We've got to save the world
  Someone else may want to use it
  So far we've seen
  This planet's rape, how we've abused it
  We've got to save the world
  
  The Russians have the biggest share
  With their long fingers everywhere
  And now they've bombs in outer space
  With laser beams and atomic waste
  
  Rain forest chopped for paper towels
  One acre gone in every hour*
  Our birds and wildlife all destroyed
  To keep some millionaires employed
  
  We've got to save the whale
  Greenpeace they've tried to diffuse it
  But dog food salesmen
  Persist on kindly to harpoon it
  We've got to save the world
  
  The armament consortium
  They're selling us plutonium
  Now you can make your own H-bomb
  Right in the kitchen with your mom
  
  The nuclear power that costs you more
  Than anything you've known before
  The half-wit's answer to a need
  For cancer, death, destruction, greed
  
  We've got to save the world
  Someone's children they may need it
  So far we've seen
  The big business of extinction bleed it
  We've got to save the world
  
  We're at the mercy of so few
  With evil hearts determined to
  Reduce this planet into hell
  Then find a buyer and make quick sale
  
  To end upon a happy note
  Like trying to make concrete float
  Is very simple knowing that
  God in your heart lives
  
  We've got to save the world
  Someone else may want to use it
  It's time you knew
  How close we've come
  We're gonna lose it - We gotta save, we gotta save
  We gotta save the world.