For the last few weeks, I’ve been here at the Stratford Festival, in rehearsals for Here’s What It Takes, the musical I wrote with Daniel MacIvor, directed by Donna Feore with an absolutely incredible and inspiring cast and group of creative collaborators. I’ve been working on this thing for nearly seven years, and going to work every day with such great team has been the fulfillment of a dream come true. Now, like so many other out there in so many different disciplines, we’re in a holding pattern, waiting to find out if/when we can rehearse again and if/when our season will actually start. Uncertainty is intense. All the demons very quickly start to peer around the corner: Anxiety, Depression, Dread, Staring Into The Fridge, Jumping Back 10 Seconds to Catch That Bit Of Dialogue I Missed For The Fifth Time on some not-great Netflix series. So I made myself write something. As one of my sons just said to me “best thing to do at this time is to create. It’s the only thing we really have control over at this moment.” Take care of yourselves, everyone. I’m going to take a nap.

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Everybody in the house next door
Everybody on the ocean floor
Everybody in the grocery store says OH


Everybody says they’re baking bread
Everybody feel the creeping dread
Everybody’s going back to bed like me
I’m here to stay


Everybody taking online courses
Everybody with their Tiny horses
Everybody, due to unseen forces OH


Everybody with the broken dreams
Everybody on the big sport teams
Everybody with the fake news memes in isolation


ISOLATION


Everybody with an empty fridge
Everybody on the Brooklyn Bridge
Everybody with the privilege sing OH


Everybody with a lonely heart
Everybody sharing graphs and charts
Everybody saying wherefore art thou
Romeo


Everybody who just lost their gig
Everybody who has starred in Big
Everybody gonna flip their wig like me
I’m going crazy


Everybody with their cable cut
Everybody in the Pizza Hut
Everybody is together but in isolation


ISOLATION


I could take the easy route and say this is the way we’ve always been
Spend a couple hours down the rabbit hole and you’ll know what I mean


Everybody with their nice clean tone
Everybody with their filthy phone
Everybody’s staying home alone like me
I’m here to say that


Everybody’s gonna make some stuff
Everybody’s gonna say “enough”
Everybody’s gonna call their bluff in isolation

ISOLATION