Can't you smell the smoke in the air?
 War, disease, and famine
 This demon, she is everywhere

 Poets and preachers and politicians
 They've all had their say
 And we got 10,000 years
 Devoted to nothing
 But tomorrow and yesterday

 If all of the ignorance in the world
 Passes a second ago
 What would you say?
 Who would you obey?
 I am here to say that

 Peace is now

 Mr. President
 I hereby pardon you of all your crimes
 For they are just as much mine

 Selfishness and separation have led me
 To believe that the world is not my problem
 The world is not my problem
 I am the world
 And you are the world

 If all of the ignorance in the world
 Passes a second ago
 What would you say?
 Who would you obey?
 I am here to say that

 Peace is now