I Nearly Died, Then Wrote a Song About Death. Wanna Sing It?

New York City NY

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I don't wanna sound misleading. I wasn't hovering up towards a pulsating white light and rewatching my entire life in 8 seconds or anything. A drunk driver smashed into my car going 65mph in a 25mph zone, and had she hit a fraction of a second earlier it's likely she'd have brought the frame around the driver's side of my car all the way over to the passenger side, and I'd have died somewhere in that crumple. Instead, she hit my trunk and I walked away with a concussion. Anyway, here's the song with my not so great speak-sing vocals: https://soundcloud.com/englishmajors/untitled-mortality-song And here are the lyrics: If I died today and found myself at the Pearly gates I'd have some things to explain Do angels take bribes? There's gotta be some palms to grease to foist myself into that astral plane But forever seems way too long for the joy of life to hang on. Death is scary, but death takes a day. Paradise terrifies in its own way. And it's a curse to know where all life must go. Some can't handle it any other way than an afterlife like a Vegas buffet. Death's not a lesson There's not ultimate justification given to the moribund. We're the product of some fly-by-night manufacturer and I think we're owed a refund. There's some plucky flaw in our brains no matter how many times it's explained That all life straddles twin oblivions somehow we think we'll be the exception And it's a curse to know where all life must go And a waste of all we've been left to fixate upon that final breath