COVID Days (Reworking of Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days”)

Requests from friends, coworkers, and students continue, so here’s another song. This is my reworking of Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” which reflects on where we were before and where we are now. I hope it brightens someone’s day.

I apologize for the quality. I’m using my phone to record these and I tried some ad libbing at the end with varied success. I didn’t want to try another recording because my technology kept failing, and I wanted to get this out.

All rights to the original song and lyrics go the original artist, while the karaoke instrumental is credited to SBI Audio Karaoke on Spotify. It was the only place without backing vocals. These lyrics are written and owned by me. I’ve listed them below.
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I had a plan to hang with my friend
Back in February.
Planned to dress up to paint the town red,
But I cancelled last minute.
Saw her the other night on FaceTime,
I was in sweats, she was in some too, yeah.
I apologized to her for bailing back then
If I knew then what I know now...

COVID days well, it makes me cry.
COVID days shouldn’t have bailed out that time.
COVID days, COVID days

Well there's Netflix and streaming services
With so many movies and TV shows,
Video games, puzzles, books,
Online quizzes, anything that will entertain
Our houses and yards have never looked better
We just cope however we can
Every day it gets harder to entertain
Adults and children now all
living like Groundhog’s Day

COVID days we’re staying safe inside
COVID days while tryin’ to pass the time
COVID days, COVID days

(Stay safe everyone)

I think of all the essential employees
Who are risking their lives every day
To give us medical care and food and what we need.
It just doesn’t seem fair.
We can all sit back safe working from home,
While we may be bored: remember, only go out when
Absolutely needed because
We need to keep them safe

COVID days some are risking their lives
COVID days while we’re all safe inside
COVID days, COVID days

One day they'll pass us by
COVID days we’ll make it through in time
COVID days, COVID days

Well alright
Oh yeah
Stay safe
Social distance
Face coverings
If you must go out
Come on

Stay safe
Stay sane
Stay safe
Stay sane
You can do it!

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