There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign
on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’
we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

2020 has been a shit show that we can’t turn off. We hear news that shocks us and shakes us to our core. It never stops. It’s happening EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!!!! And we’ve just now reached the halfway point of the year. There’s still six months left to go before we turn over the calendar.

There’s the daily Donald Trump incompetency. There’s the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 120, ooo Americans and has the rest of us scared, anxious and sleepless. We’ve seen the deaths of John Prine, Bill Withers, Carl Reiner and Kobe & Gianna Bryant. George Floyd!

2020 has been more than a little too much. There are days you need a break. There are days you need to get away from it all. There are days you just need to turn off your television. You need to shut down your overloaded brain. You need to say fuck it and turn up the music as loud as you can stand it!!

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Yesterday was one of those days. I was watching Rand Paul talking down and disrespecting Dr. Fauci again and started to shake my head. Next, against my best instincts, I watched Kayleigh McEnany lie to reporters and the public about the new Russia reporting. Then, it was time for a couple of news/opinion shows.

It’s enough to make you want to bang your head against the wall and not stop. The voice in my head said enough. When you reach that point, it’s time to find another outlet. At that point, I close everything up, find a tune, blast the sound and start…..

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world. 

It’s amazing how good it makes your feel! It’s like a great massage. When you do it, you’re always thinking why not do this more often. Life is way to short to be dealing with all the stress all the time.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Sadly, I know you can’t live this way forever. I know I’ll get back to reality soon enough. There’s too much going on to keep hibernating for too long. Trump. The election. The absurdity of trying to play sports in a pandemic. More Trump. Tribune Publishing. Did I mention Trump?

Okay…Okay…maybe I need another day. It’ll be okay if I take just one more day, won’t it? It won’t hurt anyone, right? I’ll be back sooner than later. Until then, I think I’ll just….

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

*Pretty sure you’ve figured out the lyrics and video are from “Rockin’ In The Free World”~Neil Young

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