Name: It Won't Kill Me
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: Huge rewrite during recording prep sent the song into several new keys. It’s still a 12-note range. Just to be clear, I think many of the things mentioned do kill people, but I have no power to prevent them and, statistically, I will not be affected. It’s about where to place focus and energy – the needs of the many: hunger, water, health.

It Won't Kill Me

from 11 String Confessions by Brad Elias

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Huge rewrite during recording prep sent the song into several new keys. It’s still a 12-note range. Just to be clear, I think many of the things mentioned do kill people, but I have no power to prevent them and, statistically, I will not be affected. It’s about where to place focus and energy – the needs of the many: hunger, water, health.

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I’ve got a few friends
They give their advice to me
They say the world’s gonna end
From robot technology
Or a meteorite
Or growing monopolies
But they’re not getting it right
They fret trivialities

There’s the cyber attack? Well, it won’t kill me.
And the Government’s whack? But it won’t kill me.
Wall Street react? It won't kill me.
So why obsess on these that won’t kill me?

I might die from a heart attack or cancer or a lung disease
Die from stroke or from an accident or diabetes
But what you’re concerned about is really quite remote from these
So why do you want to add to blossoming anxieties?

The numbers don’t lie
Statistics are evidence
I know we’re all gonna die
It one thing no one prevents
We may not know how
Some risks are just low per cents
But, hey, they’re in the news now
So they are what makes us tense

Poison in the mail? Yeah, it won't kill me.
Politics for sale? But it won't kill me.
Aeroplane fail? No, it won’t kill me.
So why obsess on these that won’t kill me.

I might choose to start changing all the little things that I control
Like go take a walk instead I pick up the remote control
So I’d rather focus on the threats that have a minor role
It makes me forget ‘bout my inevitable funeral

Hormones in the bread? Well, it won’t kill me.
Terrorism spread? But it won’t kill me.
Immigration dread? No, it won’t kill me.
So why obsess on these that won’t kill me.

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from 11 String Confessions, released July 5, 2016
Brad Elias

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