Year of the Plague

So I've purposely kind of avoided addressing covid in my songs this year because it's absolutely everywhere you look in real life and I kind of want to use my music as a means of escapism.  But as the end of the year rapidly approaches, I'm finding myself in a bit of a reflective mood and it's hard to deny what a long shadow it has cast over the year.  I still don't totally address it head on, you won't hear the words "covid" or "coronavirus" in this song, but it's definitely here in a somewhat roundabout way.  Mostly I was just kind of logging a few things I've been thinking about.  Along with the social unrest (much of which I feel was justified) and the extremely toxic political environment this has been an utterly exhausting year on many levels.  But I still see reasons to be hopeful.  I don't know the meaning of life and neither does anybody else, but I really, really don't think the point of existence is to feel burning, seething hatred towards anyone who's different from you or to feel the need to destroy them or make their lives miserable.  Maybe I'm wrong about that.  Human history would seem to suggest that I am, but if that's the case then this really is a profoundly stupid and sad world.  I personally can't go through life thinking that way.  And truly, it doesn't feel right or true to me.  I'm more inclined to think the massive divisions that humanity faces are more of a challenge that we're meant to work to overcome so we can collectively move forward towards something better and hopefully eventually reach our fullest potential.  And while I don't have any clue how we're going to get there, I believe in us.  Anyway, that's where my head was kind of at when I wrote this one.  You know, a nice light-hearted Christmas-y theme. 

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There was a time not so long ago
When you could just pick up and go
Pretty much anywhere you'd want to go

But that was in a different age
Before the year of the plague
Uncertainty was exciting not something to fear

And I traveled over the ocean
Just to see what all lay over there
I wandered across many borders
Yes I used to soar through the air

Year of the plague's got me twisted and flailing
Tired of the lies and I'm tired of the failing
And after all these years
I still don't know the reason why we're here
But I...
I...
I...

Just can't believe we were put here
To hate each other or feel fear
So please don't despair

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