Music and Lyrics by Tom Watkins

I wrote this song in the fall of 2020 during the pandemic lockdown. I love fall. It carries feelings of nostalgia with the changing colors of leaves and the search for coziness to combat the cooling weather. Fall of 2020 carried a tumultuous presidential election, combined with police injustice, shootings, and riots still fresh from the summer of George Floyd’s murder. In this song, I use the word ‘fall’ as a season full of changing leaves, burning wood, and cozy coats, while also using it to describing the falling social and political infrastructure prevalent in the United States at the time.

Fall 2020