Black Eyed Peas: Where is the love? Meaning

Where is the love? 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...

1. Mathilde_3eme

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   Jun 2nd 2011 !⃝

   This song is an observation of how the world is becoming : more corrupt and hate-filled. If you read the lyrics, you understand easily that it talks about how most people are worried about war overseas while we should really be worrying about the violence and the problems that arise in our country.
   
   It also talks about the disintegration of the society'values.
   
   Examples :
   
   1°/"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"
   
   => Racism is being expressed in violent/humiliating methods nowadays.
   
   2°/"As I'm getting older, y'all, people gets colder
   Most of us only care about money makin'
   Selfishness got us followin' our wrong direction"
   
   => Materialism is getting more common. Makinng money seems to be the most important thing in people's mind now.
   
   3°/"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"
   
   => It seems that the youth are easily influenced by the media. This leads to the rise in juvenile crime and violent acts.
   
   
   In conclusion, I can say that the song talks about racism, materialism, war in Iraq, the influence of the media and it also talks about how kids are getting involved in gangs and caught up in a whole lot of crap that should be avoided.
   This song is basically calling out all of the hatred and all of the unneeded crap that take place in today’s society. It is a reminders that love dispels anger.
   
   
   If there is any mistakes in my sentences, please don't pay attention, I'm french so my english is sometimes a bit badly written.
2. anonymous

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   Jan 1st 2011 !⃝

   This story is all about love and peace
   We need in African countries
   
   I written this story down though the express I had
   and I what I have ever seen with my eyes in my country.
   
   true story
   But for all these who have ever been in such life in this world
   
   NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE.
   
   
   Am pleased to you all
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   AM WHITE, AM BLACK
   
   
   Am black , am white but remember our blood is RED
   Help me
   I want to find the world without segregation I want to make the world of one people,.
   NO MATTER WHAT YOU’RE.
   NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM.
   NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK LIKE.
   NO MATTER WHAT COLOUR YOU’RE as long as you live on this world.
   LETS COME TOGETHER,
   LETS MOVE TOGETHER
   LETS EAT TOGETHER AND LIVE TOGETHER.
   
   Brother and sister together we can make it through some day the spirit will take us and Guide us or it will take you and guide you there I know most of use have ever been hurt, but we have been waiting to be there for each other and I will be there just helping you out whenever I can so everybody these who can help. Feel free and listen this one, for all the ones showing love, it’s appreciated life is Crazy, and life is like a Game and we need to play it CORRECT do the right moves and don’t really get caught up , I mean don’t be stressed, be sure to pass your test of (GOD)
   So brother and sisters lets live for ever , together and stop Abusing each other because our father is One .
   
   Lets stop Segregation in our world please remember if I say I where made to be white and my friends they say they where made to be black, if i ask you, who would like to Swank?
   
   But what is behind us or what special in between us,
   We all have brains.
   What is important to all of us black or white?
   We all can think
   We all talk
   And we all live on this world
   And we can be copes
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   This is a magic story of life why do i call it magic story.
   it's for all members in my country and all of African's countries
   In this world i have seen many people suffering in their hard life old men , women and too many orphans ­+ homeless ,
   Please don't cry, like my mom said, ''don't cry for me when am gone no point of wasted tears your time will come'' or our time will come one day and i'm just confronting my fears though it's not really a fear it's more like a destiny some time i sit and wonder is this life really for all of us because i have seen heard , felt i'm not done . with this life coz i will try to help one day for these who are in need
   i know there are some people in good life but remember i hope your proud of where you are. yet some people out there , are in tears, like my let mom told me that '' there is No replay of your life son when you see the dreak has started and every one have all departed from you and there is no repaying you i'm here and i feel like i'm delaying you, betraying you and when i'm gone i hope there'll be some one to save you, because life is like a game''.
   I knew there will be some one to save me , but since my mom passed a way i realized that no one would help me but still they wouldn't support us in our sorrow life when i was still with her i mean ( the LET one) before but when we tried to live our life right with my mom and only friends who supported us in hard life we had in 2001 we had sorrow , suffering life but only my supporters and my friends how can tell what i want though, they tried to understand our sorrow life,. my mom she used to work very hard from place to place to get food and some times she used to work for people to get where to sleep , i can't tell there is a times we used to keep drinking water and dry tea just for our protection. like i said from the start some people in my country or your country i hope they are proud of where they are living, they eat well , sleep well, drink clean water, they dap down some food please remember there are people who are in need of such things out there .
   
