Where Is The Love - Black Eyed Peas (LYRICS)

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeyedpeas/whereisthelove.html

This is one of my favorite songs of all time, sorry if you think the Black Eyed Peas are lame. I totally agree with you if you're talking about their new stuff, but this song is classic. I'm going to pull out some of my favorite lines from this song and explain what's great about them, in my eyes.

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

These lines really appeal to me because it's explaining that even though we try to help other countries' problems with terrorism and violence, we neglect the problems we have here. The amount of time we spend on external problems outweighs the amount of time we spend on internal problems. Even though people probably don't think about it a lot, there is a serious gang problem in our country.

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love

This part reminded me a lot of things that we discussed about politics in zero period, like the use of weasel words and vagueness within campaigns. My opinion is that if someone doesn't tell the whole truth and omits parts of the truth that are undesirable in many peoples' eyes, they are still lying. This contributes to problems within the world, because many governments don't always tell the truth. We are lucky because we have a government that we can usually rely on, unlike many other countries in the world.

Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

This part of the song is sort of similar to the last one when it says "wrong information always shown by the media", because many products or campaigns will exaggerate the truth quite a bit in order to get our attention. Also, by "negative images is the main criteria", I think that they were talking about the news. How often do we see a positive story as the main story on the news? Exactly. The other thing that stood out to me in this part of the song was "Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema" because for some people it's true. I feel that there are some violent people in this world who are violent because of things that they saw on TV or in a movie or even in a violent video game. This is a problem that can never be solved, though, because we can't tell parents to restrict their kids from watching or playing whatever they want.

This song is obviously different from many rap songs we hear today that are about girls/sex, alcohol, weed, and gettin' paper. I think that's a good thing.

I suggest you look this song up if you've never heard it. I hope you like it as much as I do!!