Possible

Possible

It seems things are not quite as we thought

Which in a way is kinda funny -

For the things we thought we couldn’t afford

It now appears there’s piles of money

People can indeed work from home

Using a laptop from the lounge perhaps

Conducting conversations quite remotely

Saving their companies from collapse

Attend meetings in your pyjamas

Eat meals at any time of day

Comfort breaks as often as you like

See? – we can always find a way!

We can get by without the hair-dresser

And all those nail-bars on the High Street

Turns out that we can be quite inventive

And that we’re not so easily beat

There’s a way round every problem

We can do those things that couldn’t be done

We can achieve so much online these days

There’s still plenty ways of having fun

Seems that visas can be magically extended

A thing they said they couldn’t do

Now we need to hang on to health workers

And all the veg & fruit-pickers too

We can build new hospitals in a few weeks

Simply because we really need them

We can find places for the homeless

And we have the means to feed them

Maybe it was the bankers and the millionaires

That employed society’s shirkers?

And that in fact the nurses and the doctors

Are the nation’s true key workers?

The cleaners, the bin-men and the shop staff

Are the ones that really oil the wheels?

That there’s a new set of priorities?

Well - that’s certainly how it feels

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