VERSE ONE

When the 2020 hit, and the pandemic kicked in
I went through 6 jobs packing 2 apprenticeships in
My middle age is beckoning, I head there in an instance
Raising 3 kids in a home with a pregnant missus
So I was trying to brainstorm, how I could raise more
When state laws, had our doors shut with stage four
I’m job seeking, and I’m thinking of a game plan
When I can’t even see fam, link or even shake hands
Now Dr’s calling and they’re tripping on a brain scan…
The high potentiality of tumours and disease
In my un-borns brain left me suitably uneased
And the futures looking bleak, as the seasons disappear
With media just spamming what’s appealing to our fears
Beefing with our family and screaming at our peers
Cuz the world had split apart and the reason isn’t clear

CHORUS

My universe born, that’s parallel with you in it gone
A foreign plain where I exist is my usual norm
Eye of the storm with the lightning and the rain hailing down
Stranded with my head in the clouds


VERSE TWO

Nothing’s black or white, the world’s coloured grey
And my country stays in droughts, flooded or up in flames
I turn my phone off from the comments of what others say
And my soul died when George cried out his mothers name
Trying to keep back the stress, when my Dad called me up said he relapsed again
Lost a licence and a job, took a turn for the worse
But my thought’s were submerged with concerns for a birth and
Mentally I’m drained, with a pregnancy at bay
When I should have been excited bout it’s gender or the name
And I’m back to heavy drinking just to get me through the day
Cuz the pressures from a child and a parent feel the same
With each turn of the earth brings more turbulence
A universe of irreversible permanence
I’m just praying that baby is ok, and it makes it here safely to the world I’m in




VERSE THREE

As time ticks we just sit round and dwell
Inside our house like we’re prisoners in cells
All the things that I felt, well they instantly melt
When my first daughter was born and she’s in perfect health
I can’t explain my shock, that she made to world I’m in against those odds
So I went to start a business like she lifted up my fortunes
But my Dad passed away on the day I tried to launch it
And I talked to him the day before, had me buggin
He told me he would bounce back, I told him that I loved him
I couldn’t comprehend it at the time or be aware
That the words that I just said would be the last we’d ever share
And it’s feeling like a dream, surreal and bitter sweet
That my daughter and my Father in this world will never meet
And as deeply as it’s wounded me, I’m feeling like it’s cauterised
Seeing Dad immortalised, staring in my Daughter’s eyes
Before the rise and the fall of our souls from birth
We are spirits made of dust that revolve with earth
One lives and one dies in this multiverse
And it could have been the roles reversed