Nothing Matters

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Big black swan on the soldier's lawn She's got a malice in her eyes She wants the galaxy to depend on The approximated ballot's size She says, "Something isn't right here Something isn't making any difference To the man with tired eyes" Because I'm only staying alive I'm staying alive I'm staying alive [Verse 2] And the big bad sun Keeps the polar bears warm And the planet's axis on its tilt But we are never gonna be the same And the slums of Philadelphia Are a monopoly man's gain So it doesn't make a difference It doesn't make a difference Doesn't really matter Where I live or die It's always happened anyway, anyway It's happening anyway [Pre-Chorus] And every day I wake upon my Butcher's block and flip the light switch On my way to take my medication With my cup of coffee [Chorus] And I don't know why I don't know why I still sing the songs I write With the same old melodies It doesn't matter to me And I don't care how I don't care why I believe the stars that crossed Isn't just a reverie It doesn't matter It doesn't matter Doesn't matter to me [Verse 3] Number one with the porch light on He's got a cherry tree in his yard And the pennants hanging red, white, and blue He says his lord and savior Jesus Christ will fuckin' save me too And he's drunk on his deliverance He's drunk on his forgiveness He's drunk on another box of chardonnay And he's never going away Going away He'll never go away [Verse 4] And it's not that I don't care It's not that I don't try to understand or try to cast down It's that it's always happening anyway But not like some kind of simulation or determined fate And even if it isn't And even if it isn't Even if it isn't just a zero-sum game The present is the future The present is the future The present is the future [Pre-Chorus] And every day I wake upon my Butcher's block and flip the same old Light switch on and all my walls are empty I don't need to paint or decorate The time I spend is all that I have ever had I take my coffee black as night And drink it with prescribed addictions [Chorus] And I don't know why I don't know why I believe the stars that crossed Isn't just a reverie It doesn't matter to me And I don't know why I don't care why I still sing the songs I write Cause I'm no celebrity But it doesn't matter It doesn't matter Doesn't matter to me