If you scrolled down this far, hopefully you liked it, and I mean yeah, I've always thought this song does a pretty good job of speaking for itself and doesn't require a tonne of further explanation. I played it at an acoustic night in London once, and an audience member came up to me afterwards and said "I loved that morbidly optimistic song you played". I think he summed it up perfectly. Like... it's a slow moody song about the inevitability of death, it is morbid. The line about "what's the point in a probable truth"... The probable truth is that death is final, we might have a bias to prefer the idea of an afterlife, but we're not exactly swimming in evidence for there being one.

So this leaves us with some options.

Option 1: Push it down and pretend we don't know that life is finite

I think this is the default for most people, most of the time. It has its upside and lets us get from one day to the next with minimal drama, but it's not really being honest with ourselves and it lets us off the hook for acting like flourishing can be put off til later.

Option 2: Know that it's true but be saddened or crippled by it.

Ok so we won some honesty back here, but fuck... don't do option 2, option 2 is the bad place. It can at least be countered with more honesty though. Like yeah, we're all going to die but look around, there's a 13.8 billion year chain of uninterrupted events that led to you. It's so incredibly unlikely, we're privileged AF really. Have you ever actually completely stopped and just felt how long 3 minutes is.. Like, there's really no need to be upset at the prospect of living for 80 years.

Option 3: Consider life, and time to be precious.

In a nutshell this is what I'm trying to say with this song: take charge. Find what you love. It's easy to get stuck, living the same day on repeat, but if you find yourself there, remind yourself that time is precious, remind yourself that it's possible to be excited by stuff and go get stuck into it.