"Love is the center, together we can work it out
If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"
"Love is the center, together we can work it out

If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"

Yo, how much pain can one-man take

A woman and child step over crack valves
Blood in the streets, thugs and the creeps
Dilapidated playgrounds where kids play

Broke swings and glass
Dirt for grass, they run and they laugh
Benz parked by the projects, Idle objects

Kids stare hypnotized by the chrome glare
You got dope fiends nodding on the fences
Young brother smoke a blunt

Selling two for fives on the benches
Syringes all through the gutters and haze waters
Police holding parts of these streets to blaze on us

Drunks slain on the pavement hand in a fifth
This ghetto life we living in, God damn it's a (*##$
My brothers locked up in jail, box in a cell

(Told in touch) to the world is what I write in the mail
Streets is infested with drugs, crips and bloods
And every corner there's a thug but ain't no mother$#&@ing love

Word up

"Love is the center, together we can work it out

If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"
"Love is the center, together we can work it out
If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"


Yo gray skies cover my city
Black clouds and rain drops

Well, when the pain stop?
You got run down apartment rentals
No heat, it's cold in these streets

Gets hungry, no food to eat
Hear babies crying, young black men's dying
Single mothers giving up in the world, keep trying

Gun shots ricochet on bricks from the building
It's sick, and this ain't no place to raise children
They rather go to war and buy guns for six billion

Keep us in the hood right next to all the killing
Murals painted on the walls, ghetto gravesites
(Only tell precise), like it's coming to life

when you walk past, say a prayer
pour out ya beer
reminisce all the time when ya ^!$$% was here

son you never feel the pain till the %#@! hits home
son you never feel the pain till it's one of your own
where's the love?


Yo I wanna say rest in peace to my ^!$$% Jam Master Jay man
Word up, it's all love my ^!$$%

To all my ^!$$%s in the streets, the fallen soldiers
Keep ya guns up ^!$$%s, word up
See y'all ^!$$%s soon, man, I'm out


"Love is the center, together we can work it out
If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"

"Love is the center, together we can work it out
If we ever needed love, we need it right now, right now"