Lockdown Songs

Stephen King

Goats have taken over Llandudno and no one knows
Where they’ve come from, where they’ve come from
Kids cannot go out to play and have to stay indoors all day
No school, just stay at home
No one can predict what life might bring
When living in a horror filled novel by Stephen King

Six feet apart you can’t get kissed, as close relations
Don’t exist at all, outside your door
And publicans are pouring beer down drains
Which doesn’t cheer me up at all, not at all
While people clap on doorsteps as they sing
About living in a horror filled novel by Stephen King

I never thought I’d see a day like this when I was young
With hugging banned and queues for everything
Where families live in exile and there’s nobody at work
It’s like living in a horror filled novel by Stephen King

I never thought I’d see the day when planes stayed on the ground
And empty streets devoid of cars while people walked around
Where breathing non polluted air becomes a normal thing
When living in a horror filled novel by Stephen King

I never thought I’d see the day when face masks were the rage
Where people over seventy were locked inside a cage
Where panic buying toilet rolls was such a selfish thing
When living in a horror filled novel by Stephen King

2020 has been a strange year with Covid-19, lockdown, travel restrictions, panic buying and clapping every Thursday evening for the NHS. Stephen King was written at the height of the first lockdown. It felt like the whole country was living a glimpse of a dystopian future normally depicted in science fiction/horror novels. It was recorded in a socially distanced manner between lockdowns on Jon’s ancient four track recording device that utilised the technical wizardry of cassette tapes. – Paul