A pop-folk song with acoustic sounds and elegant arrangements. The sensitive male vocal interpretation reminds a bit of City and Color for the pictorial poetry served with emotion and a certain serenity, even with a touch of wisdom and maturity.

James Mackenzie - Where You Are Going

Listen to Jessie Reid's new single 'Dig', released March 26, 2021

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"Life is not a process of learning, but unlearning old beliefs or aspects that no longer help us"

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📝 Lyrics:

Every breath that you take 
Is almost done,
Every step that you take
Is a step undone,
Rearrange my words
Cos they’re not set in stone,
Like your heart if left to go cold.

But I found you,
I found you.
That weight you carry on your shoulders
Don’t sit so pretty on your face.
Step outside to the garden,
Bring your shovel and spade.

And we’ll Dig Dig Dig.
Dig our worries away.
Dig Dig Dig.
Dig our sins away. 
Dig Dig Dig.
Dig our worries away. 

But I found you.
That weight you carry on your shoulders
Don’t sit so pretty on your face.
Step outside to the garden,
Bring your shovel and spade.

And we’ll Dig Dig Dig.
Dig our worries away.
Dig Dig Dig.
Dig our sins away. 
Dig Dig Dig.
Dig our worries away.

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Jessie Reid - Dig (with lyrics)

Für die Sonne, die heut scheint

„Seed and Harvest“ ,

This song is meant to remind me of one of my absolute favorite songs: "Nothing Ever Happens" by the Scottish Band Del Amitri. Unforgettable. I love it.


Nothing Ever Happens

This song is a poetic reflection on societal apathy, economic inequality, and the quiet routines that mask deeper moral failures. Through vivid scenes of everyday life—postal workers, landlords, auction rooms, and lovers—it explores how people carry on while injustice and suffering are ignored. The chorus repeats the haunting refrain “Nothing ever happens,” underscoring the theme of passive complicity. Art is commodified, mercy is measured in ledgers, and silence becomes a currency. The tone is melancholic yet precise, with lyrical imagery that evokes both intimacy and quiet outrage.

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Lyrics — Nothing Ever Happens

[Intro]  
Slowly, the city folds its day into the palms of night  
Streetlights hum, the windows glow, people move like passing light  

[Verse 1]  
Postmen trail their route of folded promises and mail  
Receptionists erase the day and lock another tale  
Janitors sweep up yesterday while sirens learn to sing  
A mother turns the volume up to quiet everything  

[Pre-Chorus]  
We count the seconds traded for a small untroubled sleep  
We barter quiet futures while the weary secrets keep  

[Chorus]  
Nothing ever happens, nothing wakes the sleeping town  
We watch the postcards burning and keep folding them down  
While someone pays for paintings, leaving hunger in the wings  
Nothing ever happens, nothing ever breaks these things  

[Verse 2]  
Kids learn the shapes of headlines from a grainy half-lit screen  
A landlord signs a dotted line and never sees between  
The gutters whisper stories that the daylight won't repeat  
Old men sell their memories to strangers on the street  

[Verse 3]  
The mayor smiles in glossy print, the bells are soft and slow  
Auction rooms collect the art that no one truly knows  
While hospitals keep tallying the cost of bones and beds  
The ledger eats the mercy, feeds the city with its led  

[Bridge]  
There is a quiet currency that buys the right to look away  
There is an invoice stamped with words we read but never pay  
Reach across the windowpane and feel the tremor of a hand  
We’re holding down our silence like a promise we had planned  

[Verse 4]  
Two lovers fold their letters and pretend tomorrow’s fine  
They pledge allegiance to the couch and drink the evening wine  
The world keeps spinning finer threads of someone else’s gain  
While the canvas hangs in darkness—sold to silence, sold to pain  

[Interlude]  
(Instrumental)  

[Reprise]  
Nothing ever happens, nothing happens in the light  
We polish up our excuses and we tuck the wrongs from sight  
While gilded frames keep changing hands above the city noise  
We nod and keep on moving as if we had no choice  

[Outro]  
The lamps go out one by one, the streets fold into sleep  
Somewhere a bell keeps tolling for the debts we never keep  
Nothing ever happens, yet the world remembers still  
A single unpaid verdict waiting on a windowsill  

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© 2025 Martin Oliver Beinersdorf. All rights reserved.

Nothing ever Happens

For Nick

Crash and Burn

How do you light up the room
When there’s so much darkness in you?
You punched right through the walls,
Don’t tell me nothing’s wrong
How do you wear it so well?
But you never ever ask for help
The more I try to be your friend 
The more you make me go through hell

Don’t take me down with your riptide,
With your undertow
‘Cos if you can’t pull up out of the nosedive
Then I’ve got to go
You’re the lesson I must learn
I won’t watch you crash and burn

You’re caught up in the web that you’ve spun
Using lies to get everything done
Do you really wonder why you’re so alone?
Every day playing a role
Always knowing what to say
Nobody really knows you,
Least of all yourself

Don’t take me down with your riptide,
With your undertow
‘Cos if you can’t pull up out of the nosedive
Then I’ve got to go
You’re the lesson I must learn
I won’t watch you crash and burn
Crash and burn

Don’t take me down with your riptide,
With your undertow
And if you can’t pull up out of the nosedive
Then I’ve got to go
You’re the lesson I must learn
I won’t watch you crash and burn
I won’t watch you crash and burn
I won’t watch you crash and burn

Crash & Burn

A lighthearted song I wrote during a confusing time.

Fill

Are We On A One Way Train?

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