DGAF
By Ninefingers on March 17, 2024 4:03 pm
I saw a t-shirt at the beginning of the week that showed the guitar chord shapes for D chord, G chord, A chord and F chord without any further explanation so that to most people it would just look like shapes but to guitar players would clearly say DGAF. It made me curious what those chords would sound like together so other than the chorus when I change the order slightly this song just repeats D, G, A, F over and over again. I then tried to just write some lyrics about not giving a fuck. I didn't have a specific direction in mind for all the fucks I wasn't giving but reading it I can kind of see that it is accidentally about being neurodiverse and growing up in a society in which most people have a problem with being direct and honest all the time.
At about the age of 11, after getting slightly beat up by a group of neighborhood kids who thought I was weird, I learned pretty quickly that by simply training daily and becoming physically stronger than the other boys I no longer had to navigate their weird culture because by being the strongest I was placed as the leader in the group hierarchies from then on, and then with music learned the same thing about romantic relationships. As long as the perception was that I was good at music the girls would approach me and I didn't have to jump through the hundred confusing hoops that other people navigated. So I daily trained hard in sports and music starting at 12 and for the most part people have been really good and kind to me from ages 13-41, but that's only cause I figured out the cheat codes. It's still true that if someone meets me outside of music or a sports field or court, they find me very strange and my direct way of speaking and refusal to engage in small talk makes them uncomfortable. I will also will always remember how confusing life was for me ages 10-12 when I often felt hated on for reasons I didn't understand back then.
So anyway, a little of that comes out in the song and it isn't posturing. I truly DGAF about peoples societal expectations of me. I have always, and will always continue to do, whatever I want in the manner I feel most comfortable doing it. (Luckily for society I usually just want to do dope shit and help my community.)
-
I don’t give a fuck about the things you think or say about me
I could not care less about your thoughts
I don’t give a fuck about society’s expectations of me
They tell me that I should but I do not
You thought you could tell me how to live and how I should be as if you had any power at all
Understand quite clearly that you mean quite nothing to me and I hope your expectations all rot
We don’t give a fuck about the things you think or say about us
We could not care less about your thoughts
We don’t give a fuck about society’s expectations of us
You tell us that we should but we do not!
You thought you could tell us how to live and how we should be as if you had any power at all
Understand and trust us that you mean quite nothing to us and we hope your institutions all rot
You thought you could tell us how to live and how we should be as if you had any power at all!?
Understand and trust us that you mean quite nothing to us and we hope your expectations all rot
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)