Pandemic PTSD

Album: Undefeated (2024)
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  • Panic attacks in the dentist car park
    Losing my temper in a Jersey sports bar
    Safe to say the 20s have been weird
    Dazed and confused in the morning after
    A two-year slow-motion human disaster
    T-shirt slogans to cover over the lockdown gut and the fear

    And it's not just you and it's not just me
    It's pandemic PTSD

    I'm haunted by a kind of mourning for the life that we left in 2019
    I know it wasn't perfect, but it's what I knew
    Physically distanced, told we're in it together
    But socially removed from our snickering betters
    Far too smart to abase themselves by following their own rules

    And it's not just you and it's not just me
    That has pandemic PTSD (one, two, three, four)

    Post-traumatic stress disorder
    Is characterized by persistent trauma
    Caused by severe psychological shock or else physical injury
    And maybe I'm just being melodramatic
    But I didn't used to be this agoraphobic
    Or paralyzed by decisions, also crushed by inactivity

    And right about now some arsehole's going to say
    That it's okay not to be okay
    But we're way past that, the conversation isn't done
    And I won't keep calm, I won't carry on

    Until it's okay to admit
    That I don't know how to feel
    About the shit that we just lived through
    It was kind of a big deal

    And one day it seemed like everybody decided
    They were tired of trying and bored of hiding it
    Ready for the next adventure, next news cycle, next catastrophe
    And we stood in the wreckage trying not to claim
    That we had more than our fair share of the pain
    But we got punched in the dick for two straight years
    We can't move on that easily

    And it might not be you but god knows it's us
    That's still black and blue, bleeding in the dust
    So I'll level with you, if you'll bear with me
    And my pandemic PTSD Writer/s: Francis Turner
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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