Memento Mori (2018 Live in Studio Demo)

Now, there is, uh, one thing that, um

Uh, keeps my head above water when, um

When, uh, things are getting tough

Uh, when I'm, uh, feeling like I'm too weird for this world

Just like a permanent square peg in a permanent round hole

Like I'm permanently clawing my way up the side of a bell curve

Stick my flag in the peak and slide my way back down

Over and over and over and over again

When I feel like I'm in this cycle of hopelessness

I'll never go anywhere, I'll never amount to anything

I'll never be anyone

Uh, whenever I feel like there's, just, uh

No way I'll get out of this mess alive

Uh, there's one thing I keep in mind that really just make thing -

Makes thing just swell

Um, and I think it's- it's worth, uh

Setting a reminder on your phone every half hour, go for it, man

Put this thing thing on your phone, and just, you know

Never forget it, keep it mind at all times

There's just one fact that makes everything awesome

Uh, and if I just tell you what that thing is, it's, uh

Not really gonna translate, um

So I- I wrote this song, which I- I- I-I, I hope gets the point across

Cause, uh, God knows I wouldn't be able to

Um, just babbling at you like I'm doing right now, so, um

Anyway, um, this is a song that I like to call

The Most Important Thing in the World

♪

One day you'll look up at the ceiling above

Your three o' clock, your nine o' clock, the ones that you love

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 and won't even know why

One day you're going to die

Read your heroscopes, your palms and tarot cards

Either way you 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'll have the past to regret

But your worries will be over when you truly realize

One day you're going to die

Take it away, hands

♪

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?

Well, one day you'll be not even a faint memory

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

Your history's not yours to see, nor is your eulogy

And you'll never know what this shit all means

But 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

Try not to think about it

One day you're doing to die

But there ain't no life without it

One day you're doing to die

There's probably nothing after

One day you're going to die

So, if you only have one chance

You oughta' try your best to live as you like

One day you're going to die