   One day i hard a dream, i was in the mountain then the Voice of my mom came down from the sky said '' Omar tell the world the truth about our life i will be happy my son, use your head try harder to help and stop them'' i never knew what she menet, to stop them after some times i tried to understand that meaning but i didn't . i had to re-evaluate my thoughts and think about what my mom was meaning , i had to keep on praying and strong faith and believing that never no one day i will be well with my mom, but still it wouldn't come too easy for me and my mom and my friends who supported me,
   so when you hear some people calling my an orphan just let them call because we want through Hell and back but still i never knew what my mom menet in the dream i had ,
   again i had a dream in the same place still i had a Voice of some one whom i used to play with in my life, whom i knew again '' said Omar the dream you had, it was the blessed voice of your mom ,. that you have the Gift to writ or tell the people the truth about life in most of African countries, i know .
   she knew they couldn't believe in me when i tell them, so she told me to writ the true stories with the meaning in life you have ever seen or been in Omar''
   
   I remember one day in 2008 i was sitting with my mom she looked at me and asked me '' why are you too silent?'' , i really looked at her i started crying i told her, please i can't slow down this suffering life, by that time my mom was sick for 2 weeks and we had no any help i was the only son she had i had no dada no sister, no brothers,, i was young i had No any Job , we had no Money , so whenever i could eye on my mom on the bed i could cry, it is true i had a friend in Canada but by then she was still young too 18 years old and she was still studying , i couldn't tell her all what am going though with mom here because i never wanted to give her hard time and i could not beg her money for helping my mom coz she was too sick, but we had the same minds and Heart we could wait for help to come coz i had told her about the friend i had got in Canada , so when i could go to talk to my friend, mom could always say send her my greetings only , my mom have never ever asked her for help coz she know , she was till young too.
   I could tell mom that what are we going to do a i have never studied, i have no a job what are we going to do mom? all people have departed from us mom no one can hear us whenever we cry our problems, i cried and she cried too, she told me, ‘‘Omar it's okay don't cry even if you cry still the world will turn more and more silent for you and she told me that you will be ok, i said what about you MOM? she said '' growing old my dear and you are still young'' i said no please mom you are just 46 years old , you are still with my i love you .
   my friend came at where we used to stay he found me crying i where sitting near my mom, the friend i had was an old man He asked my mom what had happen to me, mom told him our livings , the old man told my mom the same words she have ever told me before ,. he said my dear girl don't cry their is no point of wasted tears your time will come and you both will be okay .
   
   I can't forget how we use to be, so sometimes i guess i got live my life from day to day hoping maybe she will come back and though i tell myself not to be afraid to move on but it seems i can't. i just remember when she used to call me in the middle of day ''Omar come and eat'' but now i sit and wait for that moment .I know I’ll see you again
   One thing that I can promise, that we gone meet up again
   Hopefully in heaven, praying' that am not forgiven
   For everything that I’ve done, and everything I forgot to mention when you where here mom
   so i really feel so bad to be without my homie like you mom
   And every since you've been absent I’ve been so lonely,.
   I ask myself
   Why does my life cycle round like a trophy
   Even though know somebody took the time to save me yet she is gone
   i wish that you could just keep me 'til the end of us together but it's just crazy
   And everyday I’m wishing' you could come and save me
   And I know we men aren’t supposed to cry but
   It's taken all the strength in my soul to say i miss you mom.
   And i know she will never get the chance to see how good I’ve done and she never got to see me back in the same life we had together all i can say
   I wish that you were here to celebrate with me, I wish that we could spend the holidays with me at home
   I remember when she used to tell me what to do, I thought you were so strong mom whenever i could see you, that you can make it through whatever
   It's so hard to accept the fact you're gone forever mom , I never knew I could hurt like this but now everyday life goes on like,.
   I wish I could talk to you for awhile
   I wish I could find a way try not to cry
   As time goes by
   And soon as you reach a better place
   Still I'll give the whole world to see your face
   And I'll be right there next to you, It feels like you gone too soon
   The hardest thing to do is say bye, but sometimes i ask And we are in the coldest world , but which one did mom go to?
   why do death come
   the truth is all that i lost my mom in 2010/ 7/17 at 1:30 at night
   
   by KAKANDY OMAR

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
3. FANNYMAN

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   May 15th 2010 !⃝

   War is only caused by hate when we have a disagreement with other countries they will generate hate and this is war.Plus did you know that America is giving bribe money to them but this method doesn't work the bribe money will only use on war!!!
4. anonymous

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   Mar 26th 2010 !⃝

   The song brings questions about terrorism, poverty, violence, and selfishness
5. anonymous

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   Feb 9th 2010 !⃝

   It's about how there is no love, and without love, you cannot make peace, only leading to war.
6. anonymous

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   Dec 14th 2009 !⃝

   The song is about exactly what the title is asking. Where is the love?
   
   The bible says: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
   
   Look around you. Think about the relationships you have with people. Is it really love?
   
