The Outbreak

from Baggage and Stuff by Baggage and Stuff

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They’re closing down the airports, they’re boarding up the malls 
All the cafes, bars and restaurants, see the writing on their walls 
They’re cracking down on meetings, and social distance crime 
While the dole queues and the hospitals, are working overtime 
We consign all human contact to the phone 
It’s a futuristic nightmare, where you wake up all alone
Here comes the outbreak – it’s here to spoil our day 
Here comes the outbreak – hell-bent to make us pay 
Just keep your distance, or it will carry us away 
As we cough into our sleeves and dance around what’s going down
It’s an outbreak of elbow bumps, and lame embarrassed smiles 
It’s an outbreak of violence in the supermarket aisles
It’s an outbreak of platitudes, and silly “Keep Calm” signs
Of rabbits in the headlights, with small suspicious minds
Every leader striking poses, can’t reconcile it
They’re all trying to look like Moses, but they wash their hands like Pilate
Here comes the outbreak …
Now the crisis is dying down, it hasn’t changed a thing 
Stock markets, wet markets, are back into their swing 
Now the air is thick with stories of how we won the war
While we know it’s true we lost a few, hell, they were just old or poor
Back to business as usual in this town
Because out of sight is out of mind, till the next one comes around
Another outbreak will come and spoil our day
Another outbreak – hell-bent to make us pay
Just keep your distance, and we’ll we react the same old way
We’ll just cough into our sleeves and dance around what’s going down

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from Baggage and Stuff, released August 31, 2021
Constable-Crundwell-Sanders

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