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Stuck In Quarantine

from Stuck In Quarantine by J. Isaiah Smith

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The title song, this piece inspired the creation of the album which was pitched to me by Nik Whitcomb (Vocalist for the song) after I previewed a first draft of the song on social media. Written a few months into the quarantine in the U.S., this song tells the story of a particular individual's living arrangements during the quarantine.

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"In our world
you'd be hard pressed to not have heard the word.
There's a virus taking lives and it's absurd.
Mourning souls
who don't have toilet paper rolls.
And as they go out to buy them they increase infection tolls.

I dare not go and roam.
I explore through my phone.
And though I am here at home,
I'm not truly alone.

Let me take you back
to a time before the rona struck.
Before this attack
though I still was this same lonely shmuck.
I was low on cash
when my girlfriend and I we had a clash
Gone in a flash
it was just me, myself and no rent
when I smelled a familiar scent.

It was my cousin James
who had just started some new insurance job.
"I'll pay the other half of rent" he claims.
And I said "Yes" full well knowing he was a slob.

I show him his half and he'd said "I can"
I worked days and he worked nights I barely saw this man.

Fast forward just a year
now the virus is here.
And now I see him all the time it's like I date him.
And I've discovered I hate him!

I'm stuck in quarantine
with a man who's acting fourteen.
Won't someone save me quick
cus it's not my shtick to live with lunatics!
I've hated everyone else of my blood,
so why did I think my cousin was good?

James Alabaster I could plaster your brains on the wall!
But you're much faster than me plus you stand at six feet tall!

But no one should have to tell you to flush the toilet!
And put the produce up before you spoil it!
And no girls over this is quarantine.
I'm not catching rona cus you're horny!
And why are your teeth yellow green?
They not shouldn't look so corny!
I can't believe you god you made this heinous anus!

I'm stuck in quarantine
with a man who's acting fourteen.
Who when he takes showers
they're for hours after he's smelled of week old chowder.
Why Oh Why
do I have to rely
on this guy for half of the rent?

Now my ex wasn't great
but she had her moments
I can't contemplate
whose worse between rodents.
But what can I say? What can I do?
This rent won't get paid without us two.
I hate you!
I'm stuck in quarantine!
I'm stuck in quarantine
with a man who's acting
fourteen."

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from Stuck In Quarantine, released March 6, 2021
Vocalist: Nik Whitcomb
Music Composition, Arrangement, and track by J. Isaiah Smith
Mixed by Jay Srygley

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J. Isaiah Smith Omaha, Nebraska

J. Isaiah Smith is a Best-Selling and Internationally Produced Playwright, as well as a Songwriter and Lyricist. His works, written for Highschool-College level performers, focus on internal morality, corruption, and self empowerment, presented in varying comedic and dramatic forms with moments of sincerity and self reflection. ... more

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