We've got to save the world
Someone else may want to use it
So far we've seen

This planet's rape, how we've abused it
We've got to save the world


The Russians have the biggest share
With their long fingers everywhere
And now they've bombs in outer space

With laser beams and atomic waste

Rain forest chopped for paper towels

One acre gone in every hour*
Our birds and wildlife all destroyed
To keep some millionaires employed


We've got to save the whale
Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse it

But dog food salesmen
Persist on kindly to harpoon it
We've got to save the world


The armament consortium
They're selling us plutonium

Now you can make your own H-bomb
Right in the kitchen with your mom


The nuclear power that costs you more
Than anything you've known before
The half-wit's answer to a need

For cancer, death, destruction, greed

We've got to save the world

Someone's children they may need it
So far we've seen
The big business of extinction bleed it

We've got to save the world

We're at the mercy of so few

With evil hearts determined to
Reduce this planet into hell
Then find a buyer and make quick sale


To end upon a happy note
Like trying to make concrete float

Is very simple knowing that
God in your heart lives


We've got to save the world
Someone else may want to use it
It's time you knew

How close we've come
We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save
We gotta save the world.