Hah, I was thinking the same thing. You just beat me to it. Such a good song.
(Not meaning to get too off topic but) I was surprised to not find much of In My Room on YouTube…maybe I didn’t search very skillfully…
Relating it to what Mindy said, some of the lyrics do fit well:
…I lock out all my worries and my fears
In my room, in my roomI’m alone
But I won’t be afraid
In my room, in my room
If you think about what Brian Wilson was probably alluding to given how his dad was an abusive drunk, it takes a pretty dark turn as well.
(And he was just 20 when he wrote and composed it. Friggin’ amazing.)
(ETA Brian has never been a “clever” lyricist - he writes what he feels, and there’s typically little deeper meaning. Based on these lyrics it’s hard not to see them as a not-so-thinly veiled commentary on his abusive childhood. Most of the heavily intellectual and cerebral stuff he did in the late 60s-early 70s was Van Dyke Parks’ pen.)
Original quarantine music:
My quarantine plan is interplanetary emigration. I think Venus might be far enough from The Trump White House to stay healthy. Mars might work too, if someone unplugs Elon’s hibernation pod shortly after launch.
“Under the boardwalk, down by the sea
On a blanket with my bubble, and our PPE.”
Here’s a few for those who watched restrictions being lifted, only to see new lockdowns put in place: