Tom: Our regular reader Roger sends this in. And I warn you in advance: it’s a bit cinematic.
Tim: Well, isn’t that a chirpy little number.
Tom: This sounds like the music you get over the closing credits of a Disney movie.
Tim: …because you’ve watched the alternative cut of Aladdin where the magic carpet catches fire and they die in a massive carpet crash?
Tom: I would watch that, actually. Besides, Disney-sound isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but for some reason it also disqualifies it in my head as a “proper” pop song. It’s like Elton John’s “Written in the Stars” – a beautiful track, but originally made for his musical version of Aida, and therefore it gets filed under ‘musicals’ rather than ‘pop’. Perhaps I’m getting caught up in semantics.
Tim: A little bit. And somewhat missing the fact that it’s ALL ABOUT DEATH. Admittedly, only so as to convey the idea that we should be living as much as we can, but it’s still ALL ABOUT DEATH.
Tom: It’s all very pleasant, though, despite the lyrics being a bit morbid when you actually start to listen to them.
Tim: Oh, you think?