Lyrics

People all over the world People all over the world People all over the world are starving For affection And to me this ain't funny To me this is real So I tell everybody The way I feel about affection Well I've starved before for affection I blamed the world and it's partly the world's fault That's true But I was a star who said "I don't have time for those people" So it was partly my own fault too Well then I relaxed a little And I met more people who liked me That gave me the courage to reach out and give And that helped me to get more affection And affection helped me to live So I say People all over the world they're good People all over the world ain't bad If everybody be snobs like I've been They won't get what they wished they had Affection People are starving just to be touched, you mean People are starving just to be hugged and kissed Well you've got radios and magazines and cars And there's telephones and books everywhere But plain old affection sits there over in the corner And it says "Hmm it's like they've forgotten that I'm there" You know it takes gall to reach out and try affection On people who maybe want your touch but you can't tell Cause they can laugh and that's like rejection And you probably won't like that very well But I say People all over the world they're good People all over the world ain't bad If everybody keeps on chickening out They won't get what they wished they had Affection "Jonathan you're scaring us We think this is the part of the song Where everyone had to do the group hug and stuff We don't even like our neighbour" "Is that what we have to do now?" "Nope, don't worry, nah, no that's no good" "Don't worry we're not gonna do that" "Okay, then what's this song about anyway?" "It's just if you do feel like it don't chicken out, that's all" "Is that all you're saying?" "Yeah" "Oh, okay" People all over the world People all over the world People all over the world are starving For affection