A local NYC news station asked people to think about songs that could represent 2020. I thought that may be a fun topic here.
Here’s my first thought:
The only song I can think of that’s about a plague is “Swamp Witch”.
Good Riddance (The Time of Your Life) - Green Day.
The End by the Doors.
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of ev’rything that stands
The end
No safety or surprise
The end
I’ll never look into your eyes again
“Cracking Up” - Nick Lowe
"No pills that I can take
This is too real and there ain’t no escape…
Everybody all around me
Shakin’ hands and sayin’ howdie…
Everybody havin’ fun
I don’t know how they can carry on"
When the Levee Breaks.
Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good
No, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move, ooh.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
All last night sat on the levee and moaned
Thinkin’ 'bout my baby and my happy home
Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They’re going to destroy
Our casual joys
We shall go on playing
Or find a new town
Strange days have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone
OMG!!! This is so great…how appropriate.
thank you for sharing this.
All aboard!
I’ve listened to preachers
I’ve listened to fools
I’ve watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it, and you live the role
This is the one. Especially the visuals.
It kept rising from the crypt…surge after surge…
Soulfly has a song called Evil Empowered. Written after Trump was elected, but before Covid-19 and its consequences. Has the lyrics:
“Awoke by a thief
In the night of retribution
Pandemic welcoming
Of your final solution
We are cursed
An idol to be your god
The devil’s won”
The Damned - I Just Can´t Be Happy Today
For the general sentiment, really, but some lines fit very well.
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This one hits the bullseye with every line. Bad Year Blues by Albert Castiglia
Stayin’ Alive fits if you take out the dancing part of the lyrics.
Lockdowns, social distancing, masks, BLM and so forth are all about staying alive.
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth.
You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a 'roll
A 'roll, a 'roll
Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony of destruction
Acting like a robot
It’s metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
Before the head explodes
Explodes, explodes