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  1. Panic Rooms

From the recording Panic Rooms

A quick song for the new pandemic age.

Lyrics

We used to dream of house arrest
You and me, just locked away, our busy lives recessed
So as our hair grows longer while life’s in retrograde
Let’s take to our advantage what this shrinking world has made

We will not panic in our panic rooms
This is how we manage when the worry blooms
Like atheists in foxholes, we’re letting go of doubt
Resetting all our lost goals, we’ll have no sense of time when we get out

Technology, please keep us warm
Help us through this lonesome chill that’s shielding us from harm
Let’s remake the balance ‘tween the greedy and the poor
And when the ban is lifted, may love have led the cure

We will not panic in our panic rooms
This is how we manage in between our Zooms
Like atheists in foxholes, we’re letting go of doubt
Resetting all our lost goals, we’ll have no sense of time when we get out

To those of you alone out there, a virtual embrace
May it be enough until the next one takes its place
None of us immune here to random drops of fate
Or sudden acts of kindness that release us as we wait

We will not panic in our panic rooms
This is how we manage when the worry blooms
Like atheists in foxholes, we’re letting go of doubt
Resetting all our lost goals, we’ll have no sense of time when we get out
Resetting all our lost goals, we won’t remember time when we get out

© 2020 Rob Berretta