#Concerned [Dominica Calypso 2023]

#Concerned (Hashtag Concerned)

Bright and early one Sunday morning
I hear mi neighbour call and she balling
“Neighbour neighbour come here! Come look!
I cyan believe what I see!!” she cried as her hands shook.
She son eh come home last night
Seems he was in a fight
And the whole thing broadcast right on Facebook Live

The young man in the street lay there dying
While people standing watching and filming
His sister staring straight at she phone
Frozen in shock watching her brother die alone.
There are no right words to say
To a family grieving that way
So my words are geared to you who are here today

Tell Me
Where’s the humanity
In this here’s society
We failing abysmally right now
Like we done with civility
No desire for decency
Vice and depravity abound

Slumbering people arise
Wake up and open your eyes
When will we folks realize
We going under, going under
And if we don’t recognize
It’s high time to change our vibes
As a race we will not survive much longer; not much longer
We wooing disaster

This situation sure got me thinking
About this reckless time that we live in
Where empathy just gone down the drain
And gradually we are growing numb to each other’s pain
Progressively getting worse
It seems we under a curse
We don’t care who it hurts as long as it entertains

So now misconduct online is trending
Tell me what’s the message we sending?
Is anything for comments and likes
Warping the children minds. You know that cyan be right!
To create a generation
With no love no compassion
Is to condemn ourselves to annihilation!

So tell me

Where’s the humanity
In this here’s society
We failing abysmally right now
Like we done with civility
No desire for decency
Vice and depravity abound

Slumbering people arise
Wake up and open your eyes
It’s time we folks realize
We going under, going under
We wooing disaster

Brass interlude

Concerned for the coming generations
Bleak it seems but there are solutions
Get back to parenting face to face
Give devices and internet limited time and place
Show affection to your children
Make time to listen to them
Show them how to care and how to lend a hand

Content creators and influencers
I pray you hear and come to your senses
It’s a serious role that you play
Be very mindful of the things you do and say.
We need re-education
To reverse the degradation
So I challenge you to lead this revolution

Come lewe

Bring back humanity
In this here society
Arrest the degeneracy right now
Lewe act with civility
Good deportment and decency
Let kindness and empathy abound

Ad lib
We must do something! There’s so much at stake.
Come lewe do something. Yes! For the children sake

Outro
We need to bring back love, kindness, respect
We need to bring back care, concern and help