Didn't Mean a Thing

from Empires Fall​.​.​. by Noisy Primates

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The mystery of perspective is that shared experiences can mean wildly different things to each person involved. This subjectivity means I get to be right for me. Even if I can't convince you, if I say and feel something was meaningful to me, it was.

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I couldn’t tell by the light
That it wasn’t morning but sunset
I think the confusion that I felt
Came from feelings of regret

I should have seen the warnings
They were easier to ignore
Like love’s dying embers
Every time before

I thought we’d built each moment
As a bridge
From the past to the future

The one thing I could never understand:
How could you say that all our days together
Didn’t mean a thing

The one thing I could never understand:
How could you say that all our days together
Didn’t mean a thing

I’m not ashamed of who I am
Who we are now or have been
Though love makes people do stupid things
And we did a lot of them

I would do it all again
Because I can’t be who I am
Without what brought me here:
The love, the torment, and the fear

If it’s all just a moment in time
Can’t we say it was beautiful in our lives?

The one thing I could never understand:
How could you say that all our days together
Didn’t mean a thing

The one thing I could never understand:
How could you say that all our days together
Didn’t mean a thing

If I’m haunted by the thoughts of you
It’s only an echo of an idea of a truth
Of something that couldn’t last
We are both better now on different paths

I thought we’d built each moment
As a bridge from the past
I’m not ashamed of who I am
Or that we didn’t last

I would do it all again
Because I can’t be who I am
Without what brought me here:
The love and the tears

If it’s all just a moment in time
At least it’s yours and it’s mine
A jewel, bright and glimmering
Always a sacred memory

The only part that cuts
The one statement I’ll never make
is that all the time we shared
Didn’t mean a thing

The only part that’s real now
The one statement that I’ll make
is that all the time we shared
Meant everything

It meant everything

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from Empires Fall​.​.​., released October 15, 2021
Written by Ty Davison
Original tracks written/recorded in Oregon April 2021

Vocals and all instruments: Ty Davison
Drums: Brendan Kuntz

Mixed and Mastered by Francesco Petrelli

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Noisy Primates, commonly abbreviated as NP, is an American alternative rock band based in Oregon. Ty Davison is NP's lead vocalist and principle songwriter.

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