“Where Is The Love?” is a song about love and acceptance. The overall tone is rather despondent, but the overall meaning is that we should all love and accept one another regardless of race, color or religion and that the world is a better place when we work together rather than fight against one another.

At the beginning of the song, the speaker laments the state of the world, in which all love seems to have disappeared and been replaced by “drama” and “trauma.” In the third verse, the speaker says that if people “only have love for (their) own race, / Then (they) only leave room to discriminate.” This is a rather simple point but is nonetheless a meaningful one. The speaker is inviting the audience to accept and love people from different races and implies that the alternative is more fighting and more terror. For this reason, the speaker says, in the fourth verse, that such discrimination is “Madness.” The speaker implores people to replace anger with love.

In the chorus of the poem, the speaker repeatedly asks, “Where is the love?” The implication here is that love seems to have gone missing, but the speaker is also imploring the listeners to find love wherever they can.

Later in the poem, the speaker seems to become despondent once more, because most people seem only to care “about money making” and because “Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema.” The speaker asks where “the values of humanity” have gone and what has happened to “fairness and equality.” The implication here is that the speaker thinks that humanity has become shallow, materialistic, and vain.

At the end of the song, the speaker asks the audience to “Sing with me” and repeatedly reminds them that there is only “one world.” The invitation to “Sing with me” emphasizes the overall meaning of the song, which is that we are better when we are together than when we are apart. The repeated reminder that we only have the “one world” implies that if we carry on down the same path of anger and division, then we will destroy our world once and for all.