V.

I couldn't believe, that this was happenin' to me

I

Jumped on my knees and prayed, I said, "Lord

Is Revelation coming true from

Back in the day? "

What's going on, cause I'm wondering why

Everybody ringing my phone

They trying to see, if I was on a plane

Tryin' to see if I was comin' home

But I'm not, and I thank the Lord

How could it been no one in the conquer (Fo sho)

When I'm still here (That's right)

I pray that it don't go loop

No matter what, we gotta choose

Sleep, and you lose

Every other day, I find myself, watching the news

Eyes glued to the screen in another world

Wishin' I could move to another world

I seem to be another girl

What's going on, we under attack

The war was the past, I knew

I looked towards a brighter future with planes gettin' crashed

They can't crush me spirits, so I spit it through the lyric

Though I stand in the valley of death

I won't fear it

Nigga, we livin' Revelations everyday

It's like turning the pages

We gotta rise up, done it, stop playin'

It's like the world ain't

Nothin' but a great big bomb

And time is just a countdown for that shit to blow (POW) {What's going on? }

I know, I know we can do this thing (Oooh, mercy, mercy, me) {What's going on? }

If we just come together, we can do it (Things ain't what they seem to be) {What's going on? }

I know we can (For you in my ocean)

Do anything that I want {What's going on? }

What's going on?

My brother, brother (What's going on)

Won't somebody help me, yeah (What's going on)

Father, father, help us