Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world

One day, you'll look up at the ceiling above

If you're lucky, you'll be surrounded by the ones that you love

When the lights in your eyes fade and life flashes by

One day, you're going to die

One day, you'll sleep, and you'll never wake again

Heaven, Hell, Nirvana, nothing

No one knows how it ends

Rest in peace, or pieces that won't even align

One day, you're going to die

Oh, you can read your horoscopes

Your palms and tarot cards

But either way, your destination ain't very far

You could drown, or choke, or burn

Or be hit by a car

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

But something will eventually

One day, you'll look back at the life that you led

No more future left to fear that you have

The past to regret

But your worries will be over if you truly realize

One day, you're going to die

Take it away, hand!

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In the fabric of time and in the vastness of space

A billion amounts to nothing in infinity's face

At most, a couple generations will remember the ways

In which your life never mattered

So who cares if it's a waste?

One day, you'll be not even a faint memory

No, at most a ghost or falling leaf from your family tree

Your legacy's not yours to see

Nor is your eulogy

And you'll never know what it all means

But at least you'll be at peace before you sleep

If you just keep this in mind

That everything and everyone goes with the passage of time

So whether it's cancer, murder or suicide

One day, you're going to die

No need to fear, 'cause when it's

Here, you won't be alive

Try not to think about it

One day, you're going to die

And there's probably nothing after

One day, you're going to die

So if you only have one chance

You ought to try your best to live as you'd like

One day, you're going to die