I prayed for a rain to come and wash us, oh from these troubled timesnI prayed for change that will make us all hold on, oh for our whole livesnIt took a word, it took a life, took a brother of mine to make us all realizenThat we're not helping anyonennI woke up the paper and I read it safe, five hundred more dead in the world todaynWhen we gonna realize that we're not helping anyonenThe world is at stake, and I don't think Its fate that we go to war and we die everydaynAnd I know somehow we can start helping everyonennWe cant hold out like this forevernWe will all go downnWe need to all look up at each othernAnd end it nownnI prayed for a rain to come and wash us, oh from these troubled timesnI prayed for change that will make us all hold on, oh for our whole livesnIt took a word, it took a life, took a brother of mine to make us all realizenThat were not helping anyonenNo were not helping anyone