The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Beatles.
Will you still see me
Will you still meet me
When I’m con-tag-ious.
I’m fixing a hole where the virus gets in
And stops my lungs from functioning
As they should go
I wanna hold your hand but I can’t because I don’t wanna die.
And we bake
Our sourdough bread
Sing sea shanties
And go to bed
Work from home
And often clean
In our mellow quarantine
We all live in a mellow quarantine,
mellow quarantine,
mellow quarantine…
“push, push, Maxwell’s silver syringe,
Made sure he was well. “
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
Actually, that one holds up pretty well.
Good catch, also:
Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow hanging over me
Oh yesterday came suddenly
Also, a little darker:
Why she had to ‘go’, I don’t know
She wouldn’t say*
*(Or couldn’t, being intubated.)
Also:
Now I need a place to hide away
Works much better than the original placeholder lyrics:
Scrambled eggs
Oh my baby how I love your legs
Although…couples need to eat, and entertain each other-- even in quarantine, so maybe those lyrics do work 