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Quarantined

by Christylez Bacon

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NPR Morning Edition asked me to write a song documenting life during the pandemic in 2020, so I wrote about it from a personal place and created this entire production (including the album artwork) from my home in Washington, DC.

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It’s winter time without the snow in December the year is through
Youngins locking themselves inside and it’s due to severe flu
I check in with my ex and she’s putting together clues
why taking two steps feels like walking an avenue
I was chatting with my mother and same thing is going down
She’s struggling to breath. Man, this thing is taking own town
We’re charging up her chair with plans of rolling there
prayers of God’s grace in the place with Urgent Care
The waiting room’s packed and short-staffed tryna keep track
Everybody's coughing in the air, I’m tryna keep back
Five hours waiting and a x-ray later
Me and my momma stayed up, she's breathing through ventilators
but she pulled through, then my sister came through
scared that mom would die, my sister got sick too
January 25th, everybody’s hella sick
and they said that patient zero’s in the other Washington!? Nah!

Quarantined, nobody next to me
I get my true facts from the CDC
Scientists saw it coming like ESP
I'm tryna see the other side of COVID-19
Quarantined, can’t work a J-O-B
So why we're getting charged fees
like it’s the same old thing
Man, I wish I saw it coming like ESP
I'm tryna see the other side on COVID-19

Now everybody’s in the house, tryna figure out
How the world’s changed, but the rent’s the same amount?
Companies say they care and might defer a small amount
And if we make it, we got bills piled up to figure out
Forced to go to work and risk your LIFE for a little money
While the Riches are hiking PRICES for the 2020
They see glimpses of what a Black-man lives
then tweet out Black Lives Matter but do nothing about employment
We’re putting on masks, give me six-feet fast
Got a stimulus check that paid for rent in a half
In the nation’s capital, where that much won’t last
in a country where the only love language is cash
and by the time that the economy stuck, all of sudden…
without a vaccine, it’s time to open things up
so instead of valuing lives of workers and making changes
folks will die cause people in power are complacent

Quarantined, nobody next to me
I get my true facts from the CDC
Scientists saw it coming like ESP
I'm tryna see the other side of COVID-19
Quarantined, can’t work a JOB
So why we're getting charged fees
like it’s the same old thing
Man, I wish I saw it coming like ESP
I'm tryna see the other side on COVID-19

We the people, control our destiny
but can’t receive unless we drop the selfish things
Greed has all control of our soul, self-preserving, and cold
People talking bout sacrificing the old, and we wanna claim societal progress
the unjust populace, dying from excess instead of less
Countries dying from famine
us… mismanagement, the lies, and moral abandonment
What happened to your heart? Are you protecting yourself
by doing only for self, thinking your heart will hurt less?
Aren’t you tired of the stress? Inside, how lonely it all gets?
The lack of love outside of an accomplishment?
It’s COVID-19, but you can see the fine-ink on the wall and it’s underlying the entire thing
Humans needs a new mentality without fences and longer tables to help everyone in dire need

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released August 5, 2020
Composed & Produced by Christylez Bacon
Album artwork by Christylez Bacon

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Christylez Bacon Washington, D.C.

Christylez Bacon (pronounced: chris-styles) is a GRAMMY® Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist from Southeast, Washington, DC. As a performer, Christylez multi-tasks between various instruments such as the West African djembe drum, acoustic guitar, and the human beat-box (oral percussion), all while continuing the oral tradition of storytelling through his lyrics. ... more

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