Save the Children Lyrics
I just want to ask a question:
Who really cares, to save a world in despair?
Who really cares? (Ohhh)
There'll come a time (There'll come a time)
When the world won't be singing (When the world won't be singing)
Flowers won't grow (Flowers won't grow, no)
Bells won't be ringin' (The bells won't be ringin')
Who really cares? (Who really cares?)
Who's willing to try? (Who is willin' to try?)
To save the world (To save the world)
That's destined to die (That is destined to die)
When I look at the world (When I look at the world)
It fills me with sorrow (It fills me with sorrow)
Little children today (Children today)
Are really gonna suffer tomorrow (Really suffer tomorrow)
(Oh!) What a shame (What a shame)
Such a bad way to live (Such a bad way to live)
Oh, who is to blame? (Who is to blame?)
We can't stop living (When we can't stop living)
(Ohhh!) Live, (Live)
(Live for life) Live for life
(But let live everybody)
Live life for the children (Live life for the children!)
(Oh, for the Children!)
You see, let's... (Oh!) let's save the children (Oh)
Let's...let's save all the children
(Save the babies! Save the babies!)
(And if you want to love, you got to save the babies!)
(Oh you've got the feeling, you've got the feeling)
(You will save the babies! All of the children!)
But who really cares?
Who's willing to try? Yeah
To save our world, yeah
To save our sweet world
To save a world that is destined to die
Oh-oh-oh, la la la, la la la, la la la
Oh-oh, oh, dig it everybody
About
On the 4th track of Marvin’s classic record “What’s Going On” he speaks about how the world and how it is becoming tarnished. He speaks about how the children will not grow up in a good world and how they will “suffer”. Taking place after the Vietnam War in America where it was our first loss, people lost hope. Being the least acclaimed song on the album speaks to its impact but it does show a very important message.
Q&A
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I have a great affection for children, I love children. Children are tremendous. And I think that I wrote “Save the Children” because I was trying to think of some way or something that I could get to people. Even a man who has hardened his heart, who refuses to receive any thoughts of goodness, who hardens himself to words of compassion. I figured that the only object I could use, which was a real object to me, was children. So I saved the children.
I think that having been a child oneself, that same hardened man would perhaps say, “Well, I should save what I’ve been. Somebody surely saved me.” And I was appealing to one’s feelings of fairness.
— Marvin Gaye, 1976
- 4.Save the Children
- 5.God Is Love
- 7.Right On
- 8.Wholy Holy
