IT TAKES ONE


Every night a child starves
when the world is filled with food.
Every day someone dies
in someone else’s feud
Every hour a forest burns
to meet one person s need.
Every year nature destroyed,
the murderer is greed.

Every day our problems grow.
Do you want to help but you don’t
how you could make a difference
all alone?
A willingness is a start.
Then find the love inside
your heart
and it will gently heal
and guide you home.


CHORUS
It takes one to change
a nation.
Just one who sees the light.
To stand in separation
and take the courage not
to fight.
It takes one to heal the world.
Hate will be undone
as the one become many
and the many become one.

Different souls have walked the earth
teaching the same thing.
Jesus Christ, Mah atma Gandi,
Martin Luther King.
A peaceful world will not be born
from the rape of war.
Love your enemy as yourself
he won’t be one anymore.

We can’t free the world with control.
You’d do much more to save one soul
by showing him there is a better way.
We don’t need to proselytize
Just shine the love inside your eyes.
By being an example you will say....

CHORUS


Words & Music by Peter Layton. © 1993
ONE PLANET MUSIC ASCAP