Keep it Chill! (in the East Vill)
Uploader: Jeffrey Lewis Band
Original upload date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 01:34:59 GMT
An ode to self isolation; reporting from the East Village of NYC.
From Jeffrey Lewis.
Keep safe everybody!
Lyrics:
It’s a real bad time to take a trip to China
or a road that leads to Rome,
But what
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’s the hurry, cause all that worry
z’coming right here to our home.
And now it came ashore and now it’s at our door.
It’s comin’ for us downtrodden masses.
And if you’re short of breath, it’s that old black death
gettin’ medieval on our modern a**es.
And the human race is getting put in place.
I’ve prob’ly caught a case. I think I touched my face!
I’m cryin’ Holy Geez won’t ya spare us please
This beastie boy’s NOT licensed to ill.
But for now I’ve just got to chill.
Stay alive indoors for one day more and…
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
Well times were tough, but we had enough
and my friends mostly got by.
But can’t no one hire us, cuz there’s a virus,
So now we’ll go broke or we’ll die.
And I’ve heard some say
what’s on the way is a civilized collapse.
And you can keep pretending it can keep on bending
But there’s an ending when it snaps.
And then the teeming hordes that can’t take no more is gonna loot the stores and then they’re coming for us .
And we can’t leave town cuz we’re all locked down
and there’s blood that’s gonna spill
But for now I’ve just got to chill
Stay alive indoors for one day more and
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
I know right now we can’t go out
and there’s no one in the street.
And the thing with that’s that all the rats’re
gonna run outta things to eat.
And it won’t take long till they’re a billion strong
And you know that rats ain’t dumb.
They’re sure the food they’re missing’s
now stored in our kitchens.
So look out, here they come!
So each Virus life we SAVE
is gonna die in a mighty rat tidal wave.
But I say oh my goodness, if we’d understood this
there’s things we could do still.
But for now I’ve just got to chill,
Stay alive indoors for one day more and…
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
And while that’s going down in my home town
the orange clown who runs DC
sees there’s perfect cause to declare martial laws
and pause elections indefinitely.
And he calls the banks, and says let’s all join ranks
unless their money might get shared.
So all his Klu Klux kranks patrol the streets with tanks
saying “Behave and you’ll be spared”
Then you can’t send mail out,
you won’t get no bailout.
And there’s no planes in jail now
and no way to sail out.
And if the internet’s not a mem’ry yet
it’ll get surveilled out-right at will
But for now I’ve just got to chill
Stay alive indoors for one day more and…
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
But I do understand that on the other hand
there’s a lot that might go great
Maybe a wide alliance will respect more science
in every nation and each state
We’ll take total warning about global warming
and when the virus soon blows out
we’ll have a full-on call for healthcare for all
and better safety nets rolled out
With old ways on freeze and new priorities,
this could be just what sees us
set things more at ease.
I’ll put my mind at rest and just hope for the best,
cuz it don’t even seem so strange.
It’s happened once or twice that when there’s times of crisis, giant good things come from change.
And it could heal the earth to not put money first
and this will sure slow greenhouse gasses.
Right now this makes things greener
and makes the whole world cleaner and we’ll all see that when this passes.
And we all know this will pass.
And from Wuhan out to Texas,
information is infectious.
And when this phase is behind us
We’ll catch a worldwide case of kindness.
There’s at least a chance we will.
But for now we know the drill…
Stay alive indoors for one day more and…
Keep it chill in the East Vill.
Keep it chill in the West Vill.
And keep it chill in Nashville
and keep it chill in the LA hills
and keep it cool in Wuhan
And keep it cool in Iran
We’ll all do what we can
Fate laughs at all plans
So keep it cool in all lands.
Make sure everyone understands,
Just stay in and wash your hands
And we’ll keep keeping cool in all lands.