Dying is Fine by Ra Ra Riot
12 July 2009 (#129)
Year: 2008Length: 3:52
This is the version from their first LP, "The Rhumb Line," but a longer version also appears on their "Ra Ra Riot EP." I saw them last night opening before Andrew Bird, and they made me more excited than I have been for a long time. The band members obviously know each other very well and have this casual, but intense bond the entire time, and are all so absorbed in the music the entire time. And the electric violin and cello (!) were incredible, adding this sonorous layer to the whole band's sound. They will transport you away.
Lyrics
To settle our thoughts
Never minding what for
Nothing of a harm to dread
On my mind
Tell me what belies
Tell me what I could have
Oh
Tell me what for
No more of this living dying
Just scientific analyzing
Forgive us oh life
The sin of
Death oh baby
You know that dying is fine but maybe
I wouldn't like death if death were good
Not even if death were good
Is this it
Maundering about and
All I have is too much time
To understand
One can only love
Life until it's ending
Oh
And I can't forget
No more of this living dying
Just scientific analyzing
Forgive us oh life
The sin of
Death oh baby
You know that dying is fine but maybe
I wouldn't like death if death were good
Not even if death were good
