An existential question in the form of a folk-rock protest song

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ARE YOU DOING ANYTHING?
c 1995 Ed Billeaud

Are you doing anything to try and save the world
Lord, does it need saving
Are you teaching the right things to all the boys and girls
Teach them love instead of hating
Are you squandering their legacy without giving any thought
To the preciousness of living and the gifts which can't be bought
Are you doing anything at all now to try and save this world?

Are you doing anything to try and stop the killing
Lord, does it need stopping
We could banish deadly weapons now if only we were willing
If taking life was still shocking
But we kill things everyday, and we see films of it at night
We say that killing's natural like that somehow makes it right
Are you doing anything at all now to try and stop the killing?

Are you doing anything, that's the question that I ask
Each and every one of us must awaken to this task
Are you doing anything at all now to try and save the world?

Are you doing anything to help your fellow man
Lord, do they need helping
Are you doing anything for goodwill and understanding
Or wasting your life getting wealthy?
Do you sit there doing nothing while generals and politicians
Dig a nuclear grave, and prepare to push us in it
Are you doing anything at all now to help your fellow man?

Are you doing anything?