NEWS TODAY

[00:18.39] Did you watch the news today?
[00:20.77] Did you hear what they say?
[00:22.50] One thousand more people passed away
[00:26.73] Aw, nah, somebody tell me what's going on
[00:36.71] New York, New York, big city of dreams
[00:41.31] There's a nightmare goin' down from the Bronx to Queens
[00:45.38] And everywhere in between
[00:47.60] We fighting somethin' we can't even see
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[00:54.95] There's an invisible enemy
[00:57.15] Just knocked out Italy
[00:59.45] Keep the mask on 'cause if you cough
[01:01.35] They gon' look at you like you did a felony
[01:04.08] And they said we can't hug nobody
[01:06.52] Not until we find a remedy
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[01:13.33] So we pray for Spain, France, and the U.K.
[01:17.63] China and U.S.A., I pray we gon' be okay
[01:21.78] Pray for the grandmas and grandpas
[01:24.23] So they can live to see another day
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[01:31.50] Did you watch the news today?
[01:33.82] Did you hear what they say?
[01:35.33] They say, don't worry folks, it's all a hoax
[01:38.18] The news is fake and it's all a joke
[01:40.17] The death toll's rising with broken hopes
[01:42.65] Now they got the cure and an antidote
[01:44.79] Inject yourself with a bleach or soap
[01:47.13] And a checks in the mail 'cause they know we're broke
[01:49.57] Did you watch the news today?
[01:52.16] Did you hear what they say?
[01:53.55] They said, no one's alive to see the pope
[01:56.23] It's a ghost town coast to coast
[01:58.75] We're just people that's tryna cope
[02:00.74] From different sides with different strokes
[02:03.00] Livin' different lives from different tribes
[02:05.36] But everybody's in the same boat
[02:08.28] Did you hear the news today?
[02:09.91] They say the world is one
[02:12.38] 'Cause we're all fighting a war
[02:14.66] But nobody pick up a gun
[02:16.51] We got nurses and doctors
[02:18.23] They fightin' in the front line, savin' lives
[02:21.51] I'm waitin' in line, I'm frightened
[02:24.47] In the store, ah, that's the hero
[02:28.90] Behind the counter
[02:31.09] They makin' the world go round
[02:33.20] Riskin' new encounters
[02:35.32] They in the front line
[02:37.63] Dying for the minimum wage
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[02:44.88] Did you watch the news today?
[02:46.95] Did you hear what they say?
[02:48.44] They say stay in the house, don't step out
[02:51.10] If you step out, put the mask on your mouth
[02:53.69] Six feet back, virus attack
[02:55.82] Soap on the hands so your lungs don't collapse
[02:58.28] Don't know the truth, don't know the facts
[03:00.45] Ro-ro killin' all the brown and the black
[03:03.22] COVID-19, got us on our knees
[03:07.71] Got the temperature risin', 106 degrees
[03:11.42] It don't care if you speak Cantonese
[03:13.59] François or Portuguese, Español or Japanese
[03:18.27] Gotta start sayin', "I can't breathe"
[03:20.65] Ah, isn't it ironic?
[03:23.74] When we can't breathe, the planet breathes
[03:28.21] And we can see blue sky, blue seas, green leaves, birds and bees
[03:34.25] I don't know what to believe
[03:36.40] All the lies or conspiracies
[03:39.08] Aw, did you hear the news today?
[03:41.96] Did you hear what they say?
[03:43.88] One thousand more people passed away
[03:47.74] Aw, nah, somebody tell me what's going on
[03:53.58] And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
[04:01.92] On, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
[04:08.95] Somebody tell me what's going on
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