Nobody Cares Anymore
Verse 1
There’s a stain on the ceiling from the summer of ‘09
Still shaped a little like the state line we crossed that night
Your old number lives somewhere deep inside my phone
Like a boarded-up house nobody calls home
And every now and then I hear that song downtown
Coming through the speakers thin and worn out
Like a ghost trying hard not to be seen
Like us in faded magazine print
Pre-Chorus
Funny how a fire can feel forever
Till forever turns into folklore weather
Chorus
It was a long time ago
And nobody cares anymore
Not the kids outside the liquor store
Not the couples locking bathroom doors
The world kept spinning like it always does
Turned our wreckage into dust
Now your name’s just something floating through
A room I don’t belong to
It was a long time ago
And nobody cares anymore
Verse 2
I saw your brother at a gas station in the rain
He talked about the Braves and skipped your name
Like people do when the edges have gone soft
Like grief eventually becomes a shrug you forgot
There’s a photograph still folded in my coat
You’re half cut off and neither one of us looks old
Sometimes I think about throwing it away
But I kinda like what survives decay
Pre-Chorus
Some nights the past feels close enough to touch
Some nights it feels like somebody else’s blood
Chorus
It was a long time ago
And nobody cares anymore
The band stopped playing our song years before
The bar we met in ain’t a bar no more
There’s strangers living in the house you knew
Painting over every proof
And all our little tragedies dissolve
Into nothing much at all
It was a long time ago
And nobody cares anymore
Bridge
Maybe that’s mercy
Maybe that’s fate
Maybe every memory has an expiration date
Maybe love’s just smoke hanging briefly in a room
Before the windows open and it disappears too
Final Chorus
It was a long time ago
And nobody cares anymore
Except the moonlight on the dashboard door
Except the way the thunder sounds before a storm
Except some part of me that still turns around
When your kind of silence comes unwound
But the world moved on the way worlds do
Without asking me or you
It was a long time ago
And nobody cares anymore
