oh when you see him walking down the street so all alone i lis pride is gone nothing to believe in nothing to call his own ain t got no one to talk with lost alone and afraid jesus said if you love me then you ll feed my sheep but like jesus we ve been betrayed gotta be my brother s keeper though he be strong or weaker i gotta lend him a helpin hand no matter what his color through god he s still my brother i gotta help him if i can there go i but for the grace of god it could even be the lord he said he d come he was refused shelter a long time ago let s not be as foolish as they were before gotta be my brother s keeper though he be strong or weaker i gotta lend him a helpin hand no matter what his color through god he s still my brother i gotta help him if i can i see institutionalized government ghettos where poverty takes its toll i see drug free zones while in another part of town a young man lies bleeding in the cold i see hearts and minds suffocating as if by god they have been forsaken while the pillars of babylon crumble at the foundations like the walls of jericho they will come tumbling down gotta be my brother s keeper though he be strong or weaker i gotta lend him a helpin hand no matter what his color through god he s still my brother i gotta help him if i can