I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Sittin' in traffic another day of feeling nothing
Trying to find something I guess it's back to huffin'
Paint and model glue oh how I die when I look
At you smilin' lovin' life and all I know is blue
Rainy days and cold stares broken love affairs
Everything's beautiful as long as I ain't there
I guess I wasn't meant to crack a smile who cares
I think I'll go to sleep for a while now
I'm barely livin' in my skin depression's my only friend
And I don't know where I am heading tryin' to forget where I've been
And I'm so sick of lying God please show me that silver lining
'Cause I've heard tale and I'm not well my heads full of hell and
This world's a jail but
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And as the apin begins to displace had it to ear level
With this place you see it on my face a state of suspended grace
Gradually I erase and find comfort in the sickest womb
I might be present but no in the room
To whom it may consume melting ensembles bleeding chellos running through Bordellos drama
Like Othello hidin' out from Poncharello
Dead off in the Median
Fallin' apart like usual handin' out flyers to my funeral
So they say that life's a play and that all the world's a stage
Then for another part I pray the show ends the same way everyday
And my heart carries the pain of a brain I can't explain
Am I insane
Am I insane
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
It doesn't really matter now does it
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
Trying to find something I guess it's back to huffin'
Paint and model glue oh how I die when I look
At you smilin' lovin' life and all I know is blue
Rainy days and cold stares broken love affairs
Everything's beautiful as long as I ain't there
I guess I wasn't meant to crack a smile who cares
I think I'll go to sleep for a while now
I'm barely livin' in my skin depression's my only friend
And I don't know where I am heading tryin' to forget where I've been
And I'm so sick of lying God please show me that silver lining
'Cause I've heard tale and I'm not well my heads full of hell and
This world's a jail but
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And as the apin begins to displace had it to ear level
With this place you see it on my face a state of suspended grace
Gradually I erase and find comfort in the sickest womb
I might be present but no in the room
To whom it may consume melting ensembles bleeding chellos running through Bordellos drama
Like Othello hidin' out from Poncharello
Dead off in the Median
Fallin' apart like usual handin' out flyers to my funeral
So they say that life's a play and that all the world's a stage
Then for another part I pray the show ends the same way everyday
And my heart carries the pain of a brain I can't explain
Am I insane
Am I insane
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything good is gone
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
And everything bad is here
It doesn't really matter now does it
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
And it don't matter and I don't care
I let my pain into the air
'Cause everything good's over there
And everything here's hard to bear
It Don't Matter Lyrics as written by Derek Murphy Alan Edward Gorrie
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I don't get it! I just don't get it! This song is the shit. THE shit I'm telling you! I don't see how this was only on TRL for like one day and the 'popular' radio stations never picked it up. It's crazy I tell you. Well anyway this song truely is THE SHIT. The whole cd is pretty good as well and I don't listen to any 'hip-hop' or 'rap' stuff so that is saying a lot from me.
it's because TRL and mainstream radio are suckass and rehab isn't
This song is kick ass, and I am glad big radio stations didn't play it cause they would have just wore it out. Anyway, the lyrics are easily related to by many people, espesially teenagers, because its talking about depression. He is so depressed he just doesn't care about anything anymore.
I agree 100%. the radio stations ruined Sittin' at a Bar too. but i feel rehab sold out on that song when they made a "remix" of it. that remix is so NOT their style and u know they only did it so the song would get more air play
Jason Parrott likes this song.
I agree. This song is fuckin A. What the fuck was TRL and all the radio stations thinking by not playing this?!!! I LOVE IT. 5 stars.
this is amazing, cause almost every teenager can connect with the lyrics. i know i can. the opening line "Sittin in traffic another day of feeling nothing Trying to find something " is just how i feel sometimes when im driving down the road.
TRL is gay!!!!!
your right i think TRL, takes it up the butt
I hate rap... Everyone is porbably going to tell me to shut the fuck up.. but I like this song. I agree that TRL is gay, and that the media should fuck itself.. but I am glad this song wasn't on trl for long... The lyrics are much better than the shit played on TRL. This song is also very despairing and actually makes sense, which is a rare thing in rap music.
this song is amazing mainstream radio is so completly messed up if the dont give this song and others like it the play time and the credit it deserves!