LOCKDOWN BLUES

If I have ever written a song that requires no further explanation this is probably it.

Simple 12 Bar in E … anyone can and if you are in this situation, probably should play it.

It was a time of masks and desperation empty streets and isolation

Freedom of speech put to rest silence the only approved protest

A time of draconian regulation confusion contusion and aggravation

Death by Covid you took your chances or was it due to stage 4 cancer

You look around and see disaster you ask the questions but get no answer

Panic buying toilet paper hoarding and economies they were imploding

A time of trouble and of all kinds of bubbles

2 hours 5 kilometers men at the door armed with thermometers

Wash your hands cover your face do as you please but stay in your place

8PM curfew without any reason to some its regrettable to others its treason

We’re locked up in Melbourne no way to escape the cops on guard right at your gate

It was ok for some to march for George Foster but a march for freedom is not on offer

We can’t believe it’s happening here keeping us locked up in a state of fear

Can’t mow the lawn can’t cut my hair or go out to the local for a wag and a beer

Can’t see my kids except on a screen not really sure if they know what that means

Don’t get married and you’ll die on your own no one can come to see your headstone

We’re stuffed at the moment no change in direction we’ll remember come the election

Can’t point the finger and blame it on others he made the decisions him and no other

It was a time of masks and desperation empty streets and isolation

A time of draconian regulation confusion contusion and aggravation