Marooned

by Amelia Ray

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I woke up on New Year's Eve with the line "2020's just a day away" stuck in my head. At first it made me laugh because no matter how I tried, I couldn't bring myself to sing "2021's just a day away". The more I repeated it, the more the line sounded like a warning. I imagined someone carrying that warning back in time to people in 2019 to let them know they had better get their partying in while they still could. As the song developed and I thought about the events of 2020, it occurred to me how many people were fervently awaiting the new year - as if a magical stroke of the clock would set everything right again. It seemed the people living in 2020 also needed a warning: nothing was going to change unless they changed it.

Six hours after I'd woken up, "Marooned" had been written, composed and recorded. I spent the rest of the day awash in a confusion of hesitant, skeptical celebration.

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Check your hair in the mirror, spray some Afro Sheen
Put on a pair of new shoes to dance away 2019
Take the family to Vegas, see the band at Mandalay Bay
Hate to be the one to tell you 2020’s just a day away

Wildlife in Australia, no more will it roam
And Brexit’s a term that’ll hit even closer to home
The temperature’s rising, we’ll throw out Roe v. Wade
Don’t know how to tell you, 2020’s just a day away

There’ll be wars and diseases and social unrest
The virus will kill most celebs we have left
Postal service gives up, And if that won’t beat all
They’ll have the nerve to go and cancel sportsball

Had a ticket to Tokyo, there was no need to make that trek
But I hope that’s a flame someone will remember to check
Feels like all of this happened only yesterday
Oh, that’s right, I keep forgettin’, 2020’s just a day away

Plane crashes, cops killing and massive oil leaks
Apples to oranges, still can’t get impeached
Terrorism and earthquakes, nightmare in Beirut
Sounds a lot like 1982

So dress up all in white and get wasted on Zoom
Make-believe you’re not the only other person in the room
Suck down a grape for every tick, every tock
Just know the ignorance won’t expire with the stroke of the clock

Keep the Hoppin’ John simmering, shake up the Afro Sheen
Bid “Good riddance, goodbye” to the worst year you’ve possibly seen
Make a list of resolutions to improve your internal Feng shui
Just let me remind you 2020’s just a day away

Said, don’t you forget 2020’s just a day away

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released June 11, 2021
© 2020 Amelia C. Ray

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Amelia Ray Helsinki, Finland

Amelia Ray is The Interpreter. Ray’s 31-year career has spanned the fields of music, performance art, film and humanitarianism. As a polyglot, Ray has spent decades contemplating how similar concepts are expressed differently linguistically across cultures. This research has permeated her artistic work, which includes numerous cross-genre compositions, performance pieces and a one-act musical. ... more

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