Nothing Is Something
I know not what to write
For I have nothing to write
Nothing to say nothing to do
Bored, bored of everything
Nothing is I think is something
Because what is nothing?
It is a space, a gap, a void
Blackness, totalness, emptiness
but if they are nothing
Then it must be something!
Same as it
You use it to describe something
That you know nothing about
Is nothing a blackness?
Or is nothing an it!
If this is true, then nothing is something
Which means nothing is a lie
Which you brush away like swatting in the fly!
But what of it?
Nothing.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I know not what to write
because I have nothing to write
nothing to say nothing to do
and bored—god, bored of everything
sitting here watching the dust resettle
in the exact same pattern as yesterday
[Verse 2]
Nothing is I think is something
because what is nothing?
it's a space, a gap, a void
blackness totalness emptiness
but if they are nothing
then it must be something
[Chorus]
round and round the same thought
chasing its tail like logic eating itself
if I think about the absence long enough
does it become presence?
does it become presence?
[Verse 3]
I've counted the cracks in the ceiling twice
rearranged the books by color then by size
then back again because what else
what else is there when the day stretches out
like taffy like time moving through mud
and I'm here and here and still here
[Verse 4]
Maybe boredom is just fear
of the blank page of your own brain
maybe emptiness is what you get
when you've stripped away the distractions
and you're left with the terrible question
of what you actually are
[Chorus]
round and round the same thought
chasing its tail like logic eating itself
if I think about the absence long enough
does it become presence?
does it fill the room?
[Bridge]
so I name it—
the void the gap the in-between
I give it shape by speaking it
I make it real by being so bored
that boredom becomes the only thing
the only thing that's happening
[Verse 5]
nothing to write so I write about nothing
nothing to say so the nothing gets said
and maybe that's something
maybe that counts
maybe the space between thoughts
is where we actually live
[Outro]
bored bored of everything
which means I'm feeling something
which means I'm still here
which means nothing
which means everything
which means I don't know