Live To Tell – Enough (Living with Anxiety During a Pandemic)
Our friends Martin and Nancy released this two days ago, and I want to see it get more exposure. Nancy wrote the song, and Martin did the arrangement.
Nancy explains in the video notes:
This song came out of a sleepless night earlier this month when I guess I really started to freak out about the pandemic. Admittedly, I was watching too much news but when a good friend died and a proper funeral couldn’t be observed, it really hit home. From a social perspective, how challenging it is to grieve from a distance.
The lyrics you’ll hear reflect my disquieting and intimate thoughts and are very specifically written for now. The use of the term “peaceful waters” is an homage to John Prine who died from complications of COVID-19 a couple of days prior to me being inspired to write this song.
“There’s no gold in the silence, just a quiet form of violence.”
In this song, I am laying claim to my generalized anxiety disorder, the tension between how I experience my world as it is now and how I imagine it could be – and how I am coping.
Tucked inside the larger narrative is a love song to Martin. I pray that we all have such a good companion to help us get through this.
God bless you. Stay safe, stay home as much as possible, and thanks for listening.
Thinking Out Loud 