You and Everybody That You Love Will One Day Die
Embracing Life's Transience: Slime City's Powerful Reflection
Lyrics
Why are you making yourself ill
Questioning the self-destructive behavior causing illness.
Why are you making yourself to satisfy the mundane
Questioning the pursuit of satisfaction in mundane activities.
You and everybody that you love will one day die
Emphasizing the inevitability of death for oneself and loved ones.
Will one day
Reiteration of the certainty of eventual death.
It can become difficult to justify the simplest of vanities
Highlighting the difficulty in justifying simple indulgences.
You're gonna die
Emphatic repetition of the statement "You're gonna die."
You're gonna die
-You're gonna die
-You're gonna die
-Die die die die
-Cling to anything
Encouraging attachment or holding onto anything in the face of mortality.
Cling to anything
-Life is finite and it's meaningless
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Absolutely nothing that you do can guarantee you will survive
Stressing that no action guarantees survival.
You and everybody that you love will one day die
Reiteration of the inevitability of death for oneself and loved ones.
Will one day
Repetition of the idea that death will happen someday.
Circumstance and chance dictate there's simply no pattern to anything
Asserting the lack of pattern or predictability in life due to circumstance and chance.
It's a random lottery
Metaphorically describing life as a random lottery.
You're gonna die
Emphatic repetition of the statement "You're gonna die."
You're gonna die
-You're gonna die
-You're gonna die
-Die die die die
-Cling to anything
Encouraging the act of clinging to anything in the face of life's meaninglessness.
Cling to anything
-Life is finite and it's meaningless
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
Further emphasis on the act of clinging to anything.
Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-To anything
Repetition of the idea of clinging to anything.
I don't believe that everything is hopeless
Expressing disbelief in complete hopelessness.
Knowledge can paralyse but there's comfort in parameters
Recognizing the potential paralysis of knowledge but finding comfort in defined limits.
When you're slumped at the bottom of the stairs
Describing a moment of vulnerability at the bottom of the stairs.
Did you fall down or simply lay down to die
Posing a question about the reason for being in a difficult situation.
Embrace the only definitive
Encouraging acceptance of the only certainty - death.
You and everybody that you love will one day die
Reiteration of the inevitability of death for oneself and loved ones.
Cling to anything
Encouraging the act of clinging to anything.
Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-Cling to anything
-To anything
Reiteration of the idea of clinging to anything.
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