Everyone Wants to Be Loved

A simple photograph
Can bring all the feelings rushing back
I’m getting emotional
Time has flown by I’m growing old

Colliding with corporate values I’m
Sick of American holidays
Working 9 to 5
At a chance to improve my security

Remember the sun as it cut the sky
Remember the orphaned children’s cry
Remember that picture you took with Gene
Remember what it means

Everyone wants to be loved
Everyone wants an invading hug
Everyone wants to be touched by God

Everyone wants to get high
Everyone wants to laugh till they cry
Everyone wants to be loved by God

I’ve settled down again
Something I promised I’d never do
I’m looking more like my friends
I’m not sure I ever wanted to
Work on weekends and holidays
Put in 70 hours for a pay raise
With the extra money I made
See how it does on the stock exchange

Remember the children who couldn’t eat
Remember the widow’s barefoot feet
Remember the burden you felt inside
Remember how you came alive!

You say you love and you care
But you don’t want to live there

India wants to be loved
Iraq it wants an invading hug
The Philippines wants to be touched by God

Jamaica wants to get high
Somalia wants to laugh till they cry
Everyone wants to be loved by God