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COVID​-​19 vol​.​II

by The Tiger Lillies

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Are you feeling confused? Are you locked-down blue? Driving your car Drink in a bar Are you going to shop? Dance till you drop Are you going to that café And have fried eggs today? What you gonna do? Lockdown blues Are you gonna go to a show? Are you gonna go with the flow? Are you gonna get on a plane? Are you gonna fly out to Spain? To the beach, have a swim Have some vodka, and gin What you gonna do? Lockdown blues You’re feeling confused Lockdown blues
2.
If you live in a council flat And you’re poor and all of that With loads of others, same air breathe Soon for you they will grieve It’s a poor man killer Then you won’t have much hope To escape the gallows rope Your funeral suit is bespoke Corona’s got you by the throat It’s a poor man killer You got no hope to isolate That is a rich man’s fate If you’re poor and you’re old To coronavirus you’ve been sold Poor man killer If you’re poor, poor and old They’ll put you on hold But when you’re corona sold You’re corona sold Poor man killer Got no hope, here’s a rope Funeral suit is bespoke Got a good chance to croak Being lucky, only hope It’s a poor man killer And if you’re on a poor estate You don’t get a lucky break And you’re in a family The same air you breathe Poor man killer If you’re poor, got no chance It’s a death dance See the Covid-19 prance Watch that plague advance Poor man killer
3.
Baboon 02:06
Have you got immunity? Will it ever end? Is there a new strain Which infects again and again? Have you got immunity? Will you get it soon? The tests say you recatch it If you’re a baboon And there is no vaccine No vaccine in sight It’s at least two years away If they get it right Isolation for eternity It looks like we are doomed We can catch it They’ve done tests on baboons I’ve really had enough of this Covid-19 Little motherfucker it’s getting boring, and there’s no vaccine The second wave is coming It is coming soon And we can recatch it They’ve done tests on baboons That mask you’re wearing, it’s a waste of time This Covid-19 it is a swine And we can recatch it Recatch it, we are doomed They’ve done the tests, on baboons
4.
Out There 02:07
Don’t go outside, don’t go outside, it’s out there The fear is there, it’s a nightmare, it’s out there It lurks about, don’t scream or shout Watch out Sneaks up behind, when it’s a mind, it’s out there You’re Howard Hughes, with snakeskin shoes, it’s out there All people avoid, phobia, paranoid, it’s out there Covid-19 you got, you’re feeling shocked, it’s out there Out there
5.
You mustn’t swallow toilet cleaner Covid-19 it’s getting meaner Kills a virus sends it to hell But it will kill you as well Don’t swallow bleach You I beseech… Send you straight down to hell You know that bleach won’t go down well Whose crazy idea was that? They must be full, full of crap On that bottle it says don’t swallow Don’t be stupid, don’t be hollow Swallow bleach someone does teach Don’t follow them I beseech You’ll need your stomach to be pumped It might put you off your lunch Don’t be stupid, don’t be a lump Someone on you bullshit has dumped Don’t swallow bleach You I beseech…
6.
Cut-throats form a queue Murders in solitude Sleep it off on a park bench Leaving you will be a wrench Shutdown blues The church choir sings The angels with gold rings Finding someone new to curse Every year until the hearse Shutdown blues Found a place to bury you Feeling grey, feeling blue Climbing mountains in the rain This is doing in my brain Shutdown blues
7.
Communist 03:33
Communist… I’ll shoot the breeze And have a sneeze Come on and shake my hand I don’t wear masks Don’t make me laugh I’m a macho man I’ll go on protests There’ll be no contest Civil liberties infringed Government control I’ll wank their pole Our freedoms are impinged I’ll spread that disease If I please I’ll stick it in I’ll take my gun I’ll have some fun We’re the lunatic fringe Doctors and nurses We give them curses They are communists They are all liars They do conspire This disease does not exist Communists… This Covid-19 It is a plot It must be shot Let’s shoot it And communists It doesn’t even exist You can always tell The communists They’re the ones that wear masks Spit in their faces Spit in their faces Spit in their faces and laugh
8.
We’re walking down the street Distance a few feet And someone starts to sneeze Another has a wheeze So I start to queue I get a call from you And someone gets too near I wish that you were here I should change my mask Children smile and laugh Eating an ice cream I hope it’s virus-clean They’ve opened up the shops Still the world has stopped Never can get near I wish that you were here
9.
Second Wave 02:21
If all the covidiots unite and fight This could go on all night If they all start meeting Breathe each other’s air I think I might pull out all my hair Second wave That virus it might multiply Another line of graves We’ll wipe out the old and sick A fortune will be saved I think I’ll pull out my hair Pull it out today I think, I think We’ll have a second wave Second wave They go on protest marches Infect what they can Overthrow the government This conspiracy is planned They’ll keep this virus alive They’ll breathe each other’s air I think I’m going to pull out all my hair Second wave
10.
Care Home 03:07
In the care home the virus creeps From room to room, infection seeps Care home Fragile victims it consumes Leading each one to their doom Care home Someone’s mother gasps for breath Only moments to their death Someone’s father gasps his last All his moments in the past Care home There’s no visit, die alone Oh that virus is keen to roam Keen to visit and advance Covid-19 with you will dance Care home
11.
Just A Flu 02:37
It’s just the flu You know that it’s true As long as we keep saying it Some of you think it’s true As long as we keep saying it People think it’s true It’s just… the flu Experts give you scientific facts We can be experts to feed you a load of crap We can justify those facts, make believe it’s true It’s just… the flu If we tell you Covid-19 doesn’t exist That it’s a plot hatched by the communists And if we tell you this time and time again If we say it enough you’ll believe it in the end Scientists don’t believe they wouldn’t share a beer They’re a bunch of snowflakes, intellectual leftist queers We’ll get our own experts and make up loads of shit Because you are a patriot you will believe it Those people that died would all have died This Covid-19 is a communist lie So picket all the hospitals don’t let the nurses in We cannot let the communists, cannot let them win It’s flu You know that it is true…
12.
Prison Cell 02:37
And all of the senators in Rome And your friend who told you to ring home Your hat was made from a traffic cone As his throat was cut he let out a moan The moon is pink, once it was green Every syllable uttered sounded obscene The bank robbery went like a dream You always played on the losing team I’m worried this will not end well Another day in the prison cell I like the pope, the pope smokes dope I’ve got the rope around my throat I think my reaction’s a little extreme Beam me up Scotty on a laser beam I’m worried this will not end well Another day in the prison cell
13.
Stay in prison, tow the line Everything will be fine If you only obey What you’re told to do today And the clock, it never stops Shut the door and it locks And the money, drying up Pretty soon we’ll all be fucked Flatten the curve Just another week or two Till that curve is flattened through Well I know that you are broke Poverty, on it you choke Play it straight, play it clean Poverty, Covid-19 The devil and the deep blue sea You are fucked by this disease Don’t be perturbed We’re going to flatten that curve
14.
You’re caught in a tornado Fire in your name It will burn your lungs out That will be its gain You’re caught in a hurricane It don’t make a sound It waits in the silence To strike us to the ground You are like a fire That just burns today Hard to ignore you As you kill away You wait in the shadows You don’t make a sound But you’re burning like a fire You wait to burn us down Strike us to the ground
15.
A ray of sunshine passed today They hang their heads and say He had no mask for tests they ask Now he’s passed away In the eye of the storm An angel born Frank has passed away A ray of sunshine in the darkness For the injured and impaired A ray of hope for poor and sick When there’s nobody there In the eye of the storm An angel born Frank has passed away Disenfranchised and intoxicated For them you did care Frank had no mask, Frank had no mask And he’s no longer here In the eye of the storm An angel born Frank has passed away

