Did you watch the news today Did you hear what they say One thousand more people passed away, oh no Somebody tell me what's going on New York, New York, big city of dreams There's a nightmare going down from the Bronx To Queens, and everywhere in between We fighting something we can't even see There's an invisible enemy, just knocked out Italy Keep the mask on, cause if you cough They gon' look at you like you did a felony And they say we can't hug nobody, not until we find a remedy So we pray for Spain, France, and the UK China and USA, I pray we gon' be okay Pray for the grandmas and grandpas So they can live to see another day Did you watch the news today Did you hear what they say They say the worry folks, it's all a hoax The news is fake and it's all a joke The death toll's rising with broken hopes Now they got a cure and an antidote Inject yourself with a bleachless soap And the checks in the mail cause they know we're broke Did you watch the news today Did you hear what they say They said no one's alive to see the Pope It's a ghost town, coast to coast We're just people that's trying to cope From different sides with different strokes Living different lives from different tribes But everybody's in the same boat Did you hear the news today They say the world is one Cause we're all fighting the war But nobody pick up a gun We got nurses and doctors, they fighting In the front line saving lives I'm waiting in line, I'm frightened In the store, ah, that's the hero Behind the counter They making the world go round Risking new encounters They in the front line Dying for the minimum wage Did you watch the news today Did you hear what they say They say stay in the house, don't step out If you step out, put the mask on the mouth Six feet back, virus attack Soap on the hands so your lungs don't collapse Don't know the truth, don't know the facts Road road killing all the brown and the black COVID-19 got us on our knees Got the temperature rising 106 degrees They don't care if you speak Cantonese Francois or Portuguese Espanol or Japanese Got us all saying, I can't breathe Ah, isn't it ironic When we can't breathe The planet breathes And we can see Blue sky, blue seas Green leaves, birds and bees I don't know what to believe All the lies or conspiracies Ah, did you hear the news today Did you hear what they say One thousand more people passed away Ah nah, somebody tell me what's going on And on and on and on and on And on and on and on and on Somebody tell me what's going on