[Refrain: will.i.am]
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Did you watch the news today?
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Did you hear what they said?
 
 
[Verse 1: will.i.am]
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One thousand more people passed away
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Aw, nah, somebody tell me what's going on
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New York, New York, big city of dreams
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There's a nightmare goin' down from the Bronx to Queens
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And everywhere in between
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We fighting somethin' we can't even see
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There's an invisible enemy
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Just knocked out Italy
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Keep the mask on 'cause if you cough they gon' look at you like you did a felony
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And they said we can't hug nobody
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Not until we find a remedy
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So we pray for Spain, France, and the U.K. 
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China and U.S.A., I pray we gon' be okay
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Pray for the grandmas and grandpas
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So they can live to see another day
 
 
[Refrain: will.i.am]
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Did you watch the news today?
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Did you hear what they said?
 
 
[Verse 2: apl.de.ap]
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They say don't worry folks, it's all a hoax
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The news is fake and it's all a joke
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The death toll's rising with broken hopes
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Now they got the cure and a antidote
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Inject yourself with a bleach or soap
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And a checks in the mail 'cause they know we're broke
 
 
[Refrain: will.i.am]
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Did you watch the news today?
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Did you hear what they said?
 
 
[Verse 3: Taboo & will.i.am, Both]
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They said no one's alive to see the pope
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It's a ghost town coast to coast
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We're just people that's tryna cope
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From different sides with different strokes
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Livin' different lives from different tribes
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But everybody's in the same boat
 
 
[Refrain: will.i.am]
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Did you hear the news today?
 
 
[Verse 4: will.i.am]
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They say the world is one
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'Cause we're all fighting a war
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But nobody pick up a gun
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We got nurses and doctors
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They fightin' in the front line, savin' lifes
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I'm waitin' in line, I'm frightened
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In the store, ah, that's the hero
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Behind the counter
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They makin' the world go round
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Riskin' new encounters
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They in the front line
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Dying for the minimum wage
 
 
[Refrain: will.i.am]
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Did you watch the news today?
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Did you hear what they said?
 
 
[Verse 5: apl.de.ap & will.i.am, Both]
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They say stay in the house, don't step out
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If you step out, put the mask on the mouth
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Six feet back, virus attack
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Soap on the hands so your lungs don't collapse
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Don't know the truth, don't know the facts
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Ro-ro killin' all the brown and the black
 
 
[Verse 6: will.i.am]
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COVID-19 got us on our knees
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Got the temperature risin', 106 degrees
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It don't care if you speak Cantonese
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François or Portuguese, Español or Japanese
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Gotta start sayin', "I can't breathe"
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Ah, isn't it ironic?
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When we can't breathe, the planet breathes
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And we can see blue sky, blue seas, green leaves, birds and bees
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I don't know what to believe
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All the lies or conspiracies
 
 
[Refrain: will.i.am]
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Aw, did you hear the news today?
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Did you hear what they said?
 
 
[Outro: will.i.am]
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One thousand more people passed away
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Aw, nah, somebody tell me what's going on
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And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
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On, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
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Somebody tell me what's going on