(Oh oh oh oh)

(Oh oh oh oh)



Echoes thunder almost every night

Why this prison if we're all alike?

Look around you, look at all your friends

Tell me, are they just what they pretend?



Listen to my story if you have the time

Yes, we'll make the difference if we really try

Listen, everybody, and start to make it right

One and all together, feel it from inside



CHORUS:

Tell me why it echoes every night,

Why we fight just to find who's wrong or right

Don't let it slide, you can't run and hide

Tell me why, oh, won't you please tell me why?



(Oh oh oh oh)

(Oh oh oh oh)



Give me a reason for all this senseless crime

We can change it, why they have to die

Think of the children, tomorrow's their future

Don't make them feel it's just another day



Tell me, anybody, why can't we live together,

End all the fighting, erase it all forever?

Listen for this reason before it gets too late

Soon, there will be no one, no one left to hate



CHORUS



Oh oh oh oh, tell me, tell me why

Oh oh oh oh, tell me, tell me why

Oh oh oh oh, tell me, tell me why

Oh oh oh oh, tell me, tell me why



INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE



So, tell me, anybody, why can't we live together,

End all the fighting, erase it all forever?

Listen for this reason before it gets too late

Soon, there will be no one, no one left to hate



CHORUS (2x)



Games are not where it's at

Give it up, no time for that

Imagine people, hand in hand

No more fighting in this land

Red, yellow, black, or white

Colors don't make up what's right

Come with me and see the light

We can start the peace tonight

Make the music fill your life

Now's the time to realize

Don't be living in a lie

Can't you hear the people's cry?



Can't you hear the people's cry?

(fade out)