[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics [00:01.999]There's foreboding in the air [00:04.062]Waiting for an earthquake [00:07.302]Pandemic spreading [00:08.608]No telling how it might remake [00:10.593]A world so divided [00:12.160]In so many, many ways [00:14.407]Anyone can see [00:15.844]It's no way to greet such days [00:17.724]When you can shut your borders [00:19.631]But it'll barely slow the spread [00:21.564]With a million people homeless [00:22.897]And not enough hospital beds [00:25.378]In times like these we find out [00:28.304]That a society [00:29.532]Is only just as strong [00:33.476]As our solidarity [00:38.440]The foreboding in the air [00:40.477]Can get only thicker [00:42.358]As we see our leaders [00:44.004]Passing blame and getting sicker [00:46.198]A crashing economy [00:47.844]Leaders fraught with indecision [00:49.907]Only capable of thinking [00:51.475]Like bought-off politicians [00:53.591]Not enough testing kits [00:55.184]And the ones you got were broken [00:57.039]But hey [00:58.920]The president has spoken [01:00.722]In times like these we find out [01:03.413]That a society [01:05.032]Is only just as strong [01:09.081]As our solidarity [01:14.123]A million people wake up [01:15.978]In the morning thinking [01:17.989]Thoughts they never had [01:19.112]Til they found that they were sinking [01:21.333]On a cruise ship full of holes [01:23.109]Where if you can't catch the breeze [01:25.120]There are no fences tall enough [01:26.871]To keep out the disease [01:28.934]Lifting every boat [01:30.371]Or watching them all sink [01:32.382]Ready or not [01:33.898]We're standing on the brink [01:36.118]In times like these we find out [01:38.887]That a society [01:40.271]Is only just as strong [01:44.294]As our solidarity [01:49.571]Contain an epidemic [01:50.929]Like in Wuhan or in Seoul [01:53.228]Or watch a catastrophe [01:55.004]Take its toll [01:56.781]Hide behind our gates [01:58.427]Cowering, afraid [02:00.229]Or organize our neighbors [02:02.084]In mutual aid [02:03.729]In synchronicity [02:05.297]Such great things can be done [02:07.465]A planet to lose [02:08.902]Or a world to be won [02:11.174]In times like these we find out [02:13.656]That a society [02:15.145]Is only just as strong [02:19.220]As our solidarity [02:21.467]In times like these we find out [02:24.157]That a society [02:25.594]Is only just as strong [02:29.591]As our solidarity