One day I'd like to be rich and famous,
Maybe be funny like Andy and Amos,
Be on t.v., 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 a' what they wanna be,
And where apartheid, can never happen again,
Where people don't judge you by the color of you skin,
And where I hold your hand, you hold mine,
Where a helpful hand is never hard to find,
A place where people care, where no can 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,
‘Cause now is the time - this is the hour,
To stop thinking about war and start thinking about peace,
So on this land, 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,
‘Cause for too long, we’ve been too wrong,
Yea we play the right notes but the play the wrong songs,
Stop thinking with your wallet, and think with your mind,
So we can move ahead, instead of behind,
We got the people selling drugs, people are lying,
Politicians talking and you know they’re lying,
Taxes for the poor - none for the rich,
People starving in America now ain’t that a -- bummer

And now my heats been turned off, from my job,
I’ve been laid off, now what am I going to do?
Now is the shape I’m in because of my yellow skin,
Now I know that can’t be true.
But since we’re all down here together,
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 got missiles on the ground,
Lasers in space,
Underground shelters,
Just in case?
That something goes boom,
Certain doom,
‘Cause in our hearts would it make enough room?
For the love - it comes from above.
Let’s stop talking war and let’s offer the dove,
‘Cause when done it’s over - when it’s over it’s done.
We look back at the wars and see that nobody won
It’s time to make a better place for our daughters and our sons,
Or life will be a blast -- pardon the pun.