Fear and Love In the Time of Corona

by Grant Swift

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Fear (In the Time of Corona) 03:57
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The need to make you stay Keep the others far away As my breath begins to atrophy My life reveals its boundary We’re shutting all the doors Realizing (we’re deciding) what they’re for I can’t believe it… Please, don't leave me in the outside I shiver in the night I'm scared for my life Tonight... When the brightness hurts to see And the night brings no reprieve I'm disoriented and weak... What if you weren’t okay? We’ll keep the others far away Please, don’t leave me in the outside I shiver in the night I’m scared for my life Please, don’t leave me in the outside Things exactly as they seem Getting picked last for the team Emptying out the fridge Catching up on cold storage Paranoia hoarding food Till boredom takes the mood So now they’re buying up all the toys They feel distracted without noise Don’t wanna feel it… Please, don’t leave me in the outside I shiver in the night I’m scared for my life Please, don’t leave me in the outside Things exactly as they seem Getting picked last for the team
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Love (In the Time of Corona) 04:16
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When you have to stay But you’re crying to get away It’s hard I know Everything’s feeling wrong Constant reminders that your world has gone Away I know But nothing is gone because Nothing you’ve thrown out ever goes away Your blood and the stars are the same And nothing will stop this change So let it go, and proclaim True kindness and love can come from a terrible place It’s time that I figured out When sadness tries to lull me to bed Yeah, my love keeps growing, my love keeps growing instead And when we just can’t seem to get any answers My love keeps growing, my love keeps growing Taking some time to rest At the Mayor’s behest I get Messed up And now I’m hunting for guilt in a crisis Bash in some heads to feel righteous The rage The state But look at this hate I spread And all the ideas it bred I gotta let it go baby, we’re all fighting the same We’re stuck in a screeching halt But this ain’t no ground assault So put ‘em down baby, there’s nothing to fight It’s time that we figured out When sadness tries to lull me to bed Yeah, my love keeps growing, my love keeps growing instead And when they just can’t seem to give any answers My love keeps growing, my love keeps growing for them 'Cause we’re all running from similar disasters My love keeps growing, my love keeps growing for you And when people give so generously Yeah, they keep it going, the love keeps growing And when I think of those who’ve died It’s all of the love they leave behind… When sadness tries to lull me to bed Yeah, my love keeps growing, my love keeps growing instead And when they just can’t seem to give any answers My love keeps growing, my love keeps growing for them 'Cause we’re all running from similar disasters My love keeps growing, my love keeps growing for you And when people give so generously Yeah, they keep it going, the love keeps growing

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Dedicated to all those who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Written in March, 2020 while I was sick after contracting COVID-19. Søren Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling” was also a source of inspiration during this scary time.

“He will think that to enter eternity is possible the next instant, and that also is perfectly true, but by such considerations one never reaches the point of making the movements, but by their aid one sinks deeper and deeper into the mire.” - Søren Kierkegaard, 1843 (tr. Walter Lowrie, 1941)

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released July 31, 2020

Written, performed and produced by Grant Swift
Artwork derived from a photo by Michael Netherton, @blue_ox_studio

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NYC native Grant Swift is an acclaimed vocalist, guitarist, composer and producer. His music is uncanny but warm, inspired by an eclectic mix of 60’s pop and R&B, jazz standards, 90’s alternative, and the choral, baroque and classical music he was trained in as a boy. ... more

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