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Here comes the 2nd wave.

Covid-19 Vol.II will be released exclusively on Bandcamp tonight at midnight CET, with 14 new songs including “Lockdown Blues”, “Care Home,” “Poor Man Killer” and "Don’t Swallow Bleach”.

The album takes a more serious tone than Covid-19 vol. I which came out on April 10, and considering the situation 2 months later, how else could we respond? This new set of songs confronts the cost to human life, the fear and anxiety the pandemic has unleased and the confusion people feel now, all the while continuing to use the dark humour the band is known for.

Covid-19 vol. II will be released on Bandcamp today at midnight (CET). It features exclusive artwork by Lebanese artist Eugene Cavill.

As Bandcamp is waving its commission fees on Friday, June 5th, please help support the Tiger Lillies by getting a copy then, if you can.

See you on the other side,

The Tiger Lillies

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released June 4, 2020

CREDITS:
Martyn Jacques: vocals, accordion, Rhodes piano, Hammond B3, slide and electric guitar, drums
Adrian Stout: upright bass, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, musical saw, trumpets, backing vocals
Album design and artwork: Eugene Cavill
All songs written by Martyn Jacques in Berlin, May 2020
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Timm Brockmann at Red Light Studio, Berlin, and Adrian Stout at Pagrati Studio, Athens
Album produced by the Tiger Lillies, www.tigerlillies.com
Produced by Martyn Jacques
Executive producer Martyna Lach
Special thanks to Sophie Seashell and Tim Whitehead
Copyright and publishing Misery Guts Music Ltd., 2020

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