Q+PR's Say It's Not True released today

The new Queen + Paul Rodgers CD Single, Say It's Not True is being released today.

ALL ROYALTIES FROM WORLD SALES WILL BE DONATED TO NELSON MANDELA'S AIDS CAUSE, 46664

Having originally issued the track as a free download for World Aids Day (December 1) to support Nelson Mandela's 46664 HIV AIDS campaign, rock group Queen and Paul Rodgers are responding to public demand to make their newly recorded song "Say It’s Not True" available as a commercial CD single release.  The single comes as an enhanced CD release carrying the full video shown at the Johannesburg concert.   http://www.queenonline.com/news/619/

Please listen to the lyrics as you watch this video.  I feel it's very important to get the full meaning of this powerful song and message so that we may be able to do something about it.   

SAY IT'S NOT TRUE
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS NEWLY RECORDED
FOR NELSON MANDELA’S 46664 ON WORLD AIDS DAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiK8fvCuss

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Lyrics for SAY IT'S NOT TRUE

Say it’s not True

The harder we play
The faster we fall
When we think that we know it all
We know nothing at all

The letter arrives
Like a bolt from the blue
So what’s left of your lives
All your dreams lost to you

Say it ain’t true
Say it today
When I open my eyes
Will it all go away

Say it’s not true
Say it for real
Can’t be happenin’ to you
Can’t be happenin’ to me

It’s hard not to cry
It’s hard to believe
So much heartache and pain
So much reason to grieve

With the wonders of science
And all the knowledge we’ve stored
Magic cocktails for lives
People just can’t afford

You can say it’s not true
You can say it’s not right
So hard to believe
The size of the crime

Say it’s not true
Say it’s not real
Can’t be happenin’ to you
Can’t be happenin’ to me

It has not been that closely a guarded secret that rock legends Queen and Paul Rodgers  have been in the recording studio for their first sessions together following their successful world tour of 2005/2006. Indeed, both singer/songwriter and founding member of Free/Bad Company Paul Rodgers and Brian May have been quoted on their websites as being "quietly excited" about the music that has been produced from this creative union.

Spurred on by their commitments as Ambassadors to Nelson Mandela’s 46664 HIV AIDS global campaign, on which the spotlight will fall December 1 with a World Aids Day awareness and fundraising concert  in Johannesburg, South Africa,  Brian May, Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers are rushing to finish a track specially written for 46664 by Roger Taylor and have it available as a free download in time for this coming Saturday’s AIDS HIV benefit concert.

The track, Taylor’s “Say It’s Not True”, originally came to light for the launch of the 46664 campaign back in November 2003.   Taylor wrote the song as a gift to Mandela and performed it live for him for the first time with Brian May and Dave Stewart at the inaugural 46664 concert in Cape Town that month.  The song carries the message that HIV AIDS is something that can affect any one of us no matter our sexual or racial status.

Taylor performed an acoustic version of the song again nightly during the Queen + Paul Rodgers’ 2005 tour, each time dedicating it to Mandela’s work to bring people and politicians together to fight HIV AIDS.

Having played two previous 46664 concerts, but committed in the studio this year, Queen and Paul Rodgers decided to revisit the song, with all three of them sharing the  vocals, and to make the song the band’s message of support to Mandela this year.

“By making the song available for free”, says Taylor, “we hope to help Nelson  Mandela with his campaign to get across the message that no-one is safe from infection.  We have to be aware, we have to protect ourselves and those we love.  The song follows the line of Mr. Mandela’s personal message:  it’s in our own hands to bring a stop to this.”

Queen’s last new studio recording was back in November 1997 when May, Taylor and band’s bassist John Deacon reunited to record “No-One But You” a song written by Brian May which was shaped by the early loss of the late Freddie Mercury to AIDS. The song was the last new work to be released by the band, issued as a single in January 1998.

“Say It’s Not True”, performed by Queen + Paul Rodgers, written by Roger Taylor,