The Fade Out Line – Phoebe Killdeer and The Short Straws

 

I think of this as an ode to nihilism. The meaning seems to be that there is no meaning. The focus is on the inevitability of the end of life.

Still, the poetry about the absurdity of mortality, and the music that goes with it, are beautiful, at least to me.

The strange thing: I find the piece kind of exhilarating. Maybe it’s a sort of purging of hopelessness. Maybe it’s an elevating of self: if I have no purpose to which I need to be devoted, it means I am my own purpose.

Or maybe it’s just really good music.

Want to see the words?
I found them here.