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What About Us Lyrics
[Verse 1]
What about sunrise?
What about rain?
What about all the things that you said we were to gain?
What about killing fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the things that you said was yours and mine?
[Pre Chorus 1]
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
[Chorus]
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
[Verse 2]
What have we done to the world?
Look what we've done
What about all the peace that you pledge your only son?
What about wising dreams?
Is there a time?
What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?
What about sunrise?
What about rain?
What about all the things that you said we were to gain?
What about killing fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the things that you said was yours and mine?
[Pre Chorus 1]
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
[Chorus]
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
[Verse 2]
What have we done to the world?
Look what we've done
What about all the peace that you pledge your only son?
What about wising dreams?
Is there a time?
What about all the dreams that you said was yours and mine?
[Pre Chorus 2]
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
[Chorus]
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
[Bridge]
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know
Gonna be
[Chorus]
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
[Breakdown]
Hey, what about yesterday? (What about us?)
What about their lives? (What about us?)
What about yesterday? (What about us?)
All by my side (What about us?)
What about yesterday? (What about us?)
I can't even see (What about us?)
What about everything? (Ooh)
What about all the dam? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about it?)
He can't even see (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about us?)
What about the kills? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about us?)
I didn't even sign (What about us?)
What about death again? (Ooh)
What about all the dam? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about it?)
I didn't even see (What about us?)
What about the common man? (What about us?)
What about the seas? (What about us?)
What about everything? (What about us?)
I didn't even say (What about us?)
What about everything? (Ooh)
What about all the dam? (What about us?)
What about everything? (What about it?)
What about the days? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about us?)
He can't even see (What about us?)
What about the Africans? (What about us?)
What about dream? (What about us?)
What about death again? (Ooh)
Do we give a damn?
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
[Chorus]
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
[Bridge]
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know
Gonna be
[Chorus]
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
[Breakdown]
Hey, what about yesterday? (What about us?)
What about their lives? (What about us?)
What about yesterday? (What about us?)
All by my side (What about us?)
What about yesterday? (What about us?)
I can't even see (What about us?)
What about everything? (Ooh)
What about all the dam? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about it?)
He can't even see (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about us?)
What about the kills? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about us?)
I didn't even sign (What about us?)
What about death again? (Ooh)
What about all the dam? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about it?)
I didn't even see (What about us?)
What about the common man? (What about us?)
What about the seas? (What about us?)
What about everything? (What about us?)
I didn't even say (What about us?)
What about everything? (Ooh)
What about all the dam? (What about us?)
What about everything? (What about it?)
What about the days? (What about us?)
What about death again? (What about us?)
He can't even see (What about us?)
What about the Africans? (What about us?)
What about dream? (What about us?)
What about death again? (Ooh)
Do we give a damn?
[Outro]
Ah, hee-hee-hee, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, hee-hee-hee, ooh
Ah, ooh
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“What About Us” is a song recorded by Michael Jackson, and the demo for Earth Song.
The track was intended as the sixth track for his eighth studio album, Dangerous. But it didn’t make the cut due to Jackson not liking the breakdown being sung in falsetto.
Around the 2000s, Dangerous outtakes started to surface online from a DAT Acetate. What About Us was one of the songs included in the leak.
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1990
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