Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

I guess you read it’s a holy war

But do we really know what we’re fighting for?

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

About the little girl who took a life

They say she didn’t think about it twice

She was the queen of the Senior Prom

The Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude one

Papers say she’d just birthed her newborn son

But that didn’t matter ’causе the girl just wanna have fun!

So she buriеd him in a plastic bag

And for the record, the one regret she said she had

Was that the plastic was thin enough to hear

The screams of her child as she dumped his body near

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

The inner city teacher

Had always had but one dream

To show his students better water

Than the ghettos they’d been drowning in

He took them to his apartment

Gave out his number, made them tea

His goal? To how that a better life

Could really be a possibility

When photos of his bloated body were presented to the jury as evidence

His former student – alleged assailant – had this one thing to say in his defense:

” Yo, man, I didn’t do it. It wuz my homey

” He pushed the Teacher in

” Drowned the Teacher in the Hudson River

” I guess the Teacher really couldn’t swim”

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

These are our children

These are our neighbors

These are our next of kin

These are our hope for the future

These are the people we put our trust in

In a world ruled by information

How could we have become so misinformed

We have not conveyed the idea that

Human life is a precious thing

The most important lesson of all

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today?

Have you read the press today…..