Name: Nothing
Duration: P00H05M00S
Description: What would it feel like to have the events of the past two years transported to earlier time periods? It certainly wouldn't feel the way it feels now.

Star Bear - Nothing

from SpinTunes 19 Round 2 by Spintunes

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What would it feel like to have the events of the past two years transported to earlier time periods? It certainly wouldn't feel the way it feels now.

lyrics

A man fades, nineteen eighty-eight
The nurse tells him it’s not safe
for his family to be there
For his final days in intensive care

Huddled outside a cold phone booth
They take turns saying I love you
His daughter last to say goodbye
“Stay on the line. Please stay on the line.”

The saddest story you’d ever hear
If it happened in other years
But it’s happening now and we feel nothing
What are we all becoming?

A headline in nineteen ten
Two hundred thousand children
Lost a parent to this plague
Their lives will never be the same

Printed faces in monochrome
The front page, a child alone
Mom and dad won’t return
What did she do to deserve

The saddest story you’d ever hear
If it happened in other years
But it’s happening now and we feel nothing
‘Cause if we did it’d be too crushing

Refugees in ninety-five
Four million disrupted lives
In just the first month of a war
Soon will be many more

The cable news shows them march
And risk their lives to flee from harm
Exhausted from the perilous trek
Who will give these people beds?

The saddest story you’d ever hear
In any other year
But it happened now and we feel nothing
Surreal emptiness this rough spring

In nineteen eighty, radicals invade D.C
Year two thousand three, mass murder at the grocery
Nineteen seventy-four, genocides around the world
Twenty eleven, an artist lost to depression

Nothing
Nothing
We feel nothing
We feel nothing

The saddest story you’d ever hear
If it happened in other years
But it happened now and we feel nothing
What are we all becoming?

The saddest story I’d ever hear
If it happened in other years
Why do I feel nothing?

credits

from SpinTunes 19 Round 2, released April 4, 2022
Music and lyrics by Bert Huang

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