Nothing Matters from Dream by Good NightOwl
The lyrics to this track are based on a dream I reported the morning of 5/22/20 in my dream journal.
“A flash of many random disconnected scenes. First I’m a ghost, then I’m a time traveler. Seeing my own urn break, watching a Bernie Sanders rally I attended, angry about what happened in American politics this year. Ended up in a farm watching workers toil away shucking corn, ferns growing all around them. A stark realization that no material thing matters without the sentiment of a human being attached. Writing the lyrics before the death of George Floyd that sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the US, and then recording them during the protests, made me realize this even more. American conservative people focused on the destruction of material goods rather than take a moment to notice that police were both arresting and killing black people more than anyone else. They got hung up on the semantics of the phrase "Black Lives Matter" in their minds meaning "Only Black Lives Matter" when in reality the people using that phrase just meant "Black Lives Matter Too." All the while being blind and lost in the fundamentals of American white supremacy and capitalism, where profit and material resources are considered more important than human life by the wealthy old white elites.”
Tracklist
| 11. | Nothing Matters | 4:50 |
Lyrics
Nothing matters
Living in a ghost-like state of mind
Why can’t this rewind?
Walking in a circular curved line
Meeting back in time
Soft return
Live and learn
Break the urn
No concern
Feel the Bern
Mourning yearn
Spiteful spurn
Torn to turn
Work to earn
Insides churn
Simply stern
Verdant fern
Corn to quern
Rhymes to burn
In my travels I sadly discovered that nothing matters
For some the very fact of that makes their world shatter
But I continue to put this into the best possible use
Nihilism and existentialism in a truce
Nothing matters
Credits
License
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Good NightOwl is a moniker of the composer/recording artist Daniel Lewis Cupps. Cupps is also a television editor, 3D animator, and actor. This project is dedicated to allowing the public to see a self-producing musical artist grow over time with barely any budget. Some of it is meant to be funny, some of it is serious. If it all seems funny to you, then it is all meant to be funny.