"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 bitch

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 motherfucking 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 nigga was here

son you never feel the pain till the shit 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 nigga Jam Master Jay man

Word up, it's all love my nigga

To all my niggas in the streets, the fallen soldiers

Keep ya guns up niggas, word up

See y'all niggas 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"