Everything Keeps Dying And Somehow That Helps (Jubilate!)

[Verse 1] I saw a tree split somebody’s garage in half After the storm last Tuesday night And by Wednesday morning there were already kids Climbing on it like everything was alright And I thought Maybe that’s the closest thing we get to wisdom Not hope exactly Just people continuing anyway Cause a guy in line at the corner store Still laughed at my stupid joke today Even though the power’s been out for three days And everything smells vaguely like gasoline I used to think happiness meant permanence Like somehow you could finally arrive At a place untouched by sickness or money or grief And just stay there the rest of your life But now I think maybe joy is smaller than that [Chorus] Jubilate! The world is not obligated to make sense to you And jubilate! Your friends will disappear and your body will too But today you can still taste coffee Today your favorite song still exists Today there are strangers somewhere falling in love Over stupid shit like this So jubilate! [Verse 2] I knew a guy who carried everything he owned Inside two garbage bags and a backpack And every morning he fed pieces of his sandwich To the pigeons at his panhandling spot And maybe he was mentally ill Or maybe he understood something I don’t Cause he still found reasons to smile Without pretending life wasn’t grotesque And I know people who pray every night And people who think prayer’s are embarrassing But everybody whispers to something eventually Even if it’s just to a god they don't believe in at 1 in the morning [Pre-Chorus] I spent years trying to become unbreakable What a terrible fucking idea [Chorus] Jubilate! You do not have to justify your existence every second Jubilate! The universe is huge and absurd and indifferent And nobody gets out immortal Nobody wins against time So maybe being alive at all Is enough to make tonight worth surviving So jubilate! HEY! HEY! HEY! [Bridge] There are bugs beneath my floorboards And whales beneath the ocean And stars collapsing somewhere unbelievably far away And your heart keeps beating automatically Even after all the awful things you’ve done Even after all the people you disappointed Even after all the nights you swore you were finished There is no clean ending to come No magical point where suffering stops completely There is only this moment And the next one And the next one and maybe the one after that [Breakdown] And that sounds horrifying Until it suddenly sounds freeing Cause if nothing lasts forever Then neither does misery Neither does loneliness Neither does shame Neither does heartbreak Neither does pain [Final Chorus] So... Jubilate! You are not alone in being alive reluctantly Jubilate! Every living thing is struggling constantly And there’s something weirdly comforting About knowing everybody’s scared Everybody’s winging it together Everybody’s disappearing Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! [Outro] The kids were still climbing that tree this morning ...Good for them