Quarantine
by Rob Wynne
TTTO: “Closing Time” by Semisonic
[Verse 1]
Quarantine
Close up all the doors and don’t go out onto the street
Quarantine
Turn all of the lights out and stay under your blanket and sheet
Quarantine
Sitting on the sofa watching TV and drinking beer
Quarantine
You don’t have to stay home but you can’t come here
[Chorus]
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
Please stay home…
[Verse 2]
Quarantine
Time for you to stay there in the places you already are
Quarantine
There’s nowhere to go, ’cause they closed every café and bar
So just take off your jackets, put them in the closet
I hope at least you have a friend
Quarantine
Please stay safe inside until the outside is safe once again.
[Chorus]
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
Please stay home…
[Bridge]
Quarantine
Time for you to stay there in the places you already are
[Chorus]
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
Please stay home…
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
I wish everyone would stay at home
Please stay home…
[Outro]
Quarantine
Please stay safe inside until the outside is safe once again.
I have to thank Trace Hagemann for being my muse and inspiring this! He posted a link to Semisonic’s “Closing Time” and said it was his quarantine music for the evening, and this formed in my brain. I guess I’ve now written my pandemic song. 
Aggie
I didn’t know the song your wrote this to so I read through it without that context. In my head Tom Waits was singing this, curled over his guitar with a glass of whiskey by his side.
Rob Wynne
That’d be an amazing thing to hear! 🙂
(There’s a link to the original up in the TTTO line, btw, if you want to hear the song that’s being parodied.)