Lockdown Blues

Your river flows again, my love I know you've been choked A loosened clamp around your beak While crowds and parties mock the week A sudden fatal tenant Seizes room Didn't grasp what I had until It was robbed away too soon Covid-19, lockdown blues The only way out is through A wrathlike peril spread across our seven seas Empty shells and barren streets Confined domestic quarantine How the itching for lost touch is deafening Covid-19, lockdown blues Covid-19, lockdown blues The lid's on the kettle Measured to subdue Steep figures rising In a sulk warped for its roof Like rings propagate water Motion's no vaccine Those cut off wages, darlin' Don't rinse down with Listerine I've got the Covid-19, lockdown blues The only way out is through A wrathlike peril spread across our seven seas Empty shells and barren streets Confined domestic quarantine How the itching for lost touch is deafening Covid-19, lockdown blues Covid-19, lockdown blues Covid-19, lockdown blues Covid-19, lockdown blues Covid-19, lockdown blues Covid, among us in the glaring daylight