Just a Little Bit of Love - Curtis Mayfield

You hear me callin'

Callin' brother, are you listening?

We need to cool at night for our future

For the little bitty boys and girls

We need to take a time, come together

Are you willing?

So we can make it right for the people

And everyone I love will come

Just a little bit of love to make it right

Just a little bit of time to cool at night

Just a little bit of space to keep us tight

We gotta come together

We gotta come together

Everybody searchin' in confusion

No solution

We look inside ourselves for the answer

But we really don’t understand

We all must be inclined

To start sharing, to start caring

And if the sun shines your way

You will find love 'cause love is the only way

Just a little bit of love to make it right

Just a little bit of time to cool at night

Just a little bit of space to keep us tight

(Just a little bit, just a little bit of love)

Aye man, it seems so hopeful for blazin' my days

And brother, let’s begin a stress off my chest with some sex

Can I get a little love for my peeps in the streets?

But this killing for colors, aye man this shit gotta cease, peace

Nothin', zero, zilch, amounts to what?

Nothin' but you’ve gotta have somethin'

'Cause we’re comin', comin' correct and together eternally

And with that little bit of love, we may live forever

See it’s a time to live, there’s a time to die

But when the livin' gets rough, that’s the time I realize

I’ve gotta think twice using my ears to hear (L-O-V-E)

Just love, just love, just love, just love

Just a little bit of love to make it right

Just a little bit of time to cool at night

Just a little bit of space to keep us tight

Just a little bit, just a little bit of love

Now look all around you

Children dyin', people cryin', no, no

But nobody seem to care

'Til it’s their time, they really don’t give a damn

We’ve got to find a way to start loving

To start giving, yeah

But if we procrastinate and we blow it

Then everybody’ll go to hell

Just a little bit of love to make it right

Just a little bit of time to cool at night

Just a little bit of space to keep us tight

We gotta keep together

We gotta keep together

We don’t need destruction (We don’t need it)

We don’t need to care (No, no)

We don’t need corruption

We just need to cheer (Just a little bit)

We don’t need attacking (No, no)

We don’t need the pain

We don’t need to cry down (We don’t need it)

We just need to change (Let me just a little bit)

Just a little bit of love to make it right

Just a little bit of time to cool at night

Just a little bit of space to keep us tight

Love can, love can be

Livin' life to see

All my children free, ooh

Just a little bit of love