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**Where is the love?** by **Black Eyed Peas**
- Choice of Song - Sound of Song - Lyrics - Organisation and meaning of the lyrics - Final Exercise
 * Summary:**

__**Choice of Song**__
“Where is the love?” by Black eyed Peas is one of the most important songs for me. Mainly because the title is a question I have asked to myself many times and so, this song makes me thing of how this world have changed and above all, how to make it better. This song has a fantastic rhythm and the way BEP sings it, is hilarious. However, what makes it more important to me are the lyrics. These are divided in 3 different Stanzas and the Chorus, each stanza focuses in a different problem humanity has nowadays.

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Lyrics
What's wrong with the world, mama  People livin' like they ain't got no mamas  I think the whole world addicted to the drama  Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma  Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism  But we still got terrorists here livin'  In the USA, the big CIA  The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK  But if you only have love for your own race  Then you only leave space to discriminate  And to discriminate only generates hate  And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah  Madness is what you demonstrate  And that's exactly how anger works and operates  Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Take control of your mind and meditate <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

__Chorus__:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> People killin', people dyin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Children hurt and you hear them cryin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Can you practice what you preach <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> And would you turn the other cheek <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Father, Father, Father help us <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Send some guidance from above <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> 'Cause people got me, got me questionin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (Love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (The love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (The love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> The love, the love

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> It just ain't the same, always unchanged <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> New days are strange, is the world insane <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> If love and peace is so strong <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Why are there pieces of love that don't belong <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Nations droppin' bombs <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> With ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> in <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> If you never know truth then you never know love <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where's the love, y'all

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;">Chorus: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> People killin', people dyin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Children hurt and you hear them cryin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Can you practice what you preach <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> And would you turn the other cheek <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Father, Father, Father help us <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Send some guidance from above <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> 'Cause people got me, got me questionin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (Love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (The love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (The love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (The love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love (The love) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love, the love, the love?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Most of us only care about money makin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Selfishness got us followin' our wrong direction <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Wrong information always shown by the media <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Negative images is the main criteria <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Whatever happened to the fairness in equality <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Now ask yourself

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Father, Father, Father help us <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Send some guidance from above <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> 'Cause people got me, got me questionin' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Where is the love?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Sing wit me y'all: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> One world, one world (We only got) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> One world, one world (That's all we got) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> One world, one world <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> And something's wrong wit it (Yeah) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Something's wrong wit it (Yeah) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> Something's wrong wit the wo-wo-world, yeah <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> We only got <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> (One world, one world) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> That's all we got <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; margin: 0px;"> (One world, one world)

**__Organisation and meaning of the lyrics__**
<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The song is an attack to humanity and at the same time is a prayer to make this world a better place to live. It is meant to make you think about yourself, your attitude and about humanity in general.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The 1st stanza focuses on the reader, it’s like a personal message to him, it aims to make the reader meditate about the world or about his attitude. He also attacks the USA by mentioning that the goverment cares a lot about the war and terrorism in the Arab countries, however, in the USA the Bloods, the Crips and the KKK still exist. The should first of all fix the problem inside their country and then care about the other ones.

The chorus is adressed to God and at the same time to humanity. It criticises the american society of hypocrit “...Can you practice what you spreach, would you turn the other cheek?...”. In the USA the majority of people are Christian nevertheless they don’t preach what Jesus said, they just pray and go to mass. The rest of the Chorus asks God to help us and to guide us to find love again.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The 3rd Stanza is adressed to the goverments and its corruption. It’s a clear attack to wars too, because people that are innocent are the ones that suffer and die the most. It also complains about how people are not told the truth but lies just to make them not complain or protest for anything.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Finally, the last stanza is about how the world has changed and all this “Wrong Information” is getting in their heads and this is the seed of terrorism in the future. The values that people had before now they are not preached and this affect a lot of children, and also the huge difference between rich a poor in the USA make them hate the rich, and this separates society.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">In conlusion, this song is meant to be a meditation of our world today, of how could we improve it and how could we make things better. It is also a prayer which I think it gives emphasis to the song and it makes it more sincere.

**Final Exercise**
__Fill the Gaps, them listen__

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