No Kissing the Dead

from Acoustic Tracks 2020 by Return to Worm Mountain

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Oh the plague did fall upon us all
And we locked ourselves at home
All the shops were closed and our hair did grow
As we waited to be told

When this nightmare would be lifted
From our thinly veiled sleep
And confusion did surround us
We saw life's fragility

And the days they stretch to weeks
And oh the weeks stretched into months
And they told us no more kissing
Yeah we were told we could not touch

And the ice-rink was identified
As a temporary morgue
And the headlines that were published read
You may not kiss the dead

Oh you may not kiss the dead

Our anxiety and fear it grew
And the suicides did rise
The uncertainty that faced us all
Was a spectre of the night

So we held onto those whom we loved
And we spoke to our old friends
To drown out those ghostly calls of death
With our love and humanity

Oh the days they stretch to weeks
And oh the weeks stretched into months
And they told us no more kissing
Yeah we were told we could not touch

And the ice-rink was identified
As a temporary morgue
And the headlines that were published read
You may not kiss the dead

Oh you may not kiss the dead

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from Acoustic Tracks 2020, released October 9, 2020
Cam Lofstrand - drums, bass, vocals & percussion
Duncan Park - vocals, guitar & harmonica

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