Directed by Joey Papa, the video shines a light on some of the most serious issues that the world is facing including, poverty, racism, drug addiction, domestic violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Parts of the video were inspired by Franklin’s trip to the Dominican Republic with the non-profit organization, Compassion International. Franklin serves as a music artist ambassador for the charity, which provides holistic child development to children and families in impoverished communities all over the world through local churches. The song will be an opportunity to raise funds for the charity’s Covid-19 Disaster Relief.
On Sunday, May 31st Franklin joined fellow Gospel artist Fred Hammond and Bishop T.D. Jakes for Verzuz – The Healing, a special edition of the extremely popular Instagram live series produced by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland. With so much pain and devastation being experienced in the United States and across the globe right now, Franklin and Hammond came together to provide inspiration and encouragement through Gospel music. The two welcomed fellow gospel artists Tamela Mann and Marvin Sapp who blessed the live audience, which reached as many as 275,000 people, with surprise performances. They also took time during the event to acknowledge victims of police violence and racially motivated murder including Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Trayvon Martin, and to offer their support to Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper-Jones via phone.
Mayday, mayday (Yeah)
The Earth is shaking (Yeah)
Who gon' save the babies (Yeah)
From another Bloody Sunday?
I'm singing mayday, mayday (Yeah)
They love me or they hate me (Yeah)
For my skin color (Yeah)
But you say I am your brother, yeah
The government keep lying to me
Telling me that they come to set the people free
Cut the power phones when you catch us on our knees
Heaven please, we're in a state of emergency
See we need a strong god, yeah
We need the real god, yeah
The god with the resurrection power from the grave
To take away the hate, to heal the human race, yeah
We need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a
We need a strong god
See we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a
Yuh, yuh, yuhSay mayday, mayday
They say the climate changin'
The poor people in the cold
But you keep preachin' to they soul
But we don't leave 'til everybody's free
And we won't sleep 'til everybody eats (Yeah, yeah)
Until lives matter (Yeah)
More than ties matter
The government keep lying to me
Telling me that they come to set the people free
Cut the power phones when you catch us on our knees
Heaven please, we're in a state of emergency
See we need a strong god, real strong, yeah
We need the real god, yeah, yeah
The god with the resurrection power from the grave
To take away the hate, to heal the human race
See we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a
We need a strong god
See we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a
(Let's go)We need a, we need a,
We need a, we need a, we need a, we need a
We need a strong god
See we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a, we need a
(Let's go)
Mayday, mayday (Yeah, yeah)
Said mayday, mayday (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Mayday, mayday
Yuh, yuh, yuh
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