Everybody's got to hold hands,
We've got to help each other any way we can,
We've got to give some loving to our fellow man,
From the kids out mugging to the Ku Klux Klan.
Since World War II more than ten trillion dollars
have been spent on defence, enough to feed us all.
It's brought down a rain of fear and pain upon us,
from Diego garcia to the Berlin wall.
An estimated 300 thousand child soldiers
are involved in more than 30 conflicts around the world,
The last decade's armed conflic has resulted
in the deaths of over 2 million boys and girls.
Everybody's got to hold hands,
We've got to help each other any way we can,
We've got to give some loving to our fellow man,
From the Berlin Stasi to the Taliban.
Women are murdered most often
by their current or former loved ones
as everyday as the cuts and broken jaws
They receive at the hands
of their boyfriends or their husbands
Often unreported and behind closed doors.
More children were killed by guns
in the US in the last 25 years
than the number of Americans
who dies in the Vietnam war
In the united Kingdom handgun crime
is one third higher
One third higher than it was the year before.
Everybody's got to hold hands,
We've got to help each other any way we can,
We've got to give some loving to our fellow man,
From the first time killer to the Son of Sam.\