La Plagua (song)

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    Written 4/1/2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Currently working on a script to turn into a musical of sorts. Historical fiction written while history is happening. This is the title track. Planned to be at the near end of the story.

    La Plagua (song)

    Oh la Plagua 

    Such a sad sad saga

    Full of fake news and dogma 

    Symptoms so vague

    This Goddamn plague. 


    Covid nineteen 

    So cruel and mean

    Pneumonia thus unseen 

    Gotta gotta gotta GO CLEAN!! 


    Don't. 

    Don't touch your face

    Don't leave this space

    Don't become a new case

    Don't get sick in your haste

    Every move must be traced. 

    Just to say the source can't be erased! 


    Community spread

    A generation dead

    Stay inside your home

    Not allowed to roam. 

    Gotta keep your head 

    In the midst of this fucking dread.


    Oh la Plagua 

    Such a sad sad saga

    Full of fake news and dogma 

    Symptoms so vague

    This Goddamn plague. 


    Covid nineteen 

    So cruel and mean

    Pneumonia thus unseen 

    Gotta gotta gotta GO CLEAN!! 


    Nurse or waiter 

    We're all just an incubator

    For this viral ghost 

    Using me as a host


    Three days or maybe ten 

    Without a symptom until then 

    Spreading the assassin's bug 

    Not even allowed a hug


    Gotta find comfort alone

    In a world so overgrown 

    8 billion on land 

    Three percent dead has been planned 

    Two hundred million 

    The rivers run deep vermilion 


    Oh la Plagua 

    Such a sad sad saga

    Full of fake news and dogma 

    Symptoms so vague

    This Goddamn plague. 


    Covid nineteen 

    So cruel and mean

    Pneumonia thus unseen 

    Gotta gotta gotta GO CLEAN!! 


    Gotta flatten the curve 

    The world is all unnerved

    Hide inside your house

    Keep hidden like a mouse. 

    Grounding so undeserved

    Our way of life, unpreserved. 


    Drinking all the day 

    Trapped away in hell 

    Intoxication is swell

    Until the liver starts to decay. 

    Can't see a doctor til May!


    Oh la Plagua 

    Such a sad sad saga

    Full of fake news and dogma 

    Symptoms so vague

    This Goddamn plague. 


    Covid nineteen 

    So cruel and mean

    Pneumonia thus unseen 

    Gotta gotta gotta GO CLEAN!! 


    Wash your hands. 

    Cover your cough

    Stay home, no plans. 

    You're much better off.

    Hid inside your loft. 


    But rent is due

    No work for you. 

    Thousands out of wages

    Worst disaster in ages. 

    No loft no more

    All out class war!! 


    Banks should take the hit 

    Instead of throwing a fit

    Killing a million more

    Simply 'cause we are poor. 


    Oh la Plagua 

    Such a sad sad saga

    Full of fake news and dogma 

    Symptoms so vague

    This Goddamn plague. 


    Covid nineteen 

    So cruel and mean

    Pneumonia thus unseen 

    Gotta gotta gotta GO CLEAN!! 


    Wipe down the door

    Or you will be no more

    You have gotta be sure 

    For we may now face

    The end of the human race. 


    Just wash your hands, 

    Stay home if you can. 

    Lose your life 

    Or just endure insane strife. 


    Have some compassion

    With the world in rations

    Take only what you need 

    No need to hoard tee pee.


    Find the helpers they say

    When it gets worse each day

    But friends and neighbors

    Doing each other favors. 


    Humanity comes together

    Even when we are apart 

    For every labor is a work of heart. 

    Risking your life

    To care for someone else's wife

    True hero's exist out here 

    Even if we are all trapped by fear. 


    Oh la Plagua 

    Such a sad sad saga

    Full of fake news and dogma 

    Symptoms so vague

    This Goddamn plague. 


    Covid nineteen 

    So cruel and mean

    Pneumonia thus unseen 

    Gotta gotta gotta GO CLEAN!! 

    Covid nineteen! 

    Gotta gotta gotta go clean! 

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