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