Stuck in a Nightmare

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I came home from work on Wednesday. My guitar lesson was cancelled for the third successive week. Not to be deterred, I wrote “Stuck in a Nightmare” in the span of about 45 minutes. A few edits and I had a playable song be the evening.

The song touches on our current belief that staying at home and “sheltering in place” will somehow deliver a magic result. Somehow, we’ll avoid harm and in a few weeks (months?? years??) all will be well and we can go back to our lives of buying junk we don’t need.

The fear-fogging line is one I had to laugh about. Other than my sister, I’m the only other person that I know who has appropriated this excellent phrase that captures what the media does best.

I wrote a paean to Rachel Maddow late in 2019, but she’s become one of the biggest fear-foggers out there. As a result, I’ve stopped watching her show.

For me, who knows better than anyone (other than my wife), some things are beyond our control. In fact, Choice Theory is something I now understand and try to frame how I view the world. Yet, I see the disavowal of something that’s clear—we can only control ourselves. The other stuff we need to let go.

I’m still trying to find a way to up my fidelity on these home recordings. At some point, I’ll figure all this out. Maybe then, we’ll be released from “house arrest” and be allowed to go back to bars, clubs, and other venues and actually play real, live music again.

Stuck in a Nightmare

Verse I

Stuck in my house

Feeling Like a Mouse

Waiting for the cat to pounce

Goin’ to the store

Don’t want anymore

Toilet paper aisles wiped out

Chorus

I wanna’ leave today

I can’t ‘cause the governor says to stay

Fear-fogging is the media’s way

Maybe this nightmare ends today

Verse II

On the road to work

Cut off by a jerk

Wishing that the guy would try

We’re all in this phase

People getting crazed

Scared that their world might end

Chorus

I wanna’ leave today

I can’t ‘cause the governor says to stay

Fear-fogging is the media’s way

Maybe this nightmare ends today

(Hope this…)

Would that this…)

©EverysongYeah 2020