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No. 15Sleeping song

There Was Nothing I Could Do

Now or Never · 2:12

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Sleeping song No. 15 of 343 · 2:12

There Was Nothing I Could Do a sleeping song by Purrple Cat

There Was Nothing I Could Do is track 8 of 8 on Now or Never, 2:12 long. Early Purrple Cat: mellow, warm beats with soft keys and a relaxed groove. Instrumental dreamy chillwave and ambient downtempo, free to play here in full, download and use with credit under CC BY 4.0.

  1. No. 15
    There Was Nothing I Could DoTrack 8 ·
    2:12MP3
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Sleepiness
Tempo
Free-flowing
Softness
Softer than 98% of the book
Warmth
Warmer than 4% of the book
Steadiness
Steadier than 6% of the book
From
Now or Never · Album · Jan 8, 2019

About this sleeping song

There Was Nothing I Could Do measures 98% softer, 4% warmer and 6% steadier than the rest of the songbook, which gives it 4 of 5 moons for sleepiness. It's one of the 140 songs in the nightly rotation; its next night as tonight's sleeping song is Thursday, January 7.

Its sigil is drawn from its own sound: the curve is its loudness from start to finish, the 3 petals come from its tempo, the inner moon from its brightness, and the star marks its loudest moment.

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Free use

Free to use, with credit.

There Was Nothing I Could Do is free on all social media and in other projects with credit, under CC BY 4.0.

Free to use

  • All social media. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Facebook, X and the rest, including monetised videos, lullaby and bedtime videos, sleep streams, Shorts and Reels.
  • Other projects too. Podcasts, bedtime-story and meditation content, games, apps, ads, client work and school projects.
  • Edit it to fit. Cut, loop, slow down or fade songs, and say it's edited in the credit.
  • Credit Purrple Cat. “Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0”.

Never

  • Never re-upload or release it on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer or Tidal, through a distributor or any other route.
  • Never release remixes, samples or covers of it on streaming services either.
  • Never register it in Content ID or claim other people's videos with it.
  • Never pass it off as your own or sell the songs as they are.

Why so strict about streaming? Re-uploads, remixes, samples and covers on Spotify, Apple Music and other services get fingerprinted, and then false Content ID claims hit everyone who uses the music properly. Purrple Cat Self Releases have no Content ID, so there's nothing to clear when you use them as intended.

Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0
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