The Story Behind "Mundane" (Lyrics)

Quarantine was met with mundane days and hours that drug by. The same things – one after another – and then repeated. We’d wake up, do school online, and go back to bed.

But there were others who woke up every morning, tied on their shoes, and went to work wearing all their PPE. My sister was one of those people. As a CNA at a nursing home, my sister witnessed death on many occasions throughout the COVID-19 lockdown and she kept returning to work every day to take care of these individuals while she watched people die to COVID-19. And all she was allowed to do was work. No social life. Barely any break. Just the constant threat of death on the horizon for all her beloved patients.

And I sat in the corner of my dining room one evening thinking about her – I hadn’t seen her in months. I wasn’t allowed to. How did she do it? How did she wake up every day when she knew the only thing she was allowed to face was death?

I was living a very mundane life at the time – sleep, online school, guitar practice, and a few episodes of “Parenthood.” We were all bored, my family and me. She probably yearned for boredom – or at least something more mundane than death.

So, I wrote this song about the beauty and the pain in the mundane that I took for granted and the mundane that she yearned for everyday.

 

“Mundane”  

 

Do you wake up every morning

And wipe away the tears

Or hold them in with every breath you take?

Do you tie your shoes in the kitchen

Or on your bedroom floor?

Do you pray in bed or over breakfast?

Do you walk the dog for sanity?

Do you watch the sun set for peace?

Or do you sit in the kitchen and count the cars on the street?

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Mundane x2

Mundane is better than pain

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How do you sleep at night

When all you wanna do is scream and cry?

How do you sleep at night

When you can never hug your mom or dad goodnight?

Even if ya wanted to

How do you keep on walking in your worn-out shoes

When people are dying all around you?

Do you count your every step?

Or do you hold every breath?

Do you pray with all that’s left?

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Mundane is better than pain x3