By: Tony L. Jefferson, Jr.
What’s happened to the world of today?
I guess everyone’s too busy trying to get paid
Love has died a horrible death
These hearts have been robbed, so terrible a theft
For years our ears have always turned to music
When tenors sing that high, enthusiastic acoustic
Sweet soul music is what it was called
Now this bump and grind, I am so appalled
The sweetest release from a singer’s voice
Released into your heart, stand up and rejoice
The rhythmic sounds love lost and found
Floating down the riverside, seems like they’ve all but drowned
Bring back the sounds of the funky Motown
Or when Rose Royce sang “I’m going down”
Back when Marvin Gaye use to sing to us
Or when Al Green serenaded us at the back of the bus
When Etta James and Anita Baker sung of the pains of love
And Luther sang of the power of love
Oooohhhh
Love restores
Love renews
Love is rebirth of passion and pleasure
But no one sings love songs anymore
Now the world is crazy forevermore
