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Fear (In the Time of Corona)

from Fear and Love In the Time of Corona by Grant Swift

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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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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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from Fear and Love In the Time of Corona, 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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Grant Swift New York

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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