Song of the Week: We Are The World

This week's Song of the Week is one of my all-time most unfavourite songs: "We Are The World"

Written by Michael Jackson, its actually not that bad a song, its just that if you were like me and listening to the radio or watching TV in 1985 when it was released, you could not escape it.

That said, it was incredibly significant in bringing to the attention of people in Europe and North America - for a short time at least - the plight of the poor in Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular and has just about everyone who was anyone in the US music industry in the mid-1980's singing along.

We Are The World:
U.S.A. for Africa

There comes a time
When we head a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on
Pretneding day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of
God's great big family
And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your heart
So they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change will only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]