00:00Hello, I'm Raphael Sadiq and I'm here to sing two songs today and everybody in the world has gone through so much
00:09and I just want to say, choose a way to raise your voice. Raise your voice and say something that you think that needs to be said to the world today.
00:17And I want to thank Essence, the culture of Essence and also the Essence Festival for calling me to do this.
00:23And I'm going to sing a couple songs, acapella. I was going to play guitar, but that didn't work out.
00:31So this is what I'm going to do right now. This world, this is something that's called This World is Drunk and the People are Mad.
00:37It's from my last album titled Jimmy Lee and I think it's appropriate today.
00:44It's called This World is Drunk. So just, you know, listen.
00:48This world is drunk and people are mad.
00:53This world is drunk and the people are mad.
01:00He's always in three places.
01:04Space is undefined.
01:09Heart is always racing
01:11for something he can never find.
01:18Eyes are black.
01:20Black and cold.
01:27His soul has been shaken.
01:30So shaken.
01:32I believe he knows.
01:36The sun can never reach him.
01:40The view is like a bomb.
01:44The paradox is far away.
01:47His brain weighs at least a ton.
01:54His mind is so stressed out.
01:58Trying to be a king.
02:01When everyone around him sees the clown and they're laughing at him.
02:11Look at this idiot.
02:13Look at this idiot.
02:17Don't know he's been set up to fall.
02:21Can't find the truth in any friend.
02:26So all he ever does is stay drunk.
02:29This world is drunk and the people are mad.
02:33Yeah.
02:33This world is drunk and the people are mad.
02:38This world is drunk.
02:40Ooh, this world is drunken.
02:43This world is drunk and the people are mad.
02:47He doesn't care to listen.
02:50He doesn't care to listen.
02:54Not even to himself.
02:59He's been four years away.
03:02Was led astray.
03:05Convicted for fraud.
03:07He says he knows better now.
03:12He says he needs that family life.
03:16He can tell he wasted much time.
03:21Winter time has taken his life.
03:26And making him miserable.
03:31He never feels he's in control.
03:36He finds it hard to walk away.
03:40So all he ever does is stay drunk.
03:45The people are mad.
03:48Yeah.
03:49This world is drunk and the people are mad.
03:53This world is drunk.
03:54Ooh, this world is drunken.
03:58This world is drunk and the people are mad.
04:02This world is drunk and the people are mad.
04:07So mad.
04:08This world is drunk and the people are mad.
04:12This world is drunk.
04:14Ooh, this world is drunken.
04:17This world is drunk and the people are mad.
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