Will Wood - Momento mori: the most important thing in the world

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★ Verse 1 ★
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

★ Verse 2 ★
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

★ Verse 3 ★
Read your horoscopes, your palms and tarot cards
Either 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

★ Verse 4 ★
One day you'll look back at the life that you led
No more future left to fear 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)
★ Instrumental break ★

★ Verse 5 ★
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

★ Verse 6 ★
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 its cancer, murder, or suicide

★ Outro ★
One day you’re going to die (Try not to think about it)
One day you're going to die (But there ain't no life without it)
One day you're going to die (There's probably nothing after)
One day you're going to die
So if you only had one chance, you oughta try and live as you like
One day you're going to die

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Will Wood is an American avant-pop singer-songwriter, pianist/multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker, and multimedia artist known for his constantly shifting style and cryptic and controversial public persona.