All I Want to Do Is Bake
A filk of All She Wants to Do Is Dance by Don Henley
They’re turnin’ out the patients
And puttin’ ’em in hotels
And all I want to do is bake, bake
Virus been virus
Since there have been cells
And all I want to do is bake
Antibody cocktail, coveted drink
And all I want to do is bake, bake
Powerful and rich
Get it in a blink
And all I want to do is bake
Crazy people walkin’ around with mask under nose
And all I want to do is bake, bake
Wild-eyed conspiracy theorists who won’t do as they’re told
And all I want to do is
All I want to do is bake
Make pies and cakes
I can’t feel the stress
Of livin’ through this mess
I want to cut in
I want to leaven
All I want to do is
All I want to do is bake
Well the government closed the restaurants
The gyms and hair salons
And all I want to do is bake, bake
To keep the plague from spreadin’
Into fragile seniors’ homes
And all I want to do is bake
Yeah but that don’t keep the virus from causin’ quite a chill
And all I want to do is bake, bake
It still can cancel treatments
For other kinds of ills
And all I want to do is
All I want to do is bake
Make pies and cakes
Well we rush to get a supply
Of the first vaccines
As we start to give the doses
To those that have the means
We say, “Don’t come back here, Covid,”
But if it ever does
I’ll buy more flour
‘Cause all I want to do is bake
Make pies and cakes
Never mind the stress
Livin’ through this mess
I want to cut in
I want to leaven
All I want to do is
All I want to do is bake
Make pies and cakes
All I want to do is bake
