Dread Locks

One morning, Wittgenstein, when he was getting out of bed,
feeling rough from over-thinking overnight just turned and said
to his companion (whom we only know as Fred)
‘You know what? This is existential dread’.

Existential dread, existential dread,
you know you’ve got a problem when it gets inside your head.
So when you feel your rationale is hanging by a thread,
you can label it as existential dread.

Schrodinger devised a test, imaginary, misled.
He put a cat inside a box to see if it was dead,
but then the RSPCA caught up with him and said
‘Even Thought Cats can have existential dread’.

Existential dread, existential dread,
you know you’re in for trouble when it rattles round your head.
So when you feel your rationale is swinging by a thread,
just tell’em that it’s existential dread.

When you’re in a burger bar or café, getting fed
and panic over what’s inside your multi-seeded bread
remember better brains than yours, including the undead,
have had to cope with existential dread.

Existential dread, existential dread,
you know you’re close to breakdown when it bangs around your head.
So when you feel your rationale is dangling on a thread,
like Munch, just scream out ‘Existential dread’.