[Verse 1]
Father, stop criticizing your son
Mother, please, leave your daughters alone
Don't you see that's what wrong
With the world with world today? Oh

[Chorus]
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay

[Verse 2]
We all talk about kindness
But it's only, only a word, truly
Brother turn on sister in this cruel, cruel world
That's what's wrong with, oh, with this world today

[Chorus]
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay, oh
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay

[Verse 3]
Everybody wants somebody to play with 'em
Wanna to mold you, wanna mold you
Shape it like you wanna, want to do their thing
Children are told to give and not just to take
If we were all children
You know the world will be a better place, oh
[Chorus]
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay

[Bridge]
We should all love each other
Love, not hate one another
We should all love each other
Love, not hate, oh

[Chorus]
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay
Truly, everybody wants somebody
To mold 'em, shape 'em their own way
Everybody wants somebody
To try to make it, oh, do their, do their thing
Everybody wants to take somebody
To try to make 'em, make 'em like their self, oh
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay, yeah

[Outro]
Everybody wants somebody
To be their own piece of clay, yeah
Somebody, somebody
Somebody, somebody, somebody
Somebody, somebody
Somebody, somebody, somebody
Somebody, somebody
Somebody, somebody, somebody