I think on some level, as musicians and songwriters we have a duty to lift others up in times of despair.
Perhaps I'm being overly altruistic, but a big part of me believes this to be true. It's why we strive at our craft...to try to put a smile on scores/ millions of faces.
On my Schizophrenic site, I've been trying to soothe terrified posters with my music. It's just sort of 'in me'...I have to do it. I'm working on a new track with this young phenom producer from Sweden who is also schizophrenic. I'll post the resulting track in the Peer to Peer Section when it is complete.
Bad art can make you laugh
Good art can make you think
Great art can destroy you
we're olympic champions in hysteria
so there will be no olympics at all now
the world's shutting down
it's our head's that's spun out of control
a pandemic reaction to a minor danger
a mindless game changer
and to the medias delight
cause it sells like hotcakes
they're not losing their jobs
so they're drooling like hungry dogs
do like sweden
now it feels like a garden of eden
let those most at risk stay inside
so the rest of us can go about our lives