"Nothing's Serious" (unreleased song)

Hello again! I’m back with another voice memo from my phone of a recent song I composed on the couch in my living room. My consistent morning routine has been to wake up and spend my first 30 minutes of the day reading whatever book I’m currently on, (currently it’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin) shower, eat breakfast which most often consists of 3 scrambled eggs with diced up green pepper, onion and tomato, all the while catching up on some youtube…and then write for about 90 minutes. (if I can get a full 2 hours I’m enthralled)

Lately I’ve been just trying to get as much volume of writing in as possible to start hopefully working towards another album…and I find that if I can get just a handful of songs I really enjoy, and map a theme around them…then I can start writing with a bit more targeted of an approach in mind. So my writing at the moment is just my throwing any and every idea onto the page, writing a lot of shit and some good things here and there in the effort to hopefully discover what phase of life I’m in.

Recently, I think I’ve found my answer…

I won’t reveal all of those thoughts and self-discoveries quite yet but I will however share this song “Nothing’s Serious”, one that I’m not positive will ever see the light of day (or the light of a recording studio) but at the moment I kind of enjoy. It’s heavily inspired by the very quick scrolling past of devastating news and events on social media, and how desensitized it seems I, as well as many others, have become to the atrocities of the current world we live in. And I know many of these atrocities are not new…and perhaps the only thing that’s new is the fact that there are more cameras therefore we are seeing more now than ever before in human history…but where it was thought that seeing more would lead to a grand awakening, has instead been resulting in what seems a callousness of all of our emotions.

It’s terrifying, and difficult to comprehend not only where we’re at, but where we go from here. It makes me feel awful for the people in situations where they are waiting for help and action, just for their injustice to fall on deaf ears or rest on blind eyes. And I wanted to write a song about that feeling.

Not a very cheerful dialogue today but just speaking as honestly as I can of the inspiration and I hope it can generate a conversation within yourself that has potentially previously been avoided.

Below are the lyrics to the song, and for paid subscribers you can listen to the full voice memo below that. If you are not a paid subscriber, I love you for being here, and if these topics, discussions, and expression of thoughts are something you’d like to see more of, I hope you’ll consider helping me in my fight against a numbing world by becoming a paid subscriber for just $5/month. I hate to play this game, but I hope for your continued support.

10,000 years
the veneer is gone
We are what we've become

What once was dear
now a passing thought
then forever lost

Pay no mind to all the men behind the wall
Painting pictures for us all
I'm so sorry nothing's serious no more
It didn't take long

All that we fear
all we didn't know
How time always shows

Head for the clear
nowhere near the show
That's where I will go

Pay no mind to all the people standing tall
Playing tricks against the small
I'm so sorry nothing's serious no more
It didn't take long

Pay no mind to all the men behind the wall
Painting pictures for us all
I'm so sorry nothing's serious no more
It didn't take long
It didn't take long at all