Days When Nothing Matters
Van Gogh's Grandsons
Trauma & Redemption · Coastal Indie · Mid-Tempo Flux
#VERSE
Millie listened deeply to the words in songs
Loved classic anthems by Kansas and Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody could make her cry
Each time Freddie sang “Nothing really matters to me”
#VERSE
Cause her life was crushed under big things that mattered
Her stepdad’s in San Quentin for killing Millie’s mom
Ripples from the murder never stopped spreading
Left a burned-up hole in Millie like a nuclear bomb
#PRE-CHORUS
So today, at the marina
Millie set it all aside
Just laughed when the marina cat
Tried to swipe her fries
#CHORUS
Days when nothing matters
When everything is fine
Drama weighs on other hearts
But you don’t even mind
Let the rain wash out that bridge
But it won’t make you sadder
Cause you decided all your days are
Days when nothing matters
#VERSE
Music got Millie through the pain of the trial
The photographs, blood stains, lawyers waving the gun
And as her mother’s only child, she felt like mom spoke to her
Each time she heard Steve Walsh belt out, “Carry On Wayward Son”
#PRE-CHORUS
And today, two years later
“Carry on” guided her feet
When the letter she got
Made her want to retreat
#CHORUS
Days when nothing matters
Tell yourself a small white lie
Tragedies crush other people
But you carry on with life
Let earthquakes knock that damn bridge down
But it won’t make you sadder
Cause you decided all your days are
Days when nothing matters
#BRIDGE
That bridge
That bridge
That goddamned bridge
The bridge that she would have to cross
To acknowledge his letter and visit him
That bridge where he shot Mom
And threw her off
That bridge
That bridge
That goddamned bridge
Shining golden every day
From the marina snack bar there it was
Millie looked back at the cat
And watched it play
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
Millie finished her burger, petted the cat
Crossed the bridge, two years of tears pouring from her core
At the prison she was anxious to hear what he’d have to say
But the guard said he died in his cell the day before
#VERSE
Back in her car, another Queen song played
So fitting for the demon who destroyed Millie’s trust
Like her mom reached down and queued that track
As Millie heard the refrain, “Another one bites the dust”
#PRE-CHORUS
Millie drowned her thoughts by singing as she drove home
On that painful road around the Bay
The circle of her loss now gently closed
With new hope that things would be okay
#CHORUS
Days when nothing matters
Days when someone dies
You’ve lived the worst the world can give
Then accept it with no need to lie
You’ve cried full circle across that bridge
Nothing else could make you sadder
Now you know the days ahead will be
Days when nothing matters
#OUTRO
Days when nothing matters
Days when nothing matters
Days when nothing matters
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