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 weak 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 wraithlike peril spread across our seven seas Empty shelves in 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 Steamed figures rising In a sulk warped for its roof like rings propagate in water Motion's no vaccine Those cut-off wages darlin' Don't rinse down with Listerine I got the Covid-19 lockdown blues The only way out is through A wraithlike peril spread across our seven seas Empty shelves in 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