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Quarantine Wife - Single

by Nick Miller

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My friend Alex Arbuckle told me he was going to write me my own "Brownsville Girl" and sent me this song that's about dudes in their feelings and also the movie Ad Astra.

All proceeds from this track go to The Movement for Black Lives (m4bl.org)

lyrics

Hoo-ooh-ooh-ooh-oooh

Well I’m sittin’ in my favorite chair, as is my habit
And I’m looking out the window at the world going by
The sun’s going down and everyone’s masked up
I just smashed “like” on a TikTok of a rabbit

So that French guy Voltaire, he said you gotta grow your garden
And Foucault said a garden is a prison
Well I dunno if I’m growing thyme or doing it
But it feels good to wield a trowel with precision

There was a movie I saw, about a space man dealing with daddy issues
He went a billion miles from hearth and home and got attacked by a monkey
He floated and cried, and then he made up his mind
He nuked his pop and I reached for the tissues

I keep thinking about how much I’m Brad Pitt, though my dad and me are on better terms
We hooted and hollered watching the dragon in game of thrones
We don’t say “I love you” but we mean it
And anyway, Brad Pitt’s only sixteen years younger than Tommy Lee Jones

Dad says his granddad murdered a Black and Tan
And threw his foreman into a vat of acid
He was supposed to be on the Titanic, but lost his ticket in a card game
Anyone who could confirm these tales, well, they’re presently bones or ashes

I keep coming back to Brad Pitt, with his teary eyes bloodshot
Looking up at his space dad to say “there’s no aliens out there and we’re all we’ve got.”
Liv Tyler played his wife, but she only got a few lines
She was also in The Leftovers, and don’t even get me started on that show, I’ll start fuckin cryin’

WOOOOAAHHH

Quarantine Wife, I need you in my quarantine life
Quarantine wife, hold me through the dark of this night
Quarantine Wife, tell me it’ll be alright
Quarantine wife, help me see the light

Well we were on the Chinatown bus from New York to Boston
We stopped, at a Burger King in Connecticut
You were doing stretches and burpees in the parking lot
I was eating a Whopper and thinking about ending it

I saw you traveling the world on Instagram
And I remember you said one day I’d be a war photographer
Well we’re much different people now and we’re so very far apart
I was listening to Landslide and playing the Silent Cartographer

John Prine died, and I went and looked at the Super Pink Moon
I guess they’re just making up new moons these days
Wolf moon, cat moon, waxing gibbon — maybe you’re out there looking at the same
I recall us watching Dexter in a haze

Well the world’s going to shit but I personally feel alright
To paraphrase the Reverend Doctor Michael Stipe
Everyone’s dying and everything’s so goddamn stupid
But rumor has it the Beer Nerd’s doing kettlebells, and you know he’s laying SERIOUS pipe!!

WOOOAAHHH

Quarantine Wife, I need you in my quarantine life
Quarantine wife, hold me through the dark of this night
Quarantine Wife, tell me it’ll be alright
Quarantine wife, help me see the light

Well being young and in love is better than being alone at the end of all things
I held my grandma as she died and watched The National perform on SNL
And when I got back to you we did it
like people who’ve had bad experiences in hallways and stairwells

I saw some of that director’s other stuff
And it’s all about dudes in their feelings
They could be cops or explorers or World War One soldiers
But really they’re just fathers and sons always freaking and reeling

Well I’m still just parked in my chair
(It’s a knockoff Eames)
And every time I read the word sealioning I immediately forget what it means

I dreamed I was working on Sam Neill’s farm in New Zealand
Distributing slop to his beautiful gross hogs
I won’t cast the bodega guy as a supporting character in my cute little life
But you know I still can’t help but fantasize about growing into a True Detective drunk owning a couple dozen howling dogs!!

WOOOOAAAAHHH

Quarantine Wife, I need you in my quarantine life
Quarantine wife, hold me through the dark of this night
Quarantine wife, tell me it’ll be alright
Quarantine wife, help me see the light

You and me we were together so long, and we knew each other so damn well
I made you laugh and you treated me so kind
But summer’s ending and I can’t remember the sound of your voice
And the fact I last saw you at the Newark Airport makes me lose my goddamned mind

Matt Damon had a line in The Departed where he said,
“I’m fucking Irish, I’ll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life.”
He coulda tried therapy but Markie Mark iced him
I still like the rat at the end of that movie — it’s no Goodfellas, but it’s a fun silly film

Welllll I’m still in my chair and it’s dark and my ass is getting sore
But shit, I got nothing better to do
I guess I’ll be staying at home and inventing new hobbies
Hell I might fuck around and try writing an idiot song for you

WOOOAAHHH

Quarantine Wife, I need you back in my quarantine life
Quarantine wife, hold me through the dark of this night
Quarantine wife, tell me it’ll be alright
Quarantine wife, help me see the light

Quarantine Wife, I need you back in my quarantine life
Quarantine wife, hold me through the dark of this night
Quarantine wife, tell me it’ll be alright
Quarantine wife, help me see the light

credits

released June 29, 2020
Lyrics: Alex Q. Arbuckle
Music: Nick Miller
All instruments performed by Nick Miller
Artwork: Alex Q. Arbuckle

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Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. Nice Boy.

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