THOSE COVID DAYS OLD FRIEND by Pete

In response to some offline requests for another poem, here is:

THOSE COVID DAYS OLD FRIEND

First is the standard, pre-COVID version, sung by Bonnie Tyler http://youtu.be/gnjusvjK5Qk

and here is my version:

Yesterday I wiled away the hours
Dreams of young fresh lazy days with you
Once we had our sunny lives in Dapto
Then red smoky days left us feeling blue

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
Can't live the life we choose
Survive on chips and booze
These lonely days, oh squalid COVID days

La la la la la la ...

Then the dizzy years went rushing by us
We lost our toned bodies on the way
And when at last I see you at the Bowlo
You technicolour yawn and run away

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
So tragicly like yobs
Dentures in our gobs
These lonely days, oh misspent COVID days

La la la la la la

Just tonight I stood before the mirror
Nothing fits the way it used to be
In the glass I saw my fat reflection
The product of too much Easter choclatee

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
Can't live the life we choose
Orthotics in our shoes
Those lonely days, oh bl--dy COVID days

La la la la la la

To the door I hobbled in my slippers
I heard your voice familiar through the years
Through the grill I smell the reek of kippers
And now I see you Botoxed to the ears

These lonely days my friend
I hope they quickly end
No song and dance
Forever and a day
Can't live the life we choose
Survive on chips and booze
These lonely days, oh effing COVID days

Cry cry cry cry cry cry

Pete