This is a song I wrote with Jonathan Lethem, inspired by a conversation with Tift Merritt!

You can download the song from the SoundCloud link below for free. (If you want to support my music you can buy some at Bandcamp and/or by subscribe to SongWriter, my podcast of stories and "answer songs.")

Gonna be a big dystopian Christmas
All the walls are closing in
Decorations and desolations
Smiles on Zoom are growing thin

Gonna be a big dystopian Christmas
If you can bear it you can grin
Conversations and tribulations
Our prospects are growing dim

But since we’re still here
We deserve a do-over year

We’re headed for a big dystopian Christmas
You feel the advent of numbered days
No caroling or midnight massing
There’s theodicy in our praise

But as long as we’re still here
Don’t we deserve a do-over year?

Gonna be a big dystopian Christmas
Cardboard boxes block the hall
Working on my tinsel tinfoil hat
Praying death passes us all by

And if we’re still here
Don’t we deserve a do-over New Year’s?