Better Luck Next Year

Songs of Substance ©2021 Sockpuppet https://sockpuppet.band/ Cover artwork by Awkward Starstuff Track 12: Better Luck Next Year Get the album at https://sockpuppet.band/album/songs-of-substance *ABOUT THIS TRACK* This song was written for Song Fight! Live 2020, and I don't think people got the joke that it was a song about how 2020 was going to have been so much better than 2019 was. (For those reading this from the distant future: It very much wasn't.) *LYRICS* This year had its challenges All my flowers dead, my pain got worse, my brain got worse, there’s something wrong with my head What happened to my career, it didn't go my way Things feel bad, and I'm in fear I won't live another day oh, it can only get better oh, I know it will get better we see the rise of fascists who think many lives don’t matter a president who’s on the brink, only cares to be flattered where can our people go from here it all just seems too much famine devastation fear we need a human touch oh,