Lyrics and Music by Timothy Price
Springing Forward is my 2024 Daylight Savings Time (DST) protest song (lyrics are below). The song is hyper, so don’t be surprised if you find it annoying, like changing to DST and losing an hour of sleep.
I’m particularly leery of losing an hour of sleep tonight since I’ve been having a lot of trouble with pain over the last several months and don’t always sleep very well. Side note: Laurie has more trouble sleeping than I do. Since last summer, I’ve been trying to get a handle on the pain. I started riding a mountain bike, changed to an anti-inflammatory diet, and lost over 35 pounds. You would think that would help a lot. But not really. I am still having a lot of joint and muscle pain, especially at night. If you noticed, I don’t write as much, don’t comment as much, and mostly write short comments; it’s because of the pain. I have enough trouble typing with numb fingertips, but with all the pain, my typing has gone to hell.
I reached out to my new GP last month and asked her what specialist I needed to see to try and get the pain under control. She had me go in and see her. She put me on Gabapentin at night and gave me some more dietary suggestions. I have a follow-up with her next week. My pain has been down to manageable background pain most of the time during the day for the past few weeks, but I still have issues with pain increasing at night, waking me up and keeping me awake. But it’s much better than it was a few weeks ago.
While it’s a real challenge to play guitar with numb fingertips, it is more of a challenge to play when my fingers are swollen, painful, and don’t want to move. But I play every day, whatever the condition of my hands are and how much I’m hurting elsewhere. My hands have not been as swollen over the past couple of weeks, so I was able to do halfway decent sloppy shredding on my guitar solos I recorded this morning for Springing Forward, above.
Red sky in the morning is an ominous warning about changing to DST and losing an hour of sleep!
Springing Forward, It’s So backward
By Timothy Price
(4x)
Springing forward
It’s so backward
We lose an hour to save some time
Springing forward
It’s so backward
Body clocks are broken; we’re running behind
Springing forward
It’s so backward
Moving like zombies, we’re losing our minds
Springing forward
It’s so backward
We saved an hour by losing time
Springing forward
It’s so backward
It’s time for DST
Lockstep to New Destiny
If you thought you were free
Don’t change your clock! You will see!
You Fools don’t complain
But an hour is really insane
The clocks are sacred, can’t you see?
We’re not free to mess around
Springing forward. Leave time be
It’s so backward. Can’t we see
Springing forward. We’re not free
To play like gods. You see?
(4x)
Springing forward
It’s so backward
It’s time again for DST
Lockstep to New Destiny
If you thought you were free
Don’t change your clock! And you will see!
Off Center & Not Even 