You had to go,
I know,
I know,
I know.
“I’m all alone here
As I try my tiny song
Claim my place beneath the sky
But I won’t be here for long
I sang all night,
The moon shone on me through the trees
No brothers left,
And there’ll be no more after me.”
This song about the extinction of several animals, including the thylacine and dodo bird, hits hard as a live theatre actor who planned to be a theatre professor. The thing I loved most in the world is, so to speak, going the way of the dodo bird in the song due to COVID-19. Live theatre is most likely a thing of the past, just like so many art forms before it, and the person I was before the disease is a person I can no longer be anymore.
There were never any “good old days”
They are today, they are tomorrow
It’s a stupid thing we say,
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
Tore my shirt to stop you bleeding,
But nothing ever stops you leaving.
You know I’m never gonna let you have it
But I will try to drown you out
I can sit, wondering what in the world
You think about
I don’t think I’m ever gonna figure it out
22 is like the worst idea
That I have ever had
You cut your hair
I never saw you again
He’s the father of temptation
He’s the master of deceit
I don’t believe in Satan
But he believes in me
Making contact gets harder
As the silence grows longer
And why would you think of me
When you were not the one in love?
When you were not the dreamer,
When you were just the dream?
Well, if the world comes tumbling down,
I never could forgive myself for leaving out
You are the one
You are the only one
Well, Jesus Christ, I’m not scared to die
I’m a little bit scared of what comes after
It’s the right time to come alive
Baby, tell yourself it ain’t over yet
You said, “I can’t prove to you
You’re not gonna die alone,
But trust me to take you home”
Wherever you go, and whatever you do
There’s a man underground who will always love you
It’s the end of the world
It’s the last taste of wine
When you were, when you were mine