Where Is The Love?

Black Eyed Peas

Whats _________________________________________, mama
People living like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole worlds _____________to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try __________________________
But we still got terrorists here living
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the _____________________
But ___________________for your own race
Then you only leave space ___________________
And to discriminate only ____________________________
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's ________________how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just___________________________
______________________________________________ and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all
People__________________________, people dying
Children hurt and you hear them crying
Can you _______________________________________________
And would you ________________________________________
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some ________________from above
'Cause people got me, got me questioning
Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love)

Where is the love (The love)

Where is the love
The love, the love
It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange,________________________________________
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there _______________________that don't belong
Nations dropping bombs
Chemical gasses filling lungs of little ones
With ongoing suffering as the_______________________________
_______________________________________is the loving really gone
So I could ask myself really what is going wrong
In this world that were living in people keep on giving in
Making_________________________, only visions of them dividends
Not respecting each other, deny thy brother
A war is going on but the reason's __________________________
The truth is kept secret, it's _________________________________
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all
People__________________, people dying
Children hurt and you hear them crying
Can you ___________________________________________________
And would you _____________________________________________________
Father, Father, Father help us
Send some __________________from above

'Cause people got me, got me questioning

Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love
I feel the ______________________________
As I'm getting older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about _______________________________________
____________________________ got us following a wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
__________________________________________________ is the main criteria
_________________________________ the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they _______________________________
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the ____________________________________
Instead in spreading love were spreading animosity
___________________________________________, leading lives away from
unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under
That's the reason why
sometimes_________________________________________
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found

People_____________, people dying

Children hurt and you hear them crying
Can you ___________________

And would you _____________________________

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some __________________from above
'Cause people got me, got me questioning
Where is the love (Love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Sing wit me y'all:
One world, one world (We only got)
One world, one world (That's all we got)
One world, one world
And something's wrong wit it (Yeah)
Something's wrong wit it (Yeah)
Something's wrong wit the wo-wo-world, yeah
We only got
(One world, one world)_____________________
(One world, one world)

youth die young

negative

So ask

practice what

weight of the world on

images
addicted

yourself
undercover

you preach
KKK

my shoulder

with the world

money

infecting

is the world

see in the cinema

making
if you only

wrong

insane
pieces of love

lack of understanding

have love
I'm feeling

decisions
swept under

exactly

to discriminate

down
to stop

the rug
killing

take control of

guidance

terrorism
to set it

fairness in

your mind
generates hate

turn the other cheek

straight
wrong

equality
Selfishness

that's all we got

decisions
Comprehension and discussion questions
1. What is this song about?
2. I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma . Do you
agree?
3. According to the lyrics who are considered local terrorists?
4. What do you think does irate mean?
5. What is discrimination?
6. What does discrimination create?
7. What can stop discrimination according to the song?
8. What is the meaning of the expression to set someone or
something straight?
9. Explain and give an example of practice what you preach
10. Which do you support: to turn the other cheek or an eye for
an eye, a tooth for a tooth?
11. What/who do the artists refer to in the following: Why are
there pieces of love that don't belong?

12. According to the lyrics what do people have visions of ? What

does that mean?
13. Which expression is used to imply secrecy or a cover-up?
14. Share your opinion on If you never know truth then you never
know love.
15. Which expression is used to say that the artist feels sad and
worried about the state of the world and its people?
16. What are the artists opinion of the media and their influence
on the youth?
17. Do you agree with this portrayal of the media?
Idioms/ epressions
set someone/something straight
to tell someone the true facts about a situation that they had not
understood correctly
practice what you preach
to behave the way you tell other people to behave

have the cares/weight of the world on your shoulders

if you look or feel as if you have the cares of the world on your
shoulders, you look or feel very worried or sad

turn the other cheek

if you turn the other cheek when someone attacks or insults you, you
do not get angry and attack or insult them but stay calm instead

sweep something under the carpet

to hide something embarrassing.

Vocabulary check
Animosity

a feeling of strong dislike

Irate
Discrimina

angry; enraged
to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or

te

thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which

the person or thing belongs rather than according to

Bound to
Gravitate
Dividends
Thy

actual merit; show partiality

certain to
Move towards
An unexpected gain, benefit, or advantage
an old word for `your' used only when addressing one
person

Explanation :
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present
organizations in the United States that have advocated white
supremacy, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, racism, homophobia, antiCommunism and nativism. These organizations have often used
terrorism, violence, and acts of intimidation, such as cross burning and
lynching, to oppress African Americans and other social or ethnic
groups.