Keep it Chill! (in the East Vill)

It’s a real bad time to take a trip to China

Or a road that leads to Rome

But what’s the hurry, cause all that worry

Is coming right here to our home

And now it came ashore and now it’s at our door

It’s comin’ for us downtrodden masses

And if you’re short of breath, it’s that old black death

Gettin’ medieval on our modern asses

And the human race is getting put in place

I’ve prob’ly caught a case. I think I touched my face!

I’m cryin’ Holy Geez won’t ya spare us please

This beastie boy’s NOT licensed to ill

But for now I’ve just got to chill

Stay alive indoors for one day more and…

Keep it chill in the East Vill

Keep it chill in the East Vill

Well times were tough, but we had enough

And my friends mostly got by

But can’t no one hire us, cuz there’s a virus

So now we’ll go broke or we’ll die

And I’ve heard some say

What’s on the way is a civilized collapse

And you can keep pretending it can keep on bending

But there’s an ending when it snaps

And then the teeming hordes that can’t take no more is gonna loot the stores and then they’re coming for us

And we can’t leave town cuz we’re all locked down

And there’s blood that’s gonna spill

But for now I’ve just got to chill

Stay alive indoors for one day more and

Keep it chill in the East Vill

Keep it chill in the East Vill

I know right now we can’t go out

And there’s no one in the street

And the thing with that’s that all the rats’re

Gonna run outta snacks to eat

And it won’t take long till they’re a billion strong

And you know that rats ain’t dumb

They’re sure the food they’re missing’s

Now stored in our kitchens

So look out, here they come!

So each Virus life we SAVE

Is gonna die in a mighty rat tidal wave

But I say oh my goodness, if we’d understood this

There’s things we could do still

But for now I’ve just got to chill

Stay alive indoors for one day more and…

Keep it chill in the East Vill

Keep it chill in the East Vill

And while that’s going down in my home town

The orange clown who runs DC

Sees there’s perfect cause to declare martial laws

And pause elections indefinitely

And he calls the banks, and says let’s all join ranks

Unless their money might get shared

So all his Klu Klux kranks patrol the streets with tanks

Saying “Behave and you’ll be spared”

Then you can’t send mail out

You won’t get no bailout

And there’s no planes in jail now

And no way to sail out

And if the internet’s not a mem’ry yet

It’ll get surveilled out-right at will

But for now I’ve just got to chill

Stay alive indoors for one day more and…

Keep it chill in the East Vill

Keep it chill in the East Vill

But I do understand that on the other hand

There’s a lot that might go great

Maybe a wide alliance will respect more science

In every nation and each state

We’ll take total warning about global warming

And when the virus soon blows out

We’ll have a full-on call for healthcare for all

And better safety nets rolled out

With old ways on freeze and new priorities

This could be just what sees us

Set things more at ease

I’ll put my mind at rest and just hope for the best

Cuz it don’t even seem so strange

It’s happened once or twice that when there’s times of crisis, giant good things come from change

And it could heal the earth to not put money first

And this will sure slow greenhouse gasses

Right now this makes things greener

And makes the whole world cleaner and we’ll all see that when this passes

And we all know this will pass

And from Wuhan out to Texas

Information is infectious

And when this phase is behind us

We’ll catch a worldwide case of kindness

There’s at least a chance we will

But for now we know the drill…

Stay alive indoors for one day more and…

Keep it chill in the East Vill

Keep it chill in the West Vill

And keep it chill in Nashville

And keep it chill in the LA hills

And keep it cool in Wuhan

And keep it cool in Iran

We’ll all do what we can

Fate laughs at all plans

So keep it cool in all lands

Make sure everyone understands

Just stay in and wash your hands

And we’ll keep keeping cool in all lands