Lockdown Blues

Lockdown Blues

This Covid-19 has caused quite a scene

Its spiky protein is meaner than mean

But I must have been down some ravine

Has anyone seen one to eighteen?

Now I keep to myself, keep my hands clean

My life’s now ruled by Covid-19

It’s badder than colds, badder than flus

But what’s badder for me are these lockdown blues

My house has a sheen, it’s the glow of chlorine

Hand hygiene’s now my daily routine

I’m overdosed on the screen and caffeine

I need a vaccine against quarantine

I don’t know or care about its genome

Just know it’s the bug that’s keeping me home

And it’s bugging me bad what I see on the news

But what’s bugging me most are these lockdown blues

Got time on my hands, nothing to do

And I’d sure like to get my hands on you

But it’s gonna have to stay an affair of the heart

I can’t squeeze you from two metres apart

And I know we’re all in, taking a hit

Staying at home and doing our bit

And it’s knowing you’re there, though it’s not what you’d choose

That helps me get through these lockdown blues

Yeah, that’s how we’ll lose these lockdown blues

[April 2020]

[Written during the self-isolation period of the 2020 Covid-19 crisis.
Not really autobiographical - my personal experience of the lockdown didn't leave me with "the blues",
but I know it did have that effect on others]