Grateful Dead - It Doesn't Matter lyrics

Finished up my masterpiece

Gave it to the thought-police.

Wanta two-way ticket for a one-way ride.

Nothing lasts nor ever will

You get born, then you're over the hill

Try you might, but no one's leavin' alive.

They say what goes up will always come back down.

Looks to me like it just goes around

And around and around.

It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

It's alright. It's alright.

The Universe

Is workin' fine tonight.

It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

It's OK

Whatever comes to pass

Will just pass right on away.

The future is a sea of dreams

The past a pack of lies it seems.

Walk in glory or crawl to fame

I only own the surrounding minute

Borrowin' everything that's in it.

Step out on the stage and lose your name.

They say what goes out will always come back in

I don't know, I just like to watch it spin and spin and spin.

It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

Have a little faith.

I burn my maps

So I can navigate

It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

Have a little hope.

You can't see tomorrow

With a telescope.

We tear down nations with fits and rages

For a paragraph on history's pages.

See those towers in the desert, torn in half.

Whenever you mention Destiny,

You better get rid of that capital D.

Whenever Man plans, it makes God laugh.

Where all this is heading, I can't even guess.

I close my eyes and I just say "yes,"

I say yes yes yes!'

It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

Gotta be here now.

Gotta learn to live

In the present somehow.

It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

Your big designs

Look mighty damned small

In the endless halls of time