Name: What Does It Matter?
Duration: P00H03M19S
Description: This song is not auto-biographical.

The Dutch Widows - What Does It Matter?

from SpinTunes 19 Round 1 by Spintunes

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This song is not auto-biographical.

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What does it matter if I tell you now?
This awful secret that I’ve kept somehow
I bottled it up and squir’lled it inside
Now my heart is dying and I’m barely alive

The guilty ignore their conscience and risk a dissonant brain and a near-constant crisis

It’s a tiny detail from aeons ago
I thought you’d noticed and it started to show
I distracted with presents and ebullient charm
I held my nerve when you raised the alarm

The guilty ignore their conscience and risk a dissonant brain and a near-constant crisis

Our mutual friends they will take your side
This never ends until one of us decides

The guilty ignore their conscience and risk a dissonant brain and a near
constant crisis

We look out and down across a wide-mouthed bay
The crashing waves wash the rocks away; I gave the game away
I looked before I leapt so did not jump
You may not be so lucky if I give you a nudge

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from SpinTunes 19 Round 1, released March 21, 2022

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