I was listening to some Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) songs and checking their lyrics, three of his songs somehow portrayed the lockdown hysteria that the world has seen.
Great songs, as always. Thanks Mark.
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See also:
Covid 8, Deaths in lockdown vs No lockdown countries, May 04, 2020
Covid 9, GDP growth of lockdown vs No/Lite lockdown (preliminary), May 05, 2020
Covid 10, Big global pandemics, fatality rate, May 06, 2020.
(1) Telegraph Road (1982)
I used to like to
go to work but they shut it down
I got a right to go
to work but there's no work here to be found
Yes and they say
we're gonna have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to
reap from some seed that's been sowed...
From the anger that
lives on the streets with these names
'Cos I've run every
red light on memory lane
I've seen
desperation explode into flames
And I don't want to
see it again...
(2) Industrial Disease
On ITV and BBC they
talk about the curse.
Philosophy is
useless, theology is worse.
History boils over
there's an economics freeze.
Sociologists invent
words that mean "industrial disease".
(3) Your latest trick,
And we're standing
outside of this wonderland
Looking so bereaved
and so bereft
Like a Bowery bum
when he finally understands
The bottle's empty
and there's nothing left.
Great songs, as always. Thanks Mark.
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See also:
Covid 8, Deaths in lockdown vs No lockdown countries, May 04, 2020
Covid 9, GDP growth of lockdown vs No/Lite lockdown (preliminary), May 05, 2020
Covid 10, Big global pandemics, fatality rate, May 06, 2020.
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