Indifferent

Daylight sneaking in through the blinds
Making coffee for your daily grind
Spill some beans you do it every time
Your mind's half asleep all week long

Do your daily service for the money gods
If you play your cards right you might beat the odds
Hope someday you'll be drowned in wads
It's dough that you knead and it's dough that you need

Staring at the clock all day
Dreaming you could just run away
Waiting for the short hand to say
It's time to go home

Nobody cares anymore
Nobody gives a damn that's for sure
Nobody knows their neighbours
And everyone locks their doors
Nobody trusts anyone anymore

Looking out the window see the world go by
Riding on a black ribbon stretched to the sky
Someone's car broke down kids are crying
But you don't care you just drive on

Finally get home and turn out the light
Climbing into bed you hope you'll get some sleep tonight
Outside someone's dying in a midnight gang fight
They're way too loud you're trying to sleep

Hoping for at least eight hours before the alarm clock rings
40 thousand children died today haunt your dreams
Trying to block it out trying to forget
It seems too unreal to be true

Wonder who would care if you never saw tomorrow
At least six billion people it'd cause no sorrow
You're doing nothing with this life you've borrowed
Just watching the clock and counting the days

Nobody cares anymore
Nobody gives a damn that's for sure
Nobody knows their neighbours
And everyone locks their doors
Nobody trusts anyone anymore

Tomorrow'll come in same as today
You'll rinse and repeat same old way
Trying to laugh trying to love
Trying to live when push comes to shove

Trying to enjoy trying too hard
Trying to see trying to be yourself
It would help if you knew who you were
But you don't really know

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Many of my early tunes were lyrically intense while musically simple. This song is, quite obviously, a commentary on the world today and how we cope with problems by pretending they're not there.