"Suburban Post Pandemic Blues" - A music video by Robert Dada

"Suburban Post Pandemic Blues" - A music video by Robert Dada

Words and video © 2022 Robert Dada
Music © 1965 Bob Dylan

With apologies in advance to Robert Zimmerman, I’ve always loved “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, so I decided to re-work the song and update the lyrics to make them more contemporary.

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“Suburban Post-Pandemic Blues” Lyrics:

Wife’s in the kitchen kneading up the bread dough
I’m in the study catching up on Burroughs
Man in a lab coat, badge out, pissed off
Says we got a bad cough, wants us all to knock it off

Look out kid, it’s something you did
God knows why, but you’re making us all die
You better duck down the corridor, looking for a good nurse
The man wearing nice shoes carrying a big purse
Wants an insurance card, but for you it’s gonna be a hearse

Maggie comes in fleet foot, face full N-95
Talkin’ that the WHO puts words in our heads, but
My data’s sold anyway
Maggie says the many say
They must jab by early May
Orders from the TSA?

Look out kid, don't matter what you did
Don’t play in the sun, cancel anything that’s fun
Stay away from that young’un carrying around a big gun
Keep like a nun, watch the unmasked one
You don’t need the CDC to know which way the virus won

Oh, get sick, get well, still feel kinda strange
Can’t sleep, hard to tell if anything is gonna change
Try hard, get fired, fall back, relapse
Get hired, try again, fail again, the last collapse

Look out kid, you're gonna get hit
By physicians, appointees, two-faced politicians
Hanging ‘round the TVs
Girl with the iPad’s looking for a sugar dad
Don’t follow influencers, a-watch content producers

Oh, get born, plug in
Internet, you’re all set
Learn to code, on the road
Angel invest, a big success
Please they, please them, buy NFTs
Don’t vote, don’t sneeze
20 years of schoolin’ but you didn’t bank on this disease

Look out kid, they keep it all hid
Better jump up the corporate ladder, find yourself a backer
Better not smack her, no Instagram attackers
Don’t get preggo, invest in some crypto
The device don’t work ‘cause the hackers beat the slackers

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