Nothing Really Matters

When I see your face in the crowd With a look of obsession There's no subtle way to say There's plenty of defense and discretion Even with what's left All the gifts put outside It's like nothing really matters How can other people's ways Be an estimate of your way of life? Can't the words, and birds, and trees, and Earth Be the same thing, and be just as right? It's hard, a learned test It's so hard, a learned test It's like nothing really matters It's like nothing really matters It's like nothing really matters to them The courage to turn it around If he could see the different way If he could turn it on its knee and bend it down It wouldn't really matter But outside, a learned test A learned test