   This song is telling us what this world of ours is turning into without love, true genuine love. It states all these awful things that are going on in the world. Not to bring you down nor to make you feel guilty BUT to open your eyes. To love people. Not just your family, friends, boyfriend/girlfriend. To selflessly love others as well.
7. tunit

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   Sep 26th 2009 !⃝

   This song is obviously commenting on the war in Iraq... America's dedication to the war is due to our largely popular christian beliefs. "can you practice what you preach and would you turn the cheek" The song comments on God helping us out as the Christian religion has failed to do so in its own hypocrisy of taking the righteous path by killing thousands of Muslims.
8. KittyKattastrophe

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   Jun 24th 2009 !⃝

   This song is an observation of how the world is becoming more corrupt and hate-filled. If you read the lyrics, it talks about how most people are worried about the war overseas, when we should really worry about the violence and the problems that arise in our own nation. In times when we focus on "fighting for freedom" or "defending ourselves against terrorism" we forget that we are human beings because hate turns us into barbarians. If we embrace the fact that everyone is different and we learn to accept that and love each other for our differences, than maybe we can overcome our problems together and live in peace. Thats the type of message I got from this song.
9. anonymous

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   Jan 11th 2009 !⃝

   It's about how the world is going down because of hate and selfishness of people these days. Also all the crap on media making both sides looking stupid seeing that there is no end to this war, and seeing how kids these days wanna act on what they see on t.v. For Example: All these rappers and stuff, seeing all these young kids dressing up like "Gangstas" is stupid.
   
   and yet we ask are self..
   Why do we do it?
   Why do they hate us?
   What have we done wrong?
   What are we doing to are self?
10. anonymous

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    Sep 8th 2008 !⃝

    Anonymous with the long interpretation should read the lyrics and get the definitions for bloods (a gang ) crips (a rival gang) ...awry?...no its irate..i stopped aftrer that cause it was so sad his lack of information
11. Gurl_E_Nerdd

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    Apr 30th 2008 !⃝

    A these things going on in the world and compassion is not being spread around.
12. anonymous

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    Dec 28th 2007 !⃝

    Here is the interpretation:
    "whats wrong with the world mama? people livin' like they aint got no mamas. I think the whole world is addicted to the drama." That means people are living their lives with no meaning, doing a lot of stupid things. And that they're addicted to soap operas and other crap and never care about what's going on in the real world.
    "...only attracted to things that bring the trauma. overseas yeah we tryin' to stop terrorism, but we still got terrorism, livin' here in the USA. The CIA, the blood and the (something) and the KKK" That means people like violent movies which ties in with "addicted to the drama". The other part means that the troops are in Iraq trying to stop terrorism but the CIA is not telling us something. That there is something really bad kept secret. Hence the "but we still got ter'rism livin' here in the USA"
    "But if you only have love with you own race, you only leave space to discriminate. and to discriminate only generates hate. and when you hate you bound-ta get awry... and that's how anger works like a parasite" That means you have to respect other races or you'll turn into a paranoid racist. In my opinion, true but exaggerating.
    "people killing, people dying, children hurt and liv-and cryin'. when you practice what you preach... father father help us, with some guidance from above. There's people got me got me question me. Where is the love?" Tht means they disagree with the war on Iraq. The singer is praying to God to help him figure out how to restore peace in Iraq.
    "always in change. new days a-strange, is the world insane? If love and peace is so strong, then why do (something) that don't belong? nations dropping bombs, chemical gases filling lungs of little ones with ongoin' suffering" That means the world is changing. That he doesn't understand why we preach love and peace but our troops are in Iraq dropping bombs and killing.
    "... as the youth ask himself, 'what is wrong with this world that we livin' in?' 'people keep on giving in, making wrong decisions, without respecting each other' "
    That means the youth of america is getting discouraged from making good choices to help this country because there's all these bad role models around them.
    "the war's going on but the reason's undercover. The truth is kept secret... If you never know truth, then you never know love. where's the LOVE y'all? (I don't know!) where's the truth y'all? (I don't know!)" that means he's criticizing the government for being so sketchy about the war and other things. That there is no good reason for it and they aren't going to admit even though everybody knows the war is wrong (which I agree with).
    "I feel the weight of the world on my shoulda. as I'm gettin older y'all people get colder... only care about money makin. Somethin's just gotta be follow-in the wrong direction... Whatever happened to the values of humanity? Whatever happened to the fairness and equality? Instead of hope we spreadin animosity. That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under. That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down." that means he thinks people now are getting too matirealistic. He misses the old days when people respected each other and had their values.
    PS: does anyone know what the video for this means? I am thiclose to getting the meaning but...
13. only2reply

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    Nov 27th 2007 !⃝

    Frederick (geeksquad101)
    Harsh dude..
    "like Japan in World War 2."
    how could you say that?!
    
    here's what I say to you:
    "But if you only have love for your own race
    Then you only leave space to discriminate
    And to discriminate only generates hate"
    
    just saying..
    
    -Anonymous
14. kittykat

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    Mar 26th 2007 !⃝

    It's about our world turning darker and darker in these days where people don't really care about what they say or do.
15. anonymous

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    Jan 28th 2007 !⃝

    Pretty self explanatory.... where is the love? the world is filled with so much hate and negativity he wonders where all the love has gone.

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