What we're all really needing..

There are things that we don't understand:  things that take too long
We struggle through some  nonsense and then write about it in song
Why do we have to behave like we don't even want to understand:
That love alone is the best remedy for this vast and troubled land.

What we are all really needing is not some huge bank account; 
Or the ability to place some flag upon a great and towering mount
What we're all really needing: what this world so desperately needs
Is that everyone would get along and be more liberal with good deeds

Too many times we have slacked off with the doing of what is right
Because we had listened to the others who  claimed to have the light
We have become a different people and even closed our eyes in greed
Preferring our own selfish glorification  to the tending of other's needs.

What we are all really needing is not some huge bank account; 
Or the ability to place some flag upon a great and towering mount
What we're all really needing: what this world so desperately needs
Is that everyone would get along and be more liberal with good deeds

So take some time this morning or in the evening when all is still
And consider all of your motives and what's influencing your will
Is it something very noble, something that would make the heavens smile;
Or it something very shameful that would make the angels weep awhile?


What we are all really needing is not some huge bank account; 
Or the ability to place some flag upon a great and towering mount
What we're all really needing: what this world so desperately needs
Is that everyone would get along and be more liberal with good